| EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2024 | |
| Opening: | Blitz |
| Closing: | Wicked |
| Location: | Toruń, Poland |
| Awards: | Golden Flog: The Girl with the Needle – Michał Dymek Silver Frog: The Brutalist – Lol Crawley Bronze Frog: Emilia Pérez – Paul Guilhaume |
| Founded: | 1993 |
| Date: | 16–23 November 2024 |
| Main: | Camerimage |
| Previous: | 2023 |
| Next: | 2025 |
The 32nd International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage, also named EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2024 for its sponsorship from Polish power company Energa, is scheduled to take place from 16 to 23 November 2024 in Toruń, Poland, to recognize and reward the best in cinematography in film, television and music videos.
Steve McQueen's historical war drama Blitz will serve as the festival's opening film, while the first half of Jon M. Chu's two-part musical fantasy film Wicked will close the festival. Both films will be honoured with special awards for their director and production designer, respectively.
On 6 June 2024, Australian actress Cate Blanchett was announced as the jury president for the main competition.[1] Later, on 19 September, Blitz was revealed as the opening film, while the following month, on 10 October, Wicked was announced as the closing film.[2] The films competing in the main competition were revealed in groups of three, finally announcing the complete lineup on 30 October.[3] [2] The festival's poster was designer by Polish illustrator and graphic artist Marcin Wolski and was inspired by aurora borealis and Toruń's gothic architecture.[4]
A special screening of Pablo Larraín's biographical film Maria, shot by Edward Lachman, will take place during the festival. Additionally, to celebrate the thirty year anniversary of American film studio Searchlight Pictures, six films from the studio will be screened.[5] British filmmaker Steve McQueen is set to be awarded with the Outstanding Director Award.[6] English production designer Nathan Crowley will receive the Special Award for Production Designer.[7] Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada will receive the inaugural Best TV Series Performance award for his work in FX' historical drama series Shōgun, while Italian-American documentary filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi will be honoured with the Outstanding Achievements in Documentary Filmmaking award.[8] [9] American film editor and director William Goldenberg will receive the Film Editor award and will screen his directorial debut Unstoppable as a part of the special screenings.[10]
Among the special screenings, the festival announced the world premiere of Joel Souza's western film Rust.[11] The decision to include the film within the festival was met with controversy, due to the shooting incident that took place during the movie's filming, where cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot.[12] Multiple cinematographers expressed their discontent with the film's premiere in the festival, with some deeming it "distasteful" and considering it not an appropriate way to honour Hutchins work.[13] [14]
In November 2024, the festival's director Marek Żydowicz wrote an op-ed for Cinematography World, where he expressed his thoughts on the changes in the industry, including the growing numer of female directors and cinematographers.[15] [16] Some of Żydowicz comments were met with backlash from various cinematographers as well as the British Society of Cinematographers, who released an article where they expressed their dissaproval, writing "we are disheartened and angered by your profoundly misogynistic comments and aggressive tone, which we view as symptomatic of a deep-rooted prejudice".[17] Żydowicz issued an apology, describing the situation as a "misunderstanding", also writing "I assure you that we will prevent this kind of ambiguity from occurring in our communications in the future". Director Steve McQueen, who was a guest of honor for this year's festival and was set to receive a special award, announced he was no longer attending the festival.[18] Similarly, director Coralie Fargeat and cinematographer Benjamin Kračun announced they were pulling their film The Substance out of the competition and were also not attending the festival.[19]
The jury members were as follows:[20]
The films and projects selected for each announced section are as follows, though the TV Series lineup are yet to be revealed:[2] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28]
Highlighted title indicates section's Golden Frog winner.Highlighted title indicates section's Silver Frog winner.Highlighted title indicates section's Bronze Frog winner.| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blitz | United Kingdom, United States | |||
| The Brutalist | United Kingdom | |||
| Cabrini | Gorka Gómez Andreu | United States | ||
| Conclave | United Kingdom, United States | |||
| The Devil's Bath | Des Teufels Bad | Austria, Germany | ||
| United States, Canada | ||||
| Emilia Pérez | Paul Guilhaume | France, United States | ||
| The Fire Inside | Rina Yang | United States | ||
| The Girl with the Needle | Pigen med nålen | Michał Dymek | Denmark, Poland, Sweden | |
| Gladiator II | United Kingdom, United States | |||
| Small Things like These | Frank van den Eeden | Tim Mielants | Ireland, Belgium, United States | |
| Vermiglio | Mikhail Krichman | Italy, France, Belgium | ||
| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Special Screenings | ||||
| The Battle of Monte Cassino | Czerwone maki | Arkadiusz Tomiak | Krzysztof Łukaszewicz | Poland |
| The Girl from the Wardrobe | Dziewczyna z szafy | Arkadiusz Tomiak | Bodo Kox | |
| Here | United States | |||
| Inside Out 2 | Adam Habib, Jonathan Pytko | |||
| Maria | Italy, Germany, United States | |||
| Rust | Halyna Hutchins, Bianca Cline | United States | ||
| The Seasons | Sezony | Edgar de Poray | Michał Grzybowski | Poland |
| The Seed of the Sacred Fig | دانهی انجیر معابد / Les Graines du figuier sauvage / Die Saat des heiligen Feigenbaums | Pooyan Aghababaei | Iran, France, Germany | |
| September 5 | Markus Förderer | Germany | ||
| Unstoppable | United States | |||
| Wicked | Jon M. Chu | |||
| Young Woman and the Sea | United States, Hungary, Italy, United Kingdom, France | |||
| 30 Years of Searchlight Pictures | ||||
| Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | United States | |||
| The Favourite | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | |||
| The Grand Budapest Hotel | United States, Germany | |||
| Nomadland | Joshua James Richards | United States | ||
| Sideways | United States | |||
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | United States, United Kingdom | |||
| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cyborg Generation | Martí Herrera | Miguel Morillo Vega | Spain | |
| I Am the Creation of Fiction | Jestem postacią fikcyjną | Kacper Wójcicki | Arkadiusz Bartosiak | Poland |
| Koka | Aliaksandr Tsymbaliuk | Aliaksandr Tsymbaliuk | ||
| When Harmattan Blows | Marcin Sauter | Edyta Wróblewska | ||
| Mistress Dispeller | Elizabeth Lo | China, United States | ||
| Mother Vera | Cécile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson | Cécile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson | United Kingdom | |
| Viktor | Olivier Sarbil | Olivier Sarbil | Ukraine, United States, Denmark | |
| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brief History of a Family | 家庭简史 | Jiahao Zhang | Jianjie Lin | China, France, Denmark, Qatar |
| Daddio | United States | |||
| In the Land of Brothers | در سرزمین برادر | Farshad Mohammadi | Alireza Ghasemi, Raha Amirfazli | Iran, France, Netherlands |
| Los Frikis | Santiago Gonzalez | Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz | United States, Dominican Republic, Cuba | |
| Nickel Boys | Jomo Fray | United States | ||
| Pedro Páramo | Rodrigo Prieto, Nico Aguilar | Mexico | ||
| Red Path | Les enfants rouges | Wojciech Staroń | Tunisia, France, Belgium, Poland | |
| Santosh | Lennert Hillege | United Kingdom, France, Germany | ||
| The Substance | Benjamin Kračun | United Kingdom, United States, France | ||
| Valentina or the Serenity | Valentina o la serenidad | Carlos Correa | Mexico | |
| White Courage | Biała Odwaga | Marcin Koszałka | Poland | |
| Who Do I Belong To | ماء العين / Là d'où l'on vient | Tunisia, France, Canada | ||
| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Banzo | Leandro Ferrão | Margarida Cardoso | Portugal, France, Netherlands | |
| Brief History of a Family | 家庭简史 | Jiahao Zhang | Jianjie Lin | China, France, Denmark, Qatar |
| Edge of Summer | Rachel Clark | Lucy Cohen | United Kingdom | |
| Los Frikis | Santiago Gonzalez | Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz | United States, Dominican Republic, Cuba | |
| My Place Is Here | Il mio posto è qui | Emilio Maria Costa | Cristiano Bortone, Daniela Porto | Italy, Germany |
| The Queen's Orphans | As Órfãs da Rainha | Fernanda Tanaka | Elza Cataldo | Brazil |
| Tatami | Todd Martin | United States, Georgia | ||
| Who Do I Belong To | ماء العين / Là d'où l'on vient | Tunisia, France, Canada | ||
| Music video | Performing artist(s) | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Overthinker" | Marián Ontko | Jiří Horenský | Czech Republic, Slovakia | |
| "Little Foot Big Foot" | United States | |||
| "Page" | Maayane Bouhnik | Gordian Schrödter Null | Germany, United States | |
| "Plora Aquí" | Ferran Palau | Marc Miró | Pablo Maestres | Spain |
| "Gangsta" | Khalid Mohtaseb | François Rousselet | France | |
| "Gamma" | Jordan Hemingway | France | ||
| "You & Me" | Sam Vis | Casimir Mulder | Netherlands | |
| "TK421" | Mykyta Kuzmenko | United States | ||
| "Wife Once" | Memory of Speke | Natasha Duursma | Fabien Frankel | United Kingdom |
| "313" | Pepe Ávila del Pino | United States | ||
| "I Took It Too Far" | Roi Keidar | Daria Geller, Yan Yasinsky | Daria Geller | Israel |
| "Please Please Please" | Bardia Zeinali | United States | ||
| "Fortnight" | United States | |||
| "Nine Ball" | Matthew Dillon Cohen | United States | ||
| Television series | Episode | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baby Reindeer | Krzysztof Trojnar | United Kingdom | ||
| Becoming Karl Lagerfeld | "Mercenaire du prêt-à-porter" | Mélodie Preel | France | |
| Boy Swallows Universe | "Boy Smells Rat" | Shelley Farthing-Dawe | Australia | |
| Fallout | "The End" | United States | ||
| Herrhausen: The Banker and the Bomb | "The Lord of Money" | Florian Emmerich | Pia Strietmann | Germany, Belgium |
| A Murder at the End of the World | "" | United States | ||
| The Penguin | "After Hours" | Darran Tiernan | ||
| Ripley | I A Hard Man to Find | Robert Elswit | Steven Zaillian | |
| Shōgun | "Anjin" | Jonathan van Tulleken | ||
| Sugar | "Olivia" | César Charlone | Fernando Meirelles | |
| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kulej. All That Glitters Isn't Good | Kulej. Dwie strony medalu | Marian Prokop | Poland | |
| Minghun | Kacper Fertacz | Jan P. Matuszyński | ||
| Scarborn | Kos | Piotr Sobociński Jr. | Paweł Maślona | |
| Travel Essentials | Rzeczy Niezbędne | Tomasz Naumiuk | Kamila Tarabura | Poland, Germany |
| Under the Grey Sky | Pod Szarym Niebem | Krzysztof Trela | Mara Tamkovich | Poland |
| White Courage | Biała Odwaga | Marcin Koszałka | ||
| Wrooklyn Zoo | Adam Pietkiewicz | Krzysztof Skonieczny | ||
| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | School | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borrowed Hands | Manos ajenas | Melissa Nocetti | Adrián Monroy Molina | Mexico | |
| I Am Not There | Nie ma mnie | Daniel Le Hai | Daniel Le Hai | Poland | |
| Breaking Glass | Valentin Lilgenau | Nicolás Bori | Germany | ||
| Power of the Mirror | Macht des Spiegels | Benjamin F. Meyer | Ido Gotlib | Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg | |
| The Dam | Tama | Kacper Gawron | Giovanni Pierangeli | Poland | |
| Like All the Others | Wie All Die Anderen | Oscar Pinaud | Max Bommas | Warsaw Film School | |
| Eye of the Fen | Arttu Liimatta | Topi Raulo | Finland | ||
| Titans | Titaninnen | Lisa Jilg | Jannik Weiße | Germany | |
| How to Skin a Cheetah | Naoise Kettle | Meghan O'Shaughnessy | Ireland | ||
| Land of Dreams | Droomland | Stern Nordsiek | Bart Niewenweg | Netherlands | |
| Lazarus | Lazar | Veselin Menkadzhiev | Orlin Menkadzhiev | Bulgaria | |
| Photograph 1 | Christopher Hudson | Oscar Simmons | United Kingdom | ||
| Remains | Natdanai Naksuwarn | Theja Rio | |||
| Rouge | Rouge | Anton Belyakov | Jason Boussioux | France | |
| Replique | Audrey Biche | Max Olson | United States | ||
| Siren Salon | Nicholas Buckwalter | Ella Grace Rodriguez | USC School of Cinematic Arts | ||
| Want | Max Losson | Zalman Zuckerbraun | |||
| Orchid | Tin Brendel | Tin Brendel | Poland | ||
| Trains Passing By | Kugellager | Lena M. Riedler | Stella Artemisia Refle | University of Applied Sciences Salzburg | Austria |
| This Peculiar Day | Tento divný deň | Alex Miartuš | Emília Ondriašová | Slovakia | |
| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | School | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Bull Calls | Un toro llama | Luis Hartmann | Nelson Algomeda | Germany, Venezuela | |
| Cargo | Ładunek | Vincent Prochoroff | Tymoteusz Kałużewski | Poland | |
| Papillon | Merlijn Willemsen | Helena Szoda-Woźniak, Merlijn Willemsen | |||
| Tiny Apocalypse | Maleńka apokalipsa | Daniel Tubylewicz | Izabela Zubrycka | ||
| Honey Bunny | Aleksandra Kamińska | Gracjana Piechula | |||
| Chiuita Piconera | Carlos Cuervo | Mey Montero | TAI School of Arts | Spain | |
| Come Sit with Us | Ära ole uhke | Joosep Ivask | Elis Rumma | Estonia | |
| Heir of the Galaxy | Als er ein Star war | Ferdinand Koestler | Daniel Holzberg | Austria | |
| Just a Touch of Sugar | Trocha cukru | Vojtěch Kapounek | Timon W. Duda | Czech Republic | |
| The Lumber Room | Luis Mayr Nin | Alejandro Mathé | Germany | ||
| The Stolen Ride | Ein Fahrrad für Alicia | Alex Jaffar | Masha Mollenhauer | Hamburg Media School | |
| Splinter | Lenn Lamster | Paul Scheufler | Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg | ||
| A New Garden | Die lauteste Zeit | Leon Hörtrich | Lea Marie Lembke | Film Academy Baden-Württemberg | |
| Resonance | Conrad Holzman | Asher Kaplan | United States | ||
| Separation Season | Bie Li De Ji Jie | Tei Lee | I-Ju Lin | Czech Republic, Taiwan | |
| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Body Called Life | Fabian Kimoto | Spencer MacDonald | United States, Poland, Switzerland | |
| Don Benjamín | Adro Molina | Iván Zahínos | Spain | |
| Dust | Pył | Paweł Chorzępa | Paweł Chorzępa | Poland, Saudi Arabia |
| Eternal Father | Roxana Reiss | Ömer Sami | Denmark | |
| Ready to Die | Christoph Bockisch | Basilio Maritano Sailer | Italy | |
| Shotplayer | J. Daniel Zúñiga | Sam Shainberg | United States | |
| Tropa | Pauwel Billiau | Niels Devlieghere | Belgium | |
| We Beg to Differ | Daniel Sedgwick | Ruairi Bradley | Ireland, United Kingdom | |
| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afterwar | Troels N'koya-Jensen, Marek Septimus Wieser | Birgitte Stærmose | Denmark, Kosovo, Sweden, Finland | |
| Agent of Happiness | Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó | Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó | Bhutan, Hungary | |
| As the Tide Comes In | Før Stormen | Juan Palacios | Juan Palacios | Denmark |
| The Basement | Andriy Noha, Mikhail Volkov | Roman Blazhan | France, Ukraine | |
| Echo of You | Ekko af kærlighed | Jacob Sofussen | Zara Zerny | Denmark |
| Life and Deaths of Max Linder | Vie et morts de Max Linder | Joo Joostberens | Edward Porembny | Poland |
| Look into My Eyes | Stephen Maing | United States | ||
| The Lost Legacy of Tony Gaudio | Gianluca Gattabria, Alessandro Nucci | Alessandro Nucci | Italy | |
| New Kind of Wilderness | Silje Evensmo Jacobsen, Karine Fosser, Espen Gjermundrød, Line K. Lyngstadaas, Natalja Safronova, Fred Arne Wergeland | Silje Evensmo Jacobsen | Norway | |
| The New Man | Omi Nobu | Arilson Almeida | Carlos Yuri Ceuninck | Cape Verde, Belgium, Sudan, Germany |
| No Other Land | Rachel Szor | Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor | Palestine, Norway | |
| Per Forever | Tomasz Gezela, Łukasz Śliwa | Tomasz Gezela | Poland, Sweden | |
| Sugarcane | Emily Kassie, Christopher LaMarca | United States, Canada | ||
| Ula | Urszula Dudziak | Agnieszka Iwańska | Poland | |
| The Wolves Always Come at Night | Michael Latham | Gabrielle Brady | Australia, Mongolia, Germany | |
| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anora | Drew Daniels | United States | ||
| Being Maria | Maria | Sébastien Buchmann | France | |
| From Hilde, with Love | In Liebe, Eure Hilde | Germany | ||
| Führer and Seducer | Führer und Verführer | Klaus Fuxjäger | Joachim Lang | |
| Meeting with Pol Pot | Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot | Aymerick Pilarski | Cambodia, France, Turkey, Taiwan, Qatar | |
| Münter & Kandinsky | Namche Okon | Marcus O. Rosenmüller | Germany | |
| The Piano Lesson | United States | |||
| Sew Torn | United States, Switzerland | |||
| Simona Kossak | Jakub Stolecki | Adrian Panek | Poland | |
| The Summer Book | Sturla Brandth Grøvlen | United States, Finland | ||
| The Village Next to Paradise | Mostafa El Kashef | France, Australia, Somalia | ||