The 33rd edition of the EnergaCAMERIMAGE Film Festival is fast approaching, and the festival is thrilled to reveal part of its Main Competition lineup.
Once again, we’re proud to present three exceptional titles that showcase the power of visual storytelling — bold, immersive, and crafted by some of today’s most visionary filmmakers. Get ready for another glimpse into the remarkable cinematic journey that awaits you this November in Toruń.
12 PAINTINGS OF ENSLAVEMENT • DP Lech Majewski & Paweł Tybora
Lech Majewski opens up the world of Jacek Malczewski, a symbolist painter from the turn of the twentieth century. In a wordless visual dialogue, the director recreates Poland’s history from the World War I to the present day. The characters from Malczewski’s canvases march through successive decades, fighting and fleeing various yokes. They traverse Siberia and Polish fields to arrive in a contemporary, urbanised homeland, immersed in apathetic consumption.
A COMPLETE UNKNOWN • DP Phedon Papamichael ASC GSC GCA
New York, early 1960s. A 19-year-old from Minnesota, gifted with extraordinary musical talent, arrives in the West Village to meet his idol, Woody Guthrie. At first, he becomes part of the folk scene, but gradually begins to free himself from its influence, searching for his own original voice. Unwilling to be pigeonholed, he makes a controversial choice that will revolutionise the world of music. A Complete Unknown tells the true story of one of the most iconic singer-songwriters in history, Bob Dylan, portrayed by Timothée Chalamet, who also performs all of Dylan’s songs featured in the film.
F1: THE MOVIE • DP Claudio Miranda ASC ACC
Dubbed “the greatest that never was”, Sonny Hayes was Formula 1’s most promising prodigy of the 1990s until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former team-mate Ruben Cervantes, now the owner of a struggling Formula 1 outfit on the verge of collapse. Ruben convinces Sonny to return to Formula 1 for one last shot at saving the team — and proving he can still be the best in the world. He’ll drive alongside Joshua Pearce, the team’s hot-shot rookie intent on setting his own pace. But as the engines roar, Sonny’s past catches up with him, and he finds that in Formula 1 your team-mate is your fiercest competition — and the road to redemption is not one you can travel alone.
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE • DP Barry Ackroyd BSC
When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
SINNERS • DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw ASC
Sinners is a genre-bending and multi-layered exploration of Black culture and the blues music that is unique to it through the lens of a Southern Gothic thriller. Set in 1932 Mississippi, Michael B. Jordan stars as twin brothers Smoke and Stack, who, after chasing success in the North, return to Clarksdale, Mississippi to open a juke joint and revive the soul and spirit of their hometown. As music and dance meld in celebration of artistry, culture and history, evil descends, threatening to devour the fabric and heart of the community, and all that Smoke and Stack have worked to achieve.
SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE • DP Masanobu Takayanagi
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 album Nebraska, when he was a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to reconcile the pressures of success with the ghosts of his past. The album marked a pivotal moment in his life and is considered one of his most enduring works – a raw, haunted acoustic record populated by lost souls searching for a reason to believe.
