Fortel
The con is the weapon.
Rzeszów is a Polish city close to the Ukrainian border. Every weapon donated or sold to Ukraine passes through here. To intelligence services from a dozen countries, it's the new spy capital of the world.
CIA agent Adrian Vale arrives to see a cache of US weapons safely transported to Ukraine. He has a second mission that no one has authorised. His brother Sawer, an arms dealer, vanished during a weapons transfer in Kherson, just before the city fell to the Russians. Adrian doesn't know if his brother is a traitor, a hostage, or a corpse.
Adrian finds that Rzeszów is a city that runs on secrets. Everyone here is running a con. The question is who is caught.
Director's note
Fortel is about the history we’re living through right now, in real time, two hours from my home. Rzeszów is a city that woke up one morning to find itself at the centre of the war, with no instruction manual and no way out. I want to make a thriller that feels the way the war feels – chaotic, morally unresolved and shot through with unexpected moments of humanity, with a cast drawn from several of the countries involved. A Polish-based story that the whole world needs to see right now.
Biography
Dariusz Jabłoński - he gained international recognition with his debut documentary “Photographer”, which won awards at the world’s leading documentary film festivals. This moving work, based on unique color photographs from the Łódź ghetto, is still considered one of the most important Polish documentaries about the Holocaust. This film not only opened the door to an international career for him but also set the direction for his future work - a deeply humanistic cinema rooted in historical memory.
As a director and producer, he has made over 40 feature films, the same number of full-length documentaries, and numerous drama series, collaborating with most European countries, as well as the US and Canada. His productions have received over 400 awards at international and national film festivals.
Biography
Marc Grey - American screenwriter and director based in Tel Aviv since 2008.
He wrote episodes of the International Emmy Award-winning series TEHRAN for Apple TV+, and the 2019 EUROVISION SONG CONTEST TELEVISION SPECIAL, broadcast live to 180 million people and voted best Eurovision of the decade. He wrote and directed the critically acclaimed short form comedy series DRECKULA which premiered on KAN 11 (the Israel Public Broadcasting Corporation) and was nominated for an Israeli Television Academy Award.
Biography
Violetta Kamińska - producer and partner in Apple Film Production and Message Film - prominent and prolific Polish production companies, whose many films, documentaries and drama series have gained international recognition and success.
She is a Member of the Polish Film Academy, the European Film Academy and the European Producers Club, and is an EAVE PLUS and Trans Atlantic Partners alumnus.
Profile
Apple Film Production is one of the leading production companies in Poland and Central Europe. Since 1996, it has been producing feature films and TV series as international co-productions.