New York Film Festival 2022

In addition to the films below, there will be showcase of short and medium-length works by Edward Owens.

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Blood Blood
Blood and The Passion Of Remembrance
Beirut The Encounter (Country: Lebanon, Tunisia, Belgium; Year: 1981; Director: Borhane Alaouié; Writer: Ahmed Beydoun; Stars: Haithem el Amine, Nadine Acoury, Najoua Haydar, Houcem Sabbah, Renée Dick, Raafet Haydar)
Two old college lovers, one Christian, one Shiite, meet one last time before one of them leaves for the US.
Black God, White Devil (Country: Brazil; Year: 1964; Director: Glauber Rocha; Writer: Walter Lima Jr., Glauber Rocha, Paulo Gil Soares; Stars: Geraldo Del Rey, Yoná Magalhães, Othon Bastos, Maurício do Valle, Lidio Silva, Sonia Dos Humildes, João Gama, Antônio Pinto, Milton Rosa, Roque Santos, Billy Davis, Mário Gusmão, Marrom, Maria Olívia Rebouças, Regina Rosenburgo)
A ranch labourer finds himself in conflict with his boss and becomes an outlaw.
Blood (O Sangue) (Country: Portugal; Year: 1989; Director: Pedro Costa; Writer: Pedro Costa; Stars: Pedro Hestnes, Nuno Ferreira, Inês de Medeiros, Luís Miguel Cintra, Canto e Castro, Sara Breia), Official Site
After their father dies, two brothers find themselves facing up to his troubled legacy.
Canyon Passage (Country: US; Year: 1946; Director: Jacques Tourneur; Writer: Ernest Pascal, Ernest Haycox; Stars: Dana Andrews, Brian Donlevy, Susan Hayward, Patricia Roc, Ward Bond, Hoagy Carmichael, Fay Holden, Stanley Ridges, Lloyd Bridges, Andy Devine, Victor Cutler, Rose Hobart, Halliwell Hobbes, James Cardwell, Onslow Stevens)
A couple's relationship is tested by romance and greed.
A Confucian Confusion (Country: Taiwan; Year: 1994; Director: Edward Yang; Writer: Hung Hung, Edward Yang; Stars: Chen Li-Mei, Chen Shiang-chyi, Chen Yi-wen, Danny Deng, Hsu Kuei-Ying , Hung Hung, Elaine Jin, Richie Li, Shu-Chun Ni, Bosen Wang, Wei-Ming Wang, Ye-Ming Wang, Chi-Tung Yu, Mei-Yun Yu)
Drama observing the self-absorption of a group of 20somethings.
Drylongso Drylongso
Drylongso and Eight Deadly Shots
Le Damier (Country: France, Zaire, Gabon; Year: 1996; Director: Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda; Writer: Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda; Stars: Dieudonné Kabongo, Yves Mba, Pascal N'Zonzi, Jean LaCroix Kamba, Djibril Nguemongwa, 'Michou' Michel Tchibinda, Lilian Gomez, Luce Malekou, Geneviève Issembe, Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, Bonga Bakissi)
Comedy about a fictional president settling in for an all-night game of draughts.
The Day Of Despair (Country: Portugal, France; Year: 1992; Director: Manoel de Oliveira; Writer: Manoel de Oliveira; Stars: Teresa Madruga, Mário Barroso, Luís Miguel Cintra, Diogo Dória, Canto e Castro, Ruy de Carvalho, Nuno Melo, José Maria Vaz da Silva, Dina Treno, David Ferreira Dias)
The final days in the life of the 19th-century writer Camilo Castelo Branco
Drylongso (Country: US; Year: 1998; Director: Cauleen Smith; Writer: Salim Akil, Cauleen Smith; Stars: Toby Smith, April Barnett, Will Power, Channel Schafer, Salim Akil, Keith Williams, Stacey Marbrey, Tamara Washington, Timothy Braggs, Sayyed Y. Bey, Ri-Karlo Handy, Esau McGraw)
Follows a woman in a photography class in Oakland, as she begins photographing the young black men of her neighborhood, having witnessed so many of them fall victim to senseless murder and fearing the possibility of their becoming extinct altogether.
Eight Deadly Shots (Eight Fatal Shots) (Country: Finland; Year: 1972; Director: Mikko Niskanen; Writer: Mikko Niskanen; Stars: Tarja-Tuulikki Tarsala, Mikko Niskanen, Paavo Pentikäinen, Tauno Paananen, Elina Liimatainen, Ari Vainiontaus, Mauno Argillander, Sulo Hokkanen, Ilmari Piilonen, Yrjö Liehunen, Kalle Kellokangas, Olavi Tervahartiala, Kaarlo Wilska, Veikko Vakoniemi, Sakari Niskanen)
A drunken father shoots four policemen and flashback recounts events leading to the tragedy.
The Long Farewell (Country: Soviet Union; Year: 1971; Director: Kira Muratova; Writer: Natalya Ryazantseva; Stars: Zinaida Sharko, Oleg Vladimirsky, Yuriy Kayurov, Svetlana Kabanova, Sofya Belskaya, Andrey Borisenko, Lidiya Brazilskaya, Marchella Chebotarenko, Yelena Demchenko, G. Devyatova, Lidiya Dranovskaya, Oleg Emtsev, Viktor Ilchenko, Evgeniy Kovalenko, A. Maslakov)
Psychodrama about the relationship between a mother and her son.
The Mother And The Whore (La maman et la putain) (Country: France; Year: 1973; Director: Jean Eustache; Writer: Jean Eustache; Stars: Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Françoise Lebrun, Isabelle Weingarten, Jacques Renard, Jean-Noël Picq, Jean-Claude Biette, Pierre Cottrell, Jessa Darrieux, Jean Douchet, Douchka, Bernard Eisenschitz, Jean Eustache, Berthe Granval, Caroline Loeb)
Based on Eustache's own complex love life, a man and two women become trapped in a destructive love triangle.
No Fear No Die (S'en fout la mort) (Country: France, West Germany; Year: 1990; Director: Claire Denis; Writer: Claire Denis, Jean-Pol Fargeau; Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Alex Descas, Solveig Dommartin, Christopher Buchholz, Jean-Claude Brialy, Christa Lang, Gilbert Felmar, Daniel Bellus, François Oloa Biloa, Pipo Sarguera, Alain Banicles, Valérie Monnet, Jérôme Frazer)
Two migrants dream of escaping the world of cockfighting they inhabit.
The Passion Of Remembrance (Year: 1986; Director: Maureen Blackwood and Isaac Julien)
Consideration of the experience of a Black family in Britain in the Eighties.
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