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Newsletter 01

2009-07-22T21:14:37Z

Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES
Newsletter 1

THE WORLD’S GONE CRAZY!

Dear Friends,

Grażyna Torbicka- Artistic Director of Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES- invites us to a press conference announcing the third edition of the festival mottoed “THE WORLD’S GONE CRAZY”.

The conference will be held on April 29 (Thursday) at 2:30 p.m. in EMPIK Junior Mega store, 116/122 Marszałkowska St. During the conference you will be provided with detailed information about the programme and all questions regarding the festival will be answered.

It’s the third time we are visiting Kazimierz Dolny and Janowiec with films and art. This year it will last 9 days, from Saturday, August 1 to Sunday, August 9, 2009. The submission of films will continue until June 15, 2009. Feature films, documentaries, animated and experimental films have a chance to be screened in sections: World Under Canvas, Documentary, In the Short Run, Music My Love.

During our festivals, we give power to the audience. This year in the Audience Poll the viewers will choose the best full-length film of the newest films.

The audience will also choose the winner of the School and Amateur Short Films Competition, who will get 3 000 PLN, and two second-best films, whose authors will receive 1 000 PLN each. For this purpose, we will recruit 20 candidates for the Independent Jury. The recruitment will be closed on June 30, 2009. The regulations and entry forms are available on our website www.dwabrzegi.pl.

Alicja Myśliwiec
PR & Marketing Manager

Newsletter 02 - Bossa Nova at TWO RIVERSIDES Festival

2009-07-22T21:47:53Z

Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES
Newsletter 2 - Bossa Nova at TWO RIVERSIDES!

Dear Friends,

We invite you to come to the third edition of Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES in Kazimierz Dolny and Janowiec by the Vistula River, August 1st – 9th, 2009.

The opening concert will be held in Kazimierz Dolny castle on August 1st, 2009 at 9.00 p.m. This year the Honorary Patron is the Ambassador of Brazil in Poland.

For the opening of the festival, we have prepared a special concert of original bossa nova music performed by artists from Brazil. For the first time in Poland we will have a great occasion to hear the artists that are the creators of bossa nova in Brazil.

Francis Hime (composer, pianist, vocalist and author of film music) with Olivia Hime (vocalist) and their band of 5 will be one of the greatest stars of this concert.
The band members are:
- FRANCIS HIME (piano, vocal),
- OLIVIA HIME (vocal),
- GABRIEL IMPROTA (guitars),
- ANDRÉ SANTOS (contrabass),
- DIEGO ZANGADO (percussion),
- DIRCEU LEITE (saxophone, clarinet, woodwind instruments).

Francis Hime is the representative of classic bossa nova composers from Brazil and of the generation of artists who combined afro-Latino rhythms with sophisticated jazz. His great compositions were performed by such artists as Chico Buarque, Gilberto Gil, Maria Bethania, Gal Costa, Milton Nascimento, Toquinho, Olivia Hime and Gaetano Veloso.

For years he worked with the greatest Brazilian song writer, Vinicius de Moraes. On the basis of his play Marcel Camus created his „BLACK ORPHEUS” (Golden Palm in Cannes, 1969, Oscar, 1970), which will be screened at our Festival in ‘Music My Love’ section.

He also composes music for films, including those created by Bruno Barreto, one of the most interesting Brazilian filmmakers. The music and songs written for Barreto’s “Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands” were awarded many times and deeply rooted in the canon of film music. You will have an opportunity to hear those compositions in their original versions while the opening concert on Saturday, August 1, and then on Sunday you will watch ‘Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands’ in the presence of Francis Hime and Bruno Barreto. The latter will also be our special guest at TWO RIVERSIDES festival.
There will be a lot more Latin and jazz music in the films presented at the Festival.

In the Documentary section, we’ll present “Maria Bethania – a pebble form Aruanda’. It’s a beautiful, private documentary film in which we’ll meet Maria Bethania, one of the most famous Brazilian vocalists, with her mother and brother, Caetano Veloso (!!!) and her favourite guitarist, in a town in Bahia State celebrating Maria’s birthday. In this small town their careers started. Caetano plays with the guitarist on his own guitar, they all talk, laugh, reminisce about the old times and …. sing. Only for themselves, and for us.

In another documentary, “The House of Tom” we’ll visit Antonio Carlos Jobim’s house. Our guides there will be Ana Jobim, the widow of this magnificent (C)reator of bossa nova music, and Kati de Almeida Braga, the film producer.

Enjoy the show!

Newsletter 03

2009-07-22T21:51:03Z

Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES
Newsletter 3

Dear Friends!

Our special guest this year will be Bruno Barreto, a Brazilian director, considered to be one of the best. He was nominated and awarded many times, e.g. Moscow International Film Festival 1973: nomination for the main award for “Tati”; Los Angeles Film Festival 1997: winner of the audience award for the best feature film “Four Days in September”; Berlinale 1997: nomination for the Golden Bear; nomination for the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film; Gramado Film Festival 1977: the winner of the Best Director award and nominated for the Best Film award for ‘Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands’.

This year Bruno Barreto will be our guest in the first ‘Cinema Lesson. The confession of a filmmaker’.

He made his first film “Tati” (1973) when he was 18 years old. Four years later he set the world on fire with his “Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands’. The main heroine, Dona Flor (played by Sonia Braga) is struggling between passionate memories of her first husband, a profligate Valdinho, and the life with stable Teodoro, when she is visited by Valdinho’s ghost on the first anniversary of his death. The music in this film was composed by Francis Hime, who is also our guest this year, so the film will be screened in “Music, My Love” section.

We will also present “Gabriela” (1983) with Marcello Mastroianni and Sonia Braga (music composed by Antonio Carlos Jobim, an eminent bossa nova composer, who will be presented in the film “The House of Tom”) and “Last Stop 174” (a premiere, the opening film of 2008 International Film Festival in Rio de Janeiro). It’s a true story of the 2000 hijacking of a Rio de Janeiro bus with 11 people inside and the live TV broadcast of the crime committed by a 21-year-old homeless Sandro. Jose Padilha also inspired by this story made his “Bus 174” in 2002.

After the premiere of his “ELITE” last year, FAF TWO RIVERSIDES will have a pleasure to screen for the first time in Poland another Padilha’s shocking documentary “Garapa”, which takes us to the world of chronic hunger. As Padilha says, the purpose of this film is to give the viewer a chance to understand the problem of hunger by meeting three families that are fighting with the lack of food and trying to survive. The title of the film refers to a mixture of sugar and water that is often the only nourishment that the children receive, the cheapest and a very calorific drink.

The film is minimalistic in its form: 16 mm film stock, black and white, mono sound, no music. Only the most necessary measures are used. It’s like garapa, which provides only the minimum nutritive value.

Newsletter 04

2009-07-22T21:57:34Z

Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES
Newsletter 4

Dear Friends!

THE WORLD’S GONE CRAZY!!

“PASOLINI’S ANGER” (La Rabia di Pasolini) is a documentary film that will be presented during TWO RIVERSIDES Festival. It is the reconstruction of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s remarkable masterpiece from 1963 directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci.

“Why is the life a misery, fear, pain? To answer these questions, I made this unchronological, sometimes even illogical film… a film that is still in accordance with my political convictions and poetical feelings”- Pasolini said.

In the autumn of 1962, having made the provocative “Accattone!” and “Mamma Roma”, he was working on “RoGoPaG” when he received a proposition from Gastone Ferranti, a producer, to make a film based on short fragments of MONDO LIBERO film chronicles. Out of 90 000 meters of film stock he chose a sequence of footage scenes concerning recent events, mixed the sound and wrote the script. The fragments of poems and prose that appeared in the film were read out by Georgio Bessani and Renato Gattuso respectively.

When Pasolini was editing the film, the producer decided to entrust a task to reformulate one part of the film to Giovannino Guareschi, Pasolini’s opponent. At first Pasolini didn’t want to agree on that involuntary cooperation, but finally he decided to remove one part of his material to give place to Guareschi’ episode. In 1963 “ANGER” , a two-part film directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovannino Guareschi, was finished. It’s a kind of a political essay and a poetical film at the same time, or rather a poem about anger expressed in pictures. About Pier Paolo Pasolini’s anger against bourgeoisie, barbarism, intolerance, bias, triviality, decency. The anger against the persecution criticisms of his work. Giuseppe Bertolicci’s ‘PASOLINI’S ANGER’ is an attempt to reconstruct a part of Pasolini’s work, that part which was entrusted to Giovannino Guareschi.

“We thought that following the original Pasolini’s film after so many years can be very interesting and it can be a tribute to the author” – says Bertolucci.

The world premiere of the film was on last year’s festival in Venice. For the first time Polish viewers will have the opportunity to see it on FAF TWO RIVERSIDES, in the Documentary section, along with:

- Jose Padilha’s ‘GARAPA’ (premiere), a shocking film about hunger in Brazil; this documentary had its premiere on this year’s festival in Berlin;
- Pedro Urano’s ‘ROYAL ROAD OF CACHAÇA’, a poetic film trying to find the meaning of cachaça, a Brazilian vodka, in Brazilian culture. It won the first prize on last year’s festival in Rio de Janeiro for the best documentary film;
- Ermanno Olmi’s ‘MOTHER EARTH’ (premiere)- about slow food; it had its European premiere in Berlin.
- Farnand Melgar’s ‘FORTRESS’- about the immigrants in Switzerland, the winner of the Golden Leopard in Locarno.

Andruch Waddington’s ‘MARIA BETHANIA – A PEBBLE FROM ARUANDA’ will make the context for ‘bossa nova’ films, and Mads Baastrup/Sonjia Vesterhold’s science- fiction documentary entitled “THE STAR DREAMER. PAWEŁ KŁUSZANCEW’ will be the context for retrospective of this outstanding Russian director.

The festival audience will also have a chance to see the best documentary films from Planete Doc Review (THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD, BLIND LOVES, THE AGE OF STUPID, RECIPES FOR DISASTER).

Newsletter 05

2009-07-22T22:00:27Z

Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES
Newsletter 5

Dear Friends!

THE WOLDR’S GONE CRAZY!

TWO RIVERSIDES Festival brings together not only the two sides of the Vistula River in Kazimierz and Janowiec, but also different kinds of art, allowing them to merge and inspire one another. This idea motivated us to organize a competition in which students from the Faculty of Conservation and Restoration of Works of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw designed the poster of the third edition of the Festival.

The third and fourth year students prepared 16 poster designs while working in the Project Composition and Drawing Studio at AFA in Warsaw. Each poster perfectly articulates the idea of TWO RIVERSIDES Festival and is an unconventional way of commenting the art of film.

Artur Krajewski is an assistant professor at AFA in Warsaw. The works were created under his charge. He told us that during the classes, they were working according to an author’s plan and were trying to broaden their students’ knowledge of art and their creativity. We can find art on the street. That gives us a new context to understand it- and that is what we can find in the posters prepared by the students. The students will have a vernissage of their artistic posters entitled TWO RIVERSIDES Festival on Sunday 2, at 1:00 p.m. in the Summer Gallery in Kazimierz.

Here you can find the poster chosen by the organizers of the Festival to promote this year’s edition of Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES. Its author is Bartosz Rabniej.

Newsletter 06

2009-07-22T22:04:05Z

Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES
Newsletter 6

Dear Friends!

Buy tickets to the Festival!

Our on-line store is already open. It’s worth visiting as we offer discounts in the advance internet sale.

On our ‘virtual’ shelves you can find tickets to the bossa nova concert (1.08.2009) and to Krystyna Janda’s monodrama “Ear, Throat, Knife” (8.08.2009).

Passes to the PGE Cinema screenings are available in packets of 10 and 15 tickets. The passes include a higher-price ticket to one film- with the exception of the opening and the closing screenings of the Festival. You should make your choice of films until August 1, in the cinema box offices.

The premiere screenings of Jacques Audiard’s “PROPHET” (Grand Prix, Cannes 2009) and Richard Loncraine’s comedy “MY ONE AND ONLY” with Renée Zellweger in the leading part (the only screening in Poland) will open the Festival on August 1, 2009.

The Festival will be closed on August 8, with the screening of Michał Rogalski’s “LAST ACTION” (Rogalski’s debut film, a comedy which Janusz Machulski’s last performance).

The tickets to the opening and closing screenings are also available on- line. More detailed information about the price list can be found on the Festival’s website www.dwabrzegi.pl.

Come and see all of it!

Newsletter 07

2009-07-22T22:14:42Z

Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES
Newsletter 7

Dear Friends

What? Where? When?

The answers to these questions can be found on www.dwabrzegi.pl. During this year’s edition of FAF TWO RIVERSIDES there will be an opportunity to attend the premiere screenings of Sam Mendes’s „Away We Go”, Jonnie To’s “Vengeance” and Richard Loncraine’s „My One and Only”. Three documentary films, “Passolini’s Anger”, Ermanno Olmi’s „Mother Earth” and Jose Padilha’s „Garapa” will be screened for the first time in Poland. This year’s programme is full of premiers that will be presented in the following venues: PGE Cinema, the Small Tent Cinema, Small Market Square, the castles in Kazimierz and Janowiec.

Apart from the screenings, there will be a lot of accompanying events, such as: meetings in “I Love Cinema” Café, “Talk with Them” section, “Cinema lessons. The confession of a filmmaker”. The film creators will have the opportunity to share their feelings and opinions with the audience. After all, it’s the audience that always plays the decisive role. The Independent Jury members will choose Audience Award winners. But that’s not all- one of the members of this jury will get an invitation to the 66th Venice International Film Festival. The prize is funded by Syrena Films, our Partner and the distributor of Jacques Audiard’s “Prophet” (Grand Prix Cannes 2009). The premiere screening of a digital version of this film will open this year’s edition of Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES in Kazimierz and Janowiec.

Don’t miss it!

Newsletter 08

2009-07-22T22:23:41Z

Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES
Newsletter 8

Dear Friends,

God created not only Actor, but also Actress. This year it’s time for women. Krystyna Janda will be playing the leading role and will tell a story about the beginning of her career, about the magic of theatre and film. She will take us on a film journey from “MAN OF MARBLE” (1976) to “SWEET FLAG” (2009).

FILM and THEATRE deserve the same attention, so in Kazimierz you will also see some of our guest’s theatrical roles. After all, she is the founder of the first private theatre in Poland, the Polonia Theatre.

In the castle in Kazimierz you will see Krystyna Janda in “EAR, THROAT, KNIFE” monodrama. It’s a story told from the perspective of a woman. Tonka Babic, the main heroine, survived the war, lost her husband and being Serb is not welcomed in Croatia.

Our guest usually plays roles of strong and determined women. She debuted in Andrzej Wajda’s “MAN OF MARBLE”, which is considered one of the most spectacular films in the Polish cinema. She also debuted in the TV Theatre playing a role in Aleksander Bardini’s “THREE SISTERS”.

Her acting is valued also outside Poland. In 1981 she was awarded the Silver Asteroid Award for her role in “Golem” dir. Piotr Szulkin. She continued her adventure with science fiction films in Andrzej Żuławski’s “On the Silver Globe” (1981).

The audience appreciated the role she played in Ryszard Bugajski’s “INTERROGATION” (1982). It is a story about Tonia Dziwisz, a cabater singer, who gets arrested by UB (the Office of Security) by mistake and fetches up for 5 years in prison on Rakowiecka Street. It’s also a story of the fight and independence arising behind bars. Her role was awarded a Golden Palm Award in Cannes Film Festival. In Kazimierz you will have a chance to meet Ryszard Bugajski, the director, who will present his unpublished book about this film.

From the film festival in San Sebastian she brought a Silver Shell Award for her role in Waldemar Krzystek’s “DISMISSED FROM LIFE”. Playing the role in Wojciech Marczewski’s “WIESER” (2000) she proved that neither love nor cinema like correctness.

The review of Krystyna Janda’s films will be finished by Andrzej Wajda’s “SWEET FLAG”(2009). It’s a film adaptaion of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz’s short story written in 1958. In the storyline we can find byplays from Sándor Márai ‘s “SUDDEN CALL” and from Janda’s autobiography. The film was dedicated to her husband Edward Kłosiński (1943-2008), a cameraman. In “God created actress” section we will present:

TV THEATRE:
* THREE SISTERS, dir. Aleksander Bardini, 1974
* LET’S TALK ABOUT DEATH AND LIFE, dir. Krystyna Janda, 2002
* BACHELOR’S CLUB, dir. Krystyna Janda, 2000
* THE VISIT OF THE OLD LADY, dir. Waldemar Krzystek, 2002
* THE OPEN COUPLE, dir. Krystyna Janda, 2000

SHORT FILMS:
* 2xACTRESS, dir. Grzegorz Skurski – two documentary films about Krystyna Janda, 1979 and 2005
* DRAUGHT TO SIX PARTS, dir. Piort Szulikin, 1973- Szulkin’s student etude

Don’t miss the opportunity to see all of it! See the festival programme on www.dwabrzegi.pl.
See you at the Festival!

Newsletter 09

2009-07-22T22:26:54Z

Film And Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES
Newsletter 9

Dear Friends,

The world’s gone crazy, so let’s start the countdown!

No more than 10 days have been left to the grand opening of this year’s edition of Film and Art Festival in Kazimierz and Janowiec. The 10th Muse will bring together the TWO RIVERSIDES for the third time. This year’s edition will be opened by the screening of Jacques Audiard’s “PROPHET”. Our hosts, Mr Grzegorz Dunia, the mayor of Kazimierz, and Mr Tadeusz Kocoń, mayor of Janowiec rural commune, will share a hearty handshake. Later we invite you to the castle in Kazimierz, where you will hear the real bossa nova from Brazil. It’s all on August 1st.

But you can feel the forthcoming festival before that day. From July 25th, you can meet with film and art in Puławy. The screening of Mike Leigh’s new comedy “HAPPY GO LUCKY” (the author of ‘SECRETS AND LIES’, awarded the Golden Palm) will be a great foretaste. There will also be a chance to meet Grażyna Torbicka, our festival’s Artistic Director.

Enjoy your time!

Newsletter 10

2009-07-27T20:44:57Z

Film and Art Festival TWO RIVERSIDES
Newsletter 10

Dear Friends!

We have prepared some great premieres and special shows for the final Saturday of the Festival.

Our guest this year will be Sławomir Grunberg. In Kazimierz we’ll have a chance to see the premiere of his documentary film entitled “Paint What You Remember’. It is about Mayer Kirshenblatt, who emigrated from Poland to Canada and at the age of 73 started putting his memories from the prewar town of Opatow, on his paintings.

You will see some examples of the Far East cinema. Johny To is one of the best Hing-Kong action film directors and for the first time in Poland we will screen his newest production, ‘Vengeance’. The screenplay was written by Wai Ka-fai and the leading male part is played by a French actor, Johnny Hallyday.

Of course, we will give attention to our native productions. You’ll see Jacek Głomb’s ‘Operation Danube’ and have an opportunity to meet Zbigniew Zamachowski, who acted as captain Czeslaw Grazel, and Jacek Kondracki, the screenwriter.

Katarzyna Rosłaniec’s ‘Mall Girls’ is our next proposition. It’s a story about teen prostitutes who practice the world’s oldest proffesion not on the street, but … in shopping malls.

The official closing of the Festival is dedicated to Jan Machulski. We will screen Michał Rogalski’s debut film ‘The Last Action’ in which Jan Machulski played his last role. The audience in Kazimierz will personally meet the director, Karolina Gorczyca (who played the part of Magda) and our special guest, Halina Machulska.

In the section entitled ‘Tribute to Jan Machulski’, you will have a great chance to see the actor’s best-known roles in ‘The Last Day of Summer’, ‘Vabank’ and ‘ The Lodger’.

Don’t miss it!