2021 New York Film Festival | |
Opening: | The Tragedy of Macbeth by Joel Coen |
Closing: | Parallel Mothers by Pedro Almodóvar |
Location: | New York City, United States |
Founded: | 1963 |
Host: | Film at Lincoln Center |
Date: | September 30 – October 16, 2022 |
Website: | https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2021/ |
Main: | New York Film Festival |
Previous: | 2020 |
Next: | 2022 |
Founders: | Richard Roud and Amos Vogel |
Artistic Director: | Dennis Lim |
The 59th New York Film Festival took place from September 24 to October 10, 2021.[1] Unlike the 2020 New York Film Festival, which was staged online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 festival returned to physical screenings at the Lincoln Center.
Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth was announced as the opening film[2] with Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers announced as the closing film.[3] Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog was the festival's centerpiece screening.[4] [5] [6]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
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Opening Film | ||||
The Tragedy of Macbeth | Joel Coen | United States | ||
Centerpiece | ||||
The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia | ||
Closing Film | ||||
Parallel Mothers | Madres Paralelas | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | |
Main Slate | ||||
A Chiara | Italy | |||
Ahed's Knee | Habereḵ | France, Israel, Germany | ||
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn | Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc | Romania, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Croatia | ||
Benedetta | France, Netherlands | |||
Bergman Island | France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden | |||
Il Buco | Italy, France, Germany | |||
Drive My Car | Doraibu mai kā | Japan | ||
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation | France, Finland, Israel, Germany | |||
Flee | Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway | |||
France | France, Germany, Belgium, Italy | |||
Futura | Italy | |||
The Girl and the Spider | Das Mädchen und die Spinne | Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher | Switzerland | |
Hit the Road | Panah Panahi | Iran | ||
In Front of Your Face | South Korea | |||
Întregalde | Romania | |||
Introduction | South Korea | |||
Memoria | Colombia, Thailand, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Mexico, Qatar | |||
Neptune Frost | United States, Rwanda | |||
Passing | United States, United Kingdom | |||
Petite Maman | France | |||
Prayers for the Stolen | Noche de fuego | Tatiana Huezo | Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Qatar | |
The Souvenir Part II | United Kingdom | |||
Titane | France | |||
Unclenching the Fists | Разжимая кулаки | Kira Kovalenko | Russia | |
The Velvet Underground | United States | |||
Vortex | France | |||
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? | რას ვხედავთ როდესაც ცას ვუყურებთ? | Alexandre Koberidze | Georgia, Germany | |
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | Gūzen to Sōzō | Japan | ||
The Worst Person in the World | Verdens verste menneske | Norway |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
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Belle | 竜とそばかすの姫 | Japan | ||
C'mon C'mon | United States | |||
Dune | Denis Villeneuve | |||
The French Dispatch | Wes Anderson | |||
Jane by Charlotte | Charlotte Gainsbourg | France | ||
The Lost Daughter | Maggie Gyllenhaal | United States, Greece | ||
Marx Can Wait | Marco Bellocchio | Italy | ||
Red Rocket | Sean Baker | United States | ||
The Souvenir | Joanna Hogg | United Kingdom, United States |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
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All About My Sisters | Jia ting lu xiang | Wang Qiong | United States | |
The Great Movement | El Gran Movimiento | Kiro Russo | Bolivia, France, Qatar, Switzerland | |
Haruhara-san's Recorder | Haruharasan no uta | Kyoshi Sugita | Japan | |
I Want to Talk About Duras | Vous ne désirez que moi | Claire Simon | France | |
Just a Movement | Juste une mouvement | Vincent Meessen | Belgium, France | |
Nature | La Nature | France, Germany, Armenia | ||
A Night of Knowing Nothing | France, India | |||
Outside Noise | Ted Fendt | Germany, South Korea, Austria | ||
Prism | Belgium | |||
Returning to Reims | Retour à Reims (Fragments) | Jean-Gabriel Périot | France | |
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces | Gang-eun heuleugo, gub-ichigo, jiugo, doebichunda | Shengze Zhu | United States | |
Social Hygiene | Hygiène sociale | Canada | ||
Ste. Anne | ||||
The Tale of King Crab | Re Granchio | Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis | Italy, Argentina, France | |
The Tsugua Diaries | Diários de Otsoga | Portugal |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
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38 | Daniel Chew, Micaela Durand | United States | ||
All of Your Stars Are But Dust on My Shoes | Haig Aivazian | Lebanon | ||
Blind Body | Allison Chhorn | Australia | ||
The Canyon | Zachary Epcar | United States | ||
The Capacity for Adequate Anger | Vika Kirchenbauer | Germany | ||
Cutting the Mushroom | Mike Crane | United States | ||
Day Is Done | Zhang Dalei | China | ||
Do Not Circulate | Tiffany Sia | Hong Kong | ||
Dog Star Descending | Aykan Safoğlu | Turkey, Germany | ||
Dreams Under Confinement | Christopher Harris | United States | ||
earthearthearth | Daïchi Saïto | Canada | ||
Elle | Luise Donschen | Germany | ||
Estuary | Ross Meckfessel | United States | ||
Fictions | Manuela de Laborde | Mexico, Germany | ||
Grandma's Scissors | Erica Sheu | Taiwan, United States | ||
Here Is the Imagination of the Black Radical | Rhea Storr | United Kingdom | ||
Homage to the Work of Philip Henry Gosse | Pablo Martín Weber | Argentina | ||
Home When You Return | Carl Elsaesser | United States | ||
A Human Certainty | Morgan Quaintance | United Kingdom | ||
If I Could Name You Myself (I Would Hold You Forever) | Hope Strickland | United Kingdom | ||
In and Out a Window | Richard Tuohy | United States | ||
In Flow of Words | Eliane Esther Bots | Netherlands | ||
Kindertotenlieder | Virgil Vernier | France | ||
May June July | United States | |||
Night Colonies | Thailand | |||
No Subject | Guillermo Moncayo | France, Colombia | ||
Personality Test | Justin Jinsoo Kim | South Korea, United States | ||
Reach Capacity | Ericka Beckman | United States | ||
Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 1 | Tomonari Nishikawa | |||
South | Morgan Quaintance | United Kingdom | ||
Strange Object | Miranda Pennell | United States | ||
Sycorax | Lois Patiño, Matías Piñeiro | Spain, Portugal | ||
To Pick a Flower | Shireen Seno | Philippines | ||
Tonalli | Los Ingrávidos | Mexico | ||
What Is It That You Said? | Shun Ikezoe | Japan |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Adoption (1976) | Örökbefogadás | Márta Mészáros | Hungary |
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) | John Carpenter | United States | |
Bluebeard's Castle (1963) | Herzog Blaubarts Burg | Michael Powell | Germany |
Chameleon Street (1989) | United States | ||
James Baldwin: From Another Place (1973) | Sedat Pekay | Turkey | |
Hester Street (1975) | Joan Micklin Silver | United States | |
Kummatty (1979) | India | ||
Mississippi Masala (1991) | Mira Nair | United Kingdom, United States | |
Radio On (1979) | Chris Petit | United Kingdom, West Germany | |
Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | United Kingdom, France | |
The Round-Up (1966) | Miklós Jancsó | Hungary | |
Rude Boy (1980) | Jack Hazan & David Mingay | United Kingdom | |
Sambizanga (1972) | Sarah Maldoror | Angola, France | |
Songs for Drella (1990) | Ed Lachman | United States | |
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) | Melvin Van Peebles | ||
Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987) | Christine Choy |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country | |
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The Lead Shoes (1949) | Sidney Peterson | United States | ||
Unconscious Motivation (1949) | Lester F. Beck | |||
The Battle of San Pietro (1949) | John Huston | |||
Study No. 11 (1932), Allegretto (1936-43), and Motion Painting No. 1 (1947) | Oskar Fischinger | Germany | ||
Barravento | Glauber Rocha | Brazil | ||
Pearls of the Deep (1965) | Perličky na dně | Jiří Menzel, Jan Němec, Evald Schorm, Věra Chytilová, and Jaromil Jireš | Czechoslovakia | |
The Flicker (1966) | Tony Conrad | United States | ||
Echoes of Silence (1965) | Peter Emanuel Goldman | |||
Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom (1964) | Lebert Bethune | France | ||
Now (1965) | Santiago Álvarez | Cuba | ||
Black Natchez | David Neuman and Ed Pincus | United States | ||
The Jungle (1966) | 12th and Oxford Street Film Makers | |||
Film Club (1968) | Jaime Barrios | |||
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) | Dušan Makavejev | Yugoslavia, West Germany | ||
Nebula II (1971) | Robert Frerck | United States |
Section | Speakers | Notes | Ref. |
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The 2023 Amos Vogel Lecture | Albert Serra | The filmmaker spoke about his career and legacy | [7] |
Deep Focus | The Making of Mississippi Masala | A discussion between director Mira Nair, cinematographer Edward Lachman, and actress Sarita Choudhury. | |
Campion talked about The Power of the Dog and her career with moderator and director Sofia Coppola. | |||
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi | The auteur talked about his Drive My Car with moderator and filmmaker Matías Piñeiro. | ||
Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman | The filmmakers talked about cinema as a means of realizing new and better futures with moderator Maya Cade. | ||
Apichatpong Weerasethakul | The director talked about their latest film Memoria with novelist Katie Kitamura. | ||
Cross Cuts | Mia Hansen-Løve & Joachim Trier | The filmmakers talk about their latest films, Bergman Island and The Worst Person in the World respectively. | |
Silvan Zürcher & Alexandre Koberidze | The two talked about their films The Girl and the Spider and What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?. | ||
Maggie Gyllenhaal & Kira Kovalenko | The female filmmakers discussed feminism, heroines, transcending the status quo. | ||