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New York Film Festival · 2022

New York Film Festival 2022

Currents

In addition to the features below, there are a number of shorts selections.

Programme

15 films · 2 reviews

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The Adventures Of Gigi The Law

Slice-of-life portrait of a good-natured, contemplative policeman in a small village in northern Italy.

(Country: Italy, France, Belgium; Year: 2022; Director: Alessandro Comodin; Writer: Alessandro Comodin; Stars: Ulisse Buosi, Tomaso Cecotto, Annalisa Ferrari, Mario Fontanello, Rebecca Martin, Ezio Massarutto, Pier Luigi Mecchia, Massimo Piazza, Mario Pizzolitto, Ester Vergolini)

North American premiere

Coma

A teenager who appears to live alone during Covid lockdown gradually begins to experience the dissolution of boundaries between her real and imagined zones.

(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Bertrand Bonello)

North American premiere

The Dam (Al-Saad)

Review preview for The Dam

Built on strong imagery rather than substantive narrative.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Sudan, near the Merowe dam. Maher works in a traditional brickyard fed by the waters of the Nile. Every evening, he secretly builds a mysterious construction made of mud.

(Country: Serbia, Germany, Sudan, France; Year: 2022; Director: Ali Cherri; Writer: Bertrand Bonello, Ali Cherri, Geoffroy Grison; Stars: Maher El Khair)

Full review

US premiere

Dry Burning Ground

In a future Brazil an outlaw Chitara leads an all-female gang that siphons and steals precious oil from the authoritarian government.

(Country: Brazil, Portugal; Year: 2022; Director: Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós; Writer: Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós)

US premiere

Human Flowers Of Flesh

Review preview for Human Flowers Of Flesh

Human Flowers Of Flesh is a film of spaces merging, physically in image, in thought, and of the senses.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
Ida and her crew travel across the Mediterranean’s land and seascapes, lured by the mystique of the French Foreign Legion.

(Country: France, Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Helena Wittmann; Writer: Helena Wittmann; Stars: Angeliki Papoulia, Denis Lavant, Mauro Soares, Ingo Martens, Steffen Danek, Vladimir Vulevic, Ferhat Mouhali, Gustavo de Mattos Jahn, Nina Villanova)

Full review See: Helena Wittmann in conversation on Human Flowers Of Flesh, Denis Lavant, Marguerite Duras, and Friedrich Glauser

North American premiere

Mutzenbacher

With an ad in a newspaper, Ruth Beckermann announces a casting call for a film based on a well-known pornographic text. The film, Mutzenbacher, sees a hundred men confronted with excerpts from the novel, Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore, in an age when sex is more ubiquitous than ever, and yet at same time is met with a highly charged moral environment.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2022; Director: Ruth Beckermann; Writer: Ruth Beckermann, Claus Philipp)

North American premiere

Queens Of The Qing Dynasty

A friendship blooms between a suicidal teen and a volunteer immigrant hospital worker.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Ashley McKenzie; Writer: Ashley McKenzie; Stars: Sarah Walker, Ziyin Zheng, Xue Yao, Cherlena Brake, Julia Rideout, Amandeep Bhatia, Andrey Burdeyny, Patrick Cadegan, Clifton Cremo, Mark DeLaney, Angela Deveaux, Harry Doyle, Mary-Jean Doyle, Carl Getto, Andrew Gillis)

US premiere

Remote

Follows the daily routines of a quarantined woman in her sealed-off, ultra-modern apartment, where she falls down a rabbit hole playing an inexplicable interactive game with a community of women from around the world.

(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Mika Rottenberg and Mahyad Tousi)

Rewind & Play

Thelonious Monk profile.

(Year: 2022; Director: Alain Gomis; Stars: Thelonious Monk)

Slaughterhouses Of Modernity

Documentary focused on creation and destruction in cities and provinces in Argentina, Germany, and Bolivia.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Heinz Emigholz)

World premiere

Tales Of The Purple House

The experiences of Nour Balllouk, a Lebanese artist living in the house she shares with director Fahdel (her husband, who stays off-screen) in the dramatic mountainous countryside outside of Beirut.

(Country: Iraq, France, Lebanon; Year: 2022; Director: Abbas Fahdel; Writer: Abbas Fahdel, Abbas Fahdel; Stars: Nour Ballouk)

Three Tidy Tigers Tied A Tie Tighter

Three friends in the working-class suburbs of São Paulo attempt to make their way in a world that’s been harshly affected by rampant capitalism and a pandemic.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Gustavo Vinagre; Writer: Gustavo Vinagre; Stars: Jonata Vieira, Pedro Ribeiro, Gilda Nomacce, Carlos Esher, Julia Katharine, David Lobo, Everaldo Pontes, Ivana Wonder, Inês Brasil, Majeca Angelucci, Gabriel Stippe, Cida Moreira, Nilcéia Vicente, Lizette Negreiros, Filipe Rossato)

The Unstable Object II

Triptych that patiently observes people working at three factories around the world.

(Country: US, Germany, France, Turkey; Year: 2022; Director: Daniel Eisenberg)

US premiere

Will-o'-the-Wisp (Fogo-Fatuo)

Details to come.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2022; Director: Ramiro Rodrigues; Writer: Ramiro Rodrigues; Stars: Bella Bittar, Ana Vitória Prudente, Alexandre Cruz, Tomás Saraiva)

Currents opening night. US premiere.

You Have To Come And See It (Tenéis que venir a verla)

Two couples in their thirties, heated discussions on the essentials of life unfolding between Madrid and the neighbouring countryside.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Jonás Trueba; Writer: Jonás Trueba; Stars: Itsaso Arana, Francesco Carril, Irene Escolar, Vito Sanz)