The New York Film Festival is bound to be the biggest film event in the U.S. this year — that is, unless AFI can muster up a great lineup this coming November. Announcing their lineup this morning, NYFF has another spectacularly curated event this year with Steve McQueen, Chloé Zhao, Cristi Puiu, Jia Zhangke, Christian Petzold, and Hong Sang-soo all set to premiere new films.
“The disorientation and uncertainty of this tough year had the effect of returning us to core principles,” said Dennis Lim, Director of Programming for NYFF. “To put it simply, the Main Slate is our collective response to one central question: which films matter to us right now? Movies are neither made nor experienced in a vacuum, and while the works in our program predate the current moment of crisis, it’s striking to me just how many of them resonate with our unsettled present, or represent a means of transcending it. It has been a joy and a privilege to work with a brilliant, tireless programming team—the newly composed selection committee and our new team of advisors—and we are truly excited for audiences to discover and discuss these films.”
4 World Premieres.
9 films from Berlin 2020.
5 films from Venice 2020.
4 films from Cannes 2020.
3 films from Sundance 2020.
This year’s NYFF begins on September 17. You can bet that I’ll be covering it, albeit remotely, right after I am done with Fantasia and TIFF in September. An assessment of all four major fall film festivals will be posted shortly. The entire NYFF 2020 lineup can be found below:
Lovers Rock
Steve McQueen, 2020, UK, 68m
Nomadland
Chloé Zhao, 2020, U.S., 108m
French Exit
Azazel Jacobs, 2020, U.S., 110m
Atarrabi and Mikelats
Eugène Green, 2020, France/Belgium, 123m
Beginning
Dea Kulumbegashvili, 2020, Georgia, 125m
The Calming
Song Fang, 2020, China, 93m
City Hall
Frederick Wiseman, 2020, U.S., 272m
Days
Tsai Ming-liang, 2020, Taiwan/France, 127m
The Disciple
Chaitanya Tamhane, 2020, India, 128m
Gunda
Victor Kossakovsky, 2020, Norway, 93m
I Carry You With Me (Te llevo conmigo)
Heidi Ewing, 2020, U.S./Mexico, 111m
Isabella
Matías Piñeiro, 2020, Argentina, 80m
Malmkrog
Cristi Puiu, 2020, Romania, 200m
Mangrove
Steve McQueen, 2020, UK, 126m
MLK/FBI
Sam Pollard, 2020, U.S., 104m
Night of the Kings
Philippe Lacôte, 2020, France/Ivory Coast/Canada/Senegal, 93m
Notturno
Gianfranco Rosi, 2020, Italy/France/Germany, 100m
Red, White and Blue
Steve McQueen, 2020, UK
The Salt of Tears
Philippe Garrel, 2020, France, 100m
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
Jia Zhangke, 2020, China, 112m
Time
Garrett Bradley, 2020, U.S., 81m
Tragic Jungle
Yulene Olaizola, 2020, Mexico, 96m
The Truffle Hunters
Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, 2020, Italy/U.S./Greece, 84m
Undine
Christian Petzold, 2020, Germany, 90m
The Woman Who Ran
Hong Sangsoo, 2020, South Korea, 77m
When one amigo gets hit, the other two show up. That's been the deal for three decades between Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Guillermo del Toro and Alfonso Cuarón, and it's playing out in real time this weekend