BFM 41 official image celebrates the Polish actor and director Jerzy Stuhr, protagonist of the 2023 retrospective.
The image of the BFM 41 puts cinema back in the spotlight. Not just any movies, but a film about cinema and the meaning of 'filming everything that moves'. Amator, Krzysztof Kieślowski's masterpiece starring an unsurpassed Jerzy Stuhr, is the star of the 2023 retrospective. In the film, his character experiments with everything that cinema evokes: the gesture of imitating the shot by placing his fingers in front of his eyes as a frame; the attempt to capture and control an elusive and uncontrollable world around him; deciding what to show and what not to show, what can and cannot be said, to the point of putting himself in front of the camera to reveal himself. 

The image of BFM 41 is a tribute to the (un)saving, but perhaps somewhat comforting, role that cinema plays in everyone's life. Visually, the subtitles and credits (in the style of the film Amator) underline and revive this idea of cinema as a total experience.

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