“Toni & Friends”, by Ion Indolean, will have the world premiere in Warsaw

The event which reached its 36th edition takes place from October 9 to 18, 2020; it is the most important film festival in Poland and an A Category festival, according to the FIAPF classification. Toni & Friends explores the force ratios that appear while making a film and it follows the less seen, often tense parts that exist behind the creation process.

     The film begins with Rebeca (Ilinca Hărnuţ), Iulia (Cătălina Moga) and Florin (Emil Măndănac), three young filmmakers who are interested in telling Toni Oniga`s story.

But is Toni (Alexandru Ion) real or is he an urban legend? At the beginning we don`t know and they don`t know what to expect from Toni, this exponent of the category known as “the smart guys” who are quite many in the Romanian society and not only.

     The film is built as a story inside a story – the “fiction” part contains a “documentary” segment, which was shot by the actress Cătălina Moga, at her first experience with a camera.

     By choosing this aesthetic experiment approach, Toni and Friends opens a discussion about the boundaries that a professional is allowed - or not - to cross, about the deontology of the professions of the documentary filmmakers / journalists, about the possibilities and traps of the audio-visual environment. These questions follow the previous pursuits of the film director Ion Indolean, who in his feature debut – Discordia, awarded at TIFF and nominated at the GOPOs – brought to the table a study on the means of expression and the temporal limitations of the film environment.