"By The River", "First. . . " and "Dismay" in the official selection of the Kameralne Lato festival!
The films "On the Vistula River", "First. . . " and "Fright" have qualified for the Main Competition of the National Film Meetings Chamber Summer in Radom. The festival will take place from July 4-10.
KAMERALNE LATO is a combination of screenings and film competitions with film workshops for young people, discussion panels, as well as innovative forms of social education.
The aim of the festival is both the promotion of young Polish cinema and shaping good social role models, encouraging young people to participate in culture and - implemented in cooperation with the Police - social prevention.
The main organizer of the Kameralne Lato is the Stowarzyszenie FILMFORUM, and the co-organizers are: Masovian Social Policy Centre and ŁAŹNIA – Radomski Klub Środowisk Twórczych i Galeria. The project is co-financed by the City of Radom and the Polish Film Institute. The festival was also co-financed by the Ministry of Culture, National Heritage and Sport and by the Mazovian Voivodeship. The event is sponsored by the US Embassy in Warsaw.
Below we are presenting productions of the Warsaw Film School which have qualified for the Main Competition of the festival.
BY THE RIVER – dir. Agata Korycka
Still from the film "By The River" – cinematographer: Olaf Malinowski
A movie about the courage necessary to live a life in harmony with yourself. Policewoman Kinga fallsin love with a woman. She engages in helping women beaten during the march against fascism. She breaks an order. This gives her the strength to reject the values she disagrees with and build herself anew. The film refers to real events - the Women's Strike and the Independence March (Marta Lempart appears in the film). These actions give her the strength to throw away the values she disagrees with and build herself anew.
Still from the film "By The River" – cinematographer: Olaf Malinowski
CAST: Aleksandra Pisula, Anna Gorajska, Anna Bielecka, Dobromir Dymecki, Łukasz Wójcik, Maciej Gośniowski
SCRIPT & DIRECTING: Agata Korycka DOP: Olaf Malinowski EDITING: Anna Maria Filipow SOUND: Patrycja Krysik, Zofia Węgrzyn MUSIC: Przemysław Książek ARTISTIC SUPERVISION: Marek Brodzki PRODUCTION MANAGER: Pamela Barbaś, Aleksandra Ziomka PRODUCER: Maciej Ślesicki PRODUCTION: Warsaw Film School
FIRST... – dir. Adam Hartwiński
Still from the film "First..." – cinematographer: Michał Konopka
The film's protagonist, 40-year-old beauty vlogger Marysia, finds out that the baby she is expecting has an incurable genetic defect and probably will die soon after birth. A desperate woman makes a difficult decision to give birth to a child and donate its kidney to the sick Anielka.
Still from the film "First..." – cinematographer: Michał Konopka
CAST: Arek Demter, Gabriela Czyżewska-Detmer, Anna Grycewicz, Jacek Beler, Dorota Salamon, Jerzy Wojtkowski, Hanna Jasińska, Grzegorz Porzeziński
DIRECTOR: Adam Hartwiński SCRIPT: Adam Hartwiński, Aldona Hartwińska DOP: Michał Konopka EDITING: Maciej Gawda SOUND: Kacper Karpowicz Michał Rusnarczyk MUSIC: Andrzej Bonarek PRODUCTION MANAGER: Aleksandra Fornal ARTISTIC SUPERVISION: Barbara Pawłowska, Andrzej Jaroszewicz, Maciej Ślesicki, Arek Detmer, Wojciech Saramonowicz PRODUCER: Maciej Ślesicki PRODUCTION: Warsaw Film School
DISMAY – dir. Joanna Szymańska
Kadr z filmu "Przestrach" – autor zdjęć: Przemysław Brynkiewicz
"Dismay" is a magical and brutal story set in a Masurian village about the extraordinary bond between a father and an eight-year-old daughter and about the terrible consequences of an attempt to take away a hypersensitive girl from an alcohol-addicted musician. Little Ula does not know that at herCommunion party, instead of a long-awaited mother who has left her father, a curator from the social welfare centre will appear, ready to take her to an orphanage immediately. However, the girl will never allow anyone to take back what she managed to save after her mother left. Together with her father, a local organist, against all odds, she believes her mother will come back and she is still waiting for this moment. The joyful, May day of the First Holy Communion will turn into a nightmarish triumph of the wild world of Masurian nature, which is the only ally of little Ula.
Still from the film "Dismay" – cinematographer: Przemysław Brynkiewicz
CAST: Zoja Szcześniak, Mariusz Kiljan, Joanna Fertacz, Joanna Trzepiecnińska, Dominika Pasternak, Karolina Gibowska, Andrzej Andrzejewski, Rafał Zawierucha, Aleksy Komorowski
DIRECTING: Joanna Szymańska SCRIPT: Malwina Chojnacka DOP: Przemysław Brynkiewicz EDITING: Łukasz Falkowski, Rafał Stolarczyk, Adam Cyran SOUND: Karol Szykowny MUSIC: Jan Sanejko ARTISTIC SUPERVISION: Maciej Ślesicki PRODUCER: Maciej Ślesicki PRODUCTION: Warsaw Film School
Films by students of the Warsaw Film School are co-financed by the Polish Film Institute