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The big countdown to the 34th edition of ToruńCAMERIMAGE 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 five titles that were qualified to be part of our Main Competition.
BEHEMOTH!
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A gifted cellist, Alex Serian, returns home to Los Angeles after 20 years on the road. Music, which has been the constant, all-consuming river of his life, begins to carry Alex on an adventure that will change him forever.
FATHERLAND
Fatherland centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika, an actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of 1949, at the height of the Cold War, father and daughter embark on a challenging and emotional road trip in a black Buick, taking them across a Germany in ruins, from US-dominated Frankfurt to Soviet-controlled Weimar. Returning home after sixteen years of exile in the US, Thomas Mann has to face not only a divided fatherland, but also a deep fracture within his own family.
LA BOLA NEGRA
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From directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, known together as Los Javis, La Bola Negra follows three generations of men across pivotal moments in Spanish history, bound by pain, desire and love. Carlos longs to belong in a fractured Spain. Sebastián finds connection across enemy lines. And Alberto uncovers a long-buried family secret, one that finally gives voice to truths the past tried to erase.
THROUGH THE WALL
At the darkest time of Stalinist terror in Poland, two young people fall in love. Wiesia and Jerzy are political prisoners incarcerated in neighbouring cells who start communicating via Morse code. Those conversations become their only respite from the brutal reality of the prison. Without ever seeing each other, they fall in love and heroically fight to be together. The film is based on an incredible true story.
WILD HORSE NINE
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Shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, CIA agents Chris and Lee set out to Easter Island from Santiago, where they are stationed alongside their boss and bureau chief, MJ. Amongst the Island's iconic statues, as the longtime partners wrestle with their dark pasts and present conspiracies, Chris's newfound bond with a pair of rebellious students threatens to send everyone’s trip to this remote paradise sideways.