All of Coralie Fargeat’s films at the 15th FKA

More powerful than Titane! All of Coralie Fargeat’s films at the 15th FKA

Exploring the human body, uncompromising, bloody straight out of gore horror, grotesque and not for people with weak nerves. Already in October, viewers of the Action Camera will be able to feel a faster heartbeat and encounter productions that came out of the hand of Coralie Fargeat, winner of the award for best script at the last Cannes Film Festival. The French director does not play with half-measures – she has already shown this in her debut “Revenge” (2017), hailed as the first film of the #METOO movement, in which she smuggled a sharp critique of rape culture under the guise of violent cinema. The director has successfully found her way into the mix of thriller and revenge cinema – she also showed this in her latest “The Substance,” a feminist and feminist, yet brutal and caricatured film starring Demi Moore, which turned the Croisette upside down. The director boldly quotes the works of established masters like Kubrick’s “The Shining” and Cronenberg’s “The Fly,” but goes her own way and demolishes the boundaries of cinematic correctness. Despite its iconoclastic nature, the film received a long, 11-minute standing ovation from the Cannes audience. Audiences at the 15th Camera Action Festival will also be able to enjoy Fargeat’s first short film productions. The program will include her first film, “The Telegram” (2003), which tells the story of two women waiting for a package from the letter carrier during World War II. The production was recognized at international festivals for its subversive reflection on fear, selfishness and honesty. Her “Reality+” (2014), in turn, is the starting point for the realization of “The Substance. Will new technologies allow people to experience life in the body of another gender? Will it be possible to use them to impersonate and steal someone’s identity? The questions the director poses are many, and the answers, paradoxically, we are already beginning to receive.

The 15th Kamera Akcja Festival will be held from 24 to 27.10.2024 in Łódź and from 14 to 23.10.2024 online on the Think Film platform. The task is implemented thanks to a grant from the budget of the City of Łódź. Subsidized by funds from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage from the Cultural Promotion Fund, the Polish Film Institute and the University of Łódź – the festival’s patron. The main partners of the festival are Monopolis and the Film School in Lodz. The Kamera Akcja Festival and the Festiwal Człowiek Mediów w Zagrożeniu form the “Lodz Film Festival” cooperation network. Passes at attractive prices on sale only until October 10, 2024.