This year's selection features, alongside its regular protagonists,
certain newcomers. Filmmakers such as Austria's Ruth Mader,
director of Struggle, Iceland's Dagur Kari, director
of Noi Albinoi, or Russia's Andrei Zvyagintsev,
director of The
Return, have not yet subordinated their talent to
some aesthetic or social form, but rather leave it "exposed"
to the
hail
of their creative power. It is perhaps for the same reason
that Iranian cinema is still able to be worthily represented
in the New Horizons selection. The films by Panahi, Jalili
and Samira Makhmalbaf prove that the old as well as the
new generation of Iranian cinema still preserves that special,
autonomous filmic vocabulary which it was the first to
bring to the forefront. Perhaps, finally, that is the reason why
this year's selection is made up in its greater part by
the
International Selection, which this year has displaced
the other sections which have made up New Horizons in the past.
Because, by bringing together thirty films from every corner
of the world, from every cinematic, artistic and social
reality,
it is proven that, hard to find though they may be, independent
voices exist - and they are powerful...
Dimitri Eipides
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