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New Directors/New Films

25 March – 5 April 2020

The 49th edition of the New York festival celebrating new cinematic voices was postponed from its scheduled run from March 25 to April 5 due to the pandemic. It is running instead, from December 9 to 20 as a virtual edition.

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  • Anne At 13,000 ft
    Review preview for Anne At 13,000 ft

    It takes real craft to hold something like this together for 75 minutes - not to mention tremendous effort on Campbell's part.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    Even in her job at a children’s day care centre, Anne prefers fun to actual work and often alienates those around her with her erratic behaviour.
  • Two Of Us
    Review preview for Two Of Us

    Two of Us jolts the senses - you can smell when the hot pan stays on the stove too long and want to interfere.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    Two retired women, who have been in a secret relationship for decades, find their relationship turned upside down when the truth begins to come out.
  • Boys State
    Review preview for Boys State

    Perhaps Boys State's greatest achievement is that it finds a way to make all these boys relatable.

    Jeremy Mathews · 4 out of 5
    In an unusual experiment, a thousand 17-year-old boys from Texas join together to build a representative government from the ground up.
  • Giraffe
    Review preview for Giraffe

    Remnants of bygone ways of life are beautifully shot in Giraffe.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    A Danish summer: A tunnel is being built to connect Denmark and Germany. An ethnologist comes to the island of Lolland to study its inhabitants and record their traditions and objects.
  • The Mole Agent
    Review preview for The Mole Agent

    Alberdi keeps the tone light and profound simultaneously.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    When a family becomes concerned about their mother’s well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio, an 83-year-old man who becomes a new resident – and a mole inside the home, who struggles to balance his assignment with becoming increasingly involved in the lives of several residents.
  • The Metamorphosis Of Birds
    Review preview for The Metamorphosis Of Birds

    For a short time, this cinematic jewel lets us travel back to when the migration of birds was a mystery to man.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
    Beatriz and Henrique fall in love and get married. He goes to sea while she raises their inquisitive children. The director brings her family's story to the screen.
  • The Killing Of Two Lovers
    Review preview for The Killing Of Two Lovers

    David is stubborn in ways that still retain sympathy, even from Nikki, thanks in no small part to Crawford's portrayal, which has a naturalistic looseness that springs taut just at the right moments.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    David desperately tries to keep his family of six together during a separation from his wife. They both agree to see other people but David struggles to grapple with his wife’s new relationship.
  • Collective
    Review preview for Collective

    Although he is dealing specifically with one instance in Romania, it's easy to see evidence of greater global malaise reflected here.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    Documentary considering the aftermath of a nightclub fire that exposed deep corruption in the Romanian healthcare system.
  • Atlantis
    Review preview for Atlantis

    A film full of despair and tortured masculinity.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    In a near-future war-torn Ukraine a man with PTSD takes a volunteer job exhuming the dead.

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