24-11-2014

New Horizons Cinema Hits 1 Million Mark

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    WARSAW: The biggest art-house in Europe celebrated its 1 million viewer this week.

    The New Horizons Cinema, which celebrated its second anniversary this August, after launching in 2012, reached the 1 million admission mark on 18 November 2014.

    The cinema, said to be the largest art-house cinema in Europe, is owned by the Helios chain has hosted the T-Mobile New Horizons IFF ever since it was moved to Wrocław in 2006. Helios leased the building to New Horizons Association which took full control of its look and programme offer.

    The cinema has nine screening rooms and 2,329 seats. Over 1,800 films have been screened at the multiplex. Apart from the T-Mobile New Horizons IFF the cinema has hosted over 80 film festivals and reviews including the American Film Festival, Avant Art Film, Australia Days, German Film Week, Kuchnia+ Food Film Festival as well as retrospectives of cinema masters such as Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Mike Leigh and Walerian Borowczyk. The cinema regularly organizes retrospectives of movies from different countries and in the last two years it hosted prominent filmmakers such as Abdellatif Kechiche, Jerry Schatzberg, Jerzy Stuhr, Agnieszka Holland, Krzysztof Zanussi and Gustav Deutsch.

    The New Horizons Cinema is supported by the City of Wrocław as part of the European Capital of Culture 2016 Program.