2024 New York Film Festival announces key line-up including Cannes winners Anora and Sacred Fig Seeds and the U.S. premiere of Mike Leigh cruel truthDavid Cronenberg shroud and Roberto Milevini’s damn itthe film also won an award in Cannes.
In fact, in addition to Sean Baker, there are many Cannes Film Festival winners on the New York Film Festival’s main roster. Anorawon the Cannes Palme d’Or; Iranian exiled director Mohammad Rasoulof Sacred Fig Seedswon a special award; and damn itWinner of the Un Certain Regard Award for Best Director, shared with Rungano Nyoni become a guinea fowl, which will also be screened at the New York Film Festival. Other Cannes Film Festival favorites set to play in New York include Payal Kapadia’s Everything we imagine is lightWinner of the Grand Prize at the French Film Festival, Miguel Gomez’s work grand tourwon the Cannes Best Director Award.
The festival will also feature works by Berlin laureates including Golden Bear winner Mati Diop dahomey; Hong Sang-soo’s Traveler needs (Jury Silver Bear); Adela Basel, Hamdan Baral, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Saul no other land (Panorama Audience Award and Berlin Film Festival Documentary Award) and Philippe Lesage’s who was burned (Jackpot, Generation).
Film festival will feature world premiere of Robinson Devor suburban rage — A nonfiction look at Sara Jane Moore’s attempt to assassinate President Gerald Ford, set against the backdrop of the political turmoil of the 1970s — with Julia Loktev ) s work My Unwelcome Friend: Part One – The Last Air in MoscowThis documentary follows the persistence of independent journalism in Russia under Putin in the run-up to the invasion of Ukraine.
Other major films include Hong Sang-soo’s By the streamAlain Giroddi mercyPaul Schrader oh canada And the remaining chapters of Wang Bing’s Youth Trilogy: Youth (hard times) and Youth (return).
“The goal of the festival is to reflect the state of cinema in a given year, which often means reflecting the state of the world,” New York Film Festival artistic director Dennis Lim said in a statement. “The main slate and our What’s most noteworthy about the films in other sections, to be announced in the coming weeks, is the extent to which they emphasize cinema’s relationship with reality. They remind us that, in the hands of its most important practitioners, cinema has the power to think, intervene and reimagine the world. .
The festival was previously announced to open with a work by RaMell Ross nickel boy and getting close to Steve McQueen blitzkriegPedro Almodóvar’s English-language feature debut, premieres in the United States next door room as its core film.
The 62nd New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center, will run September 27-October. 14 at Lincoln Center in Manhattan and at four partner venues in other boroughs: Alamo Drawing Room Cinema (Staten Island), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) (Brooklyn), Bronx Museum (Bronx) and Mobile Image Museum (Queens).
