The programme of this year’s edition of our Festival will give a chance to see that for many artists representing different cultures, various arts and different generations this motto is an important inspiration.
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On Saturday, August 1st, at the Castle in Kazimierz Dolny the great guests from Brazil will perform the bossa nova concert. It will not only be a celebration of 50th anniversary of this wonderful music that combines afro-Latin soul with sophisticated jazz, but also a unique musical commentary to the feature films, which once enchanted the world. One of the greatest Brazilian bossa nova composers - Francis Hime. He will be one of the main guests of our Festival this year.
In contrast to dancing and magical Brazil organizers will present a shocking documentary about the starvation: GARAPA by Jose Padilha (the director of ELITE SQUAD presented at TWO RIVERSIDES last year).
The special guest of FAF TWO RIVERSIDES will be Bruno Barreto, one of the most interesting directors of Brazilian new wave, known for DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS and for GABRIELA. His most recent feature THE LAST STOP 174 will have its Polish premiere on this Festival.
This year there is prepared a very special retrospective of outstanding Russian director Pavel Klushantsev. By some film directors he is called a godfather of s-f special effects, he was a visionary and invented around 300 devices for creating the illusion of outer space in a film studio. His ideas and solutions which he invented for his films ROAD TO THE STARS, PLANET OF STORMS and many other, were inspiration for Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: SPACE ODDYSEY and George Lucas’ STAR WARS. Klushatsev’s feature films and documentaries will be presented for the first time in Poland during FAF TWO RIVERSIDES. There will also be presented THE STAR DREAMER - a very interesting documentary about Klushantsev where Robert Skotak, the Oscar winner for special effects for THE ALIENS, TERMINATOR and TITANIC, tells about Klushantsev’s influence on science fiction genre.
"Cinema lessons - a confession of a filmmaker" is a special form of meeting the festival guests with the festival audience. It is a filmmaker’s confession of their passions, inspirations and secrets of their creative activity. The important context of those meetings are directors’ masterpieces chosen by them. During the previous editions of our Festival we had a pleasure to guest Bob Rafelson, Wieslaw Saniewski, Wojciech Marczewski, Slawomir Idziak and Slawomir Grunberg.
This year our guests in the section Cinema lessons will be:
Piotr Szulkin - a director, scriptwriter, writer, one of the most intriguing European directors. His confession will be illustrated by his two films - MEAT (IRONICA) and UBU THE KING.
Jan A.P. Kaczmarek - a composer, Oscar winner for the music to FINDING NEVERLAND. His confession will be very special because it will be enriched with an unforgettable concert-reminiscence, which will take us to the roots of Kaczmarek’s creative activity - The Orchestra of the Eighth Day.
Section ‘And God created the actor’ was presented for the first time on TWO RIVERSIDES in 2008. This section is thought as a retrospective of outstanding actors and their greatest creations. They bring director’s visions to life. The art of acting is a very important part of a film.
Last year our guest was Janusz Gajos - Polish film and theatrical actor. This year we will have an honour to host one of the greatest Polish actress, film and theatrical directors and the owner of POLONIA, the first private theatre in Poland - Krystyna Janda. So this year we will have a section "And God created the actress" where the organizers will present the greatest film, theatrical and music creations of Krystyna Janda. The crown of this section will be Krystyna Janda’s presentation of a monodrama EAR, THROAT, KNIFE, which is the adaptation of Verdana Rudan’s book under the same title. Janda is the director, the script writer and the main actress.
As in previous years the festival’s audience will have an opportunity to meet interesting artists. Those meetings are very special because they are informal. Their motto is Talk to them. This year our main guest in this section will be Jerzy Stuhr - one of the greatest and best known Polish actors and directors.
The dialogue is a very important part of the festival in general. That is the reason we would like to have a lot of places in Kazimierz and Janowiec where the viewer can meet and talk with the artists (or maybe the creators, because every single film seems to be a new world created especially for us, the world we go into for a while… and sometimes we stay longer).
The Closing Film of this year’s edition of FAF TWO RIVERSIDES is Michal Rogalski’s debut OSTATNIA AKCJA (THE LAST ACTION) - the last performance of Jan Machulski. To honour this outstanding Polish actor and to remind the audience his greatest creations we have prepared a Tribute to Jan Machulski where we will present SUBLOKATOR (SUBTENANT) by Janusz Majewski, OSTATNI DZIEN LATA (THE LAST DAY OF SUMMER) by Tadeusz Konwicki and VA BANK by Juliusz Machulski.
The most important and most independent jury of our Festival is the audience. In the Audience Poll the most significant award of our Festival will be granted - The Audience Award. Those who will take a part in the poll will have a chance to win a great surprise.
