SIN LA HABANA, #NYJFF's Centerpiece film, centers on the cross-cultural relationships between a ballet dancer–turned–salsa instructor, his lawyer girlfriend, and an Iranian-Jewish tourist in Cuba.

Watch the film on 1/15 & 1/17 followed by Q&As with director Kaveh Nabatian! Get tickets at filmlinc.org/nyjff

R.I.P. Jean-Jacques Beineix (1946 - 2022)

Here on the set of BETTY BLUE in 1986.

As BELLE opens in theaters, revisit to our conversation with director Mamoru Hosoda on the animation process, the internet, and the making of the #NYFF59 selection.

Listen to the talk on our podcast or watch on our YouTube channel!

Though made before the pandemic, THE END OF LOVE poignantly foreshadows what would soon become a universal condition: reliance on screens to sustain relationships over prolonged separations. Keren Ben Rafael's film opens tomorrow in the Virtual Cinema!

Get tickets at filmlinc.org/nyjff

We're excited to announce Joachim Trier: The Oslo Trilogy, a series celebrating the release of THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD, alongside a selection of films curated by Trier & frequent collaborator Eskil Vogt. Taking place Jan. 28-Feb. 3.

Explore the lineup, 35mm screenings, and Q&As at filmlinc.org/trier.

- THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD (Trier, 2021) | 1/28, Opens 2/4 |
Q&A with Trier & Renate Reinsve on 1/28!

- REPRISE (Trier, 2006) | 35mm | 1/29, 1/31, 2/3 | Q&A with Trier on 1/29!

- OSLO, AUGUST 31ST (Trier, 2011) | 35mm | 1/30, 2/2, 2/3 | Q&A with Trier on 1/30!

- THE AGE OF INNOCENCE (Martin Scorsese, 1993) | 1/29, 1/31

- THE BREAKFAST CLUB (John Hughes, 1985) | 2/2, 2/3

- CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962) | 2/2

- THE GREEN RAY (Éric Rohmer, 1986) | 35mm | 1/28, 1/31

- HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (Alain Resnais, 1959) | 1/30

- MY SEX LIFE... OR HOW I GOT INTO AN ARGUMENT (Arnaud Desplechin, 1996) | 1/30, 1/31

- THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (George Cukor, 1940) | 35mm | 1/28

- REMONSTRANCE (Erik Løchen, 1972) | 1/28, 2/2

- WINGS (Larisa Shepitko, 1966) | 35mm | 1/30, 2/3

Hong Sangsoo's INTRODUCTION is a film that keeps opening up to the viewer through digressions and reversals, leading to one of Hong’s most amusingly unsettling soju-soaked outbursts. The #NYFF59 selection opens Jan. 21!

Get tickets at filmlinc.org/introduction.

Starting tomorrow, watch the NY Premiere of Dani Rosenberg's THE DEATH OF CINEMA AND MY FATHER TOO, a meta-narrative film about a filmmaker collaborating with his ailing father and a playful statement on cinema’s power to freeze a moment but not stop the flow of time.

Watch in the Virtual Cinema through Jan. 18 as part of #NYJFF. Get tickets at filmlinc.org/nyjff.

Filmmaker Steve Brand spent five years chronicling the lives of the Klein family; the resulting film, KADDISH, shows us 1980s New York and activist Yossi Klein Halevi in his formative years. See the world premiere of the 4K restoration (followed by a Q&A with director Steve Brand) on 1/13 at 4PM and virtually from 1/20 - 1/25.

Get tickets at filmlinc.org/nyjff.

Listen to Apichatpong Weerasethakul's deep-dive conversation from New York Film Festival about his extraordinary oeuvre and the elliptical novelties and familiar mysteries of his latest masterwork, MEMORIA, now on our podcast and website!

The 2022 NY Jewish Film Festival, taking place in-person & virtually, begins this Wednesday with Mano Khalil's heartfelt, humorous drama NEIGHBOURS ft. a Q&A!

See more & save throughout the festival, through January 25, with an All-Access Pass. Learn more at nyjff.org

We’re thrilled to announce the historic 50th edition of the Dance on Camera Festival, taking place Feb. 11-14! Featuring a 50th anniversary 35mm screening of Bob Fosse's CABARET, the World Premiere of Ebru Şeremetli's THE MOMENT REMAINS & much more, explore the lineup at filmlinc.org/dance2022 💃

Tickets go on sale January 28 at noon. 🎟

Taken together, the films of Márta Mészáros are masterful blends of the personal and the political, each one beautifully lensed, gently profound but never sentimental, and vividly attuned to the shifting social atmospheres of Hungary and its decades-long history of political unrest.

Tickets are now on sale for our upcoming retrospective, taking place Jan. 21 - 26, featuring brand new restorations! Explore the lineup at filmlinc.org/marta

"I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters."

Remembering the great Sidney Poitier, who has passed away at the age of 94. 💜

Pictured here during the 2011 Chaplin Awards Gala celebrating his career.

“There are no 'old' movies really—only movies you have already seen and ones you haven't."

R.I.P. Peter Bogdanovich

SIN LA HABANA, the Centerpiece Film at New York Jewish Film Festival 2022, is a lyrical and deeply felt meditation on cross-cultural relationships. #NYJFF

The film plays 1/15 & 1/17 followed by Q&As with director Kaveh Nabatian! Get tickets at filmlinc.org/nyjff

Asghar Farhadi’s latest film, A HERO, is an expertly crafted moral tale tinged with suspense that segues into something far more surprising and psychologically rich.

See Iran's Oscar entry starting this Friday! Get showtimes and tickets at filmlinc.org/hero.

Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s unexpected new film, which starts out as a satire of the contemporary news media before steadily spiraling out into something richer and darker...

FRANCE plays through Thursday in our theaters! Get tickets at filmlinc.org/france

Behind the scenes with Paul Verhoeven and the cast and crew of BENEDETTA.
The shocking #NYFF59 selection closes Thursday in our theaters!

Don't miss the unholy good time. Get tickets at filmlinc.org/benedetta.

Behind the scenes with Paul Verhoeven and the cast and crew of BENEDETTA.
The shocking #NYFF59 selection closes Thursday in our theaters!

Don't miss the unholy good time. Get tickets at filmlinc.org/benedetta.

Taking place January 12 - 25, the 31st New York Jewish Film Festival, presented with @thejewishmuseum, will have in-person and virtual screenings!

Explore #NYJFF films, Q&As, and get tickets at nyjff.org.

When asked how such a nice lady could edit Martin Scorsese’s violent gangster pictures, Schoonmaker replied with a smile, “Ah, but they aren’t violent until I’ve edited them!”

Happy Birthday to a true legend, Thelma Schoonmaker! 🔥

Looking for early access to @TheNYFF, discounted tickets year-round at FLC, exclusive invites & more? Today only, save 50% on Film at Lincoln Center memberships! ✨ Redeem now with the code NEWYEAR50 at filmlinc.org/membership 🎥

📸: PARALLEL MOTHERS premiere at #NYFF59 by @seandiserio. Now playing daily at FLC!

"A HERO is Asghar Farhadi at his best," says @hollywoodreporter. Tickets are now on sale for the Cannes winner and Iran's Oscar entry, opening January 7!

Farhadi’s latest film is yet another expertly crafted pressure cooker of tension set in contemporary Iran, following Rahim (Amir Jadidi), a father imprisoned for an unpaid debt. While on a two-day leave, he and his fiancée hatch a scheme to convince his creditor (Mohsen Tanabandeh) to withdraw his complaint, but the plan spirals out of control when Rahim becomes the focus of a local news story. This incisive comment on justice and human frailty gradually performs a sleight of hand, beginning as a moral tale tinged with suspense before segueing into something far more surprising and psychologically rich.

“That magical connection between Pedro Almodóvar and Penelope Cruz continues to grow stronger and burn brighter with Parallel Mothers, their eighth film together over the past quarter century. The Spanish maestro knows precisely how to get all the colors out of his charismatic muse, and in turn, the veteran star takes his material and makes it feel both fiery and grounded,” says @christylemire at RogerEbert.com.

The #NYFF59 Closing Night selection is now playing daily at Walter Reade Theater! 🇪🇸 🎥

Marlene Dietrich, born on this day, pictured with Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles. ☕️

R.I.P. Jean-Marc Vallée (1963-2021)

EYES WIDE SHUT (Stanley Kubrick, 1999)

Make it a holiday tradition—BENEDETTA continues to play daily in our theaters. 🙏

Celebrate family with Paul Verhoeven this season. See showtimes at filmlinc.org/benedetta.

"We tell ourselves stories in order to live."

R.I.P. Joan Didion

Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz, and Milena Smit on the set of PARALLEL MOTHERS.

The #NYFF59 selection opens tonight in our theaters! Don't miss the contemporary melodrama exploring motherhood and Spain's history. Explore showtimes at filmlinc.org/parallel.

Without your generous support and dedication to cinema, nothing we do at Film at Lincoln Center would be possible. We're so grateful to our members, patrons, sponsors, and the incredible cinema community near and far. It is because of you that audiences have been able to continue sharing and celebrating the power of film. Thank you from all of us here, and we look forward to spending another cinema-filled year with you in 2022. 💜

Taking place Jan. 21 - 26, we're excited to announce The Films of Márta Mészáros, a retrospective featuring newly restored works from the socialist and feminist filmmaker whose trailblazing, six-decade career broke barriers in cinema hierarchies. Explore the lineup at filmlinc.org/marta.

📽:

- THE GIRL | 1/21 & 1/24
- BINDING SENTIMENTS | 1/21 & 1/25
- DON'T CRY, PRETTY GIRLS! | 1/22 & 1/25
- RIDDANCE | 1/24 & 1/26
- ADOPTION | 1/21 & 1/23
- NINE MONTHS | 1/23 & 1/25
- THE TWO OF THEM | 1/23 & 1/24
- THE HEIRESSES | 1/22 & 1/26
- DIARY FOR MY CHILDREN | 1/22 & 1/26
- DIARY FOR MY LOVERS | 1/22 & 1/24
- DIARY FOR MY MOTHER AND FATHER | 1/23 & 1/25

Happy Birthday, Julie Delpy! 🌹

In the steady yet playful hands of Hong Sangsoo, even the simplest premise can become a puzzle box of unpredictable, poignant human behavior. INTRODUCTION opens Jan. 21 in our theaters. Tickets on sale soon. ✨

Tickets are now on sale to the 31st New York Jewish Film Festival! Taking place Jan. 12 - 25, explore in-person and virtual screenings at filmlinc.org/nyjff.

Happy Birthday to Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, the filmmaker behind two of this year's greatest films, DRIVE MY CAR and WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY! ✨

DRIVE MY CAR is showing daily in our theaters. Get showtimes and tickets at filmlinc.org/drive.

📸: @photojuice

Announcing Camera Man: Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton; a special screening of Keaton's STEAMBOAT BILL, JR and ONE WEEK, followed by an extended conversation with Dana Stevens and Imogen Sara Smith. Takes place on Jan. 27 at 7pm! For more information and tickets, go to filmlinc.org/buster.

“There’s no limit that I give myself, or that I impose on myself, or that I find.” - Pedro Almodóvar on screenwriting.

Almodóvar's new film, PARALLEL MOTHERS, opens Dec. 24 with a sneak preview on Dec. 23! Get showtimes and tickets at filmlinc.org/parallel.

📸: Rafael Pavarotti for The New York Times

The 31st New York Jewish Film Festival will take place in-theaters and virtually from January 12 — 25! FLC and The Jewish Museum (@thejewishmuseum) will showcase 33 wide-ranging and exciting features and shorts, including the latest works by dynamic voices in international cinema.

Explore the full lineup at filmlinc.org/NYJFF22.

“Bruno Dumont… rips furiously into the Internet-juiced mediascape in his new film, FRANCE.” – Richard Brody for The New Yorker.

Don't miss the #NYFF59 selection—now playing daily in our theaters! Get tickets at filmlinc.org/france.

GOOD MORNING (Yasujirō Ozu, 1959) #BOTD

The first brochure for the Walter Reade Theater! Relive the past three decades at filmlinc.org/wrt30.

As we celebrate its 30th anniversary, what is your favorite memory at the Walter Reade Theater? 📽️

Start the new year off right with Joachim Trier’s THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD, Hong Sangsoo's INTRODUCTION, retrospectives on Márta Mészáros, Jonas Mekas, & Kinuyo Tanaka, and the return of your favorite festivals!

Explore our full Winter/Spring programming at filmlinc.org/qi2022.

Highlights include:
- Asghar Farhadi’s A HERO | Opens Jan. 7
- New York Jewish Film Festival | Jan. 12-25
- Hong Sangsoo's INTRODUCTION | Opens Jan. 21
- The Films of Márta Mészáros | Jan. 21-26
- Camera Man: Dana Stevens on Buster Keaton | Jan. 27
- Joachim Trier: The Oslo Trilogy | Jan. 28 - Feb. 3
- Joachim Trier's THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD | Opens Feb. 4
- Dance on Camera | Feb. 11 – 14
- Jonas Mekas | Feb. 17-23
- Neighboring Scenes | Feb. 24 – 28
- Rendez-Vous with French Cinema | March 3 - 13
- Nadav Lapid's AHED'S KNEE | Opens March 18
- Kinuyo Tanaka | March 18 – 27

R.I.P. Lina Wertmüller (1928–2021)

"Almodóvar is a master storyteller." - @variety

Tickets are now on sale to PARALLEL MOTHERS, the director's "best film since ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER!" Opens Dec. 24 with a special sneak preview on Dec. 23. 🤱Get tickets at filmlinc.org/parallel.

The most absorbing drive you'll take all year.

Come along for the ride—DRIVE MY CAR continues its run in our theaters! Get tickets at filmlinc.org/drive.

Special thanks to Danny Glover and Joslyn Barnes for visiting us last week after a screening of BAMAKO. Listen to their exclusive Q&A on our podcast and website now!

📸: Danny Glover & Racquel Gates at the TO SLEEP WITH ANGER Q&A by @photojuice.

Tomorrow is the last day of Danny Glover and Louverture Films! See Deepak Rauniyar's WHITE SUN at 6:30pm and Charles Burnett's TO SLEEP WITH ANGER at 8:45pm. Get tickets at filmlinc.org/glover.

Adapted from Athol Fugard’s 1969 play, John Berry’s final feature stars Danny Glover and Angela Bassett as the titular couple, forced into a nomadic existence after being booted from their shantytown in apartheid-era South Africa. Watch BOESMAN AND LENA tonight on 35mm! Get tickets at filmlinc.org/glover.

Happy Birthday, Lynne Ramsay! ✨

Photo by Piet Goethals, 2000.

Today at 3:15pm is your last chance to see Jonathan Demme’s expressionist adaptation of Toni Morrison’s supernatural novel, BELOVED, on 35mm! Get tickets to our Danny Glover and Louverture Films series at filmlinc.org/glover.

More than just a Saab story.

Ryûsuke Hamaguchi spins an engrossing, expansive epic about love and betrayal, grief and acceptance, charting the unexpected and complex relationships of a theater actor-director. DRIVE MY CAR is playing daily in our theaters! Get showtimes and tickets at filmlinc.org/drive.

"I hope they will just "be," in the dark, with others, be aware of the illusion, the time, without expecting what narrative lies ahead." - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Our Danny Glover and Louverture Films series continues tonight with Apichatpong Weerasethakul's UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES on 35mm! 🎟️: filmlinc.org/glover

Happy 91st Birthday to Jean-Luc Godard!

Photo by William Klein, 1960.

💜 30 years ago, the Walter Reade Theater became our home. 💜

"One by one, the lights have dimmed at New York City's repertory cinemas, leaving a dark hole that the new Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center hopes to illuminate." - William Grimes, @nytimes, Dec. 3, 1991

Today only—audience members of all WRT showings are eligible for giveaways throughout the day, including official #NYFF59 posters and backpacks, Cinema 16 shirts, FLC totes, & more! More info at filmlinc.org/wrt30.

See what all the nun-sense is about...BENEDETTA is now playing daily in our theaters! 🙏

Enter to win an exclusive prayer candle when you purchase a ticket to BENEDETTA on Dec. 3, 4, or 5. Post a photo of your ticket and tag us on Twitter/Instagram!

Get tickets and more info at filmlinc.org/benedetta.

Charles Burnett and the cast of TO SLEEP WITH ANGER in 1990.

Watch Charles Burnett's imaginative masterpiece tomorrow at 6:15pm, followed by a Q&A with Danny Glover and writer/scholar Racquel Gates, and on Dec. 7 during our Danny Glover and Louverture Films series.

Get showtimes and tickets at filmlinc.org/glover.

Two women, a generation apart, find themselves inextricably linked by their time together in a maternity ward, bound by a secret with ties to a deep trauma in Spanish history.

Opening 12/24 with a special sneak preview on 12/23, tickets to Pedro Almodóvar's PARALLEL MOTHERS are now on sale! Get showtimes and tickets at filmlinc.org/parallel.

THE TREE OF LIFE (Terrence Malick, 2011) #BOTD

With the artistic support of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Danny Glover, Joslyn Barnes, and Laura Poitras, RaMell Ross spent five years intimately observing a community of African Americans in the Deep South, out of which comes this visionary and political meditation on race in America.

HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING plays tomorrow at 9pm with a special introduction from RaMell Ross! Get tickets at filmlinc.org/glover.

💜 Happy #GivingTuesday! 💜

As a non-profit cinema, our efforts are made possible by the generous support of our audience members. Today only, donate any amount to FLC or purchase a new or gift membership and you’ll receive two free tickets to a Walter Reade Theater screening of your choice in December. Celebrate FLC, celebrate 30 years of WRT, celebrate film. Get more info at filmlinc.org/membership.

Behind the scenes of BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN with Radu Jude.

Don't miss the "biting, bawdy, and brilliant (A.O. Scott, @nytimes)" film on the big screen before it closes this Thursday. Get showtimes and tickets at filmlinc.org/banging.

Danny Glover and Charles Burnett on the set of TO SLEEP WITH ANGER (1990).

Danny Glover stars as Harry Mention, a mysterious drifter from the South who visits an old acquaintance (Paul Butler), now leading a middle-class life with his family in South Central Los Angeles. Though imbued with charm and traditional manners, Harry has a knack for mischief that creates powerful rifts throughout the family. Burnett’s overlooked masterpiece connects the past to the present in emotionally resonant ways, making this film as imaginative and insightful as his debut feature.

Watch one of the finest films about the Black experience in modern America on 12/2 followed by a Q&A with Danny Glover and writer/scholar Racquel Gates (@racquelgates), and on 12/7. Get tickets at filmlinc.org/glover.

Agnès Varda at the Walter Reade Theater for the 38th @TheNYFF in 2000.

Today and tomorrow, donate any amount to FLC or purchase a new or gift membership and you’ll receive two free tickets to a WRT screening of your choice in December! Find more info on our December giveaways and WRT history at filmlinc.org/wrt30.

📸: @godlis

R.I.P. Stephen Sondheim 💜

Behind the scenes on Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's DRIVE MY CAR. 🚗

The #NYFF59 selection continues its run in our theaters. Get showtimes and tickets at filmlinc.org/drive.

"A gorgeous modern fairy tale." - @nytimes

"A wondrous romance." - @hollywoodreporter

Tomorrow is the last chance to see WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? in our theaters! Get lost in the #NYFF59 selection. Find showtimes and tickets at filmlinc.org/sky.

From Kiyoshi Kurosawa to John Cassavetes watch/listen to DRIVE MY CAR director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi discuss his cinematic influences with Matías Piñeiro on our podcast and website.

Don't miss our live Q&A with Ryûsuke Hamaguchi following the 7:45pm screening on Nov. 30. Get tickets to Japan's Oscar entry at filmlinc.org/drive.

Léa Seydoux brilliantly holds the center of Bruno Dumont’s unexpected, unsettling new film, which starts out as a satire of the contemporary news media before steadily spiraling out into something richer and darker. Never one to shy away from provoking his viewers, Dumont (THE LIFE OF JESUS, NYFF35) casts Seydoux as France de Meurs, a seemingly unflappable superstar TV journalist whose career, homelife, and psychological stability are shaken after she carelessly drives into a young delivery man on a busy Paris street.

This accident triggers a series of self-reckonings, as well as a strange romance that proves impossible to shake. A film that teases at redemption while refusing to grant absolution, FRANCE is tragicomic and deliciously ambivalent—a very 21st-century treatment of the difficulty of maintaining identity in a corrosive culture. Matinee tickets are now available! See a screening before 3pm for $10.

Opening Dec. 10, tickets to FRANCE are now on sale at filmlinc.org/france.

This December, we're celebrating 30 years of the beloved Walter Reade Theater! 🎞️💜 In honor of the monumental anniversary, explore our newly launched giveaways, archival photos, favorite Q&As, and more at filmlinc.org/wrt30.

Moments in Alexandre Koberidze's WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY?

The #NYFF59 selection closes this Thursday in our theaters! Get tickets at filmlinc.org/sky.

Korean poster for Paul Verhoeven's BENEDETTA.

Opens December 3. Get tickets at filmlinc.org/benedetta.

Today at 4pm, join us for a free talk at Art of the Real: Counter Encounters!

Artists and filmmakers from the program Carlos Motta, Basel Abbas, and Ruanne Abou-Rahme join curators Laura Huertas Millán and Rachael Rakes to discuss different strategies, ethics, and forms of alter-ethnographic practice. The conversation stems from works being screened as well as additional comparative and historic references in film, art, writing, and related disciplines.

Still from Carlos Motta's NEDANDUS.

Program 6: Troublemakers: Subversive Fictions closes this year's Art of the Real tomorrow at 8:15pm! The program’s films reclaim the subversive powers of the imagination, transforming marginality into fertile lands of playfulness & new storytelling. The program will be followed by a Q&A with THE TUBA THIEVES: SCENE 22 filmmaker Alison O’Daniel!

Framed as a journey through Dakar, Djibril Diop Mambéty’s first film, CONTRAS' CITY, encompasses colonial and indigenous culture and architecture. The gentleness and empathy of the filmed subjects prefigures the provocative tone and politically engaged spirit of Diop.

Motion picture pioneer Alice Guy invented fictional narrative in cinema but was erased from its official history. In MADAME A DES ENVIES, Guy stages a pregnant woman who unapologetically gives in to all her cravings.

Inspired by the real-life event of a broken boat that stranded a family in the outback, WUTHARR intertwines three perspectives on the same story, where the mythical & the factual, the past & the present, are part of the same frame, in an “an ongoing interconnected relationship.”

QU'UN SANG IMPUR is a queer, feminist tale of postmenopausal eroticism. Navigating genres such as gore, erotica, video art, and political cinema, Curnier Jardin’s film celebrates desire and bodies historically excluded from film.

Part of a long-term collaboration with actress and director Deragh Campbell, VASELEMØY'S SONG finds auto-fictional character Audrey traveling to the New York Public Library in search of a rare recording produced in 1909.

Reenacting a punk show hosted by Bruce Conner at The Deaf Club in San Francisco in 1979, THE TUBA THIEVES: SCENE 22 intensely formulates through fiction a nonexistent but necessary archive of both Deaf and underground cultures.

Get tickets to the last two days of programs at Art of the Real: Counter Encounters at filmlinc.org/aotr.

Hark! Tickets to BENEDETTA, Paul Verhoeven's delirious, erotic, and violent melodrama, are now on sale. ⛪🙏

The wildly controversial #NYFF59 selection opens on December 3 in our theaters. Get tickets at filmlinc.org/benedetta.

Based on true events, Benedetta unearths the story of Benedetta Carlini, a 17th-century nun in Tuscany who believed she saw visions of Christ and engaged in a sexual relationship with a fellow sister at her abbey. Because this is a film by genre auteur par excellence Paul Verhoeven (whose movies include Robocop, Basic Instinct, and NYFF54 selection Elle), the result is anything but a reverent treatment of an odd footnote in Catholic European history. Forgoing the hallmarks of prestige cinema, this delirious, erotic, and violent melodrama is told with a boundless spirit for scandal, and unabashedly courts blasphemy as it unfolds its tale of religious hypocrisy. Wildly entertaining, and featuring standout performances from Virginie Efira as the title character and Charlotte Rampling as the stoic, conflicted Mother Abbess, Benedetta maintains both a feverish pitch and a fascinating ambiguity in its depiction of the miraculous and the mundane, the sacred and the profane.

This Sunday at 4pm, catch Program 5: Collaborative Survival at Art of the Real. The films in this program are experienced as immersive, saturated, & psychedelic, breaking from what could be thought of as typical documentary or ethnographic aesthetics.

Recalling early photographic botanic studies through techniques such as heliographic models and animation, DISCOVERIES ON THE FOREST FLOOR & A STUDY IN NATURAL MAGIC by Charlotte Pryce create moments of visual alchemy & cinematic wonder, centered on natural alterities. On 16mm!

In Colectivo Los Ingrávidos's ERODED PYRAMID, the flicker of rock vestiges from a Mexican pyramid proffers an earthly hallucinatory cinematic experience, bringing us back to the lost rituals that the archeological site once hosted.

THE GREAT SILENCE by Allora & Calzadilla and Ted Chiang explores the relationship between the Arecibo Observatory and the Río Abajo State Forest, and more broadly the connections between humans and animals, the terrestrial and the cosmic, the living and the decayed.

Laura Huertas Millán's JÍIBIE explores the fabrication ritual of a green coca powder, which unveils an ancestral myth of kinship. In the Muiná-Muruí Amazonian community, the coca plant is not a product, but a sacred interlocutor, the beating heart of a collective body.

Jodie Mack's WASTELAND NO. 2: HARDY, HEARTY is a silent animation featuring flowers freeing themselves from melting ice, only to be replaced by rooted plants, which themselves grow flowers again. Petals, frozen cubes, & leaves billow alluringly in this hypnotic process. On 16mm!

COMFORT STATIONS is a collection of found footage consisting in large part of biological processes & natural life from a set of film prints discovered by Anja Dornieden & Juan David González Monroy. The work is a mesmerizing montage of life processes & undulating images. On 16mm!

A limited amount of All-Access Passes are still available for Art of the Real: Counter Encounters! Get passes and tickets at filmlinc.org/aotr.

Tickets to Danny Glover and Louverture Films, our series dedicated to the work of an actor, activist, and groundbreaking production company, are now on sale!

Explore 35mm screenings, Q&As with co-producers Danny Glover and Joslyn Barnes, and more at filmlinc.org/glover.

Art of the Real begins tomorrow! Don’t miss Program 4: Living Among Ruins on Saturday at 8:15pm, exploring how archival media is evidence of previous points of view, types of gaze, power configurations, and knowledge constructions. The program features:

Structured around footage taken from an Israeli military surveillance camera in Palestine, Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme’s ONLY THE BELOVED KEEPS OUR SECRETS combines that material with found footage of quotidian ritual and performance, abandoned lots, local plants, and landscapes.

After the Karantina Massacre early in the Lebanese Civil War, Jocelyne Saab’s LES ENFANTS DE LA GUERRE finds the filmmaker bonding with the surviving children of a shantytown in Beirut. They allow her to film their games, which are marked by the horrible events that they’d witnessed.

Zezinho Yube’s striking documentary JÁ ME TRANSFORMEI EM IMAGEN (I ALREADY BECAME AN IMAGE) illustrates how the Amazonian Hunikui people became subjects of a foreign gaze.

Onyeka Igwe’s SPECIALISED TECHNIQUE is an attempt to return authorship of the footage of West African dancers taken by the British Colonial Film Unit to its original subjects.

Abigail Child’s MUTINY presents chopped fragments of women represented in a variety of mediated footage. The infuriated and truncated syntax of the film, built in service of readjusting the archives, honors its rebellious title.

In the sincere and personal HOW GREEN WAS THE CALABASH GARDEN, filmmaker Truong Minh Quý prompts a Vietnamese veteran to recall his participation in the Cambodian genocide, encouraging him to sketch his memories in a lush calabash garden.

Only a few All-Access Passes remain, including a $25 discount for Students! Reserve yours or get single tickets at filmlinc.org/aotr

The epic saga you've been waiting for that explores love, betrayal, grief, and acceptance opens in one week.

🎟: filmlinc.org/drive

📷: @sam_clements

This Saturday at 6pm, Art of the Real Program 3: What We See Is Real features works that push the premise of auto-ethnography into a rigorous, foreign, and experimental art form.

In POINTS OF DEPARTURE, director Alia Syed’s voice narrates entangled memories triggered by finding a family tablecloth, accompanying archival footage and shots of Glasgow’s landscape. An essayistic portrait of place, home, and lost words and translations.

Thirza Cuthand's SIGHT blends two stories of blindness to think about the realities of disability and mental illness. This frank testimony plays over Super-8 footage obscured by colored markings.

With vulnerability and a note of rage, Miko Revereza details the experience of his family’s relocation to Los Angeles from Manila in DISINTEGRATION 93-96.

Angelo Madsen Minax's AT THE RIVER is part of an ongoing effort, spanning the past four years, to document the filmmaker’s small-town-Michigan roots. This short seamlessly juxtaposes tensions inside the family house with a father and son’s walk in the woods. With Q&A!

A study of landscape as personal history & a marker of time’s passage, PUCHUNCAVÍ is a project in ongoing mutation, as director Jeannette Muñoz uses 16mm film to capture the same Chilean coastal town every time she travels there, making several cuts and revisions along the way.

In the wake of three profound losses, Barbara Hammer waltzes with an anatomical skeleton, confronting mortality head-on and meditating on grief, sickness, and burial rituals in VITAL SIGNS.

Onyeka Igwe's THE NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED, INCLUDING MY OWN AND TRUTHS HAVE BEEN ALTERED is a family story and land story, told in multiple ways, that explores the slippery notion of “truth” with the help of the British Colonial archive, Nollywood, and an adapted novel.

Only a few $50 All-Access Passes and $25 Student All-Access Passes remain for Art of the Real! Reserve yours or get single tickets at filmlinc.org/aotr 🎥

“Movies touch our hearts, and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places. They open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our lifetime. We need to keep them alive.”

Happy birthday, Martin Scorsese! ✨ 🎥

📸: At the 57th @TheNYFF, by @mettieostrowski

"Chick Strand's SOFT FICTION is a personal documentary that brilliantly portrays the survival power of female sensuality," says @FilmQuarterly.

Don't miss our 16mm screening this Saturday at 2pm at Art of the Real! 🎞

In this acclaimed document and expression of gendered pain, joy, and hardship, Strand collaborates with five women who communicate their experience through direct and frank stories. Strand’s technique focuses on close-ups of facial expressions, profiles, and attention to physical gestures like the tension of hands, resulting in a unique documentary of intimacy and sexuality. This approach creates an elliptical mise en scène where little context is offered, and the subjects are presented as interlocutors rather than characters. Throughout these testimonies, the film considers the identification and representation of womanhood, and the sense of possession and dispossession through consensual and abusive sexuality.

🚗 Tickets are now on sale for DRIVE MY CAR, with Ryûsuke Hamaguchi in person on Nov. 30! 🚗

Japan's Oscar entry, inspired by a Haruki Murakami short story, is an engrossing, rapturous epic about love and betrayal, grief and acceptance. Get tickets for the #NYFF59 favorite at filmlinc.org/drive 🎟

Art of the Real: Counter Encounters begins this Friday! Join us for Program 2: Acts of Refusal II: The Persistence of Invisible Traces (Fri, 9pm), which employs the intimacy of a subjective first-person address to reckon with an environment devastated by colonialism and its consequences.

The program kicks off with a 16mm screening of Jeannette Muñoz's silent memento of belonging and exile STRATA OF NATURAL HISTORY, which recalls the forgotten history of human zoos present throughout Europe until the mid–20th century.

Cauleen Smith's THREE SONGS ABOUT LIBERATION features a trio of monologues from the book Black Women in White America. Inspired by Soviet avant-garde cinema, this revolutionary work calls upon the legacy of subversive Black voices.

Looking for “the traces of the predesignated” inscribed into a Colombian landscape, Carlos Motta's NEFANDUS awakens the memory of pre-Colombian nonbinary sexualities, heavily repressed and destroyed by the Spanish conquest.

In Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski's LA HUELLA, voices of a forensic doctor and the filmmaker herself accompany a photographic archive gathered by Peru’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, documenting atrocities committed during that nation’s civil war from 1980 to 2000.

A diasporic sensation cuts across the first seconds of Alia Syed's FATIMA'S LETTER, which materializes the liminal emotional space of migration, filmed entirely at Whitechapel Underground Station in East London. Screens in 16mm!

Assembled like a series of tableaux, Alexandra Cuesta's FAREWELL is a letter to his ephemeral home of Los Angeles’s Boyle Heights, depicting what Trinh T. Minh-ha calls an “elsewhere, within here,” a series of places at the threshold of transitions to come.

Minia Biabiany’s graceful TOLI TOLI is a haptic missive to Guadeloupe, the artist’s homeland. “Toli toli” means “butterfly chrysalid” in Créole. Its presence, alongside other organisms, songs, and murmurs, operates as a metaphor for a territory shaped by colonialism.

See more and save with an All-Access Pass! Reserve yours and learn more at filmlinc.org/aotr

“Great films often feel like a secret you’ve been told, and that’s how it is with What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?, a gorgeous modern fairy tale.”
– @nytimes

Alexandre Koberidze’s @TheNYFF favorite is now playing daily! Get $10 matinee tickets at all screenings before 3pm. Showtimes & tickets at filmlinc.org/sky ⚽️

WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? is a lovely portrait of an entire urban landscape and a lyrical fantasy romance.

This week on the podcast, we revisit an #NYFF59 conversation director Alexandre Koberidze on the role of football and fantasy in the film. Watch/listen on your favorite podcast app, our YouTube, and our website.

The #NYFF59 selection opens tomorrow in our theaters! Get showtimes and tickets at filmlinc.org/sky.

Art of the Real: Counter Encounters starts next Friday! Dive into this year's edition exploring works that disturb and reinvent classical ethnographic paradigms, starting with Program 1: Acts of Refusal I on 11/19 at 6:30pm.

The films in Program 1 revolt against the assignation to prescribed identities that’s been replicated throughout centuries by foreign eyes (belonging to colonizers, anthropologists, artists, tourists, politicians, and so on). Followed by a Q&A with multidisciplinary artist Ja’Tovia Gary! Get tickets at filmlinc.org/aotr.

Built upon “acts of refusal,” and intertwining recorded and found material centered on Black women’s experience and representation, Ja'Tovia Gary's THE GIVERNY DOCUMENT explicitly addresses trauma while avoiding literal exposition.

Drawing on his Puerto Rican, Portuguese, and Native American heritage, Montañez Ortiz’s influential work stages destruction as an alchemical process. COWBOY AND "INDIAN" FILM constitutes an exhilarating manifesto against cinematic alienation.

Howardena Pindell’s essential video, FREE, WHITE, AND 21 merges a poignant coming-of-age account, a memory of survival, and a reflection on creativity in a racist and sexist cultural field. A manifesto against discrimination in everyday life that remains painfully topical.

A surrealist ethnography of the so-called New World, Laura Huertas Millán's JOURNEY TO A LAND OTHERWISE KNOWN interweaves the words of European travelers during America’s colonization with lush recordings of a tropical greenhouse in France.

SPEECH AT THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY depicts an iconic moment in Latin American history, in which activist Ailton Krenak covered his face with black jenipapo paint, in defense of the constitutional amendment for the Union of Indigenous Nations.

Activist and botanist Mapenzi Chibale Nonó casts a magic spell to destroy military industries. Introduced by a clairvoyant cat, LA CABEZA MATÓ A TODOS achieves a feverish nocturnal dance, invoking the memory of anti-colonial Caribbean resistance.

BERGMAN ISLAND (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2021)

The NYT Critic's Pick continues its run in our theaters! Get tickets to Hansen-Løve's most gentle and profound film: filmlinc.org/bergman

"For a film that begins with love at first sight and a curse, WHAT DO WE SEE WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SKY? surprisingly reveals itself to be about noticing and appreciating the little things, rather than life’s grand gestures.” - @thefilmstage

Alexandre Koberidze's intimate off-kilter romance opens this Friday! Get showtimes and tickets at filmlinc.org/sky.

In BAD LUCK BANGING OR LOONY PORN, Radu Jude crafts an invigorating film centering around the trials of a teacher whose life and job are upended when her husband accidentally uploads their private sex tape to the internet.

The #NYFF59 selection opens on Nov. 19! Get tickets to Romania's Oscar entry at filmlinc.org/banging.

Please note: This film contains several scenes with explicit sexual content—but you already knew that.

Before you see Ryûsuke Hamaguchi's DRIVE MY CAR in our theaters on Nov. 24, revisit our conversation from #NYFF59 on the director's cinematic Influences and the theme of coincidence in WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY, his first 2021 release.

Listen/watch the conversation on your favorite podcast app, our website, and our YouTube channel!

📸: @danrodriguezdp

Happy Birthday, Alain Delon! 🇫🇷

Remembering the brilliant Taiwanese filmmaker Edward Yang on his birthday. 💜

Happy Birthday, Tilda Swinton! ✨

Here with John Waters during #NYFF59.

📸: @mettieostrowski

Tickets are now on sale for Art of the Real: Counter Encounters!

Join us Nov. 19-21 and see 40+ works from filmmakers, artists, and collectives that not only disturb classical ethnographic paradigms, but also reinvent an art of the real in itself.

Get tickets and All-Access Passes at filmlinc.org/aotr2021.

Remembering the great absurdist filmmaker, Kira Muratova, on her birthday today! 🎥

Announcing Danny Glover and Louverture Films, a series embodying the work of an actor and activist and a groundbreaking production company, taking place December 1–7.

Danny Glover and Louverture Films is curated in partnership with Louverture co-founders Danny Glover and Joslyn Barnes.

Explore the lineup at filmlinc.org/glover.

Julie and Anthony in THE SOUVENIR.

Julie in Anthony's jacket in THE SOUVENIR PART II.

Joanna Hogg's THE SOUVENIR PART II continues its run in our theaters. Get showtimes and tickets at filmlinc.org/souvenirII

“They say the world is of those who get up early. It's not true. The world is one of those who are happy to get up.”

Happy Birthday, Monica Vitti! ✨

Remembering the great Italian filmmaker, Luchino Visconti, on his 115th birthday. 🎥

BERGMAN ISLAND (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2021)

BERGMAN ISLAND plays daily in our theaters. Get showtimes and tickets: filmlinc.org/bergman