Thursday October 26th, 2023
Sometimes words are simply not enough. When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the world as we knew it changed for ever. As a film festival dedicated to the art of cinematography we wish to remain apolitical, but we tried to help our Ukrainian friends any way we could, including bringing the OKO International Ethnographic Film Festival and the Ukrainian Film Festival of Art of Cinematography KINOKO to Toruń for EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2022.
We are proud to announce that co-director Sean Penn will personally present Superpower (co-directed by Aaron Kaufman) in Toruń during the 31st edition of EnergaCAMERIMAGE Film Festival, and take part in a press conference alongside producer Billy Smith after the screening.
Still from "Superpower"
The documentary started months before the Russian invasion on Ukraine as a means to understand the legacy of the Maidan protests and the road that led Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky from being a comic actor to becoming the nation’s fearsome president. Then, when the improbable became undoubtable, the filmmakers - who were on site on February 24th - not only recorded several interviews with Zelensky but also shot footage at the front, thus creating a multilayered view on the war and its impact on Ukraine and its people. While still a work in progress, Superpower had its international premiere during this year’s Berlin International Film Festival and the finished film has been travelling the world since, and can currently be seen in the United States on Paramount+.
We wholeheartedly recommend you to come and watch this incredible documentary and listen to what Sean Penn will have to say about its making. Sometimes words are simply not enough, but they might find their way to your heart easier when supported by powerful images.
FINANCED BY THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND NATIONAL HERITAGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND AS PART OF THE TASK: CO-ORGANIZATION OF THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF THE ART OF CINEMATOGRAPHY EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2024
CO-FINANCED BY: THE CITY OF TORUŃ AND KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE REGION
