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Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES

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Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES
29.07.200913:02

We would love to invite all cinema lovers to Kazimierz Dolny and Janowiec on the river Vistula for the 3rd Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES which will be held between 1st and 9th of August. THE WORLD GOT CRAZY – this is the motto of this years’ edition of FAF TWO RIVERSIDES.
Reading the daily newspaper, watching television, observing what is going on around us, reading a fascinating book, watching a moving documentary or an amazing picture, we often say: ‘The world got crazy’ and we go by. It gets harder to stop even for a while to wonder why exactly the world got crazy, regardless of whether its madness entertains or saddens us. The programme of this year’s edition of our Festival will give you a chance to see that for many artists representing different cultures, various arts and different generations this motto is an important inspiration. The documentary „La Rabbia di Pasolini” one of the highlights of this festival, shows how important is to recognize the craziness of our times. It is the reconstruction of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s remarkable masterpiece from 1963 directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. The film is a protest against indifference, against treating the harsh reality around us as a normal situation. According to Pasolini, this numbing process began as a reaction to the extreme emotions caused by World War II and the dynamism of the world’s regeneration after the war tragedy. Since then the mankind took the way of a seeming normality, which strips us of our emotions, intensity of observation, it desensitizes us. The mankind stopped judging its own behaviour and asking itself for its identity and aims. We need an awakening, a sharp look, we need to regain our feelings – even the extreme ones. We need La Rabbia – Passolini’s Anger. The opening concert of the 3rd edition of Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES. On Saturday, August 1st, at the Castle in Kazimierz Dolny our 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. For the characters from Marcel Camus’ BLACK ORPHEUS (Golden Palm in Cannes, Oscar for the best foreign feature film) or Bruno Barreto’s DONA FLOR AND HER TWO HUSBANDS music is indispensable and natural – like the oxygen for us. Well known songs from BLACK ORPHEUS – e.g. A Felicidade or Manha de Carnaval – were written by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfa and the lyrics – by Vinicius de Moraes. Music for DONA FLOR was composed by their close friend and one of the greatest Brazilian bossa nova composers – Francis Hime. He will be one of the main guests of our Festival this year. His songs were sung by Toquinho, Elis Regina, Chico Buarque, Milton Nascimento, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethânia, Gal Costa, Bill Evans and Gaetano Veloso. In the evening of August 1st he and his wife Olivia will perform the Opening Concert at the Castle in Kazimierz Dolny. The audience of our Festival will have a chance to see the remake of BLACK ORPHEUS – Carlos Diegeus’ ORPHEUS with Gaetano Veloso’s songs. It will also be a possibility of comparing Brazil from the 50’s with Brazil from the end of 20th century. In contrast to dancing and magical Brazil we 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 our Festival. This ‘focus on Brazil’ joining the classics and new films is presenting the contrasts which are typical for this part of the world. This year we have 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. We will also present 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. We presented his films, theatrical plays and photographs chosen by him. 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 we 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). Our festival’s venues in Kazimierz are: the Great cinema-tent (800 seats) where we present our main panorama section World Under Canvas; the Small cinema-tent (250 seats); Small Market Square where we present the best films from the season at the free open-air screenings (2 500 seats); the ruins of the castle in Kazimierz (1 000 seats) where we present our section Music, My Love; SARP patio (meetings with the artists and mini concerts); Summer Gallery and College of Fine Arts (exhibitions); The Society of Friends of Kazimierz (exhibitions, panels); Kocham Kino Café (festival club); Empik’ Café (bookstore, café, meetings with artists). Our festival venues in Janowiec are: the castle (1 000 seats, open air screenings and concerts) and The Disctrict Community Centre (screenings). 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. See you at TWO RIVERSIDES The World Got Crazy ! Grażyna Torbicka , Artistic Director of Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES Program Festiwalu Dwa Brzegi www.dwabrzegi.pl

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