Painting was Andrzej Wajda’s first artistic pursuit, while throughout his creative career literature provided him with stories, characters and themes that took on new life on screen. How did images, words and ideas become cinema in his hands? As part of ‘Fall for Films in the Kujawy Pomorze Region – Cinematic Confections: Andrzej Wajda’, we will explore two vital sources of the director’s cinematic imagination and the ways in which he translated them into his own distinctive visual language.
Thanks to the support of the Regional Government of Kujawy and Pomorze, ToruńCAMERIMAGE will revisit four films by Andrzej Wajda: Landscape After the Battle, Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania, Sweet Rush and Afterimage. Together, they offer an opportunity to look at his cinema through its dialogue with painting and literature, from deliberate visual quotations and inspirations drawn from composition, light and colour to literary worlds transformed by the director into autonomous works of cinema.
Pan Tadeusz: The Last Foray in Lithuania, dir. Andrzej Wajda © Gravity Films
The screenings will be accompanied by meetings with actors who worked with Andrzej Wajda on his films. Festival guests will include Grażyna Szapołowska and Jan Englert, who will meet audiences for Q&A sessions following the screenings. After Afterimage, film scholar and critic Diana Dąbrowska will also invite audiences to delve deeper into Wajda’s cinematic imagination in a lecture devoted to the director.
The programme will be complemented by a meeting with Grażyna Szapołowska, taking place on 20 October at 6:00 pm at The Nicolaus Copernicus Public Provincial Library in Toruń. The conversation with the actress will be moderated by journalist Paulina Rubczak. Admission is free.
The Main Patron of the film review is the Regional Government of Kujawy and Pomorze.
Partner of the review is Kujawy Pomorze Film Fund.
