NEW HORIZONS 2019 New Horizons Industry
New Horizons’ Polish Days readies its ninth edition
- Having invited 23 film projects at various stages of production, the largest industry event in Poland will once again showcase the most highly anticipated national titles in Wrocław
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For the ninth year running, Polish Days, the New Horizons International Film Festival’s leading industry event, will present the majority of the most highly anticipated forthcoming titles from the national film industry. Over 200 professional guests hailing from Poland and abroad will have a chance to be brought up to speed on the latest developments from 30 July-1 August, during the 19th New Horizons International Film Festival (25 July-3 August) in Wrocław. The selection of 23 film projects spans every stage of production, as five completed films, ten works in progress and eight projects in development will be showcased.
Jan Komasa’s eagerly awaited third feature-length drama, Corpus Christi [+see also:
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interview: Jan Komasa
film profile] (see the news), will be one of the five completed films that will be having closed screenings at Polish Days, ahead of its world premiere at the 16th edition of Venice’s Giornate degli Autori (see the news). Xawery Żuławski (Snow White and Russian Red [+see also:
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interview: Xawery Żuławski
film profile], which is based on his late father Andrzej Żuławski’s script and is a condensation of his cinematic worlds. Eight years after his debut feature, Erratum, and a subsequent career in TV series, Marek Lechki returns with his sophomore drama, Interior [+see also:
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film profile]. The two remaining titles are by debutants Daria Woszek, with her dramedy Marygoround [+see also:
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interview: Daria Woszek
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Among the works in progress, Jagoda Szelc continues her hot streak by presenting her third feature in three years, the “ecological thriller” The Delicate Balance of Terror, which remains faithful to genre cinema after her previous effort, Monument [+see also:
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film profile]; Łukasz Grzegorzek returns to Polish Days after last year’s A Coach’s Daughter with his third feature-length family drama, Let It Be; and after her New Horizons-premiered Wild Roses [+see also:
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interview: Anna Jadowska
film profile], Anna Jadowska is coming along with her dark comedy Mira. The rest of the selection is dominated by debutants, including Les Arcs WIP-awarded (see the news) Aleksandra Terpińska with her rap musical Other People [+see also:
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interview: Aleksandra Terpińska
film profile], Bartłomiej Żmuda with his drama More, Justyna Mytnik’s fantasy dramedy Wet Monday, Sylwester Jakimow’s comedy We Will Be Fine, Joanna Satanowska’s mockumentary God of Internet, Filip Syczyński’s autobiographical dramedy The Great Match, and award-winning documentarian Piotr Stasik’s (21 x New York [+see also:
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Finally, four of the eight projects at different stages of development or production which will be pitched at Polish Days are by filmmakers who are working on their sophomore movies: Cranley Gardens by Rafael Kapelinski (Butterfly Kisses [+see also:
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film profile] by Mateusz Rakowicz (Warsaw Stories [+see also:
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film profile]. Maciej Pieprzyca (I’m A Killer [+see also:
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film profile]) will showcase Icarus. The Legend of Mietek Kosz [+see also:
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film profile], a biopic of the titular troubled jazz musician, and Leszek Dawid (You Are God [+see also:
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interview: Carolina Hellsgård
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interview: Christos Nikou
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Polish Days is co-organised with the Ministry of Culture and the Polish Film Institute, while one of the partners is EAVE, which will offer a scholarship for the EAVE 2020 Producers Workshop. Also, connecting cottbus and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg are organising an event focused on Polish-German co-productions. Other Polish Days partners include Coloroffon, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the British Council, the Lower Silesian Film Centre, the Wrocław Film Commission, the Krakow Film Commission, the Łódź Film Commission, the Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission, the Podkarpackie Film Commission, the Warmia-Masuria Film Fund, the Silesia Film Commission and DI Factory.
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