All there is to DISCOVER!

Innovative directorial visions, forerunning scripts, unconventional ways of presenting reality and all-stars cast. In the DISCOVERIES section we will present the newest projects of widely known filmmakers as well as the unknown beginners in the cinema industry. We discover the titles of directors from France, US, UK and Chile.

“Stone”, dir.John Curran

The majority of the films in the section has been awarded and appreciated at film festivals world wide. You will also be able to experience the Hollywood stars in more independent roles. Widely known and awarded actors Naomi Watts and Sean Penn played the lead roles in "Fair Game" by Doug Liman. The intriguing, full of suspense and sudden turns plot was created based on biography of Valerie Plame. It feels as the best of political thrillers. The facts depicted, however, are true and gave America the thrills a few years back. French director Antony Cordier will present at our festival his second feature film "Happy Few". It is a fascinating and intrinsic travel into human passions and infatuation. It tells a story of complicated love relations of two couples in their thirties. The director asks questions on passions and temptations and the four actors span their brave skills crossing the boundaries of intimacy. Another representative of the French cinema is the third directorial project of Guillaume Canet "Little White Lies". Canet is an acknowledged French actor, who in 2002 debuted with his feature "Mon Idole" (My Idol). In his newest production he continues with the drawn earlier line - he focuses on how hidden secrets can change our lives forever.

“Happy Few”, dir.Antony Cordier

The love story of Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert is told by Jean-Marc Vallée in his film "The Young Victoria". The director depicts the Royal Couple on one hand as an ordinary young people madly in love, on the other though, draws the attention to their roles given them as rulers of an empire. The film won one Oscar for Best Achievement in Costume Design, and was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama. The DISCOVERIES section comprise a very diverse list of themes. From the Royal Court, we are taken down to prison. John Curran's drama "Stone" is mainly characteristic for the ambiguous, filled with nuance and contradictions, acting of three cinema icons: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton and Milla Jovovich, as well as the precise and worked unto the tiniest detail script. Sonic Youth fans cannot miss the documentary by Yony Leyser entitled "William S. Burroughs: A Man Within" scored by the famous rock band. The film contains unused before archival footage, extracts of interviews with friends and those closest to the eminent writer, William S. Burroughs, who had a huge impact on the 20th century culture. We also recommend to watch the new film by Sebastiàn Silva and Pedro Peirano - two filmmakers that the OFF PLUS CAMERA audience should be familiarised with - thanks to their film "The Maid" which won the Kraków Film Award in 2009. In "Old Cats" (Gatos Viejos), the two artists tell a story of a conflict between mother and daughter mixing black humour with a little bit of pathos. Please be reminded that also in this section we will screen: "Four Lions" by Christopher Morris, "Carancho" by Pablo Trapero, "Undertow" by Javier Fuentes-León, "The Tempest" by Julie Taymor and "I'm Still Here" by Casey Affleck.

Asia Korgul