Camérimage 2025

The 33rd Camerimage Festival is currently taking place in Toruń, Poland. Once again this year, the festival highlights very few women cinematographers. Here are the numbers for the 2025 edition:

Main Competition

14 films are in this competition, 3 are shot by women : 21%.

Documentary Feature Competition

6 films are in this competition, none are shot by a woman : 0%.

Polish Feature Film Competition

5 films are in this competition, only 1 is shot by a woman : 20%.

Director's Debuts Competition

10 films are in this competition, 3 are shot by women : 30%.

Cinematographer's Debuts Competition

7 films are in this competition, one of which is shot by two cinematographers (one man and one woman). Out of 8 cinematographers in total, 2 are women : 25%.

Overall, across all feature-film competitions, 42 films are selected, and 8 are shot by women, meaning that only 19% of feature films are filmed by a woman cinematographer for the 2025 edition of Camerimage.

Girl, de Qi Shu, photographié par Jing-Pin Yu