Festival Data:

• Established: 2001
• Genre: General
• Attendance: 118204
• Media Attendance: 279
• Total Number of Films Screened: 522
• Total Screenings: 675
• # of Shorts Screened: 279
• # of Features Screened: 243
• Accreditations: ECFF

• Competitive
• Has Panels

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Festival Description:

ERA NEW HORIZONS is a festival of films that go beyond the limits of conventional cinema. This is a festival of film visionaries, of uncompromising artists who have the courage to follow a path of their choice against the current trend and to tell about the most important things using their own unique language.

The festival has been brought to life with the aim of presenting to the audience films which push the boundaries of conventional cinema – thus showing, that the cinema of the 21st century (largely shaped by the expectations of the mass public) still leaves a lot of room for creativity for directors, who decide not to keep pace with the fashion.

Guided by own taste of organizers, from among hundreds of films screened yearly at the most important festivals those titles are chosen which due to their unusual form and force of expression not let the audience forget them. All over the world, they give rise to polemics and discussions, praise and protest. And yet it is such films that usually set the newest trends in world cinema art.

Film education is also one of the most important festival’s aims. Thus a few retrospectives are organized every year. Moreover, the screenings of the movies are accompanied by Q&A with filmmakers, seminars and workshops.