New York Film Festival Unveils Main Slate
Cannes’ two top prizewinners, Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light (Grand Prize) and Sean Baker’s Anora (Palme d’Or) are among 32 features from 18 countries set for the New York Film Festival’s Main Slate, unveiled today.
Other titles at the venerable New York City mainstay include Roberto Minervini’s The Damned and Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl (which shared Best Director, Un Certain Regard); Miguel Gomes’s Grand Tour (Cannes Best Director); Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Cannes, Special Prize); Mati Diop’s Dahomey (Berlinale Golden Bear); and David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds in its U.S. premiere.
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Two U.S. directors will have world premieres: Robinson Devor’s Suburban Fury, a nonfiction portrait of would-be presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore dramatized against the background of 1970s political unrest and militancy; and Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow, a documentary on the persistence of independent journalism in Putin’s Russia during the period leading up to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
“The festival’s ambition is to reflect the state of cinema in a given year, which often means also reflecting the state of the world,” said NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim. “The most notable thing about the films in the Main Slate — and in the other sections that we will announce in the coming weeks — is the degree to which they emphasize cinema’s relationship to reality. They are reminders that, in the hands of its most vital practitioners, film has the capacity to reckon with, intervene in, and reimagine the world.”
Two directors will each bring a pair of films to the festival — Hong Sangsoo with A Traveler’s Needs (Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize) and By the Stream; and Wang Bing with the remaining chapters of the Youth trilogy, Youth (Hard Times) and Youth (Homecoming).
David Cronenberg returns with The Shrouds, Alain Guiraudie with Misericordia, Mike Leigh with Hard Truths, and Paul Schrader with Oh, Canada.
The 62nd edition unspools September 27–October 14. Screenings will be held at Lincoln Center and four partner venues across the city — Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Staten Island), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) (Brooklyn), The Bronx Museum (Bronx), and the Museum of the Moving Image (Queens).
As previously announced, the Opening Night selection is RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys; Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door is the Centerpiece; and Steve McQueen’s Blitz, is Closing Night.
New York Film Festival Main Slate
All We Imagine as Light, Payal Kapadia: France/India/Netherlands/Luxembourg (Sideshow/Janus Films)
Anora, Sean Baker: US (Neon)
April, Dea Kulumbegashvili: France/Georgia/Italy
The Brutalist, Brady Corbet: US
By the Stream, Hong Sangsoo: South Korea (Cinema Guild)
Caught by the Tides, Jia Zhangke: China (Sideshow/Janus Films)
Dahomey, Mati Diop: France/Senegal/Benin (MUBI)
The Damned, Roberto Minervini: Italy/U.S./Belgium
Eephus, Carson Lund: U.S./France
Grand Tour, Miguel Gomes: Portugal/Italy/France (MUBI)
Happyend, Neo Sora: Japan/U.S
Hard Truths, Mike Leigh: UK/Spain (Bleecker Street)
Harvest, Athina Rachel Tsangari: UK/US/Germany/France
Misericordia, Alain Guiraudie: France (Sideshow/Janus Films)
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow, Julia Loktev: US
No Other Land, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor: Palestine/Norway
Oh, Canada, Paul Schrader: Canada
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, Rungano Nyoni: Zambia/U.K./Ireland (A24)
Pepe, Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias: Dominican Republic/Namibia/Germany/France
The Seed of the Sacred Fig, Mohammad Rasoulof: Iran/Germany/France (Neon)
The Shrouds, David Cronenberg: (France/Canada)
Stranger Eyes, Yeo Siew Hua: Singapore
Suburban Fury, Robinson Devor: US
Transamazonia, Pia Marais: France/Germany/Switzerland/Taiwan/Brazil
A Traveler’s Needs, Hong Sangsoo: South Korea (Cinema Guild)
??Vi?t and Nam, Tr??ng Minh Quy: Philippines/France/Singapore/Italy/Germany/Vietnam (Strand Releasing)
Who by Fire, Philippe Lesage: Canada/France
Youth (Hard Times), Wang Bing: France/Luxembourg/Netherlands (Icarus Films)
Youth (Homecoming), Wang Bing: France/Luxembourg/Netherlands (Icarus Films)
Opening Night
Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross: US (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios)
Centerpiece
The Room Next Door, Pedro Almodóvar: Spain (Sony Pictures Classics)
Closing Night
Blitz, Steve McQueen: UK (Apple Original Films)
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