{"id":39783,"date":"2024-10-28T09:50:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T08:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/?p=39783"},"modified":"2024-10-28T09:50:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T08:50:13","slug":"sklad-konkursu-debiutow-rezyserskich-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.camerimage.pl\/en\/sklad-konkursu-debiutow-rezyserskich-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Directors’ Debuts Competition 2024 Lineup!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Directors\u2019 Debuts Competition<\/strong>\u00a0was initiated in 2010 due to the Festival\u2019s increasing openness to the noteworthy artists and the new film phenomena they create. The selection committee nominates first or second non-documentary feature films made by young directors and cinematographers. The idea of creating additional competition sections was a natural consequence of our previous activities. For years we have been promoting innovative projects that combine intellectual freedom, remarkable insight into world affairs and a desire to inspire other artists of the screen.<\/div>\n
Directors\u2019 Debuts Competition<\/strong>\u00a0brings new discoveries: great movies of high artistic value and great filmmakers whose new ventures surprise not only the Jury members but all audiences around the world as well.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Competition is under the patronage of\u00a0Polish Filmmakers Association<\/strong>.<\/center>
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BRIEF HISTORY OF A FAMILY<\/span>
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After an incident at their high school, Wei, an outgoing only son from a middle-class family, and Shuo, his quiet, perceptive classmate, find themselves connected through some mysterious energy that draws them intimately into each other\u2019s lives. Wei soon introduces his friend to his father, a cell biologist, and his mother, a former flight attendant. Learning that Shuo comes from a troubled background, Wei\u2019s parents welcome this boy with an enigmatic charm to spend more time in their home. Slowly integrating himself into Wei\u2019s family life, Shuo discovers that their comfortable existence is shadowed by unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions. A tragic incident further complicates their lives, putting past wounds and present anxieties under the microscope.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Original title:<\/strong> Jia ting jian shi
\n<\/strong>Director:<\/strong> Jianjie Lin
\nCinematographer:<\/strong> Jiahao Zhang<\/div>\n
Produced by:<\/strong> First Light Films<\/div>\n
Country and year: <\/strong>China, France, Denmark, Qatar, 2024<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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DADDIO<\/span>
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Daddio<\/em> celebrates the power found in those rare moments of pure human connection, even with the most unlikely person. This highly contained, yet kinetic character-study \u2013 encapsulated in one single cab ride \u2013 explores the complexities inherent to the secrets we keep, particularly the ones locked away on our phones. It\u2019s about truth and illusion, how we so effortlessly substitute one for the other out of survival. It\u2019s about the hurtful memories of childhood, how past trauma can manifest itself in the most profound ways. It\u2019s about the beautiful dance between the pain and poetry that is the human experience.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Director:<\/strong> Christy Hall
\nCinematographer:<\/strong> Phedon Papamichael<\/div>\n
Produced by:<\/strong> Projected Picture Works, Rhea Films, TeaTime Pictures
\nCountry and year:<\/strong> USA, 2023<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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IN THE LAND OF BROTHERS <\/span>\"\"<\/a><\/h1>\n
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Under the shadow of the US invasion, an extended Afghan refugee family begins their new lives in Iran unaware of the ultimate price expected of them as outliers in this (un)welcoming environment: Mohammad, a young teenager and promising student; Leila, a woman isolated by geography, and Qasem who bears the weight of his family\u2019s sacrifice.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Original title:<\/strong> Dar Sarzamin-e Bar\u00e2dar
\n<\/strong>Directors:<\/strong>\u00a0Alireza Ghasemi, Raha Amirfazli
\nCinematographer:<\/strong> Farshad Mohammadi<\/div>\n

Produced by:<\/strong> BALDR Film, Furyo Films, Limited Circle
\nCountry and year: <\/strong>Iran, France, Netherlands\u00a02024<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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LOS FRIKIS<\/span>
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Inspired by true events, Los Frikis<\/em> is a powerful coming-of-age story set in early 90s Cuba, centring around 18-year-old Gustavo who idolises his older brother Paco and his punk, \u201cFrikis\u201d bandmates. When word reaches the Frikis of a potential reprieve from the effects of the economic crisis, they do the now unthinkable: deliberately inject themselves with HIV to live at a government-run treatment home. It\u2019s there that these teenagers create their own utopia full of joy, rock\u2019n\u2019roll, and freedom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Director:<\/strong> Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz
\nCinematographer:<\/strong> Santiago Gonzalez<\/div>\n

Produced by:<\/strong> Lord Miller
\nCountry and year:<\/strong> USA, Dominican Republic, Cuba, 2024<\/div>\n
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NICKEL BOYS<\/span><\/strong>\"\"<\/a><\/h1>\n
\n\u00a0<\/span>Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead and inspired by real-life events, <\/span>Nickel Boys<\/em> chronicles the powerful friendship between two black teenagers who become wards of a juvenile reformatory in Florida. In breakout performances that cut to the bone, Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson play Elwood and Turner, whose close bond helps sustain their hope even as truths unfold around them at the Nickel Academy.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n
Director:<\/strong> RaMell Ross<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Cinematographer:<\/strong> Jomo Fray<\/div>\n
Produced by:<\/strong> A Plan B Entertainment, Anonymous Content, Louverture Films Production
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Country and year:<\/strong> USA, 2024<\/div>\n
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PEDRO P\u00c1RAMO<\/span>
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Based on Juan Rulfo\u2019s masterpiece novel, considered one of the most important books in the history of Mexico and Latin America, the film narrates the story of Juan Preciado, who upon his mother\u2019s death goes to the remote village where he was born in search of his father, Pedro P\u00e1ramo. He encounters a ghost town, where he meets a series of mysterious people and learns about his dead father\u2019s ruthless quest for wealth and power. The past makes itself present as we learn the truth behind Pedro P\u00e1ramo\u2019s own search for the love he once knew as a child. The line between the dead and the living and the past and the present is constantly blurred in this surreal tale of desire, hope, regret and resentment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Director:<\/strong> Rodrigo Prieto
\nCinematographer:<\/strong> Nico Aguilar<\/div>\n

Produced by:<\/strong> REDRUM, Woo Films
\nCountry and year:<\/strong> Meksyk, 2024<\/div>\n
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RED PATH<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n
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Mount Mghila is a very poor and isolated region in northwestern Tunisia. It is November 2015. Two teenage boys ignore the warnings of adults and enter a mountain area that is occupied by armed extremists. They are caught and accused of spying for the army. 13-year-old Achraf loses consciousness and when he regains it, he sees the decapitated body of his cousin. The terrorists force him to carry the severed head to the town as a warning to others. Burdened with the gruesome package, the boy begins a journey that will be a painful trip to adulthood. Red Path<\/em> is a fact-based, heartbreaking drama that shows a life in which terrorism is a dark everyday reality.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Original title:<\/strong> Les enfants rouges
\n<\/strong>Director:<\/strong> Lotfi Achour
\nCinematographer:<\/strong> Wojciech Staro\u0144
\nProduced by:<\/strong> Apa: Artistes Producteurs Associ\u00e9s, La Luna Productions, Shipsboy, Versus Production
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Country and year:<\/strong> Tunisia, France, Belgium, Poland, 2024<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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SANTOSH<\/span>
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A government scheme sees newly widowed Santosh inherit her husband\u2019s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low-caste girl is murdered, Santosh is pulled into the investigation by the charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.<\/p>\n

\nDirector:<\/strong> Sandhya Suri
\nCinematographer:<\/strong> Lennert Hillege<\/div>\n

Produced by:<\/strong> Good Chaos
\nCountry and year:<\/strong> UK, France, Germany, 2024<\/div>\n
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THE SUBSTANCE<\/span>
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An aging star of a TV show suffers the horrible consequences of taking an illegal drug that, according to the supplier, is supposed to turn her into a younger, better version of herself. How about you? How much would you be ready to sacrifice for eternal youth? Do you sometimes dream of becoming a better version of yourself? The same one, yet more perfect in every way? Try a new product called Substance, thanks to which nothing will ever be the same again. With Substance you can create a second self: younger, more beautiful, more perfect. The only thing you need to remember is to divide your time between the two selves, the old one and the new one. A week for one, a week for the other. A perfect balance that allows no deviations. It\u2019s simple, isn\u2019t it? If you don\u2019t try to bend the rules, everything will go smoothly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Director: <\/strong>Coralie Fargeat
\nCinematographer:<\/strong> Benjamin Kracun
\nProduced by: <\/strong><\/strong>A Good Story, Blacksmith, Working Title Films<\/div>\n

Country and year:<\/strong> UK, USA, France, 2024<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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VALENTINA OR THE SERENITY<\/span>
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Valentina loses her father in a river accident, and not satisfied with the explanation of his death, she searches for him everywhere without success. She subsequently grows lonely, with her family and time helping her accommodate the absence and overcome grief.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Original title:<\/strong> Valentina o la serenidad
\n<\/strong>Director:<\/strong> \u00c1ngeles Cruz
\nCinematographer:<\/strong> Carlos Correa Reynoso
\nProduced by:<\/strong> Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE)<\/div>\n

Country and year: <\/strong>Meksyk, 2023<\/div>\n
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WHITE COURAGE<\/span>
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It is the late 1930s in the Podhale region. A talented mountain climber, descendant of a prominent highland family, J\u0119drek Zawrat likes living on the edge. When he climbs, he chooses the most difficult routes, when he loves, he is ready to sacrifice everything. As a result of a family decision, his beloved Bronka is married off to the older of the Zawrat brothers, the stable and serious Maciek. Proud J\u0119drek abandons his homeland to seek oblivion among the Cracow bohemians. On his way, he meets a German scientist and mountaineer Wolfram, who proclaims the theory that the Highlanders descend from the ancient Germanic tribe of the Pragoths. When the war breaks out, the Germans offer the people of Podhale cooperation. Maciej Zawrat, supported by many distinguished families, firmly rejects the offer. J\u0119drek, however, persuaded by Wolfram and hoping to win back his beloved Bronka and save his community from wartime annihilation, decides to cooperate with the Germans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Original title:<\/strong> Bia\u0142a Odwaga
\n<\/strong>Director:<\/strong> Marcin Kosza\u0142ka
\nCinematographer:<\/strong> Marcin Kosza\u0142ka
\nProduced by:<\/strong> Balapolis<\/div>\n

Country and year: <\/strong>Polska, 2024<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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WHO DO I BELONG TO<\/span>
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Aicha lives in the isolated north of Tunisia with her husband and youngest son. The family lives in anguish after the departure of the eldest sons Mehdi and Amine into the violent embrace of war. When Mehdi unexpectedly returns home with a mysterious pregnant wife, a darkness emerges, threatening to consume the entire village. Aicha is caught between her maternal love and her search for the truth.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Original title:<\/strong> M\u00e9 el A\u00efn
\n<\/strong>Director:<\/strong> Meryam Joobeur
\nCinematographer:<\/strong> Vincent Gonneville
\nProduced by:<\/strong> Instinct Bleu, Midi La Nuit, Tanit Films<\/div>\n

Country and year:<\/strong> Tunisia, France, Canada, 2024<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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