New York Film Festival 2016

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The Death of Louis XIV (La mort de Louis XIV, Last Days Of Louis XIV) (Country: France; Year: 2016; Director: Albert Serra; Writer: Thierry Lounas, Albert Serra; Stars: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Filipe Duarte, Patrick d'Assumçao, José Wallenstein, Bernard Belin, Irène Silvagni, Philippe Crespeau, Marc Susini)
Drama about the final days of the Sun King.
Everything Else (Todo lo demás) (Country: Mexico; Year: 2016; Director: Natalia Almada; Writer: Natalia Almada; Stars: Adriana Barraza)
Story of a government clerk who has been ground down by 35 years of working in bureaucracy.
I Had Nowhere To Go (Country: Germany; Year: 2016; Director: Douglas Gordon; Writer: Douglas Gordon, Ninon Liotet; Stars: Jonas Mekas)
Portrait of US avant-garde pioneer Jonas Mekas.
Kékszakállú (Country: Argentina; Year: 2016; Director: Gastón Solnicki)
Portrait of spiritual lethargy.
Mimosas (Country: France, Spain, Morocco; Year: 2016; Director: Oliver Laxe; Writer: Oliver Laxe, Santiago Fillol ; Stars: Abdelatif Hwidar, Ilham Oujri, Shakib Ben Omar, Ahmed Hammoud, Hamid Farjad, Said Agli, Margarita Albores, Laaziza Ikram, Moe Mohamed Oummad, Ahmed El Othmani)
Faust meets Arabic myth in the Moroccan desert.
The Ornithologist (O Ornitólogo) (Country: Portugal, France, Brazil; Year: 2016; Director: João Pedro Rodrigues; Writer: João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata; Stars: Paul Hamy, Xelo Cagiao, João Pedro Rodrigues, Han Wen, Chan Suan, Juliane Elting )
An ornithologist searching for black storks is swept away by rapids and awakens in a mysterious, dark forest.
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