This year almost 400 videos from around the world were submitted to the Music Videos Competition at Plus Camerimage Festival – the annual festival of cinematography, held in Bydgoszcz in Poland.

The selection committee and a group of nominators comprised have now selected 20 videos that will be presented within the competition. The jury will watch the videos at the festival, and will present Best Cinematography in a Music Video Award and Best Music Video Award.

The nominations are:

• Bob Dylan ‘Duquesne Whistle’ DoP: Morgan Susser, Director: Nash Edgerton

• City and Colour ‘Fragile Bird’ DoP: Adam Marsden, Director: Michael Maxxis

• Coldplay ‘Paradise’ DoP: Richard Stewart, Director: Shynola

• Czesław Śpiewa ‘Do Laury’ DoP: Mads Køngerskov, Director: Mads Nygaard Hemmingsen

• deadmau5 ‘Professional Griefers’ DoP: Daniel Pearl, Director: Paul Boyd, Jeff Ranasinghe

• Die Antwoord ‘I Fink U Freeky’ DoP: Melle Van Essen, Director: Ninja, Roger Ballen

• Feist ‘The Bad In Each Other’ DoP: Kasper Tuxen Andersen, Director: Martin De Thurah

• Flying Lotus ‘Until The Quiet Comes’ DoP: Matthew J. Lloyd, Director: Kahlil Joseph

• Keaton Henson ‘Small Hands’ DoP: Matthew Day, Director: Joseph Mann

• Jamal ‘Defto’ DoP: Kacper Fertacz, Director: Krzysztof Skonieczny

• Lana Del Ray ‘Blue Jeans’ DoP: Rodrigo Prieto, Director: Yoann Lemoine

• M.I.A. ‘Bad Girls’ DoP: André Chemetoff, Director: Romain Gavras

• Muse ‘Madness’ DoP: David Devlin, Director: Anthony Mandler

• Paul McCartney ‘My Valentine’ DoP: Wally Pfister, Director: Paul McCartney

• Sigur Rós ‘Fjögur Píanó’ DoP: Shawn Kim, Director: Alma Har’el

• Stromae ‘Peace Or Violence’ DoP: Rik Zang, Director: Joris Rabijns, Raf Reyntjens

• The Presets ‘Ghosts’ DoP: Isaac Bauman, Director: Abteen Bagheri

• The Shoes ‘Time To Dance’ DoP: Robbie Ryan, Director: Daniel Wolfe

• Tom Waits ‘Hell Broke Luce’ DoP: Matt Mahurin, Director: Matt Mahurin

• UNKLE ‘Another Night Out’ DoP: Steve Annis, Director: Toby Dye

The 20th Plus Camerimage film festival will be held from 24th November through 1st December in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The music videos will be presented on a big screen at a special screening for the Jury and the festival audience on Thursday 29th November in the Festival Center – Opera Nova. The announcement of the jury verdict will take place during the festival’s closing ceremony on Saturday 1st December.

Plus Camerimage Festival will also feature “Music Videos: The Master Class Series”, several presentations by acknowledged veteran music video filmmakers and talented representatives of the new generation who will personally present their chosen music videos and talk about how they were made. Speakers at the Master Class Series to be announced soon.