Our Media Center takes you inside Film at Lincoln Center with photos, videos, and podcasts from our screenings, talks, and events, plus announcements of upcoming programs and coverage of our artist and education initiatives.
Blaga’s Lessons
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
Widowed 70-year-old schoolteacher Blaga (a brilliant Eli Skorcheva) falls prey to a frightening telephone scam, setting off a chain of events in a tautly conceived thriller that skillfully captures the feeling of a bleak post-Communist society beset by corruption.
Cu Li Never Cries
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
Personal and political histories are ever-present in this tender yet commanding feature debut by Pham Ngoc LĂąn, in which Mrs. NguyĂȘn (Minh ChĂąu) returns to her Vietnamese hometown to spread the ashes of her estranged husband and reconnect with her niece, VĂąn (HĂ Phuong), resentful of her auntâs absence.
The Day I Met You
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
This micro portrait of two individuals finding comfort in each otherâs company follows Zeca (Renato Novaes), whose job, body, and mind have all gone out of whack, and Louisa (Grace PassĂŽ), his colleague at a local school, as the pair spend a few impromptu hours together outside of work.
Dreaming & Dying
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
At midlife, three high school friends appear in a peculiar love triangle, unclear if they are grappling with unresolved desires from the past or repressed yearnings of the present in Singaporean director Nelson Yeoâs debut feature.
Exhibiting Forgiveness
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
One of the contemporary art worldâs most important painters, Titus Kaphar brings the same sense of profoundly felt dynamism to his startlingly accomplished cinematic debut, Exhibiting Forgiveness, a wrenching work of emotional depth and visual flair starring the magnificent AndrĂ© Holland as a painter wrestling with the scars of his childhood after his fatherâs sudden return.
Foremost by Night
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
Spanish artist and curator VĂctor Iriarteâs debut feature unfolds across four epistolary chapters, following middle-aged Vera (Lola Dueñas) as she emerges from a years-long search for the biological son whom she gave up for adoption at birth.
Good One
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
A seemingly small incident has monumental implications in the extraordinary feature debut of India Donaldson, in which high school senior Sam (a revelatory Lily Collias) joins her father (James Le Gros) and his longtime buddy (Danny McCarthy) on a tense weekend camping trip in the Catskills.
Hesitation Wound
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
The unwelcome intrusion of law and society in affairs of the heart is a story grippingly told in writer-director Selman Nacarâs sophomore feature, following 24 stressful hours in the life of a Turkish criminal lawyer torn between her allegiances to her murder-suspect client, her convalescent mother, and the judge, a man of questionable principles.
Intercepted
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
Ukrainian-Canadian documentarian Oksana Karpovych charts a photojournalistic course across Ukraine in the wake of Russiaâs full-scale invasion, pairing fragments of intercepted conversations between Russian soldiers and their families back home with observational footage capturing the unsettled aftermath of occupation.
Lost Country
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
In Serbian filmmaker Vladimir PeriĆĄiÄâs compelling coming-of-age story, 15-year-old Stefan (Jovan GiniÄ), a teenager in mid-â90s Serbia, has begun to notice a harrowing chasm opening between the way he idealizes his mother (Jasna ÄuriÄiÄ) and how many of his fellow classmates and citizens have begun to see her in her role as the public spokesperson for president Slobodan MiloĆĄeviÄ.