The Cannes Film Festival is the most important event for the entire industry. Not much has changed in these difficult times - we are still waiting for film revelations. The first step on their way may be the largest film market in Cannes, Marché du Film https://www.marchedufilm.com/, which will take place online this year. Part of this fair is the Goes to Cannes https://www.marchedufilm.com/programs/goes-to-cannes/projects/new-horizons-polish-days/ program, to which the most important festivals have been invited, including the New Horizons International Film Festival https://www.nowehoryzonty.pl/index.do?sldl=893_18491.
Each of them will present to the foreign industry selected films that do not yet have sales agents, distributors or a designated festival premiere. This year, five Polish film projects which are at various stages of production (works-in-progress) and will be presented in the New Horizons' Polish Days Goes to Cannes program.

"The Horse Tail" directed by Justyna Łuczaj-Salej is another film after "Tower. A bright day." by Jagoda Szelc, produced by INDEKS Film Studio, operating at the Lodz Film School. Like the "Tower", this film is also a debut and fits in with the idea of creating artistic, bold and auteur cinema.

"The Horse Tail" is a neo-noir story based on the myth of Oedipus. The main character May is a twenty-year-old orphan - outsider. Mythological Jokasta is a prostitute who, after years of absence, returns from Vienna to her hometown. Lajos is a local policeman, "king of order," who suspects May of raping his wife. The tense atmosphere thickens even more when May befriends the daughter of the policeman and the raped woman, ten-year-old Dagmara. Their relationship, based on exceptional sensitivity and opposition to the corrupt world of adults, is put to an extremely hard test.

Justyna Łuczaj-Salej http://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=1199002 is a dirctor, screenwriter and an artist. Małgorzata Szyłak http://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=1157304 is the film’s DOP (also worked as DOP on the films such as: "Dzikie róże", "Komunia").
The film's editor is Paweł Laskowski http://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=1128631, who has worked with Wojciech Smarzowski on the films "Dom zły", "Drogówka", "Wołyń", "Kler", while the music was created by the award-winning composer and musician Mikołaj Trzaska http://filmpolski.pl/fp/index.php?osoba=1125431

A closed screening of New Horizons' Polish Days Goes to Cannes exclusively for the accredited representatives of the international film industry (festival selectors, sales agents, distributors, producers, etc.) will take place online, on June, 22 at 12.00-14.00, during Marché du Film Online. https://marchedufilm.online/ 

Photos by Alicia Devaux