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New York Film Festival · 2024

New York Film Festival 2024

Currents

In addition to the films below, there are several short film showcases in this strand.

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13 films · 1 review

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7 Walks with Mark Brown (7 Promenades Avec Mark Brown)

Documentary follows paleobotanist Mark Brown across the Pays des Caux region in Normandy as he seeks out native plants from which an ancient garden could be created.

(Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Vincent Barré, Pierre Creton; Writer: Vincent Barré, Pierre Creton)

The Ballad Of Suzanne Césaire

Review preview for The Ballad Of Suzanne Césaire

The word ballad is a good choice in the title because Hunt-Ehrlich’s film is a rhythms and muse affair.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Hybrid biopic about the Martinican writer and activist.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich; Writer: Madeleine Hunt Ehrlich; Stars: Zita Hanrot, Motell Gyn Foster, Josué Gutierrez, Reese Antoinette, Melisa Lopez)

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Bluish

Consdiration of the lives of two isolated young women.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2024; Director: Milena Czernovsky, Lilith Kraxner; Stars: Leonie Bramberger, Natasha Goncharova)

Bona

Drama focusing on a woman who falls for a womaniser.

(Country: Philippines; Year: 1980; Director: Lino Brocka; Writer: Cenen Ramones; Stars: Nora Aunor, Phillip Salvador, Marissa Delgado, Raquel Monteza, Venchito Galvez, Rustica Carpio, Nanding Josef, Spanky Manikan, The PETA Kalinangan Ensemble, Archi Adamos, Rene Hawkins, Joel Lamangan)

Direct Action

Documents the everyday lives of one of the most high-profile militant activist communities in France and asks whether the success of a radical protest movement can offer a path through the climate crisis.

(Country: France, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell)

Exergue - On Documenta 14

The film follows artistic director Adam Szymczyk and his curatorial team over two years as they prepare documenta 14.

(Country: Greece; Year: 2024; Director: Dimitris Athyridis; Writer: Dimitris Athyridis)

Fire Of Wind (Fogo Do Vento)

Soraia, a young girl, cuts herself. Blood mixes with wine. A black bull is on the loose. Up in the oak trees, time swells, and a community takes shelter.

(Country: Portugal, Switzerland, France; Year: 2024; Director: Marta Mateus; Writer: Marta Mateus; Stars: Soraia Prudêncio, Maria Catarina Sapata, Safir Eizner, José Moura, Maria Clara Madeira)

Jimmy

Imagines James Baldwin's experiences in 1948 Paris.

(Country: France, Turkey; Year: 2024; Director: Yashaddai Owens)

Little, Big, And Far

An astronomer named Karl, who has been re-evaluating his work and life after turning 70, travels to a mountaintop on a Greek island in search of the darkest sky against which to view the cosmos.

(Country: US, Austria; Year: 2024; Director: Jem Cohen; Stars: Mario Silva)

Lázaro At Night (Lázaro at Night)

Drama focusing on a trio of friends, connected by a writing workshop they attended years earlier, who are all auditioning for the same movie.

(Country: Mexico, Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Nicolás Pereda; Writer: Nicolás Pereda; Stars: Francisco Barreiro, Gabriel Nuncio, Gabino Rodríguez, Luisa Pardo, Teresita Sanchez, Clarissa Malheiros)

The Suit

An "old white male" expounds on the future with some help from a German filmmaker and a robot version of himself from the past.

(Country: Germany, Mexico, Argentina, US; Year: 2024; Director: Heinz Emigholz)

Universal Language

Multilayered film that interweaves a story about a group of people trying to get frozen money out of the ice, a tale of a tour guide and a man who quits his job to visit his mother.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Matthew Rankin; Writer: Ila Firouzabadi, Pirouz Nemati, Matthew Rankin; Stars: Matthew Rankin, Mani Soleymanlou, Danielle Fichaud, Pirouz Nemati, Sobhan Javadi, Saba Vahedyousefi, Rojina Esmaeili)

You Burn Me (Tú me abrasas)

An adaptation of a chapter from Cesare Pavese’s Dialoghi con Leucò in which the Greek poet Sappho and the nymph Britomartis talk of desire and death.

(Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Matías Piñeiro; Writer: Matías Piñeiro; Stars: Gabi Saidón, María Villar, María Inês Gonçalves, Agustina Muñoz, Ana Cris Barragán)