Visions du Réel winner Tomasz Wolski will focus on “A Year in the Life of the Country” next, Variety can reveal exclusively.
The Polish helmer – whose latest film “In Ukraine,” co-directed with Piotr Pawlus, premiered in Berlin – is set to explore the turbulent period of martial law, imposed on Dec. 13, 1981 by General Wojciech Jaruzelski in Communist Poland after a wave of strikes.
Anna Gawlita will produce for Kijora Film.
“It’s a topic we haven’t really looked at just yet. These are very important stories, often tragic, and I was convinced that unlike in the case of ‘1970’ [his previous film about brutal suppression of worker protests], I would have almost too much material to work with. I wasn’t mistaken,” he says.
In the upcoming film, Wolski will depict the turmoil that ensued, with soldiers controlling the cities, imprisoning Solidarity members and officials trying to discredit Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Wałęsa. He will also show the events that led to its introduction.
The Polish helmer – whose latest film “In Ukraine,” co-directed with Piotr Pawlus, premiered in Berlin – is set to explore the turbulent period of martial law, imposed on Dec. 13, 1981 by General Wojciech Jaruzelski in Communist Poland after a wave of strikes.
Anna Gawlita will produce for Kijora Film.
“It’s a topic we haven’t really looked at just yet. These are very important stories, often tragic, and I was convinced that unlike in the case of ‘1970’ [his previous film about brutal suppression of worker protests], I would have almost too much material to work with. I wasn’t mistaken,” he says.
In the upcoming film, Wolski will depict the turmoil that ensued, with soldiers controlling the cities, imprisoning Solidarity members and officials trying to discredit Nobel Peace Prize laureate Lech Wałęsa. He will also show the events that led to its introduction.
- 10/31/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Previewing events happening in the next few days: Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days (1995), new work by Péter Forgács and an exhibition curated by Paul Schrader featuring work by Sally Mann and David Salle in New York, Jesse McLean in Los Angeles, four films by Harun Farocki in Barcelona, work by Paul Sharits and Eric Baudelaire in Kassel and a symposium in Vienna on film in the museum with lectures by Nicole Brenez, Jacques Rancière and more. » - David Hudson...
- 11/22/2014
- Keyframe
Previewing events happening in the next few days: Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days (1995), new work by Péter Forgács and an exhibition curated by Paul Schrader featuring work by Sally Mann and David Salle in New York, Jesse McLean in Los Angeles, four films by Harun Farocki in Barcelona, work by Paul Sharits and Eric Baudelaire in Kassel and a symposium in Vienna on film in the museum with lectures by Nicole Brenez, Jacques Rancière and more. » - David Hudson...
- 11/22/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Arvind Iyer’s Drapchi will be screened under the ‘The World Today’ section of the 28th Warsaw Film Festival. The 80 minute musical was earlier screened at the Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival 2012.
The Warsaw Film Festival will run from 12th – 21st October, 2012.
The synopsis of the film on the festival website reads: “Modern Tibet: a systematic war is being waged with the traditional past. Punishment awaits those who raise their voices in protest. This is the case with Yiga Gyalnang, a traditional Tibetan opera singer. She is abducted one morning and finds herself in near complete isolation in an underground prison cell in Drapchi, the biggest jail in Lhasa, Tibet. After two years, she breaks free and escapes to Nepal and from there, to the West. With her, she takes her strength, her spirituality, her Tibetan song.
Namgyal Lhamo, Lobsang Yonten, Chris Constantinou, Tashi Choephel and Gen Tenzin la are...
The Warsaw Film Festival will run from 12th – 21st October, 2012.
The synopsis of the film on the festival website reads: “Modern Tibet: a systematic war is being waged with the traditional past. Punishment awaits those who raise their voices in protest. This is the case with Yiga Gyalnang, a traditional Tibetan opera singer. She is abducted one morning and finds herself in near complete isolation in an underground prison cell in Drapchi, the biggest jail in Lhasa, Tibet. After two years, she breaks free and escapes to Nepal and from there, to the West. With her, she takes her strength, her spirituality, her Tibetan song.
Namgyal Lhamo, Lobsang Yonten, Chris Constantinou, Tashi Choephel and Gen Tenzin la are...
- 10/5/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Above: Zoulikha Bouabdellah's Al Attlal (Ruines), left, and Pierre Léon's À la barbe d'Ivan, right.
Nicole Brenez has curated two programs of new work from the French avant-garde for this year’s Rendezvous with French Cinema 2011 in New York; below she has offered her program notes in French. Program one (on Saturday) concentrates on filmmakers reappropriating images; program two (Sunday) is the new feature by Ange Leccia, Nuit bleue. Below, I’ve translated Brenez’s extended appreciation of Leccia and Nuit bleue; as usual, I’ve tried to stay faithful to the sound and rhythm of the original where possible. Beneath the translated extract you'll find the full article by Ms. Brenez in its original French. —David Phelps
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…Although Ange Leccia has also practiced re-appropriating images (especially Jean Luc-Godard’s) in his installations and his films, Nuit bleuetakes up a different aesthetic vein, one rich with a long tradition of the French avant-garde.
Nicole Brenez has curated two programs of new work from the French avant-garde for this year’s Rendezvous with French Cinema 2011 in New York; below she has offered her program notes in French. Program one (on Saturday) concentrates on filmmakers reappropriating images; program two (Sunday) is the new feature by Ange Leccia, Nuit bleue. Below, I’ve translated Brenez’s extended appreciation of Leccia and Nuit bleue; as usual, I’ve tried to stay faithful to the sound and rhythm of the original where possible. Beneath the translated extract you'll find the full article by Ms. Brenez in its original French. —David Phelps
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…Although Ange Leccia has also practiced re-appropriating images (especially Jean Luc-Godard’s) in his installations and his films, Nuit bleuetakes up a different aesthetic vein, one rich with a long tradition of the French avant-garde.
- 3/19/2011
- MUBI
NEW YORK -- Li Shaohong's Stolen Life (Sheng Si Jie) landed top honors at the Tribeca Film Festival Saturday night in New York with a win for best narrative feature. Peter Forgacs' El Perro Negro: Stories From the Spanish Civil War brought home the award for best documentary. Pietro Reggiani's My Brother's Summer (L'Estate di mio fratello) was given a narrative feature special mention. Street Fight, a documentary about a 2002 mayoral race in New Jersey, took home the audience award. Felicity Huffman won honors for best actress for her portrayal of a transsexual woman in Transamerica, and Cees Geel was named best actor for the Dutch entry Simon.
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