New York Film Festival 2024

In addition to the films below, there are several short film showcases in this strand.

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7 Walks with Mark Brown (7 Promenades Avec Mark Brown) (Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Vincent Barré, Pierre Creton; Writer: Vincent Barré, Pierre Creton)
Documentary follows paleobotanist Mark Brown across the Pays des Caux region in Normandy as he seeks out native plants from which an ancient garden could be created.
The Ballad Of Suzanne Césaire (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich; Writer: Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich; Stars: Zita Hanrot, Motell Gyn Foster, Josué Gutierrez, Reese Antoinette, Melisa Lopez)
Biopic about the Martinican writer and activist.
Bluish (Country: Austria; Year: 2024; Director: Milena Czernovsky, Lilith Kraxner; Stars: Leonie Bramberger, Natasha Goncharova)
Consdiration of the lives of two isolated young women.
Bona (Country: Philippines; Year: 1980; Director: Lino Brocka; Writer: Cenen Ramones; Stars: Nora Aunor, Phillip Salvador, Marissa Delgado, Raquel Monteza, Venchito Galvez, Rustica Carpio, Nanding Josef, Spanky Manikan, The PETA Kalinangan Ensemble, Archi Adamos, Rene Hawkins, Joel Lamangan)
Drama focusing on a woman who falls for a womaniser.
Direct Action (Country: France, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell)
Documents the everyday lives of one of the most high-profile militant activist communities in France and asks whether the success of a radical protest movement can offer a path through the climate crisis.
Exergue – On Documenta 14 (Country: Greece; Year: 2024; Director: Dimitris Athyridis; Writer: Dimitris Athyridis)
The film follows artistic director Adam Szymczyk and his curatorial team over two years as they prepare documenta 14.
Fire Of Wind (Fogo Do Vento) (Country: Portugal, Switzerland, France; Year: 2024; Director: Marta Mateus; Writer: Marta Mateus; Stars: Soraia Prudêncio, Maria Catarina Sapata, Safir Eizner, José Moura, Maria Clara Madeira)
Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose. Up in the oak trees, time swells, and a community takes shelter.
Jimmy (Country: France, Turkey; Year: 2024; Director: Yashaddai Owens)
Imagines James Baldwin's experiences in 1948 Paris.
Little, Big, And Far (Country: US, Austria; Year: 2024; Director: Jem Cohen; Stars: Mario Silva)
An astronomer named Karl, who has been re-evaluating his work and life after turning 70, travels to a mountaintop on a Greek island in search of the darkest sky against which to view the cosmos.
Lázaro At Night (Lázaro at Night) (Country: Mexico, Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Nicolás Pereda; Writer: Nicolás Pereda; Stars: Francisco Barreiro, Gabriel Nuncio, Gabino Rodríguez, Luisa Pardo, Teresita Sanchez, Clarissa Malheiros)
Drama focusing on a trio of friends, connected by a writing workshop they attended years earlier, who are all auditioning for the same movie.
The Suit (Country: Germany, Mexico, Argentina, US; Year: 2024; Director: Heinz Emigholz)
An "old white male" expounds on the future with some help from a German filmmaker and a robot version of himself from the past.
Universal Language (Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Matthew Rankin; Writer: Ila Firouzabadi, Pirouz Nemati, Matthew Rankin; Stars: Matthew Rankin, Mani Soleymanlou, Danielle Fichaud, Pirouz Nemati, Sobhan Javadi, Saba Vahedyousefi, Rojina Esmaeili)
Multilayered film that interweaves a story about a group of people trying to get frozen money out of the ice, a tale of a tour guide and a man who quits his job to visit his mother.
You Burn Me (Tú me abrasas) (Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Matías Piñeiro; Writer: Matías Piñeiro; Stars: Gabi Saidón, María Villar, María Inês Gonçalves, Agustina Muñoz, Ana Cris Barragán)
An adaptation of a chapter from Cesare Pavese’s Dialoghi con Leucò in which the Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomartis talk of desire and death.
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