Romanian productions in dedicated section at Wroclaw’s New Horizons Film Festival
<p>The <em>New Horizons Film Festival</em>, which takes place in Wroclaw, will run at this edition a section dedicated to Romanian films as part of the <em>Romania – Poland Cultural Season 2024 – 2025</em>.</p>

<p><em>Romania: Mirror Games will</em> showcase a program curated by film critic Mihai Chirilov. The program will cover eight recent and older films that have been selected “in a dialogue of themes, contexts, cinematic techniques and authorial visions.”</p>

<p>The films that will be screened are Radu Jude’s <em>Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World</em>, Lucian Bratu’s <em>Angela Moves On</em>, Tudor Giurgiu’s <em>Freedom</em>, Andrei Ujică and Harun Farocki’s <em>Videograms of a Revolution</em>, Andrei Cohn’s <em>Holy Week</em>, Radu Gabrea’s <em>Don’t Be Afraid, Iacob!</em>, Cristi Puiu’s <em>MMXX</em>, and Lucian Pintilie’s <em>The Oak</em>.</p>

<p>Chirilov and directors Tudor Giurgiu and Andrei Cohn will be present in Wrocław for meetings and talks with the audiences.</p>

<p>Wrocław is also where this year’s Caravan of New Romanian Cinema will end after touring six cities in Poland for ten months, the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) announced.</p>

<p>One of the festival’s new sections, Smart 7, has been developed by seven European Film Festivals, including the CLuj-Napoca-based Transylvania International Film Festival (TIFF) alongside Nowe Horyzonty (Poland), Kino Pavasaris IFF (Lithuania), IndieLisboa IFF (Portugal), Filmadrid (Spain), Reykjavik IFF (Island) and Thessaloniki IFF (Greece). The section, meant as a playground for new voices in European cinema, also includes this year the Romanian film <em>Where the Elephants Go</em>, directed by Gabi Virginia Șarga and Cătălin Rotaru.</p>

<p>At the same time, Queer Palm winner <em>Three Kilometers to the End of the World</em>, directed by Emanuel Pârvu, will be screened three times at the festival, adding to the list of Romanian productions presented to Wroclaw audiences.</p>

<p>New Horizons Film Festival takes place between July 18 and July 28 in cinemas and online until August 4. More on the program <a href="https://www.nowehoryzonty.pl/menu.do?id=3755" rel="noopener" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>

<p><em>(Illustration courtesy of the Romanian Cultural Institute)</em></p>

<p><em>simona@romania-insider.com</em></p>