Although the festival is running down the final stretch, it still has many remarkable films to offer.Our programmers have again come up with their recommendations.
An experienced documentary camerawoman who is kept busy by such luminaries of the trade as Michael Moore or Laura Poitras, Kirsten Johnson decided to sit in the director’s chair again after more than a decade to deliver Cameraperson (2016), an in-depth self-reflection about the world viewed from behind the camera that touches upon filmmaker’s code of ethics based on the vast trove of footage she has shot over decades around the world. So far, the film has collected main prizes from Sundance, San Francisco and Sheffield film festivals.
(17.45, Kino Lumiére, K1)
The documentary section also includes Parlika (2016), the latest film by a talented Afghan directress, Sahraa Karimi. Examining the social status of Afghan women during the country’s transition from a totalitarian theocracy to democracy, the picture tells the story of Suraya Parlika, a mature Afghan woman who after the defeat of Taliban decided to enter the political arena on the national as well as the local level, i.e. the “territory of men”. SahraaKarimi first appeared at the Bratislava film festival back in 2001 as the main protagonist of the winning picture, Daughters of the Sun, (Dakhtaran-e khorshid, 2000).
(15.45, Kino Lumiére, K2)
Providing a meaningful commentary on the refugee crisis and the wave of xenophobia that followed in its wake, this is another well-crafted work by one of the most daring authorial tandems in contemporary cinema, namely Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal.The Sun, the Sun Blinded Me (Słońce, to słońcemnieoślepiło, 2016) is an adaptation of The Stranger,one of the crucial works of existentialismby Albert Camus. Blinded by the sun, Meursault shoots a man, a lifeless corpse, emptiness. In the film, the moment of the murder is postponed temporarily by the vision of life in which there is room to accept responsibility for another person. The main protagonist stands above the Stranger and face-to-face with a choice.
(20.15, Kino Lumiére, K2)