Camerimage

The International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage (Polish: Międzynarodowy Festiwal Sztuki Autorów Zdjęć Filmowych Camerimage) is a festival that celebrates and awards cinematography and cinematographers. The festival is held in Toruń, Poland, at the end of November every year. It spans the course of one week, with multiple events at one time.^[1]

The International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage

Camerimage 2019, Jordanki Cultural Centre, Toruń
Location	Poland 1993–1999 Toruń 2000–2009 Łódź 2010–2018 Bydgoszcz 2019–present Toruń
Founded	1993
Most recent	32nd International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography Camerimage
Artistic director	Marek Żydowicz
Website	camerimage.pl/en/

The first seven events (1993–1999) were held in Toruń, and the next ten events (2000–2009) were held in Łódź. From 2010 until 2018, the festival took place in Bydgoszcz, before returning to Toruń in 2019, where it currently remains. In 2007, the name of the festival was changed from Camerimage to Plus Camerimage, but it was changed back in 2013 after the sponsorship deal with Plus ended.

The festival has hosted many prominent filmmakers including Darren Aronofsky, Jon M. Chu, Alfonso Cuarón, Peter Greenaway, Agnieszka Holland, James Ivory, Jim Jarmusch, Aki Kaurismäki, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Andrei Konchalovsky, Emir Kusturica, Ang Lee, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Paweł Pawlikowski, Roman Polański, Robert Richardson, Gus Van Sant, Ridley Scott, Volker Schlöndorff, Oliver Stone, István Szabó, Quentin Tarantino, Tom Tykwer, Denis Villeneuve, Andrzej Wajda, Peter Weir, and Wim Wenders.^[2][3][4][5]

Awards

27th Edition of Camerimage Festival, Toruń, 2019

• Main Competition^[6][7]
  • Golden Frog (Polish: Złota Żaba)
  • Silver Frog (Srebrna Żaba)
  • Bronze Frog (Brązowa Żaba)
• Student Études Competition (Konkurs etiud studenckich)
  • Golden Tadpole (Złota Kijanka)
  • Silver Tadpole (Srebrna Kijanka)
  • Bronze Tadpole (Brązowa Kijanka)
• Documentary Films Competition
  • Documentary Shorts Competition
  • Documentary Features Competition
• Feature Debuts Competition
  • Directors' Debuts Competition
  • Cinematographers' Debuts Competition
• Music Videos Competition
  • Best Music Video
  • Best Cinematography in Music Video
• 3D Films Competition^[8]
• Polish Films Competition
• Camerimage Lifetime Achievement Award
• Cinematographer - Director Duo Award
• Special Krzysztof Kieślowski Award for Director^[9]
• Production Designer Award^[10]

Main competition

Golden Frog winners

"†" indicates a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

Year	Film	Original title	Cinematographer(s)	Ref
1993	The Piano †		Stuart Dryburgh
1994	Woyzeck (shared)		Tibor Máthé
	Crows (shared)	Wrony	Arthur Reinhart
1995	The Seventh Room	A hetedik szoba	Piotr Sobociński
1996	Secrets & Lies		Dick Pope
1997	Character	Karakter	Rogier Stoffers
1998	Central Station	Central do Brasil	Walter Carvalho
1999	Elizabeth †		Remi Adefarasin
2000	Amores perros		Rodrigo Prieto
2001	The King is Dancing	Le Roi danse	Gérard Simon
2002	Edi (shared)		Krzysztof Ptak
	Road to Perdition (shared) †		Conrad Hall
2003	City of God †	Cidade de Deus	César Charlone
2004	Vera Drake		Dick Pope
2005	Fateless	Sorstalanság	Gyula Pados
2006	Pan's Labyrinth †	El laberinto del fauno	Guillermo Navarro
2007	The Diving Bell and the Butterfly †	Le scaphandre et le papillon	Janusz Kamiński
2008	Slumdog Millionaire †		Anthony Dod Mantle
2009	Lebanon	לבנון	Giora Bejach
2010	Venice	Wenecja	Arthur Reinhart
2011	In Darkness	W ciemności	Jolanta Dylewska
2012	War Witch	Rebelle	Nicolas Bolduc	[11]
2013	Ida †		Łukasz Żal Ryszard Lenczewski	[12]
2014	Leviathan	Левиафан	Mikhail Krichman	[13]
2015	Carol †		Edward Lachman	[14]
2016	Lion †		Greig Fraser	[15][16]
2017	On Body and Soul	Testről és lélekről	Máté Herbai	[17][18]
2018	The Fortress	Namhansanseong	Ji Yong Kim	[19]
2019	Joker †		Lawrence Sher	[20]
2020	Nomadland †		Joshua James Richards	[21]
2021	C'mon C'mon		Robbie Ryan	[22]
2022	Tár †		Florian Hoffmeister	[23]
2023	The New Boy		Warwick Thornton
2024	The Girl with the Needle		Michał Dymek	[24]

Additional festival events

• Camerimage Market
• Equipment showcases
• Various exhibitions and live music performances
• Student Panorama (screenings of student films which did not make it into the main competition)
• Camerimage Forum (a seminar devoted to authorship rights and working conditions of cinematographers)
• Special screenings and premieres, reviews, retrospectives, meetings, seminars, and workshops led by well known filmmakers

Academy Awards

Since 2013, short documentary films awarded the Golden Frog during Camerimage festival are granted consideration in the Documentary Short Subject category of the Academy Awards without having to meet the standard theatrical run requirement. To meet all requirements, the running time limit of selected short documentary was decreased from 60 to 40 minutes. This way requirements for short documentary films selected at both Camerimage festival and the Academy Awards are the same.^[25]

References

1. "About Us". Archived from the original on April 30, 2021. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
2. "Guests. Cameriamge". Archived from the original on May 3, 2021. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
3. "QUENTIN TARANTINO W TORUNIU. PLEJADA SŁAW NA ZAKOŃCZENIE CAMERIMAGE". Archived from the original on December 6, 2020. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
4. "Tarantino among winners at international film festival in Torun". Archived from the original on December 7, 2020. Retrieved November 17, 2019.
5. https://britishcinematographer.co.uk/wicked-to-close-energacamerimage-2024/
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9. Giardina, Carolyn (October 18, 2022). "Sam Mendes to Be Honored at 2022 Camerimage Festival". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on October 24, 2022. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
10. "Wicked to close EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2024". British Cinematographer. October 10, 2024. Retrieved February 8, 2025.
11. Harris, Brandon (December 3, 2012). "War Witch Wins Top Prize at 20th Plus Camerimage". Filmmaker Magazine. Archived from the original on March 11, 2016. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
12. Giardina, Carolyn (November 23, 2013). "Camerimage: 'Ida' Wins Top Cinematography Honor". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on November 10, 2020. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
13. Barraclough, Leo; Tizard, Will (November 22, 2014). "'Leviathan' Wins Top Prize at Camerimage, Film Festival for Cinematographers". Variety. Archived from the original on February 22, 2016. Retrieved February 28, 2016.
14. Giardina, Carolyn (November 21, 2015). "'Carol' Wins Golden Frog at Camerimage". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on April 17, 2021. Retrieved November 23, 2015.
15. "Camerimage 2016 Winners!". Camerimage – International Film Festival. November 19, 2016. Archived from the original on November 20, 2016. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
16. Tizard, Will (November 19, 2016). "'Lion' Cinematographer Greig Fraser Wins Camerimage's Golden Frog". Variety. Archived from the original on November 20, 2016. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
17. "Camerimage 2017 Winners!". Camerimage – International Film Festival. November 18, 2017. Archived from the original on December 26, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
18. Tizard, Will (November 18, 2017). "Hungary's 'On Body and Soul' Wins Top Award at Camerimage Film Festival". Variety. Archived from the original on November 19, 2017. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
19. "EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2018 WINNERS – Camerimage 2018". camerimage.pl. Archived from the original on November 17, 2018. Retrieved November 17, 2018.
20. "LAUREACI EnergaCAMERIMAGE 2019!". Archived from the original on May 11, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2019.
21. Giardina, Carolyn (November 21, 2020). "Camerimage: 'Nomadland' Wins Golden Frog". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on May 10, 2021. Retrieved June 11, 2021.
22. Tizard, Will (November 20, 2021). "'C'mon C'mon' Wins Top Prize for Cinematography at EnergaCamerimage Film Festival". Variety. Archived from the original on November 21, 2021. Retrieved November 20, 2021.
23. Giardina, Carolyn (November 19, 2022). "'Tár' Wins Golden Frog at EnergaCamerimage". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on November 19, 2022. Retrieved November 19, 2022.
24. Brzeski, Patrick (November 23, 2024). "Camerimage: Gripping Danish Drama 'The Girl With the Needle' Wins Golden Frog". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 23, 2024.
25. "Camerimage chosen as an Oscar qualifying festival". International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography. Archived from the original on November 23, 2015. Retrieved November 23, 2015.

Further reading

• Congratulations to Camerimage winners, Arri, 2010
• Plus Camerimage Gets Oscar Nod, Film New Europe, March 12, 2013
• For Cinematographers, All Roads Lead to Camerimage, Variety, November 6, 2015
• Camerimage: A Film Festival Where Cinematographers Are the Stars, The New York Times, November 20, 2015
• Where the Cinematographer is in First Position: The 2015 Camerimage Festival, Filmmaker Magazine, December 9, 2015
• CAMERIMAGE: A Unique Festival Honoring the Art and Craft of Cinematography, Cinephilia & Beyond, November 15, 2015
• Poland's Camerimage Film Festival to Partner with AFI, ASC for Winner Showcase in LA, Broadway World, September 20, 2013

External links

• Official website