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New Horizons Film Festival (previously: Era New Horizons;
pl: Nowe Horyzonty) is an international
film festival
A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region. Increasingly, film festivals show some films outdoors. Films may be of recent date and, depending upon ...
held annually in July in
Wrocław
Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...
, Poland. It has been organised since 2001. It is one of the biggest and most popular film festivals in Poland. Since 2008 it is accredited by
FIAPF
The FIAPF (Fédération Internationale des Associations de Producteurs de Films; en, International Federation of Film Producers Associations), created in 1933, is an organization composed with 36 member associations from 30 of the leading audio ...
with an "
avant-garde
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" specialised competitive
status
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.
The event is organized by the
Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty (New Horizons Association). The moving spirit and the director of the festival is
Roman Gutek.
T-Mobile
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mobile phone network operator was a nominal sponsor of the event until 2017.
Festival presents mainly
arthouse cinema. The most important from the several competitions held at the festival (including new Polish films, films-on-art and short films contests) is the "New horizons international competition". It aims to present bold, unconventional and uncompromising films that are searching for the new forms of expression – "the new horizons of cinema". Prizes in the competition are: the Grand Prix, special mentions, and Audience Award. Since 2010 also a
FIPRESCI Award
The International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI, short for Fédération Internationale de la PRESse CInématographique) is an association of national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world fo ...
is awarded.
Another important sections of the event are: retrospectives of the greatest film authors,
experimental film
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makers and
national cinema
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s, panorama of the most important
auteur films of the season, "Midnight madness", and thematic sections.
Festival history
After the first edition, organized in
Sanok
Sanok (in full the Royal Free City of Sanok — pl, Królewskie Wolne Miasto Sanok, rue, Санок, ''Sanok'', ua, Cянік, ''Sianik'', la, Sanocum, yi, סאניק, ''Sonik'') is a town in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship of south-eastern ...
, the Festival was moved to
Cieszyn
Cieszyn ( , ; cs, Těšín ; german: Teschen; la, Tessin; szl, Ćeszyn) is a border town in southern Poland on the east bank of the Olza River, and the administrative seat of Cieszyn County, Silesian Voivodeship. The town has 33,500 inhabitant ...
, where it was held four times between 2002 and 2005. From 2006 the event takes place in
Wrocław
Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...
. Since then it has apparently spread and now it is frequented by number of
cinephiles and hosts many important guests every year, including
Theo Angelopoulos
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,
Šarūnas Bartas
Šarūnas Bartas (born 16 August 1964) is a Lithuanian film director. One of the most prominent Lithuanian film directors internationally from the late 20th century. His 2015 film ''Peace to Us in Our Dreams'' was screened in the Directors' Fortn ...
,
Leos Carax
Alex Christophe Dupont (born 22 November 1960), best known as Leos Carax (), is a French film director, critic and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was ''Boy Meets Girl (1984 f ...
,
Nick Cave
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,
Dardenne brothers
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The Dardennes ...
,
Lav Diaz
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,
Bruno Dumont,
Asghar Farhadi
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Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance Gilliam (; born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, comedian, animator, actor and former member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.
Gilliam has directed 13 feature films, including ''Time Bandits'' (1981), ''B ...
,
Amos Gitai
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Gitai's work was presented in several major retrospectives in Pompidou Center in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and ...
,
Peter Greenaway
Peter Greenaway, (born 5 April 1942) is a Welsh film director, screenwriter and artist. His films are noted for the distinct influence of Renaissance and Baroque painting, and Flemish painting in particular. Common traits in his films are the ...
,
Hal Hartley
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,
Agnieszka Holland
Agnieszka Holland (born 28 November 1948) is a Poles, Polish film and television director and screenwriter, best known for her political contributions to Polish cinema. She began her career as assistant to directors Krzysztof Zanussi and Andrzej ...
,
Naomi Kawase
is a Japanese film director. She was also known as , with her former husband's surname. Many of her works have been documentaries, including ''Embracing'', about her search for the father who abandoned her as a child, and ''Katatsumori'', about ...
,
Abdellatif Kechiche
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,
Kim Ki-duk
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,
Andrey Konchalovskiy
Andrei Sergeyevich Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky (russian: link=no, Андрей Сергеевич Михалков-Кончаловский; born 20 August 1937) is a Russian filmmaker. He has worked in Soviet cinema, Soviet, Cinema of the United S ...
,
Sebastián Lelio
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,
Lou Ye
Lou Ye (), born 1965, is a Chinese screenwriter- director who is commonly grouped with the " Sixth Generation" directors of Chinese cinema.
Films
Born in Shanghai, Lou was educated at the Beijing Film Academy. In 1993, he made his first film ''W ...
,
Dušan Makavejev
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,
Tsai Ming-liang
Tsai Ming-liang (; born 27 October 1957) is a Malaysian-Taiwanese filmmaker. Tsai has written and directed 11 feature films, many short films, and television films. He is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese ...
,
Nanni Moretti
Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti (; born 19 August 1953) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.
His films have won accolades including a Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for ''The Son's Room'', a Silver Bear at the ...
,
Cristian Mungiu
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,
Gaspar Noé
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In the early 1990s, Noé along with his wife Lucile Hadžihalilović were ...
,
Ulrike Ottinger
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Early life
From 1959 she was a visiting student at the Academy of Arts in Munich and worked as a painter. Her mother, Maria Weinberg, was a journalist and her father, Ul ...
,
Carlos Saura
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,
Béla Tarr
Béla Tarr (born 21 July 1955) is a Hungarian filmmaker. Debuting with the film '' Family Nest'' (1977), Tarr began his directorial career with a brief period of what he refers to as "social cinema", aimed at telling everyday stories about ordi ...
,
Peter Tscherkassky,
Agnès Varda
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,
Andrzej Wajda
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,
Vincent Ward, and
Andrzej Żuławski
Andrzej Żuławski (; 22 November 1940 – 17 February 2016) was a Polish film director and writer. Żuławski often went against mainstream commercialism in his films, and enjoyed success mostly with European art-house audiences.
In the late 1 ...
.
In 2016, when
Wrocław
Wrocław (; german: Breslau, or . ; Silesian German: ''Brassel'') is a city in southwestern Poland and the largest city in the historical region of Silesia. It lies on the banks of the River Oder in the Silesian Lowlands of Central Europe, rou ...
was holding the title of
European Capital of Culture, festival included events related to this occasion (i.e. a special section called Masters of European Cinema).
New horizons international competition winners
Grand Prix
At the beginning the festival's Grand Prix was an
audience award An audience award is typically an award at a film festival (or some other type of cultural festival or similar competition) which is selected by the audience attending the festival, rather than by the festival jury or a group of critics.
Example ...
, but since 2009 it is given by the International Jury. The first main prize selected that way was awarded to
Steve McQueen
Terrence Stephen McQueen (March 24, 1930November 7, 1980) was an American actor. His antihero persona, emphasized during the height of the counterculture of the 1960s, made him a top box-office draw for his films of the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1 ...
's ''
Hunger
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''.
Audience award
Since the main prize became jury-selected in 2009, the Audience Award became a separate recognition, the second in importance. Three films managed to win both Grand Prix and Audience award: ''
White Shadow'' in 2014, ''
Bait'' in 2019 and ''
The Metamorphosis of Birds'' in 2020.
Festival programme 2009
* Opening gala – Michael Haneke's ''
The White Ribbon
''The White Ribbon'' (german: Das weiße Band) is a 2009 German-language drama film, written and directed by Michael Haneke. Released in black-and-white, the film offers a dark depiction of society and family in a northern German village just be ...
''
* Closing – Martin Provost's ''
Séraphine''
* New horizons international competition
* Films on art international competition
* New Polish films competition
* Polish short films competition
* European short films competition
* Panorama
* Special screenings
* Documentaries / Essays
* Third eye
* Midnight madness:
ozploitation
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* Cinema of Canada
* Cinema of Sweden
* Golden era of Hungarian cinema
* Retrospective:
Tsai Ming-liang
Tsai Ming-liang (; born 27 October 1957) is a Malaysian-Taiwanese filmmaker. Tsai has written and directed 11 feature films, many short films, and television films. He is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese ...
* Retrospective:
Jennifer Reeves
Jennifer Todd Reeves (born 1971) is a New York–based independent filmmaker. She has also taught as a part time professor of film at Bard College, The Cooper Union, Millennium Film Workshop and the School of Visual Arts.
Background
Reeves's ...
* Retrospective:
Krzysztof Zanussi
Krzysztof Pius Zanussi (born 17 June 1939) is a Polish film and theatre director, producer and screenwriter. He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop. He is ...
* Retrospective:
Piotr Dumała
Piotr Dumała (born 9 July 1956 in Warsaw) is a Polish film director and animator.
He is noted for his animation technique. While training to be a sculptor, he discovered that scratching images into painted plaster could be a beautiful way to cr ...
* 60 years of
WFDiF
* From Polański to...
* New horizons of film language: editing
* Season 2008/2009
* Films for children
* Silent films with live music
* Screenings at the market square
* Concerts
* Exhibitions
Festival programme 2010
* Opening gala – Xavier Beauvois' ''
Of Gods and Men''
* Closing – Francis Ford Coppola's ''
Tetro
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''
* New horizons international competition
* Films on art international competition
* New Polish films competition
* Polish short films competition
* European short debuts competition
* Panorama
* Special screenings
* Documentaries / Essays
* Third eye
* Midnight madness:
Philippe Mora
Philippe Mora (born 1949) is a French Australian film director.
Early life and career
Philippe Mora was born in Paris, France in 1949, and grew up at the centre of the Australian arts scene of the 1950s and began making films with an 8mm camera ...
;
samurai cinema
, also commonly spelled "''chambara''", meaning "sword fighting" films,Hill (2002). denotes the Japanese film genre called samurai cinema in English and is roughly equivalent to Western and swashbuckler films. ''Chanbara'' is a sub-category of '' ...
* Cinema of Turkey
* Retrospective:
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard ( , ; ; 3 December 193013 September 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter, and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the French New Wave film movement of the 1960s, alongside such filmmakers as Fran ...
* Retrospective:
Brothers Quay
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* Retrospective:
Klaus Maria Brandauer
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Brandauer is known internationally for his roles in ''The Russia House'' (1990), ''Mephisto'' ...
* Retrospective:
Laura Mulvey
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* Retrospective:
Wojciech Jerzy Has
Wojciech Jerzy Has (1 April 1925, Kraków – 3 October 2000, Łódź) was a Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer.
Early life and studies
Wojciech Jerzy Has was born in Kraków. Has himself was agnostic. However, his family ...
* Retrospective:
Daniel Szczechura
* New horizons of film language
* Season 2009/2010
* Screenings at the market square
* Concerts
* Exhibitions
Festival programme 2011
* Opening gala – Asghar Farhadi's ''
A Separation
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''
* Closing – Pedro Almodóvar's ''
The Skin I Live In
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''
* New horizons international competition
* Films on art international competition
* New Polish films competition
* Polish short films competition
* European short debuts competition
* Panorama
* Documentaries / Essays
* Third eye
* Special screenings
* 'Round midnight
* Behind the pink curtain
*
Red westerns
* Norway expanded
* New horizons of film language: production design
* Hommage:
Anja Breien
* Retrospective:
Bruno Dumont
* Retrospective:
Werner Nekes
* Retrospective:
Jack Smith
* Retrospective:
Terry Gilliam
Terrence Vance Gilliam (; born 22 November 1940) is an American-born British filmmaker, comedian, animator, actor and former member of the Monty Python comedy troupe.
Gilliam has directed 13 feature films, including ''Time Bandits'' (1981), ''B ...
* Retrospective:
Andrzej Munk
* Retrospective:
Mariusz Wilczyński
* Season 2010/2011
* Films for children
* Screenings at the market square
* Concerts
* Discussion panels, workshops
* Exhibitions
Festival programme 2012
* Opening gala – Michael Haneke's ''
Amour''
* Closing – Walter Salles' ''
On the Road
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''
* New horizons international competition
* Films on art international competition
* Polish short films competition
* European short films competition
* Panorama
* Special screenings
*
Gdynia in Wrocław
* Documentaries / Essays
* Third eye: The Happy End. Images for the end of the world
* Midnight madness: From stage to screen
*
Mockumentaries
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These productions are often used to analyze or ...
* New horizons of film language: sound
* The Karol Irzykowski Film Studio
* Films for children
*
The Cinema of Mexico
* Retrospective:
Carlos Reygadas
* Retrospective:
Ulrich Seidl
Ulrich Maria Seidl (born 24 November 1952 in Vienna) is an Austrian film director, writer and producer. Among other awards, his film ''Dog Days'' won the Grand Jury Prize at Venice in 2001.
His 2012 film '' Paradise: Love'' competed for the Palme ...
* Retrospective:
Dušan Makavejev
Dušan Makavejev ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Макавејев, ; 13 October 1932 – 25 January 2019) was a Serbian film director and screenwriter, famous for his groundbreaking films of Yugoslav cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s—many of wh ...
* Retrospective:
Peter Tscherkassky and
Eve Heller
* Retrospective:
Witold Giersz
* Season 2011/2012
* Screenings at the market square
* Concerts
* Discussion panels, workshops
* Exhibitions
See also
*
List of film festivals
This is a list of existing major film festivals, sorted by continent.
The world's oldest film festival is the Mostra internazionale d'arte cinematografica (''Venice Film Festival''), while the most prestigious film festivals in the world, known ...
*
American Film Festival
American Film Festival is a film festival held annually in October in Wrocław, Poland. The first festival was held from 20 to 24 October 2010. The festival is organized by Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty and co-funded by the Wroclaw Municipality a ...
(other film festival held in Wrocław organized by Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty)
References
External links
New Horizons Film Festival Official website(en)
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Culture in Wrocław
Film festivals in Poland
Tourist attractions in Wrocław
Film festivals established in 2001
Summer events in Poland