New Horizons is a festival of cinema visionaries, adamant artists, brave enough to follow their own path against the trends and to talk about the most important matters, using their own, unique language.
285 films with a total running time of 25,600 minutes await viewers of the 24th edition of mBank New Horizons. Over 600 screenings will be held in the New Horizons Cinema, the Lower Silesian Film Center and at the Wroclaw Market Square. Plus exhibitions, VR Stage, concerts, meetings and other supporting events.
A selection of films from the program will also be available online – this year’s festival will again be held in a hybrid format (July 18-28 – on-site screenings, online screenings will extend until August 4). Wroclaw will welcome more than 500 guests and visitors from around the world.
New Horizons will open with the Cannes IFF revelation Kinds of Kindness by Yorgos Lanthimos (with an acting award for Jesse Plemons). The first day will also feature Love Lies Bleeding by Rose Glass and Armand by Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel, the Cannes Camera d’Or winner. A special opening day event will be the international premiere of Jan P. Matuszyński’s Minghun, with the film’s cast, including Marcin Dorociński, in attendance. The festival will close with The Girl with the Needle, the latest film by Magnus von Horn, another hit from this year’s Cannes.
For the first time, the New Horizons IFF was launched in 2001. It was an event aimed at presenting independent artistic cinema – at that time, represented in Poland rather poorly – which sought for new ways of expression and breaking the frontiers set by conventional filmmakers.
