New Horizons Film Festival 2012 – all feature films
All feature films screened at the 12th New Horizons International Film Festival, 19-29 July 2012, Wrocław, Poland
1-12: New Horizons International Competition
13-24: Films on Art International Competition
25-61: Panorama
62-75: Documentaries/essays
76-81: Third Eye: The Happy End. Images for the End of the World
82-101: Mockumentaries
102-111: New Horizons of Film Language: Sound
112-136: The Karol Irzykowski Film Studio
137-138: Films for Children
139-152: The Cinema of Mexico
153-156: Retrospective: Carlos Reygadas
157-170: Retrospective: Urlich Seidl
171-180: Retrospective: Dušan Makavejev
181-190: Midnight Madness: From Stage on Screen
191-194: Gdynia in Wrocław
195-206: Special screenings
207-240: Season 2011/2012
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1-12: New Horizons International Competition
13-24: Films on Art International Competition
25-61: Panorama
62-75: Documentaries/essays
76-81: Third Eye: The Happy End. Images for the End of the World
82-101: Mockumentaries
102-111: New Horizons of Film Language: Sound
112-136: The Karol Irzykowski Film Studio
137-138: Films for Children
139-152: The Cinema of Mexico
153-156: Retrospective: Carlos Reygadas
157-170: Retrospective: Urlich Seidl
171-180: Retrospective: Dušan Makavejev
181-190: Midnight Madness: From Stage on Screen
191-194: Gdynia in Wrocław
195-206: Special screenings
207-240: Season 2011/2012
See also other lists:
2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016
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- DirectorJosé Luis Torres LeivaStarsRosario BléfariJulieta FigueroaFrancisco OssaDuring one hot summer day, little things happen to the visitors and workers of an old thermal resort in southern Chile. Julieta, Francisco, Isa, Rodrigo, Ignacio, Mariana, Muriel, Gabriela, Eliseo, Norma, Alejandra and Claudio experience the long vacation hours in nature, sleeping in the sun, learning how to drive, cleaning the house, kissing for the first time, swimming at night or just walking and talking, while the day slowly unravels into small fragments of happiness and discovery.
- DirectorPanahbarkhoda RezaeeStarsReza AhmadniaRaya NasiriJamileh RahimiThe solitary existence of three sisters living in the traditional central western region of Iran, where the occasional traveling salesman serves as a distraction from the general monotony.
- DirectorDjinn CarrénardStarsEmilia Derou-BernalSékouba DoucouréSalomé BlechmansA female teacher begins an ambiguous relationship with a student, an agnostic teenager is « called » by God, a photographer offers herself to a stranger : do we choose to love, do we choose to be loved ?
- DirectorBrian M. CassidyMelanie ShatzkyStarsMelissa LeoVictoria CharkutDave ClarkEx-con Francine has difficulty adjusting to life in a small lakeside town until she begins working with animals, though she finds herself growing increasingly isolated from the community and embracing forms of anti-social behavior.
- DirectorJames FrancoIan OldsStarsJulie BermanSara A. BibelSteve BurtonA mini-thriller comprised of TV footage of actor James Franco's guest-starring appearances on the American daytime drama, General Hospital (1963).
- DirectorKhavnStarsTimothy CastilloMarife NecesitoJim Rocky TangcoTony knows nothing but tough times, living in the bleak circus of the slums he calls home amongst denizens of the underworld: the crippled pimp, the lonely housewife, the neighborhood gay and his macho father, the prostitutes, the small-time politician, and the Yankee pedophile. This is his story and the story of the world he lives in: a hopeless, closed-in decrepit world gone to seed.
- DirectorDominga SotomayorStarsSanti AhumadaFrancisco Pérez-BannenPaola GianniniA family takes a short vacation, while the daughter of the family gradually discovers that her parents could be separating.
- DirectorIsaki LacuestaStarsBokar DembeleMiquel BarcelóAlou CisseA conceptual reimagining of painter François Augiéras' life as he believed that the best way to escape without a trace is to walk backwards.
- DirectorKim Kyung-mookStarsPaul LeeHyun-Joon YeomKim Sae-byeokJun (Paul Lee) is an illegal immigrant from North Korea, working in a gas station under an exploitative and abusive boss. Hyeon (Yeom Hyunjoon) is the kept boy of a married businessman, who has set him up in a swanky apartment near the government's headquarters in Yeouido. Both young men are in trouble. Jun's lack of an official identity and papers limits him to dead-end jobs (the gas station, handing out flyers, and eventually male prostitution) and leaves him always in fear of arrest and deportation. Hyeon, who is supposed to be available whenever his sugar daddy "needs" him, stifles in his up-market "prison". These two finally find each other through an Internet site, with disastrous results. The sudden convergence of their opposite lives gives Kim the cues he needs for a series of reflections on the implications of "statelessness".
- DirectorKleber Mendonça FilhoStarsAna Rita GurgelCaio AlmeidaMaeve JinkingsThe lives of the residents of a Brazilian apartment building and the security guards who get the job guarding the surrounding streets.
- DirectorQuan WuStarsHe XiaoDan LiuZenghui Li
- DirectorFrédéric VideauStarsAgathe BonitzerReda KatebHélène FillièresThe girl Gaëlle Faroult is kidnapped at school when she is about eight by Vincent Maillard that imprisons her at the basement of his isolated house but provides everything she needs. Along the years, Gaëlle unsuccessfully tries to escape. But when she is seventeen, Vincent surprisingly let her go. Now Gaëlle has problems to adapt to her family and the outside world.
- DirectorIngibjörg BirgisdóttirOrri JonssonKristín Björk KristjánsdóttirStarsSigridur NielsdottirAt the tender age of 70 she started recording and releasing her own music straight from the living room. 7 years later she had 59 albums to her name with more than 600 songs - an eccentric myriad of catchy compositions mixing in her pets, found toys, kitchen percussion and Casio keyboards. Sigridur Nielsdottir is her name, and before long the Icelandic/Danish musician became an adored cult figure in the Icelandic music scene, represented here by her young apprentices Mugison, Mum, and Seabear. Shot mostly on Super-8 and 16mm 'Grandma Lo-fi' is a cinematic tribute to her boundless creativity.
- DirectorPhilippe GrandrieuxStarsMasao AdachiNaruhiko OnozawaGrandrieux pays an homage to Masao Adachi, a Japanese filmmaker with a turbulent past and now a recluse in his homeland, creating a portrait of this man always faithful in its very own way.
- DirectorFrederick WisemanStarsPhilippe DecoufléNaamah AlvaPhilippe BeauA look inside Paris' Crazy Horse, a club that boasts the greatest and most chic nude dancing in the world.
- DirectorAndrei GryazevStarsLeonid NikolaevNatalya SokolKasper VorotnikovFascinating insight into Voina ("War"), the provocative collective from which among now the world-renowned activists in Pussy Riot emerged.
- DirectorFlorian HabichtStarsFlorian HabichtMasha YakovenkoFrank HabichtA beautiful stranger on the Coney Island train becomes both lead actress and real life object of desire in this choose your own adventure documentary about writing a fictional love story on the streets of New York. Director Florian Habicht casts himself as the leading man in this interactive and multi-layered ode to the Woody Allen-style Manhattan romantic comedy. Outspoken New Yorkers and Habicht's father, via Skype calls, influence the narrative of the film within the documentary. Blurs the boundaries of fact and fiction and pushes the relationship between director and subject to new extremes.
- DirectorMichael PalmLow Definition Control is a film about images. Surveillance cameras, ultrasound detectors and MRI images in medicine are fabricating models of conformist behaviour and healthy bodies but as well of anomalies, suspicion and hidden risks. In times of terrorist threat, risk prevention and all-embracing control phantasms these images foreshadow a possible future. A film about this future.
- DirectorEduardo CoutinhoDocumentary filmmaker Eduardo Coutinho interviews people who tell their life stories and recall songs that marked their lives.
- DirectorRodney AscherStarsBill BlakemoreGeoffrey CocksJuli KearnsAn exploration of various interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's horror film, The Shining (1980).
- DirectorSimon PummellStarsHugo KoolschijnAnniek PheiferThom HoffmanIn 1903 Daniel Paul Schreber published the most celebrated autobiography of madness 'from the inside' ever written. Shock Head Soul interleaves documentary interviews, fictional re-construction and CGI animation to portray his story. Daniel Paul Schreber was a successful lawyer who, in 1893, started to receive messages from God via a Writing Down Machine that spanned the cosmos. He spent the next 9 years confined to an asylum: tortured by delusions of cosmic control, suffering the belief that he was shifting gender and that his body was subjected to cruel 'miracles'. Schreber believed that only his submission to God's plan to change him into a woman would save the world. During his confinement he wrote Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, which has earned him lasting fame as an outsider artist, it allowed him to argue that that his belief system was a matter of religious freedom and that he was sane enough to return to society. Running as a recurrent motif through the film is an imaginary Writing Down Machine inspired by both the delusory writing down systems envisioned by Schreber and also the Hansen Writing Ball. This early visionary design for a typewriter is famous because Nietzsche used such a machine to compose reflections on the relationship between writing and technology. The film's mix of forms explores the borderline between religious vision and deluded fanaticism, and the intimate link between family secrets, psychiatric diagnosis, and our societal understanding of mental illness.
- DirectorCharles AtlasStarsAnohniCharles AtlasThomas BartlettIn 2006 Antony and the Johnsons and Charles Atlas took their collaborative performance TURNING to major cities in Europe. This documentary film explores the heart of that performance.
- DirectorWill LovelaceDylan SouthernStarsJames MurphyChuck KlostermanKeith WoodOn April 2nd 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. Documenting this once in a life time performance and an intimate portrait of James Murphy as he navigates the lead-up to the show, the day after, and the personal and professional ramifications of his decision.
- DirectorJukka KärkkäinenJ-P PassiStarsPertti KurikkaKari AaltoSami HelleA Finnish punk-rock band formed by four mentally disabled guys.
- DirectorYorgos LanthimosStarsStavros PsyllakisAris ServetalisJohnny VekrisA group of people start a business where they impersonate the recently deceased in order to help their clients through the grieving process.