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New Directors/New Films

19 March – 30 March 2014

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Now in its 43rd year, the New Directors/New Films takes place March 19-30 and is presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art.

The festival will open with vampire film A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night and close with Nick Cave portrait 20,000 Days On Earth.

Other years (14)

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Latest reviews

  • A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night
    Review preview for A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night

    An astonishing début that marks out Ana Lily Amirpour as an extraordinary directorial talent.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A lonely vampire and a young man exhausted by caring for his father come together in a nightmare city.
  • The Babadook
    Review preview for The Babadook

    Jennifer Kent's film creates something original, even frightening

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
    A character in a pop up book haunts the nightscape of a six-year-old boy
  • 20,000 Days On Earth
    Review preview for 20,000 Days On Earth

    Pollard and Forsyth, who have previously worked with Cave on Bad Seeds videos, turn inner states into inhabitable rooms. What is real and what is unreal is not for the audience to guess.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    An intimate portrait of Nick Cave.
  • The Strange Little Cat
    Review preview for The Strange Little Cat

    Zürcher's film may not follow traditional storytelling lines but it is bold in form and, for all its lack of story, memorable in content.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    An intimate look at a family preparing to eat dinner togather in a Berlin apartment.
  • Fish And Cat
    Review preview for Fish And Cat

    Awe inspiring.

    Andrew Robertson · 4.5 out of 5
    A menacing pair descend on a campsite where a group of college kids have gathered for a kite-flying festival.
  • To Kill A Man
    Review preview for To Kill A Man

    The act of revenge here is presented not as an outlet for anger but as one of desperation, an emotion that runs through the film.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    A man is pushed to the limit by a thug who badly injures his son.
  • Obvious Child
    Review preview for Obvious Child

    This is really a film that rests on Slate’s charm, which fortunately she delivers in spades.

    Owen Van Spall · 3.5 out of 5
    A struggling comedian loses her boyfriend, her home and her job, then accidentally gets pregnant from a one night stand.
  • The Double
    Review preview for The Double

    I wished for Billy Wilder's spirit from The Apartment to take over the tone just a little bit.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3 out of 5
    Jesse Eisenberg finds his world turned upside down by the arrival of a confident and ambitious doppelganger.
  • Return To Homs
    Review preview for Return To Homs

    The film has been impressively edited by Anne Fabini, so that despite the inevitable rough and ready nature of some of the footage captured under fire, the end result feels taut and cohesive.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Documentary about rebel fighters in the besieged Syrian city.
  • The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears
    Review preview for The Strange Colour Of Your Body's Tears

    For all that its often said "they don't make them like they used to" this is very, very close.

    Andrew Robertson · 3.5 out of 5
    A woman's disappearance forms the central mystery in this visually stylish neo-giallo.

A–Z of New Directors/New Films 2014 reviews

Features

  • Where time begins, where space ends
    Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth on working with Nick Cave on 20,000 Days On Earth.
  • Inner felines
    Ramon Zürcher on the mysteries of The Strange Little Cat.
  • Horsing around
    Benedikt Erlingsson on touring Of Horses And Men, his plans for the future and killing the movie star.
  • Forest of memory
    Jessica Oreck in conversation on The Vanquishing Of The Witch Baba Yaga
  • Seeking salvation
    Antonio Piazza and Fabio Grassadonia on Salvo.
  • Rich and strange
    MoMA's Jytte Jensen picks some of her favourites from the New Directors/New Films line-up.
  • Fresh visions
    Marian Masone talks about this year's New Directors/New Films selection.
  • Riding high
    Of Horses and Men director Benedikt Erlingsson talks sagas, mankind and Mitty.