Jim Sheridan’s films on tour through Poland
The touching In the Name of the Father or the Academy Award winner My Left Foot: every film enthusiast knows those films and their director – Jim Sheridan. Starting on 7thSeptember, there will be a retrospective of the films made by the Irish Master of Cinema, prepared by a team of the IFF Tofifest and the Irish Film Institute. The retrospective will travel around a number of Polish art houses.
It will be the first retrospective of this kind, showing the films of this Irish Master of Cinema in the most important cinemas in Poland. The tour will start at Centrum Cinema of the Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun. Then, the films will travel south to Krakow and Katowice, north – to Szczecin and Gdansk, and then go through central Poland – to Lodz and the country’s capital Warsaw. The programme of the retrospective will include the Jim Sheridan’s Academy Award winning debut My Left Foot, the epic The Field, the drama In the Name of the Father and the autobiographical In America. The retrospective will also include the two films inspired and produced by Jim Sheridan: Some Mother’s Son by Terry George and Bloody Sunday by Paul Greengrass.
Jim Sheridan is a key figure in the modern history of the Irish cinematography and one of the most prominent filmmakers in the world. His films have received the total of 16 nominations for Academy Awards, 6 of which have been given to the director himself. He has also been awarded the Independent Spirit Award, the Goya and Donatello Awards and the Golden Bear, at Berlinale. One can hazard a guess that his films have been far more effective in the attempts to describe the spirit of the Green Island and clarify the conflict that has tormented Northern Ireland, than all the efforts and actions of politicians, altogether. It was Sheridan, who discovered the phenomenal talent of Daniel Day-Lewis, who won the Oscar for his part inMy Left Foot. In 2011, Jim Sheridan arrived in Poland to open his very first film retrospective, which took place at the IFF Tofifest. The jury of the IFF Tofifest honoured the director with a Special Golden Angel Award for Artistic Courage and Insolence.
The decision to organise the first all-Poland retrospective of his films was made during the last year’s edition of the IFF Tofifest and Jim Sheridan gave his consent.
The thriller Dream House starring Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig is the latest film by Jim Sheridan. The director is currently working on three projects, simultaneously: the Irish Sheriff Street, the American Old Stoneface and the Chinese-American story Shanghai, I Love You, which is a story combined of a number of short films by the most prominent directors.
This year’s 10th Edition of the IFF Tofifest will take place in Torun, from 20th to 26th October.
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