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FESTIVALS Poland

Era New Horizons welcomes visionaries and defies trends

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Kicking off tomorrow in Wroclaw is the 9th Era New Horizons Film Festival (July 23-August 2) with a line-up of over 500 titles. This rich programme could enable the event to exceed last year’s 127,000 visitors.

The uniqueness of Era New Horizons and its official competition lies in its selection policy, which favours films that go beyond the "mainstream" borders, are predominantly experimental and interesting in form as well as content.

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Festival director Roman Gutek commented: "Era New Horizons is a meeting place for film visionaries and uncompromising artists, who go against trends, work in their own style and unique language, and are inimitable".

As every year, the festival will screen a significant number (150 at this edition) of titles unreleased in Poland. Opening with Michael Haneke’s Cannes Palme d’Or-winner The White Ribbon [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Michael Haneke
film profile
]
, the event will also show recent works by Pedro Almodóvar, Wim Wenders, Abbas Kiarostami and Peter Greenaway.

Although the festival focuses on innovative and internationally recognised titles, the line-up also includes "intimate" films (Alain Cavalier’s Irene [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
, Agnès Varda’s The Beaches of Agnès [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
). Moreover, there will be numerous retrospectives dedicated to directors from very different backgrounds (Tsai Ming-Liang, Jennifer Reeves, Jan Troell, Guy Maddin, Krzysztof Zanussi, Miklos Jancso).

Over 200 guests from the international film world will be in attendance in Wroclaw, including Agnès Varda, Wim Wenders and Peter Greenaway.

International Competition:
A Lake [+see also:
trailer
film profile
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- Philippe Grandrieux (France)
Burrowing [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
- Henrik Hellström (Sweden)
Dazzle - Cyrus Frisch (Netherlands)
Helen [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Joe Lawlor and Christine M…
film profile
]
- Christine Molloy & Joe Lawlor (UK/Ireland)
Hunger [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Laura Hastings-Smith Rob…
interview: Steve McQueen
film profile
]
- Steve McQueen (UK)
Irene - Alain Cavalier (France)
Ne Change Rien [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile
]
- Pedro Costa (Portugal)
Face [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
- Tsai Ming-Liang (France)
Sell Out! - Yeo Joon Han (Malaysia)
Exhausted - Kim Gok (South Korea)
Mock up on Mu - Craig Baldwin (USA)
Oxygen - Iwan Wyrypajew (Russia)
Spyder - Ishibashi Kiyomi (Japan)
Twilight Dancing - Tian Gao & Joshua Tong (China)

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(Translated from French)

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