Walking over troubled water. Day 6 at Tofifest 2016
First, let me do the stocktaking. Erik Poppe put a spell on the audience in Torun. On Wednesday evening, the Norwegian film director had a meeting with the audience at Tofifest, and there was also a ceremony of awarding the Golden Angel of Tofifest for artistic insolence to him.
Following the screening of his “Troubled Water” (2008), he told the audience about events from the past that inspired him to make the film, why the actor in the leading role had been imprisoned, and why there had been plans to ban the film from cinema distribution.
The film discusses the most difficult moments in life, and it is about crossing the bridge to get to the other side, while walking over the title troubled water. The film is not about forgiveness, but about reconciling with the past, about a peculiar catharsis. “It is one of my most personal films I have ever made,” confessed Erik Poppe.
The festival audience also had an opportunity to meet with Paul Trynka, author of “Starman” – the only one authorised biography of David Bowie. It was a unique meeting, the first of this kind in Poland, same as the concert that closes the festival on Saturday – “Tribute to David Bowie” – and pays homage to that great musician. More than that, there was also a meeting with Bent Hamer, author of “Kitchen Stories” and “Factotum”.
And that is not all, as Tofifest has been visited by a number of film directors, whose films are featured in the On Air Competition, i.e. Katarina Zrinka Matijevic, a Croatian film director and author of “Trampoline” (POLISH PREMIERE), and Morgan Simon, a film-maker from France and author of “Taste of Ink” (POLISH PREMIERE). Following the screening of “Kamper”, there was a meeting with Lukasz Grzegorzek, and also with Malgorzata Foremniak, after the screening of “Sługi Boże”. And finally, our audience had a chance to talk to Jaakko Kaján and Jonne Lindholm, authors of “Occupy Jämsä” (POLISH PREMIERE).
Stay updated. TofiTV recommends:
- TofiTV 2016 - A conversation with Ryszard Bugajski (“Blindness”, FROM POLAND Competition) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4N_w9LVOI
- TofiTV 2016 - The awarding of the Golden Angel and a meeting with Erik Poppe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgwWRHsRjeA
- TofiTV 2016 - A meeting with Sonia Bohosiewicz and Wlodzimierz Niderhaus (“Excentrycy”, FROM POLAND Competition) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiPTSgcINv8
- TofiTV 2016 - A meeting with Sonja Richter (Danish actress and member of the jury in the main competiton) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLqJEN_uKwE
- TofiTV 2016 - A meeting with Marek Kondrat, awarding the Golden Angel for artistic insolence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4J6Ld3G2Aw
- TofiTV 2016 - A conversation with Gabriela Muskała (Actress in “These Daughters of Mine”, FROM POLAND Competition) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elSzY9b0Meo
- TofiTV 2016 - A meeting with Ralitza Petrova (Bulgarian film director of “Godless”, ON AIR Main Competition) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpHq3byydGk
- TofiTV 2016 - A conversation with Wojciech Smarzowski (Winner of the the Golden Angel for artistic insolence) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-Fi4FLREqk
- TofiTV 2016 - A conversation with Wojciech Smarzowski (Winner of the the Golden Angel for artistic insolence) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_AX-kL2cMs
- TofiTV 2016 - A meeting with Dawid Janicki, Marcin Kopec, and Piotr Mudyn (“Nauka chodzenia” – a special screening) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWat8EZvLSk
- TofiTV 2016 - A meeting with Agnieszka Smoczynska (“The Lure”, ON AIR Main Competition) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hQi1VuaMMw
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