New Horizons film festival kicks off in Poland

Over 200 feature movies from more than 50 countries will be screened at the 19th New Horizons International Film Festival, which started in the southwestern Polish city of Wrocław on Thursday evening.

Festival's founder Roman Gutek and artistic director Marcin Pieńkowski at the opening.

Photo: PAP/Maciej Kulczyński

A total of 142 movies will be making their Polish premieres, the festival’s organisers said on their website.

The festival kicked off with a screening of Portrait of a Lady on Fire by French director Céline Sciamma.

Set in late-18^th century France, the movie tells a complicated love story and is “a gorgeously shot period piece that’s heaven to look at,” according to Time magazine.

The French movie won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival.

“Discoveries are most important … At the festival, we show movies which inspire and open people’s minds, which may result in broadening our horizons,” Roman Gutek, founder of the New Horizons festival, said at the event’s opening.

Gutek launched the festival in 2001. It has since developed into one of the country's most prestigious events of its kind, with its own distribution network.

The festival runs until August 4.

For details of screenings, go to www.nowehoryzonty.pl

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Source: PAP/Time/nowehoryzonty.pl