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Walking over troubled water. Day 6 at Tofifest 2016

First, let me do the stocktaking. Erik Poppe put a spell on the audience in Torun. On Wednesday evening, the Norwegian film director had a meeting with the audience at Tofifest, and there was also a ceremony of awarding the Golden Angel of Tofifest for artistic insolence to him.

Following the screening of his “Troubled Water” (2008), he told the audience about events from the past that inspired him to make the film, why the actor in the leading role had been imprisoned, and why there had been plans to ban the film from cinema distribution.

The film discusses the most difficult moments in life, and it is about crossing the bridge to get to the other side, while walking over the title troubled water. The film is not about forgiveness, but about reconciling with the past, about a peculiar catharsis. “It is one of my most personal films I have ever made,” confessed Erik Poppe.

The festival audience also had an opportunity to meet with Paul Trynka, author of “Starman” – the only one authorised biography of David Bowie. It was a unique meeting, the first of this kind in Poland, same as the concert that closes the festival on Saturday – “Tribute to David Bowie” – and pays homage to that great musician. More than that, there was also a meeting with Bent Hamer, author of “Kitchen Stories” and “Factotum”.

And that is not all, as Tofifest has been visited by a number of film directors, whose films are featured in the On Air Competition, i.e. Katarina Zrinka Matijevic, a Croatian film director and author of “Trampoline” (POLISH PREMIERE), and Morgan Simon, a film-maker from France and author of “Taste of Ink” (POLISH PREMIERE). Following the screening of “Kamper”, there was a meeting with Lukasz Grzegorzek, and also with Malgorzata Foremniak, after the screening of “Sługi Boże”. And finally, our audience had a chance to talk to Jaakko Kaján and Jonne Lindholm, authors of “Occupy Jämsä” (POLISH PREMIERE).

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