NY Film Festival Main Slate Includes Cannes Winners ‘Anora’ and ‘Seed of the Sacred Fig’
The 2024 New York Film Festival has revealed its main slate lineup including Cannes winners Anora and Seed of the Sacred Fig as well as the U.S. premieres of Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds and Roberto Minervini’s The Damned, which was also awarded at Cannes.
Indeed, the NYFF main slate features a number of Cannes prize winners in addition to Sean Baker’s Anora, which won Cannes’ Palme d’Or; exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s Seed of the Sacred Fig, which was awarded a special prize; and The Damned, which won best director in the Un Certain Regard section, shared with Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, which will also screen at NYFF. Other Cannes faves set to play in New York include Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light, which won the grand prize at the French festival, and Miguel Gomes’ Grand Tour, which won best director at Cannes.
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The festival will also feature Berlin winners including Golden Bear selection Mati Diop’s Dahomey; Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs (Silver Bear Grand Jury prize); Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s No Other Land (Panorama audience award and the Berlinale documentary award) and Philippe Lesage’s Who by Fire (grand prize, Generation).
And the festival will feature the world premieres of Robinson Devor’s Suburban Fury — a nonfiction look at Sara Jane Moore, who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford, against the backdrop of 1970s political unrest — and Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow, a documentary about the persistence of independent journalism in Putin’s Russia leading up to the invasion of Ukraine.
Additional main slate films include Hong Sangsoo’s By the Stream, Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia, Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada and the remaining chapters of Wang Bing’s Youth trilogy: Youth (Hard Times) and Youth (Homecoming).
“The festival’s ambition is to reflect the state of cinema in a given year, which often means also reflecting the state of the world,” said NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim in a statement. “The most notable thing about the films in the main slate—and in the other sections that we will announce in the coming weeks—is the degree to which they emphasize cinema’s relationship to reality. They are reminders that, in the hands of its most vital practitioners, film has the capacity to reckon with, intervene in and reimagine the world.”
The festival previously announced that it would open with RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys and close with Steve McQueen’s Blitz, with Pedro Almodóvar’s U.S. premiere of his English-language feature debut The Room Next Door as its centerpiece film.
The 62nd New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center, is set to run from Sept. 27-Oct. 14 at Manhattan’s Lincoln Center and four partner venues in other boroughs: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Staten Island), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) (Brooklyn), The Bronx Museum (Bronx), and the Museum of the Moving Image (Queens).
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