*The New York Film Festival (NYFF) gets better and better.
The lineup continues to offer the best in films and talks, with its amazing filmmakers and stars.
This year marked the 62nd year of the New York Film Festival (NYFF62) that runs through October 14 at Lincoln Center and, in four partner venues across the city.
Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) announced that thirty-two films are diverse.
“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 Dennis Lim, NYFF’s Artistic Director.
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The Opening Night selection is “Nickel Boys,” directed by RaMell Ross (“Hale County This Morning, This Evening”) starring Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Hamish Linklater, and Daveed Diggs. It’s based on Colson Whitehead’s (“The Underground Railroad”) novel about two Black teenagers who become wards of a barbaric juvenile reformatory in Jim Crow–era Florida.
“The Room Next Door,” directed by Pedro Almodóvar, with Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, and John Turturro is the Centerpiece. Returning filmmaker Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave,” “Mangrove,” “Red, White and Blue”) has the Closing Night selection, “Blitz.” The film stars Saoirse Ronan, Elliott Heffernan, Paul Weller, Erin Kellyman, and Benjamin Clementine.
Also, returning is Mati Diop with “Dahomey.” The African kingdom of Dahomey, which ruled over its region of the continent until the turn of the 20th century, saw hundreds of its splendid royal artifacts plundered by French colonial troops. Now, as twenty-six of these treasures are set to return to their homeland, filmmaker Mati Diop documents their voyage back.
In addition, the lineup includes “Hard Truths,” “Jimmy,” “Maria,” “Anora,” “April,” “The Brutalist,” “By the Stream,” “Caught by the Tides,” “The Damned,” “Eephus,” “Grand Tour,” “Happyend,” “Harvest,” “My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow,” “No Other Land,” “Oh, Canada,” “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl,” “Pepe,” “Youth,” “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” “The Shrouds,” “A Traveler’s Needs,” “Việt Nam,” and Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s “The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire.”
Suzanne Césaire was a feminist activist as well as a member of the Négritude movement in Paris in the 1930s. For this bold project of reclamation, filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich burrows to the complex truths about a woman, artist, and mother forgotten in history.
For more information, go to: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2024/
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