More than 200 films being showcased at Off Camera

by Dorota Hartwich

28/04/2017 - Dedicated to independent film, the tenth edition of the festival gets going today in Krakow, boasting a wide-ranging programme that audiences will be able to discover until 7 May

More than 200 films being showcased at Off Camera

Stars by Jan Kidawa-Blonski

The tenth Netia Off Camera International Festival of Independent Cinema, which kicks off today in Krakow, will offer more than 200 titles before coming to a close on 7 May. The amount of money that will be handed to the winner of the Grand Prix in the official competition is far from trifling – the award comprises $100,000, in addition to a guaranteed grant of one million Polish zlotys (around €230,000) for the victor’s next film.

Among the ten feature films battling it out in the "Making Way" official competition, which will be assessed by a jury chaired by Agnieszka Holland, we find several Polish premieres. Europe is very well represented by several works about youth and adolescence, such as Worldly Girl [+see also:
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interview: Marco Danieli
film profile] by Italy’s Marco Danieli, which hinges on a young woman in the world of Jehovah’s Witnesses; A Date for Mad Mary [+see also:
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film profile] by Ireland’s Darren Thornton, focusing on a girl who returns home after a stretch in prison; Filthy [+see also:
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interview: Tereza Nvotová
film profile] by Slovakia’s Tereza Nvotova, which breaks the silence on rape and its traumatic aftermath; and Butterfly Kisses [+see also:
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interview: Rafael Kapelinski
film profile] by British director Rafael Kapelinski, a black-and-white drama that depicts the misadventures of three teenagers on a south London council estate. Polish cinema is represented by The Last Family [+see also:
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interview: Dawid Ogrodnik
film profile] by Jan P Matuszynski (a feature debut that has won a string of awards ever since it was premiered in competition at Locarno, where it scooped the Best Actor Award).