ANOTHER MAIN COMPETITION SNEAK PEEK!

Tuesday October 17th, 2023

The big countdown to the 31^st edition of EnergaCAMERIMAGE Film Festival has begun. Like each year, we did our best to curate an incredible lineup of visually stunning contemporary cinema. Today, we present another three titles that were qualified to be part of our Main Competition. 

KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON

Martin Scorsese's latest cinematic opus transports the audience to the 1920s to tell a heartbreaking story of love, greed and betrayal. Based on a true story and told through the improbable romance of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone), Killers of the Flower Moon tracks the suspicious murders of members of the Osage Nation, who became some of the richest people in the world overnight after oil was discovered underneath their land.

Scorsese was supported by his frequent collaborator, cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto, for whom this will be eighth nomination in EnergaCAMERIMAGE's Main Competition - he previously won Golden Frog for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Amores Perros (2000) and Silver Frog for Oliver Stone's Alexander (2004), and was nominated for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Babel (2006), Ang Lee's Lust, Caution (2007), Ben Affleck's Argo (2012), Martin Scorsese's The Irishman (2019) and Julie Taymor's The Glorias (2020). He was also nominated in 2012 in the Music Videos Competition for his cinematography for Lana Del Rey's “Blue Jeans” and in 2016 in the TV Pilots Competition for his collaboration with Scorsese on Vinyl's pilot episode. Rodrigo Prieto will personally introduce Killers of the Flower Moon EnergaCAMERIMAGE screening and attend the Q&A afterwards.

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BLACK FLIES

A suspenseful and realistic story directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire will come to Toruń straight from the Cannes Festival. The film tells the story of the rookie paramedic Ollie Cross (Tye Sheridan) who is sent to work with a true veteran and hero Gene Rutkovsky (Sean Penn). Together they face difficult decisions and moral choices that determine whether they will remain true to themselves or lose their humanity.

The author of the moving cinematography is David Ungaro, for whom it is a second nomination in the Main Competition. The Sauvaire-Ungaro duo's previous project, A Prayer Before Dawn, competed for the EnergaCAMERIMAGE Golden Frog in 2018.

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ALL OF US STRANGERS

Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal in ALL OF US STRANGERS.
Photo by Parisa Taghizadeh, Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures.
© 2023 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved.

All of Us Strangers is the latest film from British filmmaker Andrew Haigh (Lean on Pete, 45 Years, Weekend). The hauntingly poignant and hypnotic story of loss and love (and everything in between) is inspired by the novel Strangers by venerable Japanese author Taichi Yamada. One night in his near-empty tower block in contemporary London, Adam (Andrew Scott) has a chance encounter with a mysterious neighbor Harry (Paul Mescal), which punctures the rhythm of his everyday life. As a relationship develops between them, Adam is preoccupied with memories of the past and finds himself drawn back to the suburban town where he grew up, and the childhood home where his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell), appear to be living, just as they were on the day they died, 30 years before.

This is cinematographer Jamie Ramsay's second Golden Frog nomination. Last year, he was awarded with the Bronze Frog for his work on Oliver Hermanus' Living. Jamie Ramsay will join us to introduce All of Us Strangers EnergaCAMERIMAGE screening and attend the Q&A afterwards.