"A BLUE ROOM" SELECTED TO SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE AT CANNES
The results of this year's section Semaine de la critique of the Cannes festival have been announced. In the programme, there is Polish-French animation "A Blue Room" by Tomasz Siwiński.
"Blue Room" is a story of a man who wakes up in a blue room. Critical condition evokes visions in which the patient's memories mingle with fear. Trapped in the blue room, he will have to face his past to feel free again. Artistic supervisor of the début film by Siwiński is Piotr Dumała, and the producers are the French animation studio Sacrebleu Productions and Se-ma-for from Lodz.Tomasz Siwiński was born in 1982 in Koszalin. He began his studies at the University of Arts in Poznań, and after a year, he moved to Fine Arts Academy in Kraków, where he received his diploma in Jerzy Kucia’s Animated Film Studio. In 2005 he was the scholarship holder of Maryland Institute College in Baltimore. Two years later, he received his master's degree in the studio of Professor Andrzej Bednarczyk. He made a couple of animated films, e.g. school, award-winning "TV-Set" and "Little Black Square." He is also a painter.
SEMAINE de la Critique – imerged in 1962 as the initiative of the French Film Critics Association, is the oldest non-competitive section of the festival in Cannes. Since the very beginning the selection features first and second film by directors from around the world. Every year, the selection of Semaine de la Critique consists of ten feature-length and ten short films. During Semaine de la Critique, the following artists made their début: Bernardo Bertolucci, Leos Carax, Wong Kar-wai and Gaspar Noé.
You can find more about "A Blue Room" here
The full list of films qualified to this year's Semaine de la Critique can be found here