The festival will feature premieres by five new directors as well as works by six of Poland?s most famous directors: Andrzej Wajda, Krzysztof Zanussi, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Jerzy Skolimowski, Piotr Szulkin and Roman Polański. The Művész will show some 40 films during the festival, some made as many as fifty years apart.
Krzysztof Zanussi?s psychological drama Persona non grata will open the festival. Zanussi will be a guest of the festival, shortly before beginning a new production in Italy.
Among the other films the festival will show is The Call of the Toad by Robert Gliński, who also directed the successful Hi Tessa. His newest film is based on a novel by Günter Grass and deals with the much asked question of nationality in the history of Poland, Germany and Lithuania.
Patryk Vega?s Pitbull is an unusually acute crime thriller, in which the police, not the criminals, are the main problem.
Skazany na bluesa, or ?Doomed to the Blues? shows the tragic demise of the charismatic Polish musician Ryszard Riedel ? called the Polish Jim Morrison ? who fronted the popular 80s band Dżem.
But the festival is not without a light comedy: Zakochany anioł, or ?Angel in Love?, is the sequel to ?Angel in Krakow?. In the sequel, the angel Giordano, taken with the joys of terrestrial life, decides to find a mate.
Source: Port.hu
