The European premiere of Andrzej Jakimowski's new film Imagine will open the 28th Warsaw International Film Festival on October 12.
The world premiere of the film is scheduled for September 10 during the Toronto International Film Festival, which opens today and is the biggest and most important film festival in North America. The film will have its Asian premiere in October in Busan.
Imagine stars Alexandra Maria Lara (Naked by Doris Dörrie, Downfall by Oliver Hirschbiegel, Control by Anton Corbijn) and Edward Hogg (White Lightnin’ by Dominic Murphy, WIFF 2009).
The film is a co-production between Poland, France, Portugal and UK, and was produced by: Zjednoczenie Artystów i Rzemieślników, Film and Music Entertainment, KMBO, Can do Films, Filmes do Tejo, Wytwórnia Filmów Dokumentalnych i Fabularnych, and Canal + Cyfrowy. The film is co-financed by the Polish Film Institute. The Polish distributor of the film is Kino Świat and the world sales agent - Beta Cinema.
"Ian is not an ordinary teacher. He teaches blind people how to perceive space: literally. One of his unique techniques is echolocation. I wrote Imagine after several months' research into spatial orientation techniques used by blind people. I find some of their methods poetic and absolutely cinematic at the same time," says the director Andrzej Jakimowski.
The full program of this year's festival will be announced on September 26 during the official press conference.
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