“Chemo” Karlovy Vary Festival love story unveils trailer (video) July 1, 2015 - 15:24 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Variety has been given exclusive access to the trailer to “Chemo”, an unconventional love story. The film world premieres at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, which kicks off Friday, July 3. According to Variety, Bartek Prokopowicz’s debut feature as a director centers on 30-year-old Benek, who is suffering from an existential crisis that mostly manifests itself in suicidal thoughts. One day, he meets Lena — a beautiful and very talkative young woman. He is mesmerized from the start; his fascination grows further when he realizes that Lena not only accepts his suicidal thoughts, but appears to share them. They set off on a wild journey, during which Benek learns that Lena has stage three cancer, which she has no intention of treating. Benek’s admiration is mixed with fear; he promises to stay with Lena until the very end. The film, which screens in the East of the West competition section on July 4, is inspired by the true story of Magdalena Prokopowicz, founder of the Rak’n’roll Foundation (rak is “cancer” in Polish). Bartek Prokopowicz was her husband. He studied film photography at the Polish National Film School in Lodz, and has made more than a hundred TV programs, documentaries and feature films, working alongside Krzysztof Krauze, Filip Bajon and Andrzej Wajda. After his wife’s death he decided to direct his first film, “Chemo.” Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | Pasadena to host Armenian Genocide commemoration event The Pasadena Armenian Coalition will host its community-wide Armenian Genocide Commemorative Event. Armenia: Opposition activist transferred to Investigative Committee Activist Samvel Vardanyan has been accused of insulting the lawmaker Hakob Aslanyan from the ruling Civil Contract party. Russia confirms start of withdrawal of peacekeepers from Karabakh The Kremlin has confirmed reports about the start of the withdrawal of Russian peacekeeping forces in Karabakh. France recalls its ambassador to Azerbaijan France on April 16 said it had recalled for consultations the French ambassador to Azerbaijan. |