Jan Komasa
Jan KOMASA (1981) studied at the Lodz film school, attended a music course and plays professional piano. The short film Fajnie, ze jestes/Good You’re Here won the third prize of the Cinéfondation at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. In 2009 he made his first feature Suicide Room, which premiered at Berlin Film Festival. Corpus Christi, which premiered at Venice film festival, was selected as the Polish entry for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.
Filmography
(selection) Off, Lysy (short), Project rodzina (short), Fajnie, ze jestes/Good You’re Here (2003, short), Oda do radosci/Ode to Joy (2005), Splyw (2007, doc), Suicide Room (2011), Warsaw 44 (2014), Mary Komosa: Lost Me (2016, short), Corpus Christi (2019)
More info: Jan Komasa
Jan Komasa at IFFR
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Ode to Joy
During debut by three film students who provide with three different stories their vision of today’s Poland, focusing on the problem of the m
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Corpus Christi
A young man escaping from a youth detention centre pretends to be a priest in a village wracked by trauma. Oscar nomination.