This year’s Cannes Grand Prix winner The Zone of Interest is director Jonathan Glazer’s (Sexy Beast, Birth and Under the Skin) film look into the everyday live of the Auschwitz concentration camp commander Rudolf Höss and his family. With Toni Erdmann’s Sandra Hüller and The White Ribbon’s Christian Friedel in the leading roles of Hewdig and Rudolf Höss. International media called The Zone of Interest a chilling and profound film (Variety) that will haunt you long after seeing it (Deadline), as well as a film that is terribly necessary to its time (Vanity Fair) and illustrating the banality of evil (Indiewire).
- Main Competition
- Polish Films Competition
- Directors' Debuts Competition
- Cinematographers' Debuts Competition
- Cinematographers' Debuts Competition, Directors' Debuts Competition
- Documentary Features Competition
- Documentary Shorts Competition
- Film And Art School Etudes Competition
- Music Videos Competition
- TV Series Competition
- Special Screening
- Documentary Special Screening
- Contemporary World Cinema
- Copernicus - Scientists - Explorers - Dreamers
- Picturing the World for 75 Years. Lodz Film School Anniversary
- 100 Years of Disney Animation: A Shorts Celebration
- Panorama Etiud Studenckich Szkół Filmowych i Artystycznych
- Krzysztof Zanussi Retrospective
- Wojciech Jerzy Has Retrospective
- Peter Zeitlinger and Werner Herzog Retrospective
- Quay Brothers Retrospective
- Peter Biziou Retrospective
Q&A for The Zone of Interest
Zone of Interest, The
MEETINGS AND EVENTS
Cinematographer: Łukasz Żal
Director: Jonathan Glazer
Producer: Ewa Puszczyńska, James Wilson
Writer: Jonathan Glazer
Production designer: Chris Oddy
Editor: Paul Watts
Cast: Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Julia Polaczek
Production Company: A24, Access Entertainment, EXTREME EMOTIONS BIS SP Z O O, Film4, House Productions, JW Films Ltd.
Distribution company (world): A24
Distribution company: A24
Year: 2023
Country: UK, Poland, USA
Time: 106