2021 film festival edition
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]
Official Selection[edit]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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 | Jonas Carpignano | Italy |
Ahed's Knee | Habereḵ | Nadav Lapid | France, Israel, Germany |
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn | Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc | Radu Jude | Romania, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Croatia |
Benedetta | Paul Verhoeven | France, Netherlands |
Bergman Island | Mia Hansen-Løve | France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden |
Il Buco | Michelangelo Frammartino | Italy, France, Germany |
Drive My Car | Doraibu mai kā | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation | Avi Mograbi | France, Finland, Israel, Germany |
Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway |
France | Bruno Dumont | France, Germany, Belgium, Italy |
Futura | Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher | 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 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
Întregalde | Radu Muntean | Romania |
Introduction | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
Memoria | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Colombia, Thailand, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Mexico, Qatar |
Neptune Frost | Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman | United States, Rwanda |
Passing | Rebecca Hall | United States, United Kingdom |
Petite Maman | Céline Sciamma | France |
Prayers for the Stolen | Noche de fuego | Tatiana Huezo | Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Qatar |
The Souvenir Part II | Joanna Hogg | United Kingdom |
Titane | Julia Ducournau | France |
Unclenching the Fists | Разжимая кулаки | Kira Kovalenko | Russia |
The Velvet Underground | Todd Haynes | United States |
Vortex | Gaspar Noé | 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 | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
The Worst Person in the World | Verdens verste menneske | Joachim Trier | Norway |
Spotlight[edit]
Currents[edit]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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 | Artavazd Peleshian | France, Germany, Armenia |
A Night of Knowing Nothing | Payal Kapadia | France, India |
Outside Noise | Ted Fendt | Germany, South Korea, Austria |
Prism | Éléonore Yameogo, An van Dienderen and Rosine Mbakam | 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 | Denis Côté | Canada |
Ste. Anne | Rhayne Vermette |
The Tale of King Crab | Re Granchio | Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis | Italy, Argentina, France |
The Tsugua Diaries | Diários de Otsoga | Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes | Portugal |
Short films[edit]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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 | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States |
Night Colonies | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 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 |
Revivals[edit]
Amos Vogel Centenary Retrospective[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Dade Hayes, "New York Film Festival To Open With Joel Coen's ‘The Tragedy Of Macbeth’ In Return To In-Person Lincoln Center Mode". Deadline Hollywood, July 22, 2021.
- ^ Brent Lang, "Joel Coen's ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ With Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington Will Open New York Film Festival". Variety, July 22, 2021.
- ^ Dade Hayes, "New York Film Festival To Close With Pedro Almodóvar's ‘Parallel Mothers’". Deadline Hollywood, August 3, 2021.
- ^ Hayes, Dade (July 27, 2021). "Jane Campion's 'The Power Of The Dog' Chosen As New York Film Festival Centerpiece". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 27, 2021.
- ^ Pearce, Leonard (August 19, 2021). "59th New York Film Festival Adds C'mon C'mon, Dune, Red Rocket, The French Dispatch & More". The Film Stage. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
- ^ Chris Lindahl, "NYFF 2021 Announces Currents Section Focused on Cutting Edge and Experimental Films — Exclusive". IndieWire, August 24, 2021.