New Horizons Film Festival

The New Horizons Film Festival (pl: Nowe Horyzonty) is an international film festival held annually in July in Wrocław, Poland. It is the biggest and most popular film festival and cultural event in the country and region.

The festival focuses on arthouse cinema. Its programmes include retrospectives of avant-garde and experimental filmmakers, showcases of national cinemas, a panorama of auteur films of the season, as well as curated thematic sections. The most important of several competitions is the New Horizons International Competition, which aims to present uncompromising films searching for bold forms of expression i.e. the new horizons of cinema. Awards in the competition include the Grand Prix, Special Mention(s), and the Audience Award.

New Horizons is an interdisciplinary festival, where visual arts and music are presented alongside cinema. Filmmakers whose works are shown at New Horizons tend to cross the boundaries of traditional cinema and enter the experimental field of visual and performing arts. The festival's Artistic Stage, organised in cooperation with BWA Wrocław, and presenting film forms in the so-called extended field as part of exhibitions in Wrocław galleries, is a natural extension and complement to the film programmes.

Accessible to all, the festival combines various types of initiatives, including film screenings, educational activities, and industry meetings. In 2025, the festival achieved record attendance (169,737), with viewers choosing from 271 films and 628 screenings.

In recent years, the festival has organised retrospectives of Chantal Akerman, Wang Bing, Bertrand Bonello, Lee Chang-dong, Alice Diop, Bruno Dumont, Jean-Luc Godard, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Wojciech Has, Joanna Hogg, Agnieszka Holland, Jonas Mekas, Anne-Marie Miéville, Laura Mulvey, Andrzej Munk, Nagisa Ōshima, Satyajit Ray, Anka Sasnal & Wilhelm Sasnal, Angela Schanelec, Albert Serra, Terayama Shūji, Yvonne Rainer, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Glauber Rocha, Ulrich Seidl, Alain Tanner, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Glauber Rocha, Brothers Quay, and Krzysztof Zanussi.