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New York Film Festival · 2020

New York Film Festival 2020

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In addition to the features listed below are a number of sub-70 minute shorts.

Programme

11 films · 2 reviews

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Fauna

A young television actress who joins her estranged brother and new boyfriend to visit her family at her parents’ rustic home in the Mexican countryside, sparking a culture clash.

(Country: Mexico, Canada; Year: 2020; Director: Nicolás Pereda; Stars: Gabino Rodríguez, Luisa Pardo, Francisco Barreiro, Teresa Sánchez, José Rodríguez López, Mariana Villegas, Fernando Álvarez Rebeil, Gabino Rodríguez, Luisa Pardo, Francisco Barreiro, Teresa Sánchez, José Rodríguez López, Mariana Villegas, Fernando Álvarez Rebeil)

Her Name Was Europa

Exploring the modern attempt to resurrect aurochs - the wild ancestor of modern cattle.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2020; Director: Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy)

The Inheritance

Review preview for The Inheritance

If you have a passion for architecture - and especially for interiors - you'll find that sufficient reason to watch this in itself.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A woman's inheritance leads her to Eastern Europe to uncover a dark and disturbing family secret.

(Country: US, Ukraine; Year: 2020; Director: Chad Barager, Kevin Speckmaier; Writer: Chad Barager, Kevin Speckmaier; Stars: Andrea Stefancikova, Natalia Ryumina, Nick Wittman, Yaroslav Poverlo, Valeria Dymova, Vladimir Barabanov, Larisa Bokovenko, Yuriy Efimenko, Yuriy Dyak, Daniella Podolskaya, Larisa Deryugina, Vova Barabanov, Volodymyr Didenko, Yulia Brahina, Artem Bilyaze)

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The Last City (Die Letzte Stadt)

In Be’er Sheva, Berlin, Athens, Hong Kong and São Paolo, Heinz Emigholz stages a series of provocative and unforgettable encounters that deal with social taboos that have become obsolete, generational conflicts, war guilt and cosmologies.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2020; Director: Heinz Emigholz; Writer: Heinz Emigholz; Stars: John Erdman, Dorothy Ko, Jonathan Perel, Susanne Sachße, Young Sun Han, Laurean Wagner, John Erdman, Dorothy Ko, Jonathan Perel, Susanne Sachße, Young Sun Han, Laurean Wagner)

The Lobby

A man holds court in the lobbies of various apartment buildings in Buenos Aires and expounds with measured disgust on death, consciousness, and the state of contemporary human relations.

(Country: Germany, Argentina; Year: 2020; Director: Heinz Emigholz)

My Mexican Bretzel

Uses onscreen subtitles, taken from the diaries of one Vivian Barrett, to accompany and narrate silent images of her life with her husband Léon, a Second World War pilot who damaged his hearing in a plane accident.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2019; Director: Nuria Giménez; Writer: Nuria Giménez)

Ouvertures

Experimental film reflects on the legacy of Haitian revolutionary Toussaint L’Ouverture through the work of a collective who are translating a play.

(Country: France, Haiti, UK; Year: 2019; Director: Louis Henderson, Olivier Marboeuf)

Slow Machine

An actress' intimate relationship with a shadowy NYPD-affiliated operative ends abruptly and disastrously, leading her to hide out in a country house otherwise occupied by a band preparing their new record.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Joe Denardo, Paul Felten; Writer: Paul Felten; Stars: Nicholas Armas, Claire Brownell, Milton Carter, Knieper Clemens, Catherine Cohen, Eleanor Friedberger, Matthew Gustafson, Stephanie Hayes, Carrie Keith, Will Lawrence, Gabe Maxson, Ruby Maxson, Jim McHugh, Christian Parenti, Lily Pickett)

There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways Of Showing A Man Getting On A Horse

Review preview for There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways Of Showing A Man Getting On A Horse

We start with men getting on horses. More than 36 of them.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
A tribute to Raoul Walsh and an essayistic consideration of cinema.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2020; Director: Nicolás Zukerfeld; Writer: Malena Solarz, Nicolás Zukerfeld)

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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (Werke und Tage (der Tayoko Shiojiri im Shiotanibecken))

Portrait of the work and non-work of a farmer in a village in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture.

(Country: US, Sweden, Japan, UK; Year: 2020; Director: CW Winter, Anders Edström; Stars: Tayoko Shiojiri, Hiroharu Shikata, Ryo Kase, Mai Edström, Kaoru Iwahana)

The Year Of Discovery

Shot on Hi-8 videotape entirely within a smoky Spanish snack bar in the city of Cartagena in Murcia—with occasional interruptions from the archive in the form of propagandistic news bulletins and exuberant TV commercials—Luis López Carrasco’s second feature excavates the forgotten histories of 1992.

(Country: Spain, Switzerland; Year: 2020; Director: Luis López Carrasco; Writer: Raúl Liarte, Luis López Carrasco)