Carnage by Roman Polanski / Main Competition
Three Polish accents appeared in the line-up of the 68th Venice International Film Festival. Bóg zemsty (Carnage) by Roman Polanski was selected to the main competition and will fight for the Golden Lion. The film will have its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. It's a story based on Yasmina Reza's Tony Award-winning comedy God of Carnage, starring John C. Reilly, Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet and Christoph Waltz. The film follows two sets of parents who meet up to talk after their children have been in a fight that day at school. The cultural conversation at some point starts to get out of control. Polish co-producer on ‘Carnage' is SPI International Polska. The director of photography is Paweł Edelman.
Land of Oblivion by Michale Boganim / Film Critic’s Week
In the line-up of the
International Film Critic's Week which is another non-competitive section of the
Venice festival appeared Znieważnona ziemia (La terre
outragée/Land of Oblivion) by Michale Boganim. It's
a French/German/Ukrainian/
My Name is Ki by Leszek Dawid / Venice Days
Leszek Dawid's feature debut Mam na imię Ki (My Name is Ki) will be screened at the Venice Days - a non-competitive section for independent film productions during the 68th Venice International Film Festival. The Venice Days selectors have chosen 12 movies. One of them will get an honorable mention of the Europe Cinemas connected with a distribution support. All debut films shown during the Venice festival compete for the Luigi De Laurentiis Venice Award - Lion of the Future. The winner will get 100 000 euros.
My Name Is Ki has already been presented at the Polish Films Festival in Gdynia where Roma Gąsiorowska got the award for the best actress in a leading role. My Name Is Ki is a film portrait of a girl who tries not to follow her mother's pattern of a single woman having a child. She wants to live a full life - fast and intense. Ki meets Miko. The difficult relation between those two helps Ki to grow up and start loving and being responsible for herself and her son. The organizers of the Venice Days have written that My Name Is Ki is "a unique portrait of woman, almost an emblem of this edition".
All films were supported by the Polish Film Institute.
The 68th Venice International Film Festival starts on August 31st and ends September 10th.
ROMA GĄSIOROWSKA – POLISH UPCOMING FILM STAR
Photo still from “My Name Is Ki” by courtesy of Skorpion Arte
She made her stage debut in 2003 in Krzysztof Jaworski’s Disco Pigs at Rozmaitości Theatre.
In the same year she started her career on the big screen with FORECAST FOR TOMORROW (Pogoda Na Jutro) directed by Jerzy Stuhr.
She recently appeared in Xawery Żuławski’s SNOW WHITE AND RUSSIAN RED (Wojna polsko-ruska) where she showed her yet another face,
“ZERO” by Paweł Borowski and “Suicide Room” by Jan Komasa.
