As New Horizons enters its sixth year, it is with great anticipation that we are preparing to celebrate, along with our many guests, another event full of promising adventure. Once again, a gathering of people will join together and partake of this exciting feast of images, visions and ideas. New Horizons will bring you reflections of a world that does not necessarily surround us in everyday life, evoking images and voices of an unknown world, one we would not otherwise see or hear. The aim is to create a cinematic ex-perience that will introduce audiences to the talents of people who have devoted their energies to the making of extraordinary films. They address issues of relevance to them and to us, they create or record information concerning their reality, their society and their cultural evolution. Film becomes a language, a personal means of communication, a way to reach out into a new space –as through an open window– to a more accessible world. In an age when the multitude of manufactured images overwhelms our lives, drowning our individuality in oceans of stereotypoed aesthetics, New Horizons seeks out that which will challenge and stimulate our perception.
More than forty films will be premiered in Thessaloniki as part of this year's programme. Special tributes to accomplished filmmakers such as Alexander Sokurov, Errol Morris, Tsai Ming-Liang, Tony Gatlif and Fridrik Thor Fridriksson will take their place along the latest by Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Janos Szasz, Yolande Zauberman and Zhang Yuan. There is a section dedicated to the New French Cinema, as well as a Late Night selection, featuring films and documentaries by independent U.S. filmmakers. Other events include a Photography Exhibition by Kiarostami and showings of Children's Films. However, great films are not necessarily the ones signed by well-known, recognizable directors. Without reservation, I would encourage filmgoers to also turn their attention to the many new appearances, for there lie the treasures of this year's selection. These are films marked by audacity, nerve and originality. They are outspoken and provocative in their choice of themes, inventive and innovative in their cinematic form. They portray a world that is relevant and fascinating, and also positive in its multiplicity. They project images which become a clear reflection of our lives – a reflection marked by diversity, depth and personal commitment on the part of its makers.
Dimitri Eipides
TASTE OF CHERRY (Iran 1997) ..... Abbas Kiarostami
STOWAWAYS (Switz - Can - Fra - Bel 1997) ..... Denis Chouinard - N. Wadimoff
LABYRINTH OF DREAMS (Japan 1996) ..... Sogo Ishii
BANDITS (Germany 1997) ..... Katja von Garnier
THE TRAVELLER FROM THE SOUTH (Iran 1996) ..... Parviz Shahbazi
EAST PALACE WEST PALACE (China - France 1996) ..... Zhang Yuan
FIREWORKS (Japan 1997) ..... T·keshi Kitano
THE WITMAN BOYS (Hungary - France - Poland 1997) ..... Janos Szasz
BENT (Great Britain 1997) ..... Sean Mathias
VERTICAL LOVE (Cuba 1997) ..... Arturo Sotto D›az
IN WITH THE NEW (Germany 1997) ..... Oscar Roehler
UNDER THE SKIN (Great Britain 1997) ..... Carine Adler
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