[Filmfestivalresearch] [nh] Monday at the New Horizons

[New Horizons newsletter]

Monday at the New Horizons 
  The New Horizons is that time of the year when not only on Sunday evening, but even throughout Monday, your mood doesn’t get spoiled. Today we encourage you to let yourself be wrapped up in Portuguese saudade – that unique kind of melancholy that brings a smile to your face. That being said, take a look at the Focus on Portugal section program. You’re also invited to 8 meetings with 24 filmmakers on Monday, exhibitions and a night in the Festival’s Backyard, which could turn into a Tuesday matinee. 
  The program of the Focus on Portugal section includes twenty short and feature-length titles culled from the rich cinematography of this beautiful country with a complicated history. The films, shown in Poland for the premiere (sic!), are meant to encourage audiences to explore further and visit Lisbon’s Cinemateca Portuguesa for an evening as enjoyable as a fado club. We particularly recommend today’s screenings of The Movement of Things (15:45) and Xavier (18:45). 
  See the section program 
   
  Ruch rzeczy, dir. Manuela Serra 
  Close at the Wrocław Market Square 
  Today we’ll screen the most beautiful film of last year’s Cannes Film Festival as part of Cinema on the Market Square. Lukas Dhont’s Grand Prix-winning Close is a sensual, tender tale of friendship, empathy, the search for understanding and mutual agreement, and the layering of battered emotions in the face of a loved one’s loss. Starts at 22:00; admission is free, depending on availability. 
  Meetings and Q&As 
  12:45, KNH7 – After, dir. Anthony Lapia guests: Anthony Lapia, Natalia Wiszniewska (actor) 
  16:00, KNH3 – Losing Faith, dir. Martha Mechowguests: Martha Mechow, Hans Broich (producer), Toni Mosebach (music), Ann Göbel (actor), Felix Leitner (film editor), Charlotte Brandhorst (costume designer) 
  16:00, KNH5 – Shortlist – set 3 guests: Robert Kwilman (director), Michał Toczek (director), Pola Włodarczyk (director), Klaudia Bochniak (director) 
  16:00, KNH6 – Anteroom, dir. Jorge Cramez + Striking Land, dir. Raul Domingues guest: Raul Domingues 
  18:45, KNH7 – Human Flowers of Flesh, dir. Helena Wittmann guest: Helena Wittmann 
  19:00, KNH5 – L'Atalante, dir. Jean Vigo guest: Michał Oleszczyk (film expert) 
  19:00, KNH8 – Special Evening with Netflix Series guests: Absolute Beginners – Kamila Tarabura (director), Martyna Byczkowska (actress), Magdalena Zielska (producer); Infamy – Anna Maliszewska (director), Zofia Jastrzębska (actress), Justyna Pawlak (producer); Feedback – Leszek Dawid (director), Arkadiusz Jakubik (actor), Łukasz Dzięcioł (producer), Jakub Żulczyk (author of the literary original, materials for the script) 
  19:00, DCF Warszawa – Slow, dir. Marija Kavtaradze guest: Marija Kavtaradze 
   
  Slow, dir. Marija Kavtaradze 
  Art and the Festival Backyard on the horizon 
  Those craving non-film art will also find solace at the SiC! gallery of BWA and the BWA Studio gallery, where you can enjoy (respectively) the exhibitions From Within and Avec Plasir (today at 18:00 we invite you for a curatorial tour) 
  . We also encourage you to visit the Wrocław Old Town Hall, where Kasia Kmita’s exhibition, Contrafactur, awaits. 
  Later in the evening, be sure to stop by the Festival Backyard, where the crews of the Recepcja and Surowiec clubs will invariably be waiting for you with all sorts of delights. Tonight at 19:00 the event Ubierzmy się w wolność (lit. Let’s Dress in Freedom) will begin at Surowiec, where you’ll be able to create colorful clothes to serve us in the fight for freedom, love and equality. Starting at 22:00 at Recepcja, Rábano Picante – a member of the regime collective and one of the hosts responsible for the program of Uczulenie, an independent club space under Wrocław’s embankment – will be musically enhancing your time. 
  Coffee, my glorious coffee 
  And more. A wide variety of savory and sweet snacks await you at the New Horizons Cinema bistro, including those from Dobra Kaloria, as well as NITRO cold brew, Fritz Kola and oodles of other refreshments. The cinema bistro is a perfect place to satisfy your non-film hunger in between screenings. 
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  Cinema at the Market Square is organized thanks to the support of the mBank New Horizons’ patron, the Municipality of Wroclaw. 
  The Polish films shown at the festival are screened thanks to our partnership with Dr. Irena Eris.