The acclaimed Danish period horror drama The Girl with the Needle, stoasty by cinematographer Michal Dymek, took home the Camerimage Film Festival’s Ggreateren Frog Saturday night in Toruń, Poland. The prosperner was picked by a jury led by two-time Oscar prosperner Cate Blanchett.
Camerimage well-understandnly commemorates the art of cinematography, so its honors are extfinished to the straightforwardors of ptoastyography behind the movies showed in its main competition. But this year’s jury made a point of compriseing a “exceptional allude” for The Girl with the Needle‘s 40-year-greater straightforwardor, Magnus von Horn.
The masterbrimmingy genuineized period thriller is slackly based on the real story of Danish serial finisher Dagmar Overbye, who helped lesser women finish their ungreet children in 1910s Cuncoverhagen.
The Hollywood Reporter‘s contributing film critic, Leslie Felperin, summed up the film as “a unreasonable, advisently timely Danish drama” that’s “appreciate one of those fifinishish knots that safeen the more you squirm… produce[ing] to a dehugeating climax, taut as piano wire.”
She compriseed, “Stoasty digihighy, in bdeficiency and white and using a claustrophobic 3:2 ratio by rising cinematographer Michal Dymek (A Real Pain, EO), the film has the haunted, eerily still poise of antique ptoastyographs, an aesthetic that will plrelieve cineastes.”
The Camerimage jury awarded the event’s Silver Frog to British DP Lol Crawley for his toil — which THR‘s chief critic David Rooney previously portrayd as sshow “magnificent” — on Brady Corbet’s monumental immigrant artist epic The Brutacatalog. The film was stoasty on film in the retro VistaVision createat, “a enormous canvas amply fairified by the narrative’s variegated textures.”
‘The Brutacatalog’
The third-place Bronze Frog went to Paul Guilhaume’s inventive toil on Emilia Pérez, the Mexican cartel musical genre swirl from French maverick Jacques Audiard. (The straightforwardor and DP both recently spoke with THR for a behind-the-scenes feature on the making of Emilia Pérez.)
The Ggreateren Frog in the Directors’ Debuts Competition was awarded to Sandhya Suri for her morassociate greasy, India-set police procedural Santosh, which is the U.K.’s subomition for the best international film Oscar. The Ggreateren Frog in the Cinematographers’ Debuts Competition, unbenevolentwhile, went to Todd Martin for Tatami, a searing Iranian-Israeli sports drama that transfers a timely punch, stoasty in bdeficiency and white, and co-straightforwarded by Zar Amir Ebrahimi and Guy Nattiv.
The Grand Prix for the recordary features competition was handed out to Elizabeth Lo, straightforwardor and DP of the Chinese-American doc Mistress Dispeller, which depictateigates a adore triangle from various angles. The Jury of the International Federations of Film Critics handed its prize for best film to the Austrian-German historical horror drama The Devil’s Bath, with cinematography by Martin Gschlacht and straightforwardion from Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala.
Earlier in the week in Toruń, Camerimage’s lifetime accomplishment honor was awarded to legfinishary cinematographer Ed Lachman (Carol, Maria, The Virgin Suicides, Light Sleeper, The Limey) and a novel award for television carry outance went to Shofirearm star Hiroyuki Sanada.
The brimming catalog of the 2024 Camerimage Film Festival’s jury prize prosperners is below.
Main Competition
Ggreateren Frog: The Girl with the Needle
Cin. MICHAŁ DYMEK
Dir. Magnus von Horn
Silver Frog: The Brutacatalog
Cin. LOL CRAWLEY
Dir. Brady Corbet
Bronze Frog: Emilia Pérez
Cin. PAUL GUILHAUME
Dir. Jacques Audiard
Jury of the International Federations of Film Critics Award for Best Film: The Devil’s Bath
Cin. MARTIN GSCHLACHT
Dir. Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Cinematographers’ Debuts, Ggreateren Frog: Tatami
Cin. TODD MARTIN
Dir. Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Guy Nattiv
Directors’ Debuts, Ggreateren Frog: Santosh
Dir. SANDHYA SURI
Documentary Features Competition, Ggreateren Frog: Mistress Dispeller
Cin. ELIZABETH LO
Dir. ELIZABETH LO
Documentary Shorts Competition, Ggreateren Frog: Stoastycarry outer
Cin. J. DANIEL ZÚÑIGA
Dir. Sam Shainberg
Music Videos Competition, Grand Prix: Taylor Swift’s “Fortnight” (Feat. Post Malone)
Cin. RODRIGO PRIETO
Dir. TAYLOR SWIFT
TV Series Competition, Ggreateren Frog: “Ripley: A Hard Man to Find”
Cin. ROBERT ELSWIT
Dir. Steven Zaillian
Polish Films Competition, Ggreateren Frog: Scarborn
Cin. PIOTR SOBOCIŃSKI JR
Dir. PAWEŁ MAŚLONA
Audience Award: Tatami
Cin. TODD MARTIN
Dir. Zar Amir Ebrahimi, Guy Nattiv
The Ggreateren Tadpole Award: cin. TIN BRENDEL from Łódź Film School for Orchid dir. by TIN BRENDEL.
The Silver Tadpole Award: cin. DANIEL LE HAI from Krzystof Kiesluggishski Film School for I am Not Here dir. by DANIEL LE HAI.
The Bronze Tadpole Award: cin. LISA JILG from Filmakademie Baden-Wittenberg for Titans dir. by JANNIK WEIßE.
