Opening with Steve McQueen’s Blitz [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] (USA/UK, DoP Yorick Le Saux), the 32nd edition of the Camerimage Film Festival will unspool 16-23 November in the Polish city of Torún. Officially the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage, the Polish festival recognises the best in cinematographic art around the world and bestows its awards upon each film’s cinematographer, rather than its director. Actress and producer Cate Blanchett will lead the main competition jury as president, with the rest of the jury completed by cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle, cinematographer and documentary filmmaker Jolanta Dylewska, producer and columnist Anna Higgs, costume designer Sandy Powell, cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto and cinematographer Łukasz Żal.

Blending acclaimed arthouse works and popular cinema, the festival’s Main Competition features, in addition to Blitz, The Girl with the Needle [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Magnus von Horn
scheda film] by Magnus von Horn (Denmark/Poland/Sweden, DoP Michał Dymek), Cabrini by Alejandro Monteverde (USA, DoP Gorka Gómez Andreu), Emilia Pérez [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Edward Berger (USA/UK, DoP Stéphane Fontaine), The Devil’s Bath [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Veronika Franz, Severin Fi…
scheda film] by Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz (Austria/Germany, DoP Martin Gschlacht), The Fire Inside by Rachel Morrison (USA, DoP Rina Yang), Vermiglio [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Maura Delpero
scheda film] by Maura Delpero (Italy/France/Belgium, DoP Mikhail Krichman), Small Things Like These [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Tim Mielants (USA/Ireland/Belgium, DoP Frank van den Eeden), Dune: Part Two by Denis Villeneuve (USA/Canada, DoP Greig Fraser), The Brutalist [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Brady Corbet (UK/USA/Hungary, DoP Lol Crawley) and Gladiator II by Ridley Scott (USA/UK, DoP John Mathieson). The films will face off for Camerimage’s coveted Golden, Silver and Bronze Frogs.

The Polish Films Competition includes White Courage [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Marcin Koszałka
scheda film] by director and DOP Marcin Koszałka (Poland), Travel Essentials by Kamila Tarabura (Poland/Germany, DoP Tomasz Naumiuk), Under the Grey Sky [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mara Tamkovich
scheda film] by Mara Tamkovich (Poland, DoP Krzsyztof Trela), Minghun by Jan P. Matuszyński (Poland, DoP Kacper Fertasz), Wrooklyn Zoo [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Krzysztof Skonieczny (Poland/USA, DoP Adam Pietkiewicz), Scarborn by Paweł Maślona (Poland/Germany/Sweden, DoP Piotr Sobociński Jr) and Kulej. Two Sides of the Medal by Xawery Żuławski (Poland, DoP Marian Prokop).

My Place is Here [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Meryam Joobeur
scheda film] by Meryam Joobeur (Tunisia/France/Canada, DoP Vincent Gonneville), Brief History of a Family [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Lin Jianjie (China/France/Denmark/Qatar, DoP Zhang Jiahao) and Tatami [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Guy Nattiv (USA/Georgia, DoP Todd Martin) are some of the highlights from the Cinematographers’ Debuts Competition. Acclaimed works from Camerimage’s multiple special screenings strands include Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Mohammad Rasoulof
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The Polish festival also features several other competition sections, including for directorial debuts, documentary features, documentary shorts, film and art school works, television series and music videos. Rounding out the selection is a retrospective on US cinematographer Edward (Ed) Lachman, a frequent collaborator of Todd Haynes and Ulrich Seidl, and a retrospective of Italian-US director and cinematographer Gianfranco Rosi.

The full Camerimage programme can be explored in full on the festival’s website.