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The 49th edition of the New York festival celebrating new cinematic voices was postponed from its scheduled run from March 25 to April 5 due to the pandemic. It is running instead, from December 9 to 20 as a virtual edition.
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![Anne At 13,000 ft](/images/stills/a/anne_at_13000_ft_2019.jpg)
Even in her job at a children’s day care centre, Anne prefers fun to actual work and often alienates those around her with her erratic behaviour.
![Two Of Us](/images/stills/t/two_of_us_2019.jpg)
Two retired women, who have been in a secret relationship for decades, find their relationship turned upside down when the truth begins to come out.
![Boys State](/images/stills/b/boys_state_2020.jpg)
In an unusual experiment, a thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up.
![Giraffe](/images/stills/g/giraffe_2019.jpg)
A Danish summer: A tunnel is being built to connect Denmark and Germany. An ethnologist comes to the island of Lolland to study its inhabitants and record their traditions and objects.
![The Mole Agent](/images/stills/m/mole_agent_2020.jpg)
When a family becomes concerned about their mother’s well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio, an 83-year-old man who becomes a new resident – and a mole inside the home, who struggles to balance his assignment with becoming increasingly involved in the lives of several residents.
![The Metamorphosis Of Birds](/images/stills/m/metamorphosis_of_birds_2020.jpg)
Beatriz and Henrique fall in love and get married. He goes to sea while she raises their inquisitive children. The director brings her family's story to the screen.
![The Killing Of Two Lovers](/images/stills/k/killing_of_two_lovers_2020.jpg)
David desperately tries to keep his family of six together during a separation from his wife. They both agree to see other people but David struggles to grapple with his wife’s new relationship.
![Collective](/images/stills/c/collective_2019.jpg)
Documentary considering the aftermath of a nightclub fire that exposed deep corruption in the Romanian healthcare system.
![Atlantis](/images/stills/a/atlantis_2019.jpg)
In a near-future war-torn Ukraine a man with PTSD takes a volunteer job exhuming the dead.
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