2020 New York Film Festival 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]
Main slate
English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Country
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Ref
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Atarrabi and Mikelats |
Atarrabi et Mikelats |
Eugène Green |
Belgium, France |
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Beginning |
Dasatskisi |
Déa Kulumbegashvili |
Georgia
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The Calming |
Song Fang |
China
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City Hall |
Frederick Wiseman |
United States
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Days |
日子 |
Tsai Ming-liang |
Taiwan
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The Disciple |
Chaitanya Tamhane |
India
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French Exit |
Azazel Jacobs |
United Kingdom, Canada
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Gunda |
Viktor Kossakovsky |
United States, Norway
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I Carry You With Me |
Te Llevo Conmigo |
Heidi Ewing |
United States, Mexico
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Isabella |
Matías Piñeiro |
Argentina
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Lovers Rock |
Steve McQueen |
United Kingdom
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Malmkrog |
Cristi Puiu |
Romania
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Mangrove |
Steve McQueen |
United Kingdom
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MLK/FBI |
Sam Pollard |
United States
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Night of the Kings |
La Nuit des rois |
Philippe Lacôte |
France, Côte d'Ivoire, Canada, Senegal
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Nomadland |
Chloé Zhao |
United States
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Notturno |
Gianfranco Rosi |
Italy
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Red, White & Blue |
Steve McQueen |
United Kingdom
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The Salt of Tears |
Le Sel des larmes |
Philippe Garrel |
France
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Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue |
Jia Zhangke |
China
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Time |
Garrett Bradley |
United States
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Tragic Jungle |
Yulene Olaizola |
Mexico
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The Truffle Hunters |
Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw |
United States, Greece, Italy
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Undine |
Christian Petzold |
Germany
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The Woman Who Ran |
도망친 여자 |
Hong Sang-soo |
South Korea
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Currents
English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Country
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Ref
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Apparition |
Ismaïl Bahri |
Tunisia, France |
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Fauna |
Flora y fauna |
Nicolás Pereda |
Mexico/Canada
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Her Name Was Europa |
Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy |
Germany
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Her Socialist Smile |
John Gianvito |
United States
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Hidden |
Jafar Panahi |
France
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The Inheritance |
Ephraim Asili |
United States
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Its Distorting Mirror |
Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento |
Chile
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King of Sanwi |
Akosua Adoma Owusu |
USA/Ghana
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The Last City |
Heinz Emigholz |
Germany
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The Lobby |
Heinz Emigholz |
Germany/Argentina
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My Mexican Bretzel |
Nuria Giménez |
Spain
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Ouvertures |
The Living and the Dead Ensemble |
United Kingdom/France
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The Plastic House |
Alison Chhorn |
Australia
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A Revolt Without Images |
Pilar Monsell |
Spain
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Slow Machine |
Joe DeNardo, Paul Felten |
United States
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The Tango of the Widower |
Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento |
Chile
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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
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This Day Won't Last |
Mouaad el Salem |
Tunisia/Belgium
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Untitled Sequence of Gaps |
Vika Kirchenbauer |
Germany
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The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) |
C.W. Winter, Anders Edström |
United States, Sweden, Japan, United Kingdom
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The Year of the Discovery |
Luis López Carrasco |
Spain
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Spotlight
Revivals
Short films
English title
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Original title
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Director(s)
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Country
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Ref
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Apiyemiyekî? |
Ana Vaz |
Brazil, France, Portugal, Netherlands |
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Aquí y allá |
Melisa Liebenthal |
Argentina, France
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An Arrow Pointing to a Hole |
Steve Reinke |
United States, Canada
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August 22, This Year |
Graham Foy |
Canada
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Autoficcion |
Laida Lertxundi |
Spain, United States, New Zealand
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The Chicken |
Neo Sora |
United States
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Claudette's Star |
Ayo Akingbade |
United Kingdom
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Correspondence |
Carla Simón, Dominga Sotomayor |
Spain/Chile
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Drills |
Sarah Friedland |
United States
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Ekphrasis |
Riccardo Giacconi |
Italy
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The End of Suffering (a proposal) |
Jacqueline Lentzou |
Greece
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Episodes – Spring 2018 |
Mathilde Girard |
France
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Extractions |
Thirza Cuthand |
Canada
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Figure Minus Fact |
Mary Helena Clark |
United States
|
– force – |
Simon Liu, Jennie MaryTai Liu |
Hong Kong, United States
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Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995 |
Ute Aurand |
Germany
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Hard, Cracked the Wind |
Mark Jenkin |
United Kingdom
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Humongous! |
Aya Kawazoe |
Japan
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In Sudden Darkness |
Tayler Montague |
United States
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In the Air Tonight |
Andrew Norman Wilson |
United States
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The Isolated |
Jay Giampietro |
United States
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Labor of Love |
Sylvia Schedelbauer |
Germany
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Letter From Your Far-Off Country |
Suneil Sanzgiri |
United States, India
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Look Then Below |
Ben Rivers |
United Kingdom
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Malembe |
Luis Arnías |
Venezuela, United States
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A Night at the Opera |
Sergei Loznitza |
France
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Notes, Imprints (On Love): Part I |
Alexandra Cuesta |
United States, Ecuador
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Object Lessons, or: What Happened Whitsunday |
Ricky D'Ambrose |
United States
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Once Removed |
Lawrence Abu Hamdan |
Lebanon
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Point and Line to Plane |
Sofia Bohdanowicz |
Canada
|
Sanfield |
Kevin Jerome Everson |
United States
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See You in My Dreams |
Shun Ikezoe |
Japan
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Shots in the Dark with David Godlis |
Noah Kloster, Lewie Kloster |
United States
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Single Copy |
Hsu Che-Yu |
Taiwan
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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
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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.
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