NYFF56 Unveils Main Slate

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This year’s Main Slate showcases films from 22 different countries, including new titles from celebrated auteurs, extraordinary work from directors making their first NYFF bows, and captivating features that wowed audiences at international festivals. Five films in the festival were honored at Cannes, including Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Palme d’Or–winner Shoplifters; Jean-Luc Godard’s The Image Book, awarded a Special Palme d’Or; Cold War, which took home the Best Director prize for Paweł Pawlikowski; and Alice Rohrwacher’s Happy as Lazzaro and Jafar Panahi’s 3 Faces, which shared the Best Screenplay award. Returning to the festival for the sixth consecutive year is Hong Sangsoo with two new films, joined by his fellow NYFF54 filmmakers Olivier Assayas and Barry Jenkins. Frederick Wiseman makes his 10th appearance at the festival, while other returning filmmakers include Joel & Ethan Coen, Alex Ross Perry, Claire Denis, Ulrich Köhler, Lee Chang-dong, Jia Zhangke, and Christian Petzold. Making both their directorial and NYFF debuts are Paul Dano and Richard Billingham, and Louis Garrel makes his first NYFF showing as a director. Other filmmakers new to the festival include Dominga Sotomayor, Christophe Honoré, Tamara Jenkins, Mariano Llinás, and Ying Liang, as well as Bi Gan and Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, both alumni of New Directors/New Films 2016.

The 56th New York Film Festival Main Slate

OPENING NIGHT

  • The Favourite – Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos

CENTERPIECE

  • ROMA – Dir. Alfonso Cuarón

CLOSING NIGHT

  • At Eternity’s Gate – Dir. Julian Schnabel
  • 3 Faces – Dir. Jafar Panahi
  • Asako I & II – Dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
  • Ash Is Purest White – Dir. Jia Zhangke
  • The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
  • Burning – Dir. Lee Chang-dong
  • Cold War – Dir. Paweł Pawlikowski
  • A Faithful Man/L’Homme fidèle – Dir. Louis Garrel
  • A Family Tour – Dir. Ying Liang
  • La Flor – Dir. Mariano Llinás
  • Grass – Dir. Hong Sangsoo
  • Happy as Lazzaro/Lazzaro felice – Dir. Alice Rohrwacher
  • Her Smell – Dir. Alex Ross Perry
  • High Life – Dir. Claire Denis
  • Hotel by the River – Dir. Hong Sangsoo
  • If Beale Street Could Talk – Dir. Barry Jenkins
  • The Image Book/Le Livre d’image – Dir. Jean-Luc Godard
  • In My Room – Dir. Ulrich Köhler
  • Long Day’s Journey Into Night – Dir. Bi Gan
  • Monrovia, Indiana – Dir. Frederick Wiseman
  • Non-Fiction – Dir. Olivier Assayas
  • Private Life – Dir. Tamara Jenkins
  • RAY & LIZ – Dir. Richard Billingham
  • Shoplifters – Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
  • Sorry Angel – Dir. Christophe Honoré
  • Too Late to Die Young – Dir. Dominga Sotomayor
  • Transit – Dir. Christian Petzold
  • Wildlife – Dir. Paul Dano

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