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Phenomena: The Antihero

We are accustomed to dividing film heroes into good and bad ones, but the reality is that international cinema abounds in characters, who are non-cliché, intriguing, and who we tend to like, even though their actions are not exactly rational and morally dubious.

Such characters are usually ambivalent and diverge from the acceptable ethical standards, they take us by surprise and remain unpredictable. We are mesmerised by such heroes, we love to watch them, we identify ourselves with them, and we always root for them. Contradicting the strict division into villains and superheroes that has cemented the film industry for many long years, we will use this festival to show those characters that we find fascinating, because they fall right in between: the antiheroes.

Each year, the festival presents unconventional film phenomena and creates a space of new quality bringing unknowns trends closer to you, or reviving unusual and unpopular topics. We shall discover the figure of an antihero during the 15th edition of the TOFIFEST International Film Festival, both as part of film screenings, meetings, and conversations that seem to never end. It is not easy to define this phenomenon in an unambiguous way, as it escapes simple definitions and evokes conflicting emotions. There are scientific papers written about it and debates conducted, simply because the figure of a film antihero still remains far from defined. Some see him/her as an everyman, others interpret them through the perspective of the dark romantic literary culture, while some others conclude that it is a figure suspended between good and evil, who is defined not by actions, but intentions.

And that last concept has been reflected quite intriguingly in international cinema that abounds in antiheroes, i.e. characters, who are bad but have good intentions, and who fail morally, but have different goals. We all love Don Vito Corleone from The Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola, Travis Bickle from Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese, Leon from Leon: The Professional by Luc Besson, or Adaś Miauczyński from the Polish films made by Marek Koterski. As far as characters from TV series go, we are all quite fond of Tony Soprano from The Sopranos, or the hoodlums portrayed in Peaky Blinders.

The journey we are about to take you on this year has no end, because we cannot fully define the phenomenon that is the main topic of this year's festival. But that will make the journey all the more unique, as it will simply be different and one of its kind, starting a broadly-defined discussion about antiheroes in film.

2017 Programme

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