Only two films from CEE made it into the competitions: Floating Skyscrapers/Płynące wieżowce (Alter Ego Pictures) by Polish director Tomasz Wasilewski in the International Competition and Marionetista / Man who Made Angels Fly, dir. Wiktoria Szymanska.
The Palme d'Or winner La vie d'Adèle - Chapitre 1 & 2 (Blue is the Warmest Colour) by Abdellatif Kechiche will open the festival. The closing film will be the Polish premiere of Malgoska Szumowska's Berlinale competition film and Teddy Award winner In the Name of... (MD4).
Films awarded the Grand Prix, Audience Award and FIPRESCI Award in the International Competition and the winner of the Films in Art International Competition are guaranteed all-rights distribution by the New Horizons Association.
The festival will also host a Polish Shorts Competition and a European Shorts Competition.
The festival’s highlights include retrospectives of Walerian Borowczyk and Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, Cinema Du Look - French Neobaroque, Cyberpunk cinema, Swiss Musical Documentaries and Russia's Parallel Cinema, which will focus on the new Russian independent films.
The 352 films selected for the festival include 143 Polish premieres.
The International Competition films are:
Big Boy dir. Shireen Seno, Philipines 2012
Celestial Wives of Meadow Mari / Nebesnye Zheny Lugovih Mari, dir. Aleksey Fedorchenko, Russia 2012
Fat Shaker, dir. Mohammad Shirvani, Iran 2013
Floating Skyscrapers/Płynące wieżowce, dir. Tomasz Wasilewski, Poland 2013
Jungle Love, dir. Sherad Anthony Sanchez, Philipines 2012
Krivina, dir. Igor Dljaca, Bośnia and Hercegovina / Canada 2012
Leones dir. Jazmin Lopez, Argentina/France/ Netherlands
Leviathan dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor, UK/USA/France 2012
Lightning dir. Manuela Morgaine, France 2013
Mai morire dir. Enrique Rivero, Mexico 2012
Noche dir. Leonardo Brzezicki, Argentina 2013
Stranger by the Lake dir. Alain Guiraudie
The Films on Art International Competition includes:
Chimeras, dir. Mika Mattila, Finland 2013
Cutie and the Boxer, dir. Zachary Heinzerling, USA 2013
Elektro Moskva, dir. Elena Tikhonova, Dominik Spritzendorfer, Austria 2013
Emak Bakia baita / The Search for Emak Bakia, dir. Oskar Alegria, Spain 2012
Everybody Street, dir. Cheryl Dunn, USA 2013
Helio Oiticica, dir. Cesar Oiticica Filho, Brazil 2012
Herman's House, dir. Angad Bhalla, USA / Canada / UK 2012
I am Fiction, dir. Max Kestner, Denmark 2012
Marionetista / Man who Made Angels Fly, dir. Wiktoria Szymanska, Poland 2013
Peaches does Herself, dir. Peaches, Germany 2012
Sick Birds Die Easy, dir. Nik Fackler, USA 2013
What is this film called love?, dir. Mark Cousins, UK 2012
