T-Mobile New Horizons Film Festival opens

Boy Meets Girl. French Neo-Baroque Section. Photo: New Horizons

The festival, which promotes “uncompromising, innovative and original cinema,” will be screening some 352 films this year, and 143 of them will have their Polish premiere at the event.

In the main contest, the New Horizons International Competition, 14 films go head to head for the grand prix of 20,000 euro.

Among the films in the main competition this year – all of which are being screened in Poland for the first time – are Big Boy, from Filipino director Shireen Seno, Fat Shaker from Iranian Mohammad Shirvani and Floating Skyscrapers from Polish film-maker Tomasz Wasilewski.

A Story of Sin/Borowczyk. Photo: New Horizons

Film buffs can also savour a retrospective of maverick Polish director, Walerian Borowczyk (1923-2006), whose later works in Paris took a pornographic turn.

There will also be a review of new Russian cinema, French Neo-Baroque cinema (taking in Jean Jacques Beneix, Leos Carax and Luc Besson), as well as the Cyperpunk section, which presents postmodern science fiction cinema.

The 13th T-Mobile New Horizons Festival runs until 28 July, and the full programme can be explored on the event's official web site. (nh)

Source: IAR/ T-Mobile New Horizons