The big countdown to the 32nd 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.
SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE
It is 1985 in the run-up to Christmas in a small town in County Wexford, Ireland. Bill Furlong toils as a coal merchant to support himself, his wife and his five daughters. Early one morning while out delivering coal at the local convent, he makes a discovery that forces him to confront his past and the complicit silence of a town controlled by the Catholic Church. Based on the novel of the same name by Claire Keegan.
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THE DEVIL'S BATH
Agnes is getting married. But nothing is turning out the way she wants – her husband is not particularly interested in her, her mother-in-law criticizes her at every turn and the loan the young couple took to buy a house seems to exceed the financial capabilities of the newlyweds. The woman quickly becomes depressed. However, since the film is set in the Austrian countryside of nearly three centuries ago, everyone thinks she is possessed by Satan. The Devil's Bath is a historically well documented folk drama that lets viewers empathize with a heroine, who is put in a no-win situation, and at the same time look at the actual life of our ancestors (and especially our female ancestors) from a slightly different perspective.
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CABRINI
From Alejandro Monteverde, award-winning director of Sound of Freedom, comes the powerful epic of Francesca Cabrini, an Italian immigrant who arrives in New York City in 1889 and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society’s most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini builds an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.