The Energy of Film Music concert will close this year's edition of the Tofifest International Film Festival. Gaba Kulka, Ten Typ Mes, Justyna Swies, and Buslav will perform on stage, presenting re-interpretations of the evergreens which Polish filmmakers have always been so fond of, under the creative direction of Bartek Staszkiewicz, who has rearranged the songs for this particular occasion.
Authors of soundtracks have frequently used music hits to fit them in film contexts. During the concert, you will listen to the song “Kocham Wolność” (I Love Freedom) by Chłopcy z Placu Broni written in 1990, which was back then a great protest song of the Polish people, and later found its rightful place in “Walesa. Man of Hope” by Andrzej Wajda, “Chłopcy” (Boys) by Myslovitz, which resounded in “It's Us” by Waldemar Szarek, or “Odchodząc” (Leaving) by Republika featured in “My Angelica” by Stanislaw Kuznik – it was one of the songs recorded for the last record released by the band, before the untimely death of its leader, Grzegorz Ciechowski, who was also the author of the excellent soundtrack to “The Witcher” by Marek Brodzki.
The concert is also intended to be a sentimental journey in time. Some of the songs which we first heard on the silver screen or on TV are now considered to be timeless music hits – what other name can we give to “Już nie zapomnisz mnie” (You won’t forget me) from the film “Forgotten Melody”, “Motylem jestem” (I am a butterfly) from the cult TV series “Czterdziestolatek” (A Forty-Year-Old), or the soundtrack to “Akademia Pana Kleksa” (Mister Blot's Academy) by Krzysztof Gradowski? During the closing ceremony of the Tofifest International Film Festival, we will surely rediscover this amazingly diverse music from Polish films, watching performances of the unique artists invited to participate in the project.
The Energy of Film Music concert will take place on Saturday, 27th October 2018, at 7.00 p.m., at the Cultural and Congress Centre Jordanki. Tickets are available on tofifest.pl.