HONORARY PATRONAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND ANDRZEJ DUDA
CO-FINANCED BY: THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND NATIONAL HERITAGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND, THE CITY OF TORUŃ AND KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE REGION
Friday October 12th, 2018
Original title: Gueule d'Ange
Director: Vanessa Filho
Cinematographer: Guillaume Schiffman
Produced by: Mars Films, Windy Production, Moana Films, Van Vuong Group, My Unity Production
Country and year: France, 2018
This is the true story of Jared Conlon, a young American sent by his deeply religious Baptist parents to undergo unorthodox “conversion therapy” to heal him from what was and still is considered an abomination: homosexual desires. Jared does not know what to think or feel, and so he accepts being locked up for weeks in order to be “cured” and become a “valuable” member of society once again. Whilst there, he meets other young people, similarly voluntarily incapacitated because they are too weak to rebel against the world their parents want them to live in. Among them, there are those who really want to be “normal” again, but also some who have learned to lie in order to placate their “saviours”. Living a life of submission to the rules of others, especially the passive-aggressive staff, Jared tries to understand who he is and what he wants to be. How much he is willing to sacrifice to satisfy his parents’ and society’s vision of him?
Polish title: Wymazać siebie
Director: Joel Edgerton
Cinematographer: Eduard Grau
Produced by: Blue-Tongue Films, Focus Features, Perfect World Pictures, Anonymous Content
Polish distributor: United International Pictures Sp. z o.o. (UIP Polska)
Country and year: USA, 2018
Director: Ran Slavin
Cinematographers: Maayan Blech, Neil Cohen, Yuri Gershberg, Ran Slavin
Produced by: Plan B, Nocturnal Rainbow Films
Country and year: Israel, Japan, 2018
A bored police alarm dispatcher answers emergency calls with profound indifference. Sometimes the caller is a guy who’s taken far too many drugs and has no idea why the world is crumbling before his eyes, and sometimes it’s a man who’s been mugged in his own BMW by a prostitute. It’s a day like any other, one might say – at least to those who deal with such calls on a daily basis. But for Asger Holm – a tough police officer suspended from duty – it’s the worst punishment possible. Everything changes when he answers an emergency call from an exasperated woman speaking in code so as not to alarm her kidnapper, behind the wheel of a car going god knows where. Using his field experience, the cop starts a race against time with a criminal without a face or a motive. Realising the many limitations the situation imposes on him, Holm decides to cross some borders.
Original title: Den Skyldige
Polish title: Winni
Director: Gustav Möller
Cinematographer: Jasper J. Spanning
Produced by: Nordisk Film Spring
Polish distributor: GUTEK Film Sp. z o.o.
Country and year: Denmark, 2018
Director: Rupert Everett
Cinematographer: John Conroy
Produced by: maze pictures GmbH
Country and year: Germany, Belgium, Italy, 2018
Original title: Insyriated
Polish title: W czterech ścianach życia
Director: Philippe Van Leeuw
Cinematographer: Virginie Surdej
Produced by: Liaison Cinematographique, Altitude 100 Production, BE TV, Films Boutique
Country and year: Belgium, France, Lebanon, 2017
Redemption – a very broad concept that, in our story, encompasses both a desire to amend for at least some of the horrors one was responsible for at school, and an attempt to repent for taking someone’s life. For each of the three protagonists, redemption means something entirely different. Twenty years ago, Mario killed a Mexican presidential candidate, but now, after being released from prison, he wants to make a new start, though he is appalled by the realisation that the country hasn’t changed much. Jennifer is a homeless American who finds a pistol – a stylish revolver – and has to travel all the way to Mexico to sell it on the black market. But fate gives her a hard time. Chicali is a young but already experienced Tijuana cop who starts working as an assassin for the local mafia while avoiding the realisation that he has passed the point of no return. Their paths intertwine in a surprising way, but nothing will shift the burden of responsibility for their own lives.
Original title: Mente Revólver
Director: Alejandro Ramírez Corona
Cinematographer: Víctor Dávila Camacho
Produced by: Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía - Mexican Film Institute (IMCINE)
Country and year: Mexico, 2017
HONORARY PATRONAGE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND ANDRZEJ DUDA
CO-FINANCED BY: THE MINISTRY OF CULTURE AND NATIONAL HERITAGE OF THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND, THE CITY OF TORUŃ AND KUJAWSKO-POMORSKIE REGION
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