Registration for Cinema Academies
New Horizons Association invites movie lovers to take part in the World Cinema Academy and the Polish Cinema Academy.
The World Cinema Academy encourages all to participate – students from all Wroclaw’s academies and even independent parties, regardless of age or degree. The main aim of the lectures is to acquaint participants with the most important issues in film history, regarding its cultural, social, political, and artistic contexts. As a result, cinematography becomes a lens through which we can observe how the world has changed over the last hundred years.
The third semester of the World Cinema Academy covers the analysis of key events in cinema history from the 1960s to today. It focuses on New Hollywood and contestation, European New Wave, genre changes, the development of auteur series, and 21st-century animation. A significant element of the lectures will be a discussion about globalization, late-stage capitalism, technology (including AI) in audiovisual culture, and the relationship between art cinema and commercial “global Hollywood” cinema.
Registration for the event has started and will last until March 31st. First class will be held on March 3rd, with each subsequent class taking place every Tuesday. It will start with a lecture at 5:00 pm and be followed by a screening at 6:30 pm.
Polish Cinema Academy is an original project run by the National Centre for Film Culture in collaboration with the New Horizons Association. It is a year-long two-semester course on Polish film history. Each semester consists of twelve meetings, each one dedicated to a selected period of Polish cinema history and a movie screening.
Its mission is to educate about Polish cinematography. Throughout the course, movies from the entire history of Polish cinema will be shown, accompanied by a lecture focused on subject matter, authors, historical contexts, and artistic tools. The syllabus is nonlinear, accentuating the dialogical character of Polish cinema and recurring interest in certain phenomena. Each meeting will begin with a lecture and a movie screening afterwards.
The second semester of the Polish Cinema Academy will begin with a shift in perspective. Instead of retelling Polish cinema history step by step, organizers will examine aspects where history repeats itself: recurring conflicts, figures, and themes that come back every few decades but in a new form. They are interested in cinema in dialogue with itself – movies juxtaposed beyond chronology, images that comment on themselves beyond time and aesthetics, showing how Polish cinema persistently comes back to its unresolved issues.
In the program, we can find blocks dedicated to movie depictions of the Polish countryside, concentration camps, totalitarianism, family portraits, the relationship between man and technology or institutions, and adolescence as a time of tension and transition. Each block is a set of two movies in dialogue with each other that clash styles, époques, and perspectives.
Some of the movies shown include: The Peasants, Passenger, The Last Stage, Interrogation, Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema, and A Short Film About Love.
Registration for the event has started and will remain open until March 31st. First class will be held on March 4th, with each subsequent class taking place every Wednesday. It will start with a lecture at 5:00 pm and be followed by a screening at 6:30 pm.
Translated by Weronika Wolak (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice
Date of publication: 18.02.2026
Added by: M.J.
