Three more Main Competition films announced by EnergaCAMERIMAGE

It is getting closer to the 31^st edition of EnergaCAMERIMAGE Film Festival. Today, we present another three titles that were qualified to be part of our Main Competition.

EL CONDE

Cr. Pablo Larraín / Netflix ©2023

Pablo Larraín, a director recognized for thought-provoking films about different shades of lives of well-known cultural and political figures (Neruda, Jackie, Spencer), presents a dark comedy/horror that imagines a parallel universe inspired by the recent history of Chile. The film portrays Augusto Pinochet, a symbol of world fascism, as a vampire who lives hidden in a ruined mansion in the cold southern tip of the continent. Feeding his appetite for evil to sustain his existence. After two hundred and fifty years of life, Pinochet has decided to stop drinking blood and abandon the privilege of eternal life. He can no longer bear that the world remembers him as a thief. Despite the disappointing and opportunistic nature of his family, he finds new inspiration to continue living a life of vital and counterrevolutionary passion through an unexpected relationship.

El Conde’s cinematographer Ed Lachman is EnergaCAMERIMAGE’s true legend, being the only winner of Golden Frog (Carol, 2015), Silver Frog (Far from Heaven, 2002), and Bronze Frog (I’m Not There, 2007). This is his fifth nomination in the Main Competition. He was also nominated for Wonderstruck (2017). In 2011, together with Todd Haynes he was recognised with Camerimage Cinematographer-Director Duo Award. Ed Lachman will join us with Pablo Larraín to introduce El Conde EnergaCAMERIMAGE screening and attend the Q&A afterwards.

FILIP

A riveting and poignant tale of a twenty-something Jewish waiter Filip (Eryk Kulm Jr.) who has learned how to survive under an assumed French identity in World War II Germany. He wears his mask with such a panaché that multiple German women feel attracted to him, yet he is constantly wondering how long will he be able to continue living the lie.

The film was shot very evocatively by Michał Sobociński, winner of Bronze Tadpole for Father (2007) in the Student Etudes Competitionas well as winner of the Polish Films Competition for Art of Loving, The. Story of Michalina Wislocka (2017). Sobociński was also nominated in the Cinematographers’ Debuts Competition for Kamchatka (2013). This is his first Main Competition nomination. Filip’s director Michał Kwieciński’s films as a producer were frequently screened at EnergaCAMERIMAGE (Kroniki domowe in 1997, Afterimage in 2016, A Cat with a Dog in 2018, The In-Laws in 2021), and one of them was awarded with a Golden Frog (Arthur Reinhart’s cinematography in Venice, 2010), yet this is the first time we will screen his film as a director. The screening will be introduced by the filmmakers.

FERRARI

Michael Mann’s (The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, Ali)  latest cinematic triumph makes the viewers look at the incredible and conflicted life of ex-driver and automobile entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) from a variety of different angles. Set in the summer of 1957, with Enzo Ferrari’s auto empire in crisis, the ex-racer turned entrepreneur pushes himself and his drivers to the edge as they launch into the Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy.

Mann created Ferrari’s visceral visuals through collaboration with Academy Award®-winning cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt (Mank) for whom this will be the first ever nomination in EnergaCAMERIMAGE Main Competition. He was previously nominated in 2009 in the Feature Documentary Films Competition for In Dream (shared with Mark Stetz) and last year he presented an out-of-competition screening of Devotion. Erik Messerschmidt will join us to introduce Ferrari EnergaCAMERIMAGE screening and attend the Q&A afterwards.