New York Movie Competition Unveils Major Slate For 61st Version

Movie at Lincoln Heart has set the 32 options from 18 international locations making up the Major Slate of the New York Movie Competition, from Cannes prize-winners Anatomy Of A Fall by Justine Triet (Palme d’Or) and Zone Of Curiosity by Jonathan Glazer (Grand Prix), to the most recent by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, Hong Sangsoo, Radu Jude, Yorgos Lanthimos and Alice Rohrwacher.

Wenders’s Excellent Days noticed a Greatest Actor for Kōji  Yakusho in Cannes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses a Greatest Actress for Merve Dizdar. Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves obtained the Grand Jury Prize. Hailing from Berlin, Angela Schanelec’s Music, Silver Bear winner for Greatest Screenplay.

The lineup contains movies from Lisandro Alonso, Marco Bellocchio, Bertrand Bonello, Catherine Breillat, Bas Devos, Víctor Erice, Kleber Mendonça Filho and Martín Rejtman. Showing within the Major Slate for the primary time: Annie Baker, Devos, Felipe Gálvez, Glazer, Andrew Haigh, Raven Jackson, Michael Mann, Rodrigo Moreno, Paul B. Preciado and Wang Bing and Zhang Lu.

A particular addition this yr is the North American premiere of a newly unearthed and restored brief by Agnès Varda that includes Pier Paolo Pasolini and shot whereas they had been on the town for the 4th NYFF in 1966, strolling via Occasions Sq.. The weather had been found in 2021 and restored by Cine-Tamaris in collaboration with L’Immagine Ritrovata.

NYFF, set to run Sept. 29 to Oct. 15 at Lincoln Heart and venues throughout the town. The occasion is a cultural touchstone for New York Metropolis and beloved by filmmakers, remaining a key cease on the autumn competition circuit though it awards no prizes. As with different fests, crimson carpets, occasions and Q&As must be re-thought amid ongoing Hollywood strikes.

“The unsettled state of the industry is an unavoidable talking point these days, but my hope is that our festival, as it has done through its 61-year history, will serve as a reminder that the art of cinema is in robust health,” stated Inventive Director Dennis Lim.

“The filmmakers in this year’s Main Slate are grappling with eternal questions—about how movies relate to the world, about what it means to make art from life, about the most interesting ways to approach the contemporary moment and the historical past—and the answers they have proposed are thrilling in their variety, ingenuity, and urgency,” he stated.

NYFF will provide competition screenings in all 5 boroughs in partnership with Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Staten Island), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) (Brooklyn), the Bronx Museum of the Arts (Bronx), Maysles Documentary Heart in Harlem, and the Museum of the Shifting Picture (Queens) – every presenting a number of movies all through the competition.

As beforehand reported, the Opening Evening choice is Todd Haynes’s Might December (Netflix); Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla (A24) is the Centerpiece; and Michael Mann’s Ferrari (Neon) the closing evening movie.

NYFF MAIN SLATE

About Dry Grasses, Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Sideshow/Janus Movies)

All Salt Dust Roads Style of Salt, Raven Jackson (A24)

All of Us Strangers, Andrew Haigh (Searchlight Footage)

Anatomy of a Fall, Justine Triet (Neon)

The Beast, Bertrand Bonello

La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher (Neon)

Shut Your Eyes, Víctor Erice

The Delinquents, Rodrigo Moreno (MUBI)

Do Not Anticipate Too A lot from the Finish of the World, Radu Jude

Eureka, Lisandro Alonso

Evil Does Not Exist, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi

Fallen Leaves, Aki Kaurismäki

Inexperienced Border, Agnieszka Holland (MUBU)

Right here, Bas Devos (Cinema Guild)

In Our Day, Hong Sangsoo (Cinema Guild)

In Water, Hong Sangsoo (Cinema Guild)

Janet Planet, Annie Baker (A24)

Kidnapped, Marco Bellocchio, (Cohen Media Group)

Final Summer time, Catherine Breillat (Sideshow/Janus Movies)

Music, Angela Schanelec (Cinema Guild)

Orlando, My Political Biography, Paul B. Preciado (Sideshow/Janus Movies).

Excellent Days, Wim Wenders (NEON)

Footage of Ghosts, Kleber Mendonça Filho (Grasshopper Movie)

Poor Issues, Yorgos Lanthimos (Searchlight Footage)

La Práctica, Martín Rejtman

The Settlers, Felipe Gálvez (MUBI)

The Shadowless Tower, Zhang Lu (Strand Releasing)

Youth (Spring), Wang Bing (Icarus Movies)

The Zone of Curiosity, Jonathan Glazer (A24)

The NYFF Major Slate choice committee, chaired by Lim, contains Florence Almozini, Justin Chang, Ok. Austin Collins and Rachel Rosen.

Currents, Revivals, Highlight, and Talks can be introduced in coming weeks.