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New Directors/New Films

2012

Now in its 41st year, the New Directors/New Films collaboration between The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art in New York will screen 29 features and 12 shorts from 28 countries.

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  • How To Survive A Plague
    Review preview for How To Survive A Plague

    This is not just a piece of history, it's a how-to guide with lasting relevance.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The story of Act Up and the ordinary people who transformed the tratment of AIDS.
  • Gimme The Loot
    Review preview for Gimme The Loot

    Vibrant, funny and ultimately touching, Leon's loose limbed narrative is an ode to both the tribulations of adolescence and the city in which it's set.

    Neil Mitchell · 3.5 out of 5
    A pair of graffiti artists attempt to pull off a daring tagging mission
  • It Looks Pretty From A Distance
    Review preview for It Looks Pretty From A Distance

    Grim and unremitting, it's hard to go the distance.

    Amber Wilkinson · 2.5 out of 5
    When a scrap merchant vanishes from a small Polish town, it sets in motion an unexpected chain of events.
  • 5 Broken Cameras
    Review preview for 5 Broken Cameras

    This is a deeply personal account of life in Palestine, and also one which sends out a strong political message.

    Val Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A Palestinian journalist chronicles his village’s resistance to a separation barrier being erected on their land and in the process captures his young son’s lens on the world.
  • Where Do We Go Now?
    Review preview for Where Do We Go Now?

    Labaki manages to get across a view of life that is not predominant in cinematic stories, without making it seem like an agenda.

    Lindis Kipp · 5 out of 5
    A group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.
  • The Raid
    Review preview for The Raid

    Bruce Lee is back, and he's Indonesian.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An elite SWAT team try to clear out an apartment complex controlled by a drug dealer, but nothing goes to plan.
  • The Ambassador
    Review preview for The Ambassador

    Subversive and incendiary.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    What happens when a very white European man buys his way into being a diplomat in one of Central Africa's most failed nations?
  • Breathing
    Review preview for Breathing

    Unfortunately, the strong performances and engaging visuals come together to form a film that ultimately seems to lack direction.

    Lindis Kipp · 3.5 out of 5
    A troubled young man on day release from prison takes a job in a morgue and is inspired to go looking for the mother who abandoned him as a baby.
  • Acacias
    Review preview for Acacias

    Las Acacias is a slow subtle film which focuses on the interaction of the three main characters within the bubble of the truck's cab.

    Donald Munro · 4 out of 5
    A truck driver agrees to transport a woman and her baby, not anticipating the change it may bring to his quiet life.
  • Oslo, August 31st
    Review preview for Oslo, August 31st

    A small, quiet, very personal piece that delivers a deeply layered and well acted tale.

    Owen Van Spall · 4 out of 5
    A day in the life of a young man at the end of a drug rehab programme.

A–Z of New Directors/New Films 2012 reviews

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