Nowe Horyzonty 2021

Set on the seaside and inhabited by a young worker at the fish market, a quiet ship, and an improv band that looks for sounds of the past to reveal forgotten tales.

Follows the band on tour, telling the full story of how three young men followed their impossible dream of becoming Norwegian pop stars. When Take On Me reached number 1 on Billboard in the US in 1985 the dream came true. Or did it?

Aida is a translator for the UN in the small town of Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for shelter in the UN camp.

Laurent, a police officer in a small town in Normandy, plans to marry Marie, with whom he has a daughter. Then one day, his life is thrown into turmoil when he accidentally kills a farmer threatening to commit suicide.

The stories of Jewish immigrants in New York City are told with characteristic humor.

A stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife have a two-year-old daughter with a surprising gift.

Alongside her work as an architect, 40-year old Luisa gives inspirational creative workshops to children. One day, she comes across 17-year-old Yuli by the school toilets; it turns out she has unintentionally become pregnant. Luisa decides to help her - in the process operating herself into a difficult position somewhere between friend, teacher and mother figure.

A young model returns to the Georgian countryside, where a confrontation with her past offers hope for the future.

A man from Guinea-Bissau moves to Germany, where he is befriended by a drug dealer and two women.

An off duty police begins to suspect a local man for having had an affair with his recently dead wife. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.

Lasse and Maja have had their detective agency shut down by the police chief when a customer ask for help to prove her father is innocent of the train robbery he was convicted of. Lasse and Maja now see their great chance to show off.

Polish film and music icon Kalina Jedrusik, a scandalous free-spirited sex symbol, fights for her independence in the prude society of the 1960s.

Rahim is in prison because of a debt he was unable to repay. During a two-day leave, he tries to convince his creditor to withdraw his complaint against the payment of part of the sum. But things don't go as planned.

A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.

After a 13-year-old student disappears without a trace for a week and suddenly reappears, his mother and teachers are confronted with existential questions that change their whole view of life.

The past and present of the people living in and around them intersect, and distant memories echo throughout immersive scenes of light and darkness.

After viewing a strangely familiar video nasty, Enid, a film censor, sets out to solve the past mystery of her sister's disappearance, embarking on a quest that dissolves the line between fiction and reality.

The renowned Belgian filmmaker sits down for an hour-long conversation about her entire body of work.

A romance between a soldier and a country boy, wrapped around a Thai folk-tale involving a shaman with shape-shifting abilities.

A group of soldiers in a small town on the Mekong River in northern Thailand are struck with a bizarre sleeping illness.

A group of poachers are following two elephants on a journey to find the mythical elephant graveyard, which leads into mysterious territories that will involve death and reincarnation and their relation to Buddhism and Hinduism.

A chance encounter on a street corner has Lisa and Giorgi fall in love at first sight, but an evil spell is cast on them. Will they ever meet again?

Fishmonger Polina drinks some tea given to her by a strange old woman that transforms her sleep into a fairy tale where she thinks she's the tsar's daughter.

A look at the life of Irish singer/songwriter and Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan.

Nada is a young woman leading a double life. During the daytime she's quiet and reserved, but after dark she dives into the nightlife of Tunis and picks up men.