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Film at Lincoln Center announces Dreamed Paths: The Films of Angela Schanelec, a complete retrospective of the Berlin School filmmaker’s audacious body of work, February 7-13. German director Angela Schanelec’s films have a rhythm and tone all their own—mysterious yet moving, they unearth the metaphysics rumbling beneath the placid surface of everyday life. Read More

Film at Lincoln Center announces The Bong Show, a retrospective of internationally beloved South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho, January 7-14. Read More

Film at Lincoln Center has announced the full lineup of festival, repertory, and new release programming for the 2020 winter and spring seasons, including a complete retrospective of Berlin School director Angela Schanelec; a career-spanning retrospective of Bong Joon Ho’s varied and masterful films in light of the international acclaim of Parasite Read More

The Jewish Museum and Film at Lincoln Center will present the 29th annual New York Jewish Film Festival (NYJFF), January 15–28, 2020. Among the oldest and most influential Jewish film festivals worldwide, NYJFF each year presents the finest documentary, narrative, and short films from around the world that explore the Jewish experience. Read More

Film at Lincoln Center announces the complete schedule for Varda, a career-spanning retrospective of Agnès Varda (December 20 – January 6), presented in partnership with Janus Films. The trailblazing filmmaker’s final work, Varda by Agnès, opens theatrically at FLC on November 22.  Read More

Film at Lincoln Center and Cinema Tropical announce Veredas: A Generation of Brazilian Filmmakers, December 6-11. The range of boundary-pushing works of Brazilian film has had few parallels in recent years, with filmmakers such as Kleber Mendonça Filho, Gabriel Mascaro, Karim Aïnouz, Juliana Rojas, João Dumans, and Affonso Uchôa radically revising the world’s understanding of their national cinema. Veredas: A Generation of Brazilian Filmmakers will showcase work from a vast and influential generation that is indelibly leaving its mark on the local and international film circuit. Read More

Film at Lincoln Center is pleased to announce that Academy Award–winner Spike Lee will be honored at the 46th Chaplin Award Gala on Monday, April 27, 2020. The Chaplin Award Gala is the most important fundraising event of the year for Film at Lincoln Center, and all proceeds benefit the organization in its mission to support the art and craft of cinema. Read More

Film at Lincoln Center and Subway Cinema, in association with the Korean Cultural Center New York, announce Relentless Invention: New Korean Cinema, 1996–2003, a showcase of the essential films and filmmakers of this transformative movement, November 22–December 4. The South Korean film industry has been in the midst of a remarkable, decades-long creative explosion, with Bong Joon Ho, Hong Sang-soo, and Park Chan-wook jolting new life into art-house and genre cinema alike. With the end of the nation’s military rule and the relaxing of government censorship, Korean film experienced the kind of renaissance that hadn’t been seen since its golden age in the 1950s. Read More

Film at Lincoln Center announces Rebel Spirit: The Films of Patricia Mazuy, the first American retrospective of the versatile French filmmaker’s work, November 15–17. Though little-known to American moviegoers, Patricia Mazuy has earned a reputation and a dedicated following among French audiences and international festival patrons for her bracing, singular directorial vision, developed over three decades across a small but distinguished filmography of narrative features, documentaries, and TV movies, after getting her start as an editor on the films of Agnès Varda. Many of her keen-eyed period dramas, wry examinations of modern workplace dynamics, and lean, brooding chamber pieces of familial angst have screened at Cannes, and her work has earned the admiration of Jacques Rivette. Read More

Film at Lincoln Center announces the complete retrospective Jessica Hausner: The Miracle Worker, November 8–10. After emerging onto the scene with her 2001 feature debut, Lovely Rita, Austrian filmmaker Jessica Hausner has rapidly established herself as a tirelessly inventive director who reconfigures genre codes in clever and provocative ways. Read More