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Alcarràs and Aftersun
Aftersun
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2022; Director: Charlotte Wells; Writer: Charlotte Wells; Stars: Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall, Kayleigh Coleman, Sally Messham, Harry Perdios, Ethan Smith, Ruby Thompson, Brooklyn Toulson)
Sometime in the Nineties, somewhere in a Turkish coastal resort, a young, divorced father is spending the vacation with his daughter pre-teen daughter Sophie.
Alcarràs
(Country: Spain, Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Carla Simón; Writer: Carla Simón; Stars: Jordi Pujol Dolcet, Anna Otin, Xènia Roset, Albert Bosch, Ainet Jounou, Josep Abad, Montse Oró, Carles Cabós, Berta Pipó, Isaac Rovira, Joel Rovira)
The Solé family spends the summer picking peaches - but this year’s crop may well be their last as new owners plan to replace the peach trees with solar panels and the family’s livelihood is threatened.
North American premiere
All That Breathes
(Country: UK, India; Year: 2022; Director: Shaunak Sen; Stars: Mohammad Saud, Nadeem Shehzad)
Against the darkening backdrop of Delhi's apocalyptic air and escalating violence, two brothers devote their lives to protect one casualty of the turbulent times: the bird known as the black kite.
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Laura Poitras; Stars: Nan Goldin)
The story of artist Nan Goldin and the downfall of the Sackler family, the pharmaceutical dynasty often blamed for the US opioid epidemic.
Centrepiece selection
Armageddon Time
(Country: Brazil, US; Year: 2022; Director: James Gray; Writer: James Gray; Stars: Anne Hathaway, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Strong, Domenick Lombardozzi, Tovah Feldshuh, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Teddy Coluca, Michael Banks Repeta, Andrew Polk, Dane West, Lauren Yaffe, Dupree Francois Porter, Griffin Wallace Henkel, Marcia Haufrecht, Ryan Sell)
Coming-of-age drama set against the backdrop of the Reagan era.
NYFF 60th Anniversary Celebration
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed and No Bears
Corsage
(Country: Austria, France, Germany, Luxembourg; Year: 2022; Director: Marie Kreutzer; Writer: Marie Kreutzer; Stars: Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Finnegan Oldfield, Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasun, Manuel Rubey, Colin Morgan, Rosa Hajjaj, Lilly Marie Tschörtner , Aaron Friesz, Ivana Urban, Raphael von Bargen, Alexander Pschill, Regina Fritsch, Raphael Nicholas)
A period drama about Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi.
Full Review
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Marie Kreutzer in conversation on Empress Elisabeth of Austria with King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Luchino Visconti, Finnegan Oldfield’s Louis Le Prince and the biographies of Sisi
, Marie Kreutzer in conversation on Corsage, Vicky Krieps as Sisi, singer/songwriter Camille, and the look of the film
, Vicky Krieps in conversation on Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, Romy Schneider, and Margarethe von Trotta’s Bachmann & Frisch
US premiere
, Marie Kreutzer in conversation on Corsage, Vicky Krieps as Sisi, singer/songwriter Camille, and the look of the film
, Vicky Krieps in conversation on Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, Romy Schneider, and Margarethe von Trotta’s Bachmann & Frisch
A Couple (Un Couple)
(Country: France, US; Year: 2022; Director: Frederick Wiseman; Stars: Nathalie Boutefeu)
US premiere
The story of the relationship between Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sophia.
Decision To Leave
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Park Chan-wook; Writer: Park Chan-wook, Seo-kyeong Jeong; Stars: Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Go Kyung-Pyo, Lee Jung-Hyun, Park Yong-woo)
A detective investigates a man's death in the mountains.
Descendant
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Margaret Brown)
Clotilda, the last ship carrying enslaved Africans to the United States, arrived in Alabama 40 years after African slave trading became a capital offense. It was promptly burned, and its existence denied. After a century shrouded in secrecy and speculation, descendants of the Clotilda’s survivors are reclaiming their story.
De Humani Corporis Fabrica
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel)
US premiere
Five centuries ago, anatomist André Vésale opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, De Humani Corporis Fabrica opens the human body to the cinema.
Corsage and Trenque Lauquen
Enys Men
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Mark Jenkin; Writer: Mark Jenkin; Stars: John Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Mary Woodvine, Morgan Val Baker, Isaac Woodvine, Callum Mitchell, Dion Star)
A volunteer observing a rare wild flower finds the different worlds that have inhabited the island where she is beginning to collide.
US premiere
EO
(Country: Poland; Year: 2022; Director: Jerzy Skolimowski; Writer: Ewa Piaskowska, Jerzy Skolimowski; Stars: Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Sandra Drzymalska, Tomasz Organek)
Tale revolving around an unassuming grey donkey.
US premiere
The Eternal Daughter
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2022; Director: Joanna Hogg; Writer: Joanna Hogg; Stars: Tilda Swinton, Joseph Mydell, Carly-Sophia Davies)
A ghost story about a middle-aged daughter and her elderly mother must confront long-buried secrets when they return to their former family home, a once-grand manor that has become a nearly vacant hotel brimming with mystery.
The Inspection
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Elegance Bratton; Writer: Elegance Bratton; Stars: Jeremy Pope, Gabrielle Union, Bokeem Woodbine, Raúl Castillo, McCaul Lombardi, Nicholas Logan, Eman Esfandi, Aaron Dominguez, Aubrey Joseph, Andrew Kai, Tyler Merritt, Steve Mokate, Brad Napp, Daniel Williamson, Wynn Reichert)
Drama based on the filmmaker's own experiences as a gay man in Marine Corps basic training following a decade of living on the streets.
Closing night. US premiere
Master Gardener
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Paul Schrader; Writer: Paul Schrader; Stars: Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, Quintessa Swindell, Eduardo Losan, Esai Morales, Rick Cosnett, Victoria Hill, Amy Le)
A meticulous horticulturist who is devoted to tending the grounds of a beautiful estate and pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager, is persuaded to take on her great niece as an apprentice.
North American premiere
Scarlet and Enys Men
The Novelist's Film
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Hong Sang-soo; Writer: Hong Sang-soo; Stars: Yunhee Cho, Lee Eun-mi, Ju-bong Gi, Seong-guk Ha, Lee Hye-yeong, Hae-hyo Kwon, Kim Min-hee, Mi-so Park, Kim Si-Ha, Seo Younghwa)
North American premiere
A film built on chance encounters.
No Bears
(Year: 2022; Director: Jafar Panahi; Writer: Jafar Panahi; Stars: Jafar Panahi, Mina Kavani, Bülent Keser, Vahid Mobasheri, Sinan Yusufoglu, Naser Hashemi, Bakhtiyar Panjeei, Reza Heydari, Mina Khosrovani)
The director appears as himself, relocated to a rural border town to remotely oversee the making of a new film in Turkey, the story of which comes to sharply parallel disturbing events that begin to occur around him.
US premiere
One Fine Morning
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Mia Hansen-Løve; Writer: Mia Hansen-Løve; Stars: Léa Seydoux, Melvil Poupaud, Nicole Garcia, Pascal Greggory, Kester Lovelace, Ema Zampa)
A woman who is raising her daughter alone and looking after her dad, who has a degenerative disease, embarks on a passionate affair.
Pacifiction (Tourment sur les îles)
(Country: Spain, France, Germany, Portugal; Year: 2022; Director: Albert Serra; Writer: Albert Serra; Stars: Benoît Magimel, Sergi López, Montse Triola, Lluís Serrat, Marc Susini, Pahoa Mahagafanau, Matahi Pambrun, Alexandre Mello, Mareva Wong, Baptiste Pinteaux, Michael Vautor, Cyrus Arai, Laurent Brissonnaud, Mike Landscape, Cécile Guilbert)
On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government navigates the high end "establishment" as well as shady venues as a rumour abounds about the sighting of a submarine whose presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.
US premiere
Return To Seoul
(Country: Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Davy Chou)
A Frenchwoman adopted as a child returns to Korea to try to track down her birth parents.
One Fine Morning and Pacifiction
R.M.N
(Year: 2022; Director: Cristian Mungiu; Writer: Cristian Mungiu; Stars: Judith State, Marin Grigore, Orsolya Moldován, András Hatházi, Macrina Barladeanu, Zoltán Deák)
US premiere
When a man returns to his village after working away he finds resentments brewing.
Saint Omer
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Alice Diop; Writer: Alice Diop, Marie N'Diaye; Stars: Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville, Aurélia Petit)
A novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court tries to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
US premiere
Scarlet
(Country: France, Italy, Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Pietro Marcello; Writer: Pietro Marcello, Maurizio Braucci, Maud Ameline, Geneviève Brisac, based on the novel by Alexander Grin; Stars: Raphaël Thiéry, Juliette Jouan, Louis Garrel, Noémie Lvovsky, Yolande Moreau, Ernst Umhauer, François Négret, Natascha Wiese, Victoire Battist, Sienna Gillibert, Suzanne Marquis, Asia Bréchat, Antonin Stahly Viswanadhan, Inès Es Sarhir, Athénaïs Sifaoui-Blanc, Rémy Roubakha)
A wood craftsman returns from the First World War and unites with his infant daughter, who one day will receive a premonition from the local sorceress saying that scarlet sails shall take her away.
North American premiere
Showing Up
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Kelly Reichardt; Writer: Jonathan Raymond, Kelly Reichardt; Stars: Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, Maryann Plunkett, John Magaro, André 3000, Judd Hirsch, Amanda Plummer, Matt Malloy, Heather Lawless, James Le Gros, Denzel Rodriguez, Eudora Peterson, Ted Rooney, Rowan Vik, Orianna Milne)
North American premiere
Drama about an artist on the verge of an exhibition.
Stars At Noon
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Claire Denis; Writer: Claire Denis, Denis Johnson, Andrew Litvack; Stars: Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, Danny Ramirez, Nick Romano, Carlos Serrano)
North American premiere
An encounter between a mysterious businessman and a journalist committed to following developments of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, in 1984.
Decision To Leave and Armageddon Time
Stonewalling
(Country: China; Year: 2022; Director: Huang Ji, Ryûji Otsuka; Stars: Honggui Yao)
US premiere
A young flight-attendant-in-training’s plans to finish college are thrown into doubt when she discovers she’s pregnant.
Tár
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Todd Field; Writer: Todd Field; Stars: Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Mila Bogojevic, Sylvia Flote, Sydney Lemmon, Mark Strong, Allan Corduner, Zethphan D. Smith-Gneist, Adam Gopnik)
Set in the international world of classical music, this film centres on Lydia Tár. widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.
Trenque Lauquen (Trenque Lauquen Part I, Trenque Lauquen Part II)
(Year: 2022; Director: Laura Citarella; Stars: Elisa Carricajo, Verónica Llinás, Juliana Muras, Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Cecilia Rainero, Rafael Spregelburd)
Story set in the Argentinian city of the title, centring on an academic who has disappeared. The story is told across two feature films.
North American premiere
Triangle Of Sadness
(Country: Sweden, UK, US, France, Greece; Year: 2022; Director: Ruben Östlund; Writer: Ruben Östlund; Stars: Woody Harrelson, Harris Dickinson, Charlbi Dean, Hanna Oldenburg, Zlatko Buric, Oliver Ford Davies, Linda Anborg, Iris Berben, Carolina Gynning, Sunnyi Melles, Malte Gårdinger, Vicki Berlin, Arvin Kananian, Beata Borelius, Shaniaz Hama Ali)
A yacht for the super-rich sinks, leaving its passengers marooned on an island.
Unrest
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2022; Director: Cyril Schäublin; Writer: Cyril Schäublin; Stars: Valentin Merz, Clara Gostynski, Alexei Evstratov, Nikolai Bosshardt, Mayo Irion, Li Tavor, Daniel Stähli, Hélio Thiémard, Monika Stalder, Laurent Ferrero, Laurence Bretignier)
US premiere
A watch factory worker gets involved with a movement of anarchist watchmakers where she meets philosopher Pyotr Kropotkin.
All That Breathes and Saint Omer
Walk Up
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2022; Director: Hong Sang-soo; Stars: Kwon Haehyo, Lee Hyeyoung, Mi-so Park)
US premiere
A middle-aged film director and the daughter he hasn't seen in years visit a building owned by an interior designer... but something unusual happens during the tour.
White Noise
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Noah Baumbach; Writer: Noah Baumbach, based on the book by Don DeLillo; Stars: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, André L. Benjamin and Lars Eidinger, Barbara Sukowa)
An Eighties American family attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.
Opening night. North American premiere
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