Szapołowska, Szczepkowska, Baka, Zanussi and Zamachowski on The Golden Lions of Krzysztof Kieślowski. Celebrating 50 years of PFF in Gdynia!
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Polish Film Festival in Gdynia, we have included a special section – The Golden Lions of Krzysztof Kieślowski, featuring three films by the outstanding director that were honored with this prestigious award. The screenings will be accompanied by an open meeting with Krzysztof Kieślowski’s family and friends. More »

Katarzyna Warnke to receive the FLISAK Award from the President of Toruń at the 23rd edition of the BellaTOFIFEST International Film Festival!
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Kazik Staszewski to Receive the Golden Angel Award for Artistic Insolence!
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Tribute to Ken Russell

TOFIFEST is going to show the films of Ken Russell, the master of postmodern mishmash.

Camp Not Dead is a special section for the fans of ironic, rebellious, unconventional and abstract cinema. Camp grew up in the 60’s resulting from the wave of postmodernism and defense of popular culture, with Susan Sontag as its advocate. She was the first one to define so called ‘bad art’ — kitsch, to put it bluntly.

The key to understand its aesthetics is balancing between kitsch and high art, just like in the films of Ken Russell — the main figure of this thematic block and definitely it’s icon.

Russell is considered both a genius and a madman. His films have always featured visual abstraction, frequently mixing high and low culture, revealing dark side of human soul, breaking conventions, taboo and all possible genres, bold in terms of depicting sexual issues and altered states of consciousness, as the title of one of Ken’s films.

At the festival we are going to present The Who's Tommy, Salome’s Last Dance, Altered States and Lisztomania starring Ringo Starr as the Pope, to name the few.

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