The 14th T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, the biggest film-related event in Poland, will take place in Wroclaw from July 24 through August 3, 2014. 365 films will be screened at the event, including 199 full-length features.
The opening films will be Damián Szifron's Argentinean satire Wild Tales, which took part in this year's main competition in Cannes, a Palme d'Or winner - Winter Sleep by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and acclaimed Clouds of Sils Maria, by one of the most fascinating contemporary directors Olivier Assayas, with Juliette Binoche and Kristen Stewart in the lead roles. During the awards gala the festival will show the Italian film The Wonders, by Alice Rohrwacher, which won the Grand Prix at this year's Festival in Cannes.
New Horizons International Competition, the most important part of the festival, consists of 13 uncompromising, innovative and original movies: Parasite by Anka and Wilhelm Sasnal, How to Disappear Completely by Przemyslaw Wojcieszek (world premiere), Calling by Marcin Dudziak (world premiere), White Shadow by Noaz Deshe, Canopy by Aaron Wilson, Cherry Pie by Lorenz Merz, The Distance by Sergio Caballero, History of Fear by Benjamín Naishtat, Butter on the Latch by Josephine Decker, My Blind Heart by Peter Brunner, The Sheep by Gilles Deroo&Marianne Pistone, Falling Star by Luis Miñarro, A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness by Ben Rivers, Ben Russell.
This year's program will include the latest of masters of international cinema films by Aleksey German (Hard to Be a God), Naomi Kawase (Still the Water), Bertrand Tavernier (The French Minister), Ki-duk Kim (Moebius), Claude Lanzmann (The Last of the Unjust), Tsai Ming-liang (Stray Dogs and Journey to the West), Jean Luc-Godard (Goodbye to Language 3D), Alejandro Jodorowsky (The Dance of Reality), Alexander Payne (Nebraska), Amos Gitai (Ana Arabia), Lukas Moodysson (We Are the Best!), Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan), György Pálfi (Free Fall), Kornel Mundruczó (White God), Bruno Dumont (L'il Quinquin), Lisandro Alonso (Jauja), Hayao Miyazaki (The Wind Rises), and Reha Erdem (Singing Women). The Festival's program includes 20 films from the official selections at this year's Festival in Cannes.
Legendary British filmmaker Ken Russell will be the subject of a retrospective that will feature rarely seen documentaries made for the BBC, cult musical films and some of the director's best-known works. One of the highlights of the festival will be an overview of one of the most interesting contemporary film movements, New Greek Cinema. The section Post New Wave: a tribute to "Cahiers du Cinéma" will screen works by some of the masters of French cinema of the 1970s and 1980s that have rarely been shown in Poland, including by Jean Eustache, Philippe Garrel, Jacques Doillon, and Maurice Pialat. The programme will also include an overview of Basque Documentaries.
More about the festival programme and screening schedule on www.nowehoryzonty.pl.
