11-07-2018

FESTIVALS: New Horizons IFF Announces International Competition

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    WROCLAW: Twelve titles will screen in the International Competition of the 2018 New Horizons International Film Festival, taking place in Wrocław from 26 July to 5 August 2018.

    A total of 225 long films will be screened during the 11 days of the festival. "Cinema goes OUT" is this year's festival slogan.

    Nadine Labaki’s Capharnaum will be the opening film, while Happy As Lazzaro by Alice Rohrwacher will close the festival. The programme also includes retrospectives of João César Monteiro, Pedro Costa and Nicolas Roeg, and it will celebrate 100 years since the birth of Ingmar Bergman.

    LINEUP:

    An Elephant Sitting Still (China)
    Directed by Hu Bo

    Cocote (Dominican Republic, Argentina, Germany)
    Directed by Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias

    Fugue (Poland, Czech Republic, Sweden)
    Directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska
    Produced by MD4, Axman Production, Common Ground Pictures
    Coproduced by Odra-Film, Mazowiecki i Warszawski Fundusz Filmowy, Magic Lab, Film i Väst
    Supported by the Polish Film Institute, the Czech Film Center

    Holiday (Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden)
    Directed by Isabella Eklöf

    The Wild Boys (France)
    Directed by Bertrand Mandico

    Milla (France, Portugal)
    Directed by Valérie Massadian

    My Friend the Polish Girl (Poland, UK)
    Directed by Ewa Banaszkiewicz, Mateusz Dymek
    Produced by Warsaw Pact Films
    Coproduced by PS Films
    Supported by the Polish Film Institute

    The Bed (Argentina, Brazil, Netherlands, Germany)
    Directed by Mónica Lairana

    The Dead and the Others (Portugal)
    Directed by João Salaviza, Renée Nader Messora

    The Load (Serbia, France, Croatia, Iran, Qatar)
    Directed by Ognjen Glavonić
    Produced by Non-Aligned Films
    Coproduced by Cinéma Defacto, Kinorama,Three Gardens Film
    Supported by Aide aux cinémas du monde — CNC, Eurimages, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Visions Sud Est, Film Center Serbia, Hubert Bals Fund, Doha Film Institute, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina

    The Return (Denmark)
    Directed by Malene Choi Jensen

    We the Animals (USA)
    Directed by Jeremiah Zagar

    Click HERE for more information.