23/11/2006

Agnieszka Holland’s new film, Copying Beethoven, will officially open the 14th edition of Camerimage, the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography in Łódź (Nov. 25-Dec. 3). The film’s director, DoP Ashley Rowe and lead actress Diane Kruger are to attend the screening.

At the opening ceremony, one of the great Hungarian directors, István Szabó, will be presented with the Award to the Director with Unique Visual Sensitivity. He will join a prestigious list of previous winners that include Andrei Konchalovsky (2005), Oliver Stone (2004), James Ivory (2003), Neil Jordan (2002), to mention only the most recent.

At the closing ceremony, UK director Ken Russell will be presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award, while Wim Wenders will receive the Award to the Director with Unique Visual Sensitivity, which he won in 2000. The director will also present a Lifetime Achievement Award to his long-time collaborator Robby Muller.

Festival organisers will award this year’s prestigious Golden Frog to director Tom Tykwer and DoP Frank Griebe.

Nineteen international productions made in 2005 and 2006 have been selected in competition, the majority of which are premiering in Poland and Europe.

Further awards will be presented in several festival sidebars: Student’s Films, Debut Films, Polish Cinema and Nokia Mobile Movie Competition (ten directors will be invited to direct shorts on the N93 multimedia computer).

Out of competition, audiences will be able to see Swiss and Danish films, as well as retrospectives on Robby Muller, Sven Nykvist and Ingmar Bergman.

In order to provide students and professionals with the opportunity to improve their film knowledge, workshops and film seminars will be held throughout the festival.

In competition:
Babel, photo. Rodrigo Prieto, dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu
The Black Dahlia, photo. Vilmos Zsigmond, dir. Brian De Palma
Bobby, photo. Michael Barrett, dir. Emilio Estevez
Copying Beethoven, photo. Ashley Rowe, dir. Agnieszka Holland
Days of Glory [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jean Bréhat
interview: Rachid Bouchareb
film profile], photo. Patrick Blossier, dir. Rachid Bouchareb
The Departed, photo. Michael Ballhaus, dir. Martin Scorsese
Even Money, photo. Robbie Greenberg, dir. Mark Rydell
Flags of Our Fathers, photo. Tom Stern, dir. Clint Eastwood
Flanders [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], photo. Yves Cape, dir. Bruno Dumont
The Fountain, photo. Matthew Libatique, dir. Darren Aronofsky
Four Minutes, photo. Judith Kaufmann, dir. Chris Kraus
Franz + Polina, photo. Maxim Popov, dir. Mikhail Segal
Heaven’s Doors, photo. Paulo Ares, dir. Imad Noury, Swen Noury
The House of the Sand, photo. Ricardo Della Rosa, dir. Andrucha Waddington
The Illusionist, photo. Dick Pope, dir. Neil Burger
Jasminum, photo. Krzysztof Ptak, dir. Jan Jakub Kolski
Palimpsest, photo. Arkadiusz Tomiak, dir. Konrad Niewolski
Pan’s Labyrinth [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], photo. Guillermo Navarro, dir. Guillermo del Toro
The Queen [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Andy Harries
interview: Stephen Frears
film profile], photo. Affonso Beato, dir. Stephen Frears

(Translated from French)