2020_New_York_Film_Festival References

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]

Main slate

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country	Ref
Atarrabi and Mikelats	Atarrabi et Mikelats	Eugène Green	Belgium, France	^[2]
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

Currents

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country	Ref
Apparition		Ismaïl Bahri	Tunisia, France	^[3]
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

Spotlight

English title	Director(s)	Country	Ref
All In: The Fight for Democracy	Liz Garbus, Lisa Cortés	United States	^[4]
David Byrne's American Utopia	Spike Lee	United States
Hopper/Welles	Orson Welles	United States
The Human Voice	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
The Monopoly of Violence	David Dufresne	France
On the Rocks	Sofia Coppola	United States

Revivals

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country	Ref
The Chess Game of the Wind	Shatranj-e-Baad	Mohammad Reza Aslani	Iran	^[5]
Climax		Gaspar Noé	France, Belgium
Damnation	Kárhozat	Béla Tarr	Hungary
Flowers of Shanghai	海上花	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Taiwan
The Hourglass Sanatorium	Sanatorium pod klepsydrą	Wojciech Has	Poland
In the Mood for Love	花樣年華	Wong Kar-wai	Hong Kong
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris		Terence Dixon	United Kingdom, France
Muhammad Ali, the Greatest		William Klein	France
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom	Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma	Pier Paolo Pasolini	Italy, France
Simone Barbes or Virtue	Simone Barbès ou la vertu	Marie-Claude Treilhou	France
Smooth Talk		Joyce Chopra	United States
The Spook Who Sat by the Door		Ivan Dixon	United States
Xiao Wu (The Pickpocket)	小武	Jia Zhangke	China
Zero for Conduct	Zéro de conduite	Jean Vigo	France

Short films

English title	Director(s)	Country	Ref
Apiyemiyekî?	Ana Vaz	Brazil, France, Portugal, Netherlands	^[3]
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

References

^ "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.

[NYFF-1] "The New York Film Festival Goes Virtual". The New Yorker, September 18, 2020.

[MainSlate-2] Rebecca Rubin, "New York Film Festival Unveils Main Slate". Variety, August 13, 2020.

[Currents-3] Leonard Pearce, "NYFF's Inaugural Currents Lineup Features Intrepid Filmmaking Voices from Around the World". The Film Stage, August 24, 2020.

[spotlight-4] 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-5] "Revivals Lineup Announced for the 58th New York Film Festival". Film at Lincoln Center, August 18, 2020.

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