NYFF Directors Dialogues announced

High Life to feature in On Cinema discussion

by Anne-Katrin Titze

Claire Denis, the director of High Life starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin, and Mia Goth will participate in an On Cinema discussion with Kent Jones the 56th New York Film Festival presented by HBO.
Claire Denis, the director of High Life starring Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin, and Mia Goth will participate in an On Cinema discussion with Kent Jones the 56th New York Film Festival presented by HBO. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the Directors Dialogues and On Cinema discussion, presented by HBO for the 56th New York Film Festival. The Directors Dialogues are with Alfonso Cuarón of Centerpiece selection ROMA; Ash Is Purest White director Jia Zhangke, and Happy As Lazzaro (Lazzaro Felice) director Alice Rohrwacher, whose films will screen in the Main Slate of the festival. Errol Morris, the director of Spotlight on Documentary selection American Dharma, will also take part in a Directors Dialogue.

New York Film Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones will have an On Cinema talk with High Life director Claire Denis. High Life stars Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, André Benjamin and Mia Goth, and is also screening in the Main Slate.

Tickets for the 56th New York Film Festival will go on sale to the general public on September 9.

The 2018 New York Film Festival runs from September 28 through October 14.

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