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Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, plans for NYFF have yet to be fully confirmed. The current plan is to hold a hybrid event from September 17 to October 11. Organisers have said the 58th edition of the festival - which will open with Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock and have Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland as its centrepiece gala - will focus on outdoor and virtual screenings.
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New York Latest Reviews
Based on newly declassified files, Sam Pollard's documentary explores the US government's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King Jr.
A documentary about the history of voter suppression in the United States.
A film of Byrne's acclaimed Broadway show.
A Manhattan socialite whose inheritance is running out moves to a borrowed apartment in Paris with her son and cat.
In a sleepy provincial town, a Jehovah Witness community is attacked by an extremist group. In the midst of this conflict, the familiar world of Yana, the wife of the community leader, slowly crumbles.
Undine is a city historian on urban development in a Berlin museum, the 'place by the swamp'. When her boyfriend leaves her, she vows to kill the faithless man but soon meets another.
A woman in her sixties who, after losing everything following the Great Recession, embarks on a journey through the American West, lives as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad.
A drama set in London's West Indian community.
Documentary about the everyday life in the Middle East that lies behind the continuing tragedy of civil wars, ferocious dictatorships, foreign invasions and interference, up to the murderous apocalypse of ISIS.
When a woman suspects her husband of an affair, her dad encourages her to join him on a mission to uncover the truth.
New York Film Festival Features
New York Film Festival News
Filming sensations Mathieu Amalric on Pierre Léon, Jeanne Balibar and the sounds and colours of Barbara
Character arc Seth A Smith on filming with a two-year-old and bringing marbling to life in The Crescent
Keeping up appearances Marcello Martinessi on cultural conservatism and filmmaking honesty in The Heiresses
A different space Kelly Macdonald on working with Marc Turtletaub on Puzzle
Out of the past Susanna Nicchiarelli on Trine Dyrholm and the costume design in Nico, 1988
The iconic man Jonathan Baker on Becoming Iconic and Inconceivable
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