Cinema pays homage to art at Era New Horizons
At the Era New Horizons Festival, which kicked off yesterday in Wroclaw, 14 films unreleased in Poland will vie for the Grand Prize (worth €20,000) in international competition (see news). The event also feature several other competitive sections.
For the first time at this ninth edition, the Grand Prize in the main New Horizons competition will be awarded by an international jury rather than by the audience (who will now vote solely for the Audience Award). Presided by Portuguese filmmaker João Botelho, this jury includes four other directors: Chile’s Sebastián Campos (who won a prize at Wroclaw in 2006 for The Sacred Family), the UK’s Peter Strickland (Katalin Varga [+see also:
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The festival’s second new addition is the Films About Art international competition with a line-up of 12 titles. These include a collage production on Hitchcock by Belgium’s Johan Grimonprez (Double Take); Agnès Varda’s The Beaches of Agnès [+see also:
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Also on the line-up is Rembrandt’s J’accuse [+see also:
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Other films vying for honours include Heinz Emigholz’s Sense of Architecture (minimalist recordings of visits to 40 contemporary Austrian buildings); and French director Olivier Assayas’ Eldorado: Création, which focuses on a visionary and brilliant pair: composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and choreographer Angelin Preljocaj.
The international jury of this competitive section (comprising Katarzyna Kozyra, Jay Weissberg, Marie Losier, Tibor Szemzö) will award a prize worth €10,000 to the Best Film.
Finally, the New Polish Film Competition, whose jury is presided by Martha Mészáros, will present 13 recent productions, including world premières of Bolesław Pawica and Jarosław’s Miracle Seller and Piotr Dumala’s Forest.
(Translated from French)
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