It Looks Pretty from a Distance in competition at Rotterdam
Contemporary artists Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal’s debut feature, It Looks Pretty from a Distance, is among the 15 contenders for the Tigers Awards at the 41st Rotterdam International Film Festival, which will open on Wednesday. Rewarded in the Polish Film competition at the latest New Horizons Festival in Wroclaw, the film, starring Marcin Czarnik, Agnieszka Podsiadlik, Piotr Nowak and Elzbieta Okupska, plunges into the heart of a small Polish village one scorching summer and reveals the hierarchies, family crises and patriarchal system. Produced by Filmpolis (which is also handling international sales) and Anton Kern Gallery, It Looks Pretty from a Distance will be launched on February 10 in Polish theatres.
Polish cinema is travelling about at the start of 2012 for Rafael Lewandowski’s The Mole [+see also:
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film profile] (see news) is currently in official competition at the Trieste Film Festival (January 19-25). Born in France to a Polish-French family, the director is particularly honoured at the moment. On January 17, he received one of Poland’s most prestigious cultural prizes: the Passport Award from Polityka magazine. He was awarded this honour for his film, "an original and non-schematic attempt to tackle the issues of "lustration" (editor’s note: law that obliged Polish intellectuals to justify their behaviour during the Polish communist period) and the passing down of evil from one generation to another, as well as a brave perspective on the legend of Solidarity and perfect work with the actors."
(Translated from French)
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