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New Directors/New Films

29 March – 9 April 2023

The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center in New York City will host the 52nd edition of New Directors/New Films from March 29 to April 9. This year's selection features 27 features and 11 shorts.

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  • Disco Boy
    Review preview for Disco Boy

    If there’s vacillation in general at work, the slippery nature of the film, greased with the sweat of physical and metaphorical dance, remains beguiling.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    The destinies of a man who has joined the Foreign Legion and another in the Niger Delta intersect.
  • Remembering Every Night
    Review preview for Remembering Every Night

    Memories connect and even if they are not ours, they can make us understand something urgently human.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Drama involving the quiet pursuits of several women over a single afternoon.
  • Pamfir
    Review preview for Pamfir

    There’s an increasing sense of the unnatural impinging on the natural.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Pamfir wants to be a decent family man but challenged by the circumstances he is forced to give up honest breadwinning to help his family.
  • Joyland
    Review preview for Joyland

    It is not so much individual people who cause the problems but rather the constricting cultural circumstances that dictate everyone must play their allocated role.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    As the Ranas, a happily patriarchal joint family, yearn for the birth of a baby boy to continue the family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theater and falls for an ambitious trans starlet. Their impossible love story illuminates the entire family's desire for a sexual rebellion.
  • Mutt
    Review preview for Mutt

    Confident enough in its characters to tell its story without sensationalism or stylistic overcompensation.

    Jeremy Mathews · 4 out of 5
    Over the course of a single hectic day in New York City, three people from Feña's past are thrust back into his life. Having lost touch since transitioning from female to male, he navigates the new dynamics of old relationships while tackling the day-to-day challenges of living life in between.
  • Tótem
    Review preview for Tótem

    The idea of different things being in and out of focus for the various generations runs through a film that has sweetly comic moments and poignancy in equal measure.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    In a large house, friends and family meet for a dual ritual: it is the birthday of young father and painter Tona, but also a farewell ceremony.
  • Have You Seen This Woman?
    Review preview for Have You Seen This Woman?

    The mixing of fiction and reality, as well as a lot of aesthetic choices, make for an interesting echo of the Yugoslav Black Wave aesthetic.

    Nikola Jovic · 4 out of 5
    Through three different life possibilities a middle-aged woman tries to get out of her skin.
  • Safe Place
    Review preview for Safe Place

    The transcendental nature of the film feels like an existential and therapeutic need.

    Nikola Jovic · 4 out of 5
    24 hours in the life of a man who is trying to kill himself while his family members try to save him.
  • The Maiden
    Review preview for The Maiden

    For every shot when you wish Foy would learn melancholy doesn’t have to be meandering, there’s another of striking poignance.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    The lives of three suburban teenagers intersect.
  • 1976
    Review preview for 1976

    Martelli carefully crafts an air of almost casual dread.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A woman finds herself dicing with danger after she is asked for help.

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