# 32nd International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage

The 32nd International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage, also named EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2024 for its sponsorship from Polish power company Energa, took place from 16 to 23 November 2024 in Toruń, Poland, to recognize and reward the best in cinematography in film, television and music videos.
Steve McQueen's historical war drama Blitz will serve as the festival's opening film, while the first half of Jon M. Chu's two-part musical fantasy film Wicked will close the festival. Both films will be honoured with special awards for their director and production designer, respectively.

## Background

On 6 June 2024, Australian actress Cate Blanchett was announced as the jury president for the main competition. Later, on 19 September, Blitz was revealed as the opening film, while the following month, on 10 October, Wicked was announced as the closing film. The films competing in the main competition were revealed in groups of three, finally announcing the complete lineup on 30 October. The festival's poster was designer by Polish illustrator and graphic artist Marcin Wolski and was inspired by aurora borealis and Toruń's gothic architecture.
A special screening of Pablo Larraín's biographical film Maria, shot by Edward Lachman, will take place during the festival. Additionally, to celebrate the thirty year anniversary of American film studio Searchlight Pictures, six films from the studio will be screened. British filmmaker Steve McQueen is set to be awarded with the Outstanding Director Award. English production designer Nathan Crowley will receive the Special Award for Production Designer. Japanese actor Hiroyuki Sanada will receive the inaugural Best TV Series Performance award for his work in FX' historical drama series Shōgun, while Italian-American documentary filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi will be honoured with the Outstanding Achievements in Documentary Filmmaking award. American film editor and director William Goldenberg will receive the Film Editor award and will screen his directorial debut Unstoppable as a part of the special screenings.

### Controversies

Among the special screenings, the festival announced the world premiere of Joel Souza's western film Rust. The decision to include the film within the festival was met with controversy, due to the shooting incident that took place during the movie's filming, where cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was fatally shot. Multiple cinematographers expressed their discontent with the film's premiere in the festival, with some deeming it "distasteful" and considering it not an appropriate way to honour Hutchins work.
In November 2024, the festival's director Marek Żydowicz wrote an op-ed for Cinematography World, where he expressed his thoughts on the changes in the industry, including the growing numer of female directors and cinematographers. Some of Żydowicz comments were met with backlash from various cinematographers as well as the British Society of Cinematographers, who released an article where they expressed their dissaproval, writing "we are disheartened and angered by your profoundly misogynistic comments and aggressive tone, which we view as symptomatic of a deep-rooted prejudice". Żydowicz issued an apology, describing the situation as a "misunderstanding", also writing "I assure you that we will prevent this kind of ambiguity from occurring in our communications in the future". Director Steve McQueen, who was a guest of honor for this year's festival and was set to receive a special award, announced he was no longer attending the festival. Similarly, director Coralie Fargeat and cinematographer Benjamin Kračun announced they were pulling their film The Substance out of the competition and were also not attending the festival.

## Juries

The jury members were as follows:

## Official selection

The films and projects selected for each announced section are as follows, though the TV Series lineup are yet to be revealed:
    Highlighted title indicates section's Golden Frog winner.
    Highlighted title indicates section's Silver Frog winner.
    Highlighted title indicates section's Bronze Frog winner.

### Main Competition

| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Blitz (opening film) | Blitz (opening film) | Yorick Le Saux | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Brutalist | The Brutalist | Lol Crawley | Brady Corbet | United Kingdom |
| Cabrini | Cabrini | Gorka Gómez Andreu | Alejandro Monteverde | United States |
| Conclave | Conclave | Stéphane Fontaine | Edward Berger | United Kingdom, United States |
| The Devil's Bath | Des Teufels Bad | Martin Gschlacht | Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala | Austria, Germany |
| Dune: Part Two | Dune: Part Two | Greig Fraser | Denis Villeneuve | United States, Canada |
| Emilia Pérez | Emilia Pérez | Paul Guilhaume | Jacques Audiard | France, United States |
| The Fire Inside | The Fire Inside | Rina Yang | Rachel Morrison | United States |
| The Girl with the Needle | Pigen med nålen | Michał Dymek | Magnus von Horn | Denmark, Poland, Sweden |
| Gladiator II | Gladiator II | John Mathieson | Ridley Scott | United Kingdom, United States |
| Small Things like These | Small Things like These | Frank van den Eeden | Tim Mielants | Ireland, Belgium, United States |
| Vermiglio | Vermiglio | Mikhail Krichman | Maura Delpero | Italy, France, Belgium |

### Special Screenings

| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Special Screenings |||||
| The Battle of Monte Cassino | Czerwone maki | Arkadiusz Tomiak | Krzysztof Łukaszewicz | Poland |
| The Girl from the Wardrobe | Dziewczyna z szafy | Arkadiusz Tomiak | Bodo Kox | Poland |
| Here | Here | Don Burgess | Robert Zemeckis | United States |
| Inside Out 2 | Inside Out 2 | Adam Habib, Jonathan Pytko | Kelsey Mann | United States |
| Maria | Maria | Edward Lachman | Pablo Larraín | Italy, Germany, United States |
| Rust (world premiere) | Rust (world premiere) | Halyna Hutchins, Bianca Cline | Joel Souza | United States |
| The Seasons | Sezony | Edgar de Poray | Michał Grzybowski | Poland |
| The Seed of the Sacred Fig | دانه‌ی انجیر معابد / Les Graines du figuier sauvage / Die Saat des heiligen Feigenbaums | Pooyan Aghababaei | Mohammad Rasoulof | Iran, France, Germany |
| September 5 | September 5 | Markus Förderer | Tim Fehlbaum | Germany |
| Unstoppable | Unstoppable | Salvatore Totino | William Goldenberg | United States |
| Wicked (closing film) | Wicked (closing film) | Alice Brooks | Jon M. Chu | United States |
| Young Woman and the Sea | Young Woman and the Sea | Óscar Faura | Joachim Rønning | United States, Hungary, Italy, United Kingdom, France |
| 30 Years of Searchlight Pictures |||||
| Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) | Emmanuel Lubezki | Alejandro González Iñárritu | United States |
| The Favourite | The Favourite | Robbie Ryan | Yorgos Lanthimos | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States |
| The Grand Budapest Hotel | The Grand Budapest Hotel | Robert Yeoman | Wes Anderson | United States, Germany |
| Nomadland | Nomadland | Joshua James Richards | Chloé Zhao | United States |
| Sideways | Sideways | Phedon Papamichael | Alexander Payne | United States |
| Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Ben Davis | Martin McDonagh | United States, United Kingdom |

### Documentary Features Competition

| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Cyborg Generation | Cyborg Generation | Martí Herrera | Miguel Morillo Vega | Spain |
| I Am the Creation of Fiction | Jestem postacią fikcyjną | Kacper Wójcicki | Arkadiusz Bartosiak | Poland |
| Koka | Koka | Aliaksandr Tsymbaliuk | Aliaksandr Tsymbaliuk | Poland |
| When Harmattan Blows | When Harmattan Blows | Marcin Sauter | Edyta Wróblewska | Poland |
| Mistress Dispeller | Mistress Dispeller | Elizabeth Lo | Elizabeth Lo | China, United States |
| Mother Vera | Mother Vera | Cécile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson | Cécile Embleton, Alys Tomlinson | United Kingdom |
| Viktor | Viktor | Olivier Sarbil | Olivier Sarbil | Ukraine, United States, Denmark |

### Director's Debuts Competition

| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Brief History of a Family | 家庭简史 | Jiahao Zhang | Jianjie Lin | China, France, Denmark, Qatar |
| Daddio | Daddio | Phedon Papamichael | Christy Hall | United States |
| In the Land of Brothers | در سرزمین برادر | Farshad Mohammadi | Alireza Ghasemi, Raha Amirfazli | Iran, France, Netherlands |
| Los Frikis | Los Frikis | Santiago Gonzalez | Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz | United States, Dominican Republic, Cuba |
| Nickel Boys | Nickel Boys | Jomo Fray | RaMell Ross | United States |
| Pedro Páramo | Pedro Páramo | Rodrigo Prieto, Nico Aguilar | Rodrigo Prieto | Mexico |
| Red Path | Les enfants rouges | Wojciech Staroń | Lotfi Achour | Tunisia, France, Belgium, Poland |
| Santosh | Santosh | Lennert Hillege | Sandhya Suri | United Kingdom, France, Germany |
| The Substance | The Substance | Benjamin Kračun | Coralie Fargeat | United Kingdom, United States, France |
| Valentina or the Serenity | Valentina o la serenidad | Carlos Correa | Ángeles Cruz | Mexico |
| White Courage | Biała Odwaga | Marcin Koszałka | Marcin Koszałka | Poland |
| Who Do I Belong To | ماء العين / Là d'où l'on vient | Vincent Gonneville | Meryam Joobeur | Tunisia, France, Canada |

### Cinematographer's Debuts Competition

| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Banzo | Banzo | Leandro Ferrão | Margarida Cardoso | Portugal, France, Netherlands |
| Brief History of a Family | 家庭简史 | Jiahao Zhang | Jianjie Lin | China, France, Denmark, Qatar |
| Edge of Summer | Edge of Summer | Rachel Clark | Lucy Cohen | United Kingdom |
| Los Frikis | Los Frikis | Santiago Gonzalez | Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz | United States, Dominican Republic, Cuba |
| My Place Is Here | Il mio posto è qui | Emilio Maria Costa | Cristiano Bortone, Daniela Porto | Italy, Germany |
| The Queen's Orphans | As Órfãs da Rainha | Fernanda Tanaka | Elza Cataldo | Brazil |
| Tatami | Tatami | Todd Martin | Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Guy Nattiv | United States, Georgia |
| Who Do I Belong To | ماء العين / Là d'où l'on vient | Vincent Gonneville | Meryam Joobeur | Tunisia, France, Canada |

### Music Videos Competition

| Music video | Performing artist(s) | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| "Overthinker" | Adonxs | Marián Ontko | Jiří Horenský | Czech Republic, Slovakia |
| "Little Foot Big Foot" | Childish Gambino | Larkin Seiple | Hiro Murai | United States |
| "Page" | Ed Sheeran | Maayane Bouhnik | Gordian Schrödter Null | Germany, United States |
| "Plora Aquí" | Ferran Palau | Marc Miró | Pablo Maestres | Spain |
| "Gangsta" | Free Nationals, A$AP Rocky & Anderson .Paak | Khalid Mohtaseb | François Rousselet | France |
| "Gamma" | Gesaffelstein | Łukasz Żal | Jordan Hemingway | France |
| "You & Me" | Goldband | Sam Vis | Casimir Mulder | Netherlands |
| "TK421" | Lenny Kravitz | Mykyta Kuzmenko | Tanu Muino | United States |
| "Wife Once" | Memory of Speke | Natasha Duursma | Fabien Frankel | United Kingdom |
| "313" | Residente | Pepe Ávila del Pino | René Pérez Joglar | United States |
| "I Took It Too Far" | Roi Keidar | Daria Geller, Yan Yasinsky | Daria Geller | Israel |
| "Please Please Please" | Sabrina Carpenter | Sean Price Williams | Bardia Zeinali | United States |
| "Fortnight" | Taylor Swift featuring Post Malone | Rodrigo Prieto | Taylor Swift | United States |
| "Nine Ball" | Zach Bryan | Larkin Seiple | Matthew Dillon Cohen | United States |

### TV Series Competition

| Television series | Episode | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Baby Reindeer | Baby Reindeer | Krzysztof Trojnar | Weronika Tofilska | United Kingdom |
| Becoming Karl Lagerfeld | "Mercenaire du prêt-à-porter" | Mélodie Preel | Jérôme Salle | France |
| Boy Swallows Universe | "Boy Smells Rat" | Shelley Farthing-Dawe | Bharat Nalluri | Australia |
| Fallout | "The End" | Stuart Dryburgh | Jonathan Nolan | United States |
| Herrhausen: The Banker and the Bomb | "The Lord of Money" | Florian Emmerich | Pia Strietmann | Germany, Belgium |
| A Murder at the End of the World | "Chapter 1: Homme Fatale" | Charlotte Bruus Christensen | Brit Marling | United States |
| The Penguin | "After Hours" | Darran Tiernan | Craig Zobel | United States |
| Ripley | I A Hard Man to Find | Robert Elswit | Steven Zaillian | United States |
| Shōgun | "Anjin" | Christopher Ross | Jonathan van Tulleken | United States |
| Sugar | "Olivia" | César Charlone | Fernando Meirelles | United States |

### Polish Films Competition

| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Kulej. All That Glitters Isn't Good | Kulej. Dwie strony medalu | Marian Prokop | Xawery Żuławski | Poland |
| Minghun | Minghun | Kacper Fertacz | Jan P. Matuszyński | Poland |
| Scarborn | Kos | Piotr Sobociński Jr. | Paweł Maślona | Poland |
| Travel Essentials | Rzeczy Niezbędne | Tomasz Naumiuk | Kamila Tarabura | Poland, Germany |
| Under the Grey Sky | Pod Szarym Niebem | Krzysztof Trela | Mara Tamkovich | Poland |
| White Courage | Biała Odwaga | Marcin Koszałka | Marcin Koszałka | Poland |
| Wrooklyn Zoo | Wrooklyn Zoo | Adam Pietkiewicz | Krzysztof Skonieczny | Poland |

### Film and Art School Etudes Competition

| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | School | Production countrie(s) |
| Borrowed Hands | Manos ajenas | Melissa Nocetti | Adrián Monroy Molina | Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica | Mexico |
| I Am Not There | Nie ma mnie | Daniel Le Hai | Daniel Le Hai | Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School | Poland |
| Breaking Glass | Breaking Glass | Valentin Lilgenau | Nicolás Bori | Film Academy Baden-Württemberg | Germany |
| Power of the Mirror | Macht des Spiegels | Benjamin F. Meyer | Ido Gotlib | Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg | Germany |
| The Dam | Tama | Kacper Gawron | Giovanni Pierangeli | Łódź Film School | Poland |
| Like All the Others | Wie All Die Anderen | Oscar Pinaud | Max Bommas | Warsaw Film School | Poland |
| Eye of the Fen | Eye of the Fen | Arttu Liimatta | Topi Raulo | Aalto University | Finland |
| Titans | Titaninnen | Lisa Jilg | Jannik Weiße | Film Academy Baden-Württemberg | Germany |
| How to Skin a Cheetah | How to Skin a Cheetah | Naoise Kettle | Meghan O'Shaughnessy | National Film School of Ireland | Ireland |
| Land of Dreams | Droomland | Stern Nordsiek | Bart Niewenweg | Utrecht School of the Arts | Netherlands |
| Lazarus | Lazar | Veselin Menkadzhiev | Orlin Menkadzhiev | National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts | Bulgaria |
| Photograph 1 | Photograph 1 | Christopher Hudson | Oscar Simmons | National Film and Television School | United Kingdom |
| Remains | Remains | Natdanai Naksuwarn | Theja Rio | National Film and Television School | United Kingdom |
| Rouge | Rouge | Anton Belyakov | Jason Boussioux | École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière | France |
| Replique | Replique | Audrey Biche | Max Olson | AFI Conservatory | United States |
| Siren Salon | Siren Salon | Nicholas Buckwalter | Ella Grace Rodriguez | USC School of Cinematic Arts | United States |
| Want | Want | Max Losson | Zalman Zuckerbraun | Florida State University College of Motion Picture Arts | United States |
| Orchid | Orchid | Tin Brendel | Tin Brendel | Łódź Film School | Poland |
| Trains Passing By | Kugellager | Lena M. Riedler | Stella Artemisia Refle | University of Applied Sciences Salzburg | Austria |
| This Peculiar Day | Tento divný deň | Alex Miartuš | Emília Ondriašová | Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava | Slovakia |

### Film and Art School Etudes Panorama

| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | School | Production countrie(s) |
| A Bull Calls | Un toro llama | Luis Hartmann | Nelson Algomeda | Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin | Germany, Venezuela |
| Cargo | Ładunek | Vincent Prochoroff | Tymoteusz Kałużewski | Łódź Film School | Poland |
| Papillon | Papillon | Merlijn Willemsen | Helena Szoda-Woźniak, Merlijn Willemsen | Łódź Film School | Poland |
| Tiny Apocalypse | Maleńka apokalipsa | Daniel Tubylewicz | Izabela Zubrycka | Łódź Film School | Poland |
| Honey Bunny | Honey Bunny | Aleksandra Kamińska | Gracjana Piechula | Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School | Poland |
| Chiuita Piconera | Chiuita Piconera | Carlos Cuervo | Mey Montero | TAI School of Arts | Spain |
| Come Sit with Us | Ära ole uhke | Joosep Ivask | Elis Rumma | Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School of Tallinn University | Estonia |
| Heir of the Galaxy | Als er ein Star war | Ferdinand Koestler | Daniel Holzberg | Vienna Film Academy | Austria |
| Just a Touch of Sugar | Trocha cukru | Vojtěch Kapounek | Timon W. Duda | Tomas Bata University in Zlín | Czech Republic |
| The Lumber Room | The Lumber Room | Luis Mayr Nin | Alejandro Mathé | Internationale Filmschule Köln | Germany |
| The Stolen Ride | Ein Fahrrad für Alicia | Alex Jaffar | Masha Mollenhauer | Hamburg Media School | Germany |
| Splinter | Splinter | Lenn Lamster | Paul Scheufler | Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg | Germany |
| A New Garden | Die lauteste Zeit | Leon Hörtrich | Lea Marie Lembke | Film Academy Baden-Württemberg | Germany |
| Resonance | Resonance | Conrad Holzman | Asher Kaplan | Dodge College of Film and Media Arts | United States |
| Separation Season | Bie Li De Ji Jie | Tei Lee | I-Ju Lin | Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague | Czech Republic, Taiwan |

### Documentary Shorts Competition

| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| A Body Called Life | A Body Called Life | Fabian Kimoto | Spencer MacDonald | United States, Poland, Switzerland |
| Don Benjamín | Don Benjamín | Adro Molina | Iván Zahínos | Spain |
| Dust | Pył | Paweł Chorzępa | Paweł Chorzępa | Poland, Saudi Arabia |
| Eternal Father | Eternal Father | Roxana Reiss | Ömer Sami | Denmark |
| Ready to Die | Ready to Die | Christoph Bockisch | Basilio Maritano Sailer | Italy |
| Shotplayer | Shotplayer | J. Daniel Zúñiga | Sam Shainberg | United States |
| Tropa | Tropa | Pauwel Billiau | Niels Devlieghere | Belgium |
| We Beg to Differ | We Beg to Differ | Daniel Sedgwick | Ruairi Bradley | Ireland, United Kingdom |

### Documentary Special Screenings

| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Afterwar | Afterwar | Troels N'koya-Jensen, Marek Septimus Wieser | Birgitte Stærmose | Denmark, Kosovo, Sweden, Finland |
| Agent of Happiness | Agent of Happiness | Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó | Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó | Bhutan, Hungary |
| As the Tide Comes In | Før Stormen | Juan Palacios | Juan Palacios | Denmark |
| The Basement | The Basement | Andriy Noha, Mikhail Volkov | Roman Blazhan | France, Ukraine |
| Echo of You | Ekko af kærlighed | Jacob Sofussen | Zara Zerny | Denmark |
| Life and Deaths of Max Linder | Vie et morts de Max Linder | Joo Joostberens | Edward Porembny | Poland |
| Look into My Eyes | Look into My Eyes | Stephen Maing | Lana Wilson | United States |
| The Lost Legacy of Tony Gaudio | The Lost Legacy of Tony Gaudio | Gianluca Gattabria, Alessandro Nucci | Alessandro Nucci | Italy |
| New Kind of Wilderness | New Kind of Wilderness | Silje Evensmo Jacobsen, Karine Fosser, Espen Gjermundrød, Line K. Lyngstadaas, Natalja Safronova, Fred Arne Wergeland | Silje Evensmo Jacobsen | Norway |
| The New Man | Omi Nobu | Arilson Almeida | Carlos Yuri Ceuninck | Cape Verde, Belgium, Sudan, Germany |
| No Other Land | No Other Land | Rachel Szor | Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor | Palestine, Norway |
| Per Forever | Per Forever | Tomasz Gezela, Łukasz Śliwa | Tomasz Gezela | Poland, Sweden |
| Sugarcane | Sugarcane | Emily Kassie, Christopher LaMarca | Emily Kassie, Julian Brave NoiseCat | United States, Canada |
| Ula | Ula | Urszula Dudziak | Agnieszka Iwańska | Poland |
| The Wolves Always Come at Night | The Wolves Always Come at Night | Michael Latham | Gabrielle Brady | Australia, Mongolia, Germany |

### World Cinema

| English Title | Original Title | Cinematographer(s) | Director(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Anora | Anora | Drew Daniels | Sean Baker | United States |
| Being Maria | Maria | Sébastien Buchmann | Jessica Palud | France |
| From Hilde, with Love | In Liebe, Eure Hilde | Judith Kaufmann | Andreas Dresen | Germany |
| Führer and Seducer | Führer und Verführer | Klaus Fuxjäger | Joachim Lang | Germany |
| Meeting with Pol Pot | Rendez-vous avec Pol Pot | Aymerick Pilarski | Rithy Panh | Cambodia, France, Turkey, Taiwan, Qatar |
| Münter & Kandinsky | Münter & Kandinsky | Namche Okon | Marcus O. Rosenmüller | Germany |
| The Piano Lesson | The Piano Lesson | Mike Gioulakis | Malcolm Washington | United States |
| Sew Torn | Sew Torn | Sebastian Klinger | Freddy Macdonald | United States, Switzerland |
| Simona Kossak | Simona Kossak | Jakub Stolecki | Adrian Panek | Poland |
| The Summer Book | The Summer Book | Sturla Brandth Grøvlen | Charlie McDowell | United States, Finland |
| The Village Next to Paradise | The Village Next to Paradise | Mostafa El Kashef | Mo Harawe | France, Australia, Somalia |

## Awards
### Special awards

* Outstanding Director Award: Steve McQueen
* Special Award for Production Designer: Nathan Crowley
* Best TV Series Performance: Hiroyuki Sanada for Shōgun
* Outstanding Achievements in Documentary Filmmaking: Gianfranco Rosi
* Film Editor Award: William Goldenberg