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Below the Line Filmmaker Screening Series

See a film ... then see it inside out.

In an energized atmosphere, Below the Line gathers key department heads from the crew responsible for the film. After viewing the finished movie, imagine a roundtable where you have a seat. Filmmakers interact with each other and with you, their peers.

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Reverse Thursday, January 14th, 2010 @ 7:30 PM
Q & A to Follow with Director Borys Lankosz. Moderated by Bruce Carse.
REVERSE is Poland's Oscar Entry for a Foreign Language Film. Directed by Borys Lankosz  the film is set in the 1950s, during the peak of Stalinist terror in communist Poland. REVERSE is about three generations of women living together in a claustrophobic apartment in Warsaw.  30 year-old Sabina is presented with a string of unsuitable candidates to marry by her determined mother and savvy but ailing grandmother.  No suitor peaks Sabina's interest until one night a mysterious handsome stranger rescues her from a mugging and sweeps her off her feet.  Their romance takes a dark turn when he asks her to spy on her boss, unleashing sinister events.

BORYS LANKOSZ – BIOGRAPHY

The debut full length feature film from director, Borys Lankosz, an award-winning filmmaker who graduated from The Łódź Film School.

REVERSE'S AWARDS

11 awards at the 2009 Gdynia Polish Film Festival, including Best Film (Golden Lions for the film and producer).
FIPRESCI Award (Best First Film from Eastern Europe) at the Warsaw Film Festival.

WHAT THE CRITICS SAID

“Rich with references to Polish culture and cinema history, the genre-juggling feature debut of prize-winning documaker Borys Lankosz is clever, complex and spiked with a special kind of black humor…. pic boasts pitch-perfect performances from a stellar cast.  Told from a female perspective, the elegant screenplay by literary talent Andrzej Bart revels in allusions, jokes and paradoxes, taking clichés about life in the Stalinist era and turning them inside out.”
- Alissa Simon, Variety


BORYS LANKOSZ ON DIRECTING

I like to think that the film is the story of spiritual victory.  It’s a sort of study of ordinary people in an extraordinary situation. I like films about women and I think there are too few of them. It is difficult to classify Reverse in a particular genre. This is a conscious choice and the movie delivers the patchwork nature of the script. This diversity is the project’s strength.







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