Polish film in Cannes Official Selection
The Polish representation at the 75th Cannes International Film Festival is exceptionally strong. Although journalists are mainly wondering whether Palme d’Or will go to Jerzy Skolimowski, the author of the film ‘EO‘, three other Polish productions — all co-financed by the Polish Film Institute — have a chance for awards in Cannes.
Main competition — Eo
Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski EO tells a story of a donkey in an increasingly complex reality. Passed from hand to hand, the animal meets both good and bad people on its path full of bends. Skolimowski’s film is a allegory created in a Polish-Italian co-production. The director is also responsible, along with Ewa Piaskowska, for the script.
The cinematography for EO is by Michał Dymek, Michał Englert and Paweł Edelman, and Agnieszka Glińska was responsible for the editing. ISA: Hanway
Un Certain Regard section — Silent Twins
Un Certain Regard section includes the English-language film by Agnieszka Smoczyńska who did that fabulous mermaid movie that premierd in Sundance called The Lure. Twin sisters (June and Jennifer Gibbons), described in the book The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace, who in their childhood “fell silent to the outside world” are recreated in the eerie story of twin sisters who were entirely silent, communicating only to each other as children. As teenagers, they became obsessed with writing fiction, then with teenage boys, and finally, with crime. The film is based on the true story of June and Jennifer Gibbons, twins from the only black family in a small town in Wales in the 1970s and 1980s.
Silent Twins is a Polish-British co-production, for which Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska, Bogna Szewczyk and Ewa Puszczyńska are responsible on the Polish side. The editing, as in the case of EO, is by Agnieszka Glińska, and the music was composed by Marcin Macuk and Zuzanna Wrońska. Jakub Kijowski is responsible for the cinematography.
Section Quinzaine des Réalisateurs — Pamfir
In this section, the Polish-Ukrainian-French-Chilean co-production directed by Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk is worth a look.
This story takes place in the west of Ukraine on the eve of the traditional carnival. This is about a loving father whose child sets fire to the house of prayer. In order to rectify his son’s guilt, Pamfir must stop “earning honestly for bread” and return to places he never wanted to return to. On the Polish side, Bogna Szewczyk Madants and Klaudia Śmieja-Rostworowska are responsible for the production. The film was edited by Nikodem Chabior. ISA: Indie Sales
Section of La Cinef Festival du Cannes — Tomorrow We are not There
In the student section, the animated short film Tomorrow We are not There by Olga Kłyszewicz is a triumph. It is an eight-minute story about a situation many of us have probably experienced: an unexpected encounter with a person who views life in a completely different way and changes our point of view unexpectedly.
Kłyszewicz’s animation was selected from among 1,528 student productions from around the world submitted to the competition and is one of only three animations out of sixteen qualified films. The Film School in Łódź is responsible for the production of the picture, and Joanna Jasińska-Koronkiewicz was its artistic supervisor.
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