Countdown to Toruń Camerimage 2026

“Artificial”, the latest film by Luca Guadagnino, will open the 34th International Film Festival Camerimage (7–14 November) this Saturday (7 November). Following the screening, the director and cinematographer Malik Hassan Sayeed will meet with the festival audience. Among this year’s guests will also be the outstanding American director Darren Aronofsky (“Black Swan”, “Requiem for a Dream”, “The Whale”), one of the most distinctive figures in world cinema, who will receive the Special Award for a Director. Marshal Piotr Całbecki has assumed honorary patronage of the event, while the regional government is a proud patron of Toruń Camerimage 2026.

– The organisers have accustomed us to cinema of the highest calibre, but this year’s Camerimage promises to be even more spectacular than we have come to expect. See you at the screenings and meetings with filmmakers! – says Marshal Piotr Całbecki, inviting audiences to the festival.

Highlights of the Special Screenings section include the comedy “The Blood Countess”, starring Isabelle Huppert and directed by Ulrike Ottinger (with none other than Elfriede Jelinek contributing to the screenplay); Alejandro González Iñárritu’s comedy “Digger”, featuring Tom Cruise as audiences have never seen him before; “The Idiot(s)” by Michał Englert and Małgorzata Szumowska; the Japanese production “Kokurōjō: The Samurai and the Prisoner”, which has received an enthusiastic response from critics and audiences alike (directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, with exquisite cinematography by Yasuyuki Sasaki); and, last but certainly not least, the Korean film “Possible Love” (Lee Chang-dong / Kim Ji-yong), widely regarded as one of the most significant cinematic events of the year.

The Main Competition will feature, among others, Volker Schlöndorff’s latest production (2026), “Visitation”; Paweł Pawlikowski’s “Ojczyzna”, with cinematography by Łukasz Żal; Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day”, shot by Janusz Kamiński; “Wild Horse Nine”, starring John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell (directed by Martin McDonagh, with cinematography by Ben Davis); and Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur”, with cinematography by Mikhail Krichman.

Among the films competing for awards in the Polish Films Competition are Jan Holoubek’s “Dziki, dziki wschód” (cinematography by Bartłomiej Kaczmarek) and “Pojedynek” (directed by Łukasz Palkowski, with cinematography by Piotr Sobociński Jr.), starring Jakub Gierszał and Bogusław Linda.

We would also like to draw attention to the Filmowe Kujawy Pomorze 2026 section, which will showcase productions made with financial support from the Kujawsko-Pomorskie Film Fund, established by the regional government. Audiences can look forward to Krzysztof Zanussi’s “Całopalenie” (cinematography by Piotr Niemyjski), Jan Komasa’s “Good Boy” (cinematography by Michał Dymek) and, for those who have not yet seen it, Wojtek Smarzowski’s “Dom dobry” (cinematography by Paweł Tybora).

An accompanying event will be an exhibition of film posters designed by Andrzej Pągowski for films by Andrzej Wajda, hosted at the Tumult Foundation (28 Rynek Nowomiejski). The exhibition opening, attended by the artist himself, will take place on 8 November.

For more information, visit camerimage.pl.

Beata Krzemińska
Press Spokesperson for the Marshal’s Office

4 November 2026