The opening film of EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2022 officially selected

The works of the EnergaCAMERIMAGE selection committee for its 30th edition are still ongoing.

The programmers are bending over backwards to choose real gems for their festival audience from hundreds of titles submitted in the past months. Although the full line-ups will not be announced until early autumn, today we are ready to share a little secret with you and reveal the first film that will compete for the Golden Frog in the Main Competition.

The film that will compete for the most important award in EnergaCAMERIMAGE’s international competition will be The Perfect Number, the latest film by Krzysztof Zanussi with cinematography by Piotr Niemyjski.

The Perfect Number tells the story of a young mathematician David (played by Jan Marczewski), who subjected his whole life to the research on prime numbers, sacrificing his personal life to this work. The protagonist begins to gradually reevaluate his priorities after he meets his distant relative, Joachim (played by Andrzej Seweryn), a successful man who has achieved practically everything professionally and decides to spend the last years of his life in his native Poland. The meeting of these two will unexpectedly influence the fate of both, leading to reflection on the mysterious ways of life, its passing and meaning.