Festival programme 2009

• Opening gala – Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon
  The White Ribbon
  The White Ribbon is a 2009 Austrian-German film, released in black and white, written and directed by Michael Haneke. The drama darkly depicts society and family in a northern German village just before World War I...
  
  
• Closing – Martin Provost's Séraphine
  Séraphine (film)
  Séraphine is a 2008 French-Belgian film directed by Martin Provost and written by Marc Abdelnour and Provost. It stars Yolande Moreau as the French painter Séraphine Louis and Ulrich Tukur as Wilhelm Uhde. It won the 2009 César Award for Best Film.-Plot:...
  
  
• New horizons international competition
• Films on art international competition
• New Polish films competition
• Polish short films competition
• European short films competition
• Panorama
• Special screenings
• Documentaries / Essays
• Third eye
• Midnight madness: ozploitation
  Ozploitation
  Ozploitation films are a type of low budget horror, comedy and action films made in Australia after the introduction of the R rating in 1971. The year also marked the beginnings of the Australian New Wave movement, and the Ozploitation style peaked within the same time frame...
  
  
• Cinema of Canada
• Cinema of Sweden
• Golden era of Hungarian cinema
• Retrospective: Tsai Ming-liang
  Tsai Ming-liang
  Tsai Ming-liang is one of the most celebrated "Second New Wave" film directors of Taiwanese Cinema, along with earlier contemporaries such as Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang...
  
  
• Retrospective: Jennifer Reeves
• Retrospective: Krzysztof Zanussi
  Krzysztof Zanussi
  Krzysztof Zanussi, is a Polish producer and film director.He is a professor of European film at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland where he conducts a summer workshop...
  
  
• Retrospective: Piotr Dumała
  Piotr Dumała
  Piotr Dumała is a Polish film director and animator. His animation technique is original and fascinating, among the most interesting of the last 30 years. While training to be a sculptor, he discovered that scratching images into painted plaster could be a beautiful way to create animations...
  
  
• 60 years of WFDiF
• From Polański to...
• New horizons of film language: editing
• Season 2008/2009
• Films for children
• Silent films with live music
• Screenings at the market square
• Concerts
• Exhibitions

Festival programme 2010

• Opening gala – Xavier Beauvois' Of Gods and Men
  Of Gods and Men (film)
  Of Gods and Men is a 2010 French drama film directed by Xavier Beauvois, starring Lambert Wilson and Michael Lonsdale. Its original French title is Des hommes et des dieux, which means "Of Men and of Gods" and refers to a verse from the Bible shown at the beginning of the film...
  
  
• Closing – Francis Ford Coppola's Tetro
  Tetro
  Tetro is a 2009 drama film written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich and Maribel Verdú. Filming took place in 2008 in Buenos Aires, Patagonia, and Spain...
  
  
• New horizons international competition
• Films on art international competition
• New Polish films competition
• Polish short films competition
• European short debuts competition
• Panorama
• Special screenings
• Documentaries / Essays
• Third eye
• Midnight madness: Philippe Mora
  Philippe Mora
  Philippe Mora is a French-born Australian film director. Born in 1949 to a German Jewish father and a French Jewish mother, he began making films while still a child.- Career :...
  
  ; samurai cinema
  Samurai cinema
  While earlier samurai period pieces were more dramatic rather than action-based, samurai movies post World War II have become more action-based, with darker and more violent characters. Post-war samurai epics tended to portray psychologically or physically scarred warriors. Akira Kurosawa stylized...
  
  
• Cinema of Turkey
• Retrospective: Jean-Luc Godard
  Jean-Luc Godard
  Jean-Luc Godard is a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He is often identified with the 1960s French film movement, French Nouvelle Vague, or "New Wave"....
  
  
• Retrospective: Brothers Quay
  Brothers Quay
  Stephen and Timothy Quay are American identical twin brothers better known as the Brothers Quay or Quay Brothers. They are influential stop-motion animators...
  
  
• Retrospective: Klaus Maria Brandauer
  Klaus Maria Brandauer
  Klaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrian actor, film director, and professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.-Personal life:...
  
  
• Retrospective: Laura Mulvey
  Laura Mulvey
  Laura Mulvey is a British feminist film theorist. She was educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is currently professor of film and media studies at Birkbeck, University of London...
  
  
• Retrospective: Wojciech Jerzy Has
• Retrospective: Daniel Szczechura
• New horizons of film language
• Season 2009/2010
• Screenings at the market square
• Concerts
• Exhibitions

Festival programme 2011

• Opening gala – Asghar Farhadi's A Separation
  Nader and Simin, A Separation
  A Separation is a 2011 Iranian drama film written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, starring Leila Hatami, Peyman Moaadi, Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat and Sarina Farhadi. It focuses on an Iranian middle-class couple who separate, and the intrigues which follow when the husband hires a lower-class...
  
  
• Closing – Pedro Almodóvar's The Skin I Live In
  The Skin I Live In
  The Skin I Live In is a 2011 Spanish film directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Álamo and Blanca Suárez, and is loosely based on Thierry Jonquet's novel Tarantula. The film was the first collaboration in 21 years between Almodóvar...
  
  
• New horizons international competition
• Films on art international competition
• New Polish films competition
• Polish short films competition
• European short debuts competition
• Panorama
• Documentaries / Essays
• Third eye
• Special screenings
• 'Round midnight
• Behind the pink curtain
• Red westerns
  Ostern
  The Ostern or Red Western was the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries' take on the Western.It generally took two forms:...
  
  
• Norway expanded
• New horizons of film language: production design
• Hommage: Anja Breien
  Anja Breien
  Anja Breien is a Norwegian film director and screenwriter. She directed 14 films between 1969 and 2005. Her film Arven was entered into the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Uten tittel...
  
  
• Retrospective: Bruno Dumont
  Bruno Dumont
  Bruno Dumont is a French film director. To date, he has directed five feature films, all of which border somewhere between realistic drama and the avant-garde. His films have won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Two of Dumont's films have won the Grand Prix award: both L'Humanité and...
  
  
• Retrospective: Werner Nekes
• Retrospective: Jack Smith
  Jack Smith
  -In sport:*Jack Smith , 19th century footballer in 1892–1895*Jack Smith , English player with Wolverhampton Wanderers and others* Jack Smith , English international footballer...
  
  
• Retrospective: Terry Gilliam
  Terry Gilliam
  Terrence Vance "Terry" Gilliam is an American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator, actor and member of the Monty Python comedy troupe. Gilliam is also known for directing several films, including Brazil , The Adventures of Baron Munchausen , The Fisher King , and 12 Monkeys...
  
  
• Retrospective: Andrzej Munk
• Retrospective: Mariusz Wilczyński
• Season 2010/2011
• Films for children
• Screenings at the market square
• Concerts
• Discussion panels, workshops
• Exhibitions

See also

• List of film festivals
• American Film Festival
  American Film Festival
  American Film Festival is a film festival held annually in October in Wrocław, Poland. First edition was held from 20 to 24 October 2010. The festival is organized by Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty and co-funded by the Wroclaw Municipality and Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage.-...
  
  (an other film festival in Wrocław organized by Stowarzyszenie Nowe Horyzonty)

External links

• New Horizons Film Festival Official website (en)