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The 25th anniversary edition of the BNP Paribas New Horizons International Film Festival will begin in Wroclaw on 17th July and run until 27th July (until 3rd August online). The programme featured 272 films, 129 of which are shown for the first time in Poland. There are more than 600 screenings ahead of us:
- at the New Horizons Cinema,
- in the Lower Silesian Film Centre,
- on the Wroclaw Market Square
- and at the Leśnica Castle – for the first time in the event's history.
First Look at Netflix’s TV Series at the New Horizons Festival
But the Wroclaw festival encompasses also exhibitions, concerts, meetings and other special events. One of these will be the series 'First Look at Netflix’s TV Series'
Organisers of BNP Paribas New Horizons Festival: Once again, thanks to the partnership between BNP Paribas New Horizons and Netflix, the festival’s audience will have the chance to meet the creators and cast of the highly anticipated premieres: Heweliusz, 1670, and Wednesday. During unique sneak peek events, they will get their first glimpse of the series' most powerful and moving scenes and become familiar with the behind-the-scenes aspects of their making a few weeks and months before their official premiere on Netflix.
The stars of TV series Wednesday in Wroclaw. When is the meeting?
For example, there will be a treat in store for fans of Netflix's big hit series Wednesday directed by master filmmaker Tim Burton (Beetlejuice, Corpse Bride, Alice in Wonderland). Filled with darkness and good humour at the same time, the story of the students of the unusual Nevermore Academy has won the hearts of viewers around the world.
The eagerly awaited Polish premiere of the second season is on 6th August 2025. On that occasion, the actors of the series will come to Wroclaw, including
- Joy Sunday (Bianca),
- Georgie Farmer (Pugsley)
- and Isaac Ordonez (Ajax).
The meeting with fans will take place at the New Horizons Cinema on Kazimierza Wielkiego Street on Thursday 24th July at 4 p.m. This is a unique opportunity to go behind the scenes of the production and discover what is awaiting Wednesday Addams (played by Jenna Ortega), her family and the students of Nevermore Academy.
Unfortunately, traditional tickets have already been sold out, and holders of festival passes can book them one day before the meeting – booking traditionally starts on the festival’s website at 8:30 a.m.
If tickets have already sold out and you do not have festival passes, you can come to the cinema on the day of the meeting, buy the Open Ticket card and stand in a last-minute queue outside the room where the event will take place. ‘There is a chance that you will come in, although there are no guarantees,’ informs Stanislaw Abramik, the festival's PR manager.
Description of the second season of the series:
- ‘Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) returns to roam the gothic corridors of Nevermore Academy once again, with new enemies and new problems awaiting her. This season Wednesday has to find herself in relationships with her family, friends and old adversaries, which means another year of delightfully dark and frantic chaos.
- Armed with her trademark razor-sharp wit and dispassionate charm, Wednesday is also drawn into a chilling new supernatural mystery.’
- Premiere of Part 1 (episodes 1-4): 6th August 2025
- Premiere of Part 2 (episodes 5-8): 3rd September 2025
Meetings with the creators of 1670 and Heweliusz
This is not the end of attractions for fans of Netflix’s series at the Wroclaw festival. As part of the same series, a preview of selected scenes from the second season of 1670 will be shown at the New Horizons Cinema on Saturday 19th July at 4:15 p.m. The meeting will be attended by the crew of the series:
- Michał Sikorski (Father Jakub),
- Maciej Buchwald (director),
- Jakub Rużyłło (scriptwriter),
- Katarzyna Lewińska (costume designer)
- and Ivo Krankowski (creative producer).
On Wednesday 23rd July at 4 p.m., the New Horizons cinema will host a meeting with the creators of High Water (filmed, among others, in Wroclaw) – Jan Holoubek (director) and Anna Kępińska (producer), who this time will present and introduce the audience to the behind-the-scenes creation of the five-episode court and disaster drama Heweliusz. This production was also filmed in the capital of Lower Silesia.
Actress Justyna Wasilewska will talk about her role in the drama, which was inspired by the true events of an unexplained disaster in the Baltic Sea in 1993. The series will premiere in November 2025.
Tickets to First Look at Netflix’s TV Series meetings
Tickets for meetings within the First Look at Netflix’s TV Series series cost PLN 27 (for more information, visit the official website of the BNP Paribas New Horizons Festival).
