Skolimowski feature to vie for awards in Venice
PR dla Zagranicy
Jo Harper
29.07.2015 14:26
A new film by director Jerzy Skolimowski is one of 21 entries in the main competition at the International Film Festival in Venice, which opens on 2 September.
Jerzy Skolimowski at the opening of his solo exhibition in Łódź, 05.03.2015 Photo: PAP/Grzegorz Michałowski
Entitled “11 Minutes” it is a joint Polish-Irish production. Written by the director himself, the plot follows the same eleven minutes in the lives of a host of different characters from various walks of life.
Seventy-seven year-old Skolimowski is among Europe’s leading directors. Three of his films were awarded at the Cannes Festival (“The Shout” won a Jury Prize in 1978, “Moonlighting” won Best Screenplay in 1982 and “The Lightship” a Special Jury Prize in 1985). His credits also include “The Deep End” and “30 Door Key.”
In 2008, he made his come-back to film making after a lapse of seventeen years with the highly-acclaimed “Four Nights with Anna,” followed by “Essential Killing,” which received the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Festival in 2010.
A versatile artist, Skolimowski is also an actor and a painter, with many one-man exhibitions to his credit, in the United States, Greece, France, Italy and Poland. (mk/jh)