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.
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.
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).
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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