2020 film festival edition
The 58th New York Film Festival took place from September 17 to October 11, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was staged through outdoor and online screenings.[1]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | Ref |
Atarrabi and Mikelats | Atarrabi et Mikelats | Eugène Green | Belgium, France | |
Beginning | Dasatskisi | Déa Kulumbegashvili | Georgia |
The Calming | Song Fang | China |
City Hall | Frederick Wiseman | United States |
Days | 日子 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
The Disciple | Chaitanya Tamhane | India |
French Exit | Azazel Jacobs | United Kingdom, Canada |
Gunda | Viktor Kossakovsky | United States, Norway |
I Carry You With Me | Te Llevo Conmigo | Heidi Ewing | United States, Mexico |
Isabella | Matías Piñeiro | Argentina |
Lovers Rock | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom |
Malmkrog | Cristi Puiu | Romania |
Mangrove | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom |
MLK/FBI | Sam Pollard | United States |
Night of the Kings | La Nuit des rois | Philippe Lacôte | France, Côte d'Ivoire, Canada, Senegal |
Nomadland | Chloé Zhao | United States |
Notturno | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy |
Red, White & Blue | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom |
The Salt of Tears | Le Sel des larmes | Philippe Garrel | France |
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue | Jia Zhangke | China |
Time | Garrett Bradley | United States |
Tragic Jungle | Yulene Olaizola | Mexico |
The Truffle Hunters | Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw | United States, Greece, Italy |
Undine | Christian Petzold | Germany |
The Woman Who Ran | 도망친 여자 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | Ref |
Apparition | Ismaïl Bahri | Tunisia, France | |
Fauna | Flora y fauna | Nicolás Pereda | Mexico/Canada |
Her Name Was Europa | Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy | Germany |
Her Socialist Smile | John Gianvito | United States |
Hidden | Jafar Panahi | France |
The Inheritance | Ephraim Asili | United States |
Its Distorting Mirror | Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento | Chile |
King of Sanwi | Akosua Adoma Owusu | USA/Ghana |
The Last City | Heinz Emigholz | Germany |
The Lobby | Heinz Emigholz | Germany/Argentina |
My Mexican Bretzel | Nuria Giménez | Spain |
Ouvertures | The Living and the Dead Ensemble | United Kingdom/France |
The Plastic House | Alison Chhorn | Australia |
A Revolt Without Images | Pilar Monsell | Spain |
Slow Machine | Joe DeNardo, Paul Felten | United States |
The Tango of the Widower | Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento | Chile |
There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse | No existen treinta y seis maneras de mostrar cómo un hombre se sube a un caballo | Nicolás Zukerfeld | Argentina |
This Day Won't Last | Mouaad el Salem | Tunisia/Belgium |
Untitled Sequence of Gaps | Vika Kirchenbauer | Germany |
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) | C.W. Winter, Anders Edström | United States, Sweden, Japan, United Kingdom |
The Year of the Discovery | Luis López Carrasco | Spain |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | Ref |
Apiyemiyekî? | Ana Vaz | Brazil, France, Portugal, Netherlands | |
Aquí y allá | Melisa Liebenthal | Argentina, France |
An Arrow Pointing to a Hole | Steve Reinke | United States, Canada |
August 22, This Year | Graham Foy | Canada |
Autoficcion | Laida Lertxundi | Spain, United States, New Zealand |
The Chicken | Neo Sora | United States |
Claudette's Star | Ayo Akingbade | United Kingdom |
Correspondence | Carla Simón, Dominga Sotomayor | Spain/Chile |
Drills | Sarah Friedland | United States |
Ekphrasis | Riccardo Giacconi | Italy |
The End of Suffering (a proposal) | Jacqueline Lentzou | Greece |
Episodes – Spring 2018 | Mathilde Girard | France |
Extractions | Thirza Cuthand | Canada |
Figure Minus Fact | Mary Helena Clark | United States |
– force – | Simon Liu, Jennie MaryTai Liu | Hong Kong, United States |
Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995 | Ute Aurand | Germany |
Hard, Cracked the Wind | Mark Jenkin | United Kingdom |
Humongous! | Aya Kawazoe | Japan |
In Sudden Darkness | Tayler Montague | United States |
In the Air Tonight | Andrew Norman Wilson | United States |
The Isolated | Jay Giampietro | United States |
Labor of Love | Sylvia Schedelbauer | Germany |
Letter From Your Far-Off Country | Suneil Sanzgiri | United States, India |
Look Then Below | Ben Rivers | United Kingdom |
Malembe | Luis Arnías | Venezuela, United States |
A Night at the Opera | Sergei Loznitza | France |
Notes, Imprints (On Love): Part I | Alexandra Cuesta | United States, Ecuador |
Object Lessons, or: What Happened Whitsunday | Ricky D'Ambrose | United States |
Once Removed | Lawrence Abu Hamdan | Lebanon |
Point and Line to Plane | Sofia Bohdanowicz | Canada |
Sanfield | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States |
See You in My Dreams | Shun Ikezoe | Japan |
Shots in the Dark with David Godlis | Noah Kloster, Lewie Kloster | United States |
Single Copy | Hsu Che-Yu | Taiwan |
Stump the Guesser | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson | Canada |
To the Harbour | Anonymous | Hong Kong |
Trust Study #1 | Shobun Baile | United States |
The Unseen River | Phạm Ngọc Lân | Vietnam, Laos |
While Cursed by Specters | Burak Çevik | Turkey |
Wild Bill Horsecock | Oliver Shahery | United States |
- ^ "The New York Film Festival Goes Virtual". The New Yorker, September 18, 2020.
- ^ Rebecca Rubin, "New York Film Festival Unveils Main Slate". Variety, August 13, 2020.
- ^ a b Leonard Pearce, "NYFF's Inaugural Currents Lineup Features Intrepid Filmmaking Voices from Around the World". The Film Stage, August 24, 2020.
- ^ Dade Hayes, "New York Film Festival Sets Spotlight Lineup, With 'Hopper/Welles', Sofia Coppola's 'On The Rocks' & More". Deadline Hollywood, August 27, 2020.
- ^ "Revivals Lineup Announced for the 58th New York Film Festival". Film at Lincoln Center, August 18, 2020.