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NYFF54

Always one of the best times in New York, the New York Film Festival will return for its incredible 54th year from September 30 – October 16 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Today NYFF has announced the full main slate, which now complements the previously announced opening night, centerpiece, and closing night selections. Find those posted below with a little synopsis, along with the full list of main slate films below.

The 13th - NYFF 2016

Opening the festival is Ava DuVernay’s documentary The 13th, which is the first time a nonfiction work has opened the festival. The doc chronicles the history of racial inequality in the United States, and how our country has produced the highest rate of incarceration in the world, with a majority being African-Americans. With the title taken from the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. (“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States . . .” The 13th is sure to be a powerful and sobering look at American as a whole.

20th Century Women - NYFF 2016

Mike Mills’ (Beginners, Thumbsucker) 20th Century Women will act as the festivals Centerpiece. Described as a comedy that redefines itself as it goes along, Annette Bening stars as a single mother raising her son (Lucas Jade Zumann), in a shared bohemian house also lived in by a carpenter (Billy Crudup) and a punk artist (Greta Gerwig). Then there’s her sons rebellious friend (Elle Fanning).

The Lost City Of Z - NYFF 2016

And closing the festival will be James Gray’s The Lost City Of Z, which tells the story of Lieutenant Colonel Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam), a British military-man-turned-explorer, who goes searching for a lost city in the Amazon, that grows into an epic tale that tests him in every way. The Lost City Of Z also stars Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland.

Aquarius
Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho

Certain Women
Directed by Kelly Reichardt

Elle
Directed by Paul Verhoeven

Fire at Sea / Fuocoammare
Directed by Gianfranco Rosi

Graduation / Bacalaureat
Directed by Cristian Mungiu

Hermia and Helena
Directed by Matías Piñeiro

I, Daniel Blake
Directed by Ken Loach

Julieta
Directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Manchester by the Sea
Directed by Kenneth Lonergan

Moonlight
Directed by Barry Jenkins

My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea
Directed by Dash Shaw

Neruda
Directed by Pablo Larraín

Paterson
Directed by Jim Jarmusch

Personal Shopper
Directed by Olivier Assayas

The Rehearsal
Directed by Alison Maclean

Sieranevada
Directed by Cristi Puiu

Son of Joseph / Le fils de Joseph
Directed by Eugène Green

Staying Vertical / Rester vertical
Directed by Alain Guiraudie

Things to Come / L’Avenir
Directed by Mia Hansen-Løve

Toni Erdmann
Directed by Maren Ade

The Unknown Girl
Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne

Yourself and Yours
Directed by Hong Sangsoo


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