New Directors/New Films 2019
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Celebrating its 48th edition in 2019, the New Directors/New Films festival introduces New York audiences to the work of emerging filmmakers from around the world. Throughout its rich, nearly half-century history, New Directors has brought previously little-known talents like Spike Lee, Chantal Akerman, Bi Gan, Valerie Massadian, Gabriel Mascaro, RaMell Ross, and Kelly Reichardt to wider audiences. We hope you’ll join us in celebrating a group of filmmakers who represent the present and anticipate the future of cinema: daring artists whose work pushes the envelope and is never what you’d expect. Presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art.
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With the support of the Consulate General of Canada in New York.
Recommended Reading
The New York Times: 11 Movies You Need to See at New Directors/New Films
IndieWire: 8 Must-See Films From Emerging Filmmakers at This Year’s New Directors/New Films
The Film Stage: The Future of Filmmaking: A Comprehensive Preview of New Directors/New Films 2019
MUBI Notebook: The Pleasures of Ambiguity
CriterionCast: Five Films to See at New Directors/New Films 2019
Celebrating its 48th edition in 2019, the New Directors/New Films festival introduces New York audiences to the work of emerging filmmakers from around the world. Throughout its rich, nearly half-century history, New Directors has brought previously little-known talents like Spike Lee, Chantal Akerman, Bi Gan, Valerie Massadian, Gabriel Mascaro, RaMell Ross, and Kelly Reichardt to wider audiences. We hope you’ll join us in celebrating a group of filmmakers who represent the present and anticipate the future of cinema: daring artists whose work pushes the envelope and is never what you’d expect. Presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art.
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Opening Night · New York Premiere · Q&As with Chinonye Chukwu on March 27 (7pm screening) and March 28
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Chinonye Chukwu’s sophomore feature is an enthralling prison-set drama anchored by powerhouse performances by Alfre Woodard and Aldis Hodge.
Monos
Centerpiece Screening · New York Premiere · Q&As with Alejandro Landes on March 30 & 31
In Alejandro Landes’s intensely thrilling twist on Lord of the Flies, Julianne Nicholson plays a terrorized American engineer held captive by teenage guerilla bandits in an unnamed South American jungle. A Sundance award-winner, Monos is sure to be one of the most hotly debated films of 2019.
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Closing Night · New York Premiere · Q&As with Pippa Bianco on April 6 (6pm screening) & April 7
A double prizewinner at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Pippa Bianco’s unnerving feature debut is a profound and powerful examination of sexual assault and the increasingly volatile role the Internet plays in contemporary American society.
All Good
Q&As with Eva Trobisch on April 1 & 2
Aenne Schwarz delivers a gut-wrenching performance as a woman dealing with the aftermath of a nightmarish evening in Eva Trobisch’s poised and formally restrained directorial debut.
Angelo
New York Premiere · Q&As with Markus Schleinzer on April 6 & 7
Based on historical fact, Angelo charts the career of an African man sold into 18th-century Viennese court society and rises to become the beloved Court Moor of the Habsburg empire—before being banished to a horrifying, dehumanizing fate.
Bait
Belonging
North American Premiere · Q&As with Burak Cevik on April 4 & 5
A murder investigation is flipped inside out in Burak Cevik’s second feature, a spellbinding and surprising film concerning the first encounter of a young couple accused of murder.
The Chambermaid
New York Premiere · Q&As with Lila Avilés on March 29 & 31
In her debut, theater director Lila Avilés turns the monotonous work day of Eve (Gabriela Cartol), a chambermaid at a high-end Mexico City hotel, into a beautifully observed film of rich detail.
End of the Century
World Premiere · Q&As with Lucio Castro on March 30 & April 2 (joined by actor Juan Barberini)
What seems like a one-night encounter between two strangers becomes an epic, decades-spanning relationship, which filmmaker Lucio Castro depicts in a nonlinear fashion, and in which time and space refuse to play by the rules.
A Family Submerged
New York Premiere
The debut film from María Alché—best known for her mesmerizing performance in Lucrecia Martel’s The Holy Girl—is a hallucinatory, fragmented narrative evoking the interior life of a middle-aged wife and mother of three who’s set adrift by the death of her sister.
Fausto
New York Premiere · Q&As with Andrea Bussmann on April 6 & 7
The legend of Faust mingles with local folklore in Andrea Bussmann’s strikingly original shape-shifter, a film that dissolves the boundaries between the visible and the invisible.
Genèse
The New York Times Critic's Pick!
Following his autobiographical 2015 debut The Demons, Philippe Lesage continues to chronicle the life of young Felix (Édouard Tremblay-Grenier), and also captures the romantic trials and tribulations of two Quebecois teen siblings; the result is one of the most beautiful coming-of-age stories in years.
Honeyland
New York Premiere · Q&As with Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov on April 3 & 5
In an abandoned Macedonian village, Hatidze tends to her precious bee colonies while also caring for her ailing elderly mother; her life is upended by the invasion of thankless new neighbors in this evocative, often outrageously funny modern-day parable of the Good Samaritan.
Joy
New York Premiere
A staggering work of compassionate realism, Sudabeh Mortezai’s second fiction feature follows a young Nigerian sex worker living in Vienna as she struggles to simultaneously create a better life for her family and pay off her madame.
A Land Imagined
New York Premiere · Q&As with Yeo Siew Hua on April 6 & 7
Winner of the top prize at last year’s Locarno Film Festival, Yeo Siew Hua’s third feature is a clever, evocative shape-shifter concerning the curious case of a missing Chinese construction worker.
The Load
The New York Times Critic's Pick!
A work of enveloping atmosphere, Ognjen Glavonić’s wintry road movie concerns a truck driver tasked with transporting mysterious cargo from Kosovo to Belgrade during the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. A New Directors/New Films 2019 selection. A Grasshopper Film release.
Long Way Home
New York Premiere · Q&As with André Novais Oliveira on March 31 & April 2
The everyday takes on a profound and touching resonance in André Novais Oliveira’s sophomore feature concerning a woman who moves from her hometown of Itaúnas to Contagem to take a job working in a public health program.
Manta Ray
U.S. Premiere · Q&As with Phuttiphong Aroonpheng on March 29 & 30
Cinematographer Phuttiphong Arronpheng’s auspicious directorial debut is a mysterious, intoxicating work that centers on the friendship between a fisherman and the mute refugee he rescues from a swamp.
Midnight Family
New York Premiere · Q&As with Luke Lorentzen on April 4 & 5
Arguably the most exhilarating documentary to come out of Sundance this year, Midnight Family follows the private “operations” of the Ochoa family, who race to the scene of an accident or a crime to fill the void of government-run ambulances in Mexico City.
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North American Premiere · Q&As with Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell on March 30 & April 1
In Sofia Bohdanowicz and Deragh Campbell’s clever comedy, a young woman (Campbell) visits Harvard University to research a correspondence between her great-grandmother (a renowned Polish poet) and another poet who seems to have been her lover. Screening with The Plagiarist.
The Plagiarists
Present.Perfect.
U.S. Premiere · Q&As with Shengze Zhu on March 30 & 31
Shengze Zhu’s third feature shines a light on the curious world of live-streaming, a singularly contemporary form of human connection and commerce wherein “anchors” document their lives and interact with a virtual audience.
Sauvage/Wild
New York Premiere · Q&As with Camille Vidal-Naquet on April 5 & 7
Seething with a feral energy that masks genuine tenderness, Sauvage makes vivid a gay street hustler's knife's-edge existence, roaming from john to john in search of a fix—in the form of sex, drugs, and possibly even love.
Suburban Birds
Qiu Sheng in person on April 6
In Qiu Sheng’s entrancing, enigmatic feature debut, a team of surveyors investigates an inexplicably subsiding suburban landscape while a group of children set out on youthful adventures.
Shorts Program 1
Q&As with Simón Vélez López, Jacqueline Lentzou, Xavier Marrades, Lucila Mariani on March 28 & 30
Featuring Big Bridge by Simón Vélez López, Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year by Jacqueline Lentzou, Misericórdia by Xavier Marrades, A Million Years by Danech San, and Echoes by Lucila Mariani.
Shorts Program 2
Q&As with Jorge Jácome, Malena Szlam, and Garrett Bradley on April 3 & 4
Featuring The Golden Legend by Chema García Ibarra and Ion de Sosa, Past Perfect by Jorge Jácome, Altiplano by Malena Szlam, and America by Garrett Bradley.Tickets are now on sale! To become a member of MoMA or the Film Society and receive discounted tickets, please visit MoMA.org or filmlinc.org, respectively.
To purchase tickets to individual films, please click on the “Films” or “Schedule” tabs at the top of this page and then click on your desired films or showtimes. Pre-sale reminder: Film Society Members must log into their account to purchase tickets during the pre-sale period, and MoMA members must enter the pre-sale code they were sent via email.
Tickets are $12 for Members, Students & Seniors / $17 General Public. Opening Night and Closing Night tickets are $20 for Members, Students & Seniors / $25 General Public. Opening Night Party Pass also available: attend the Opening Night and Party for $50.
3+ Film Package – Minimum of 3 films required. Tickets just $10 Members, Students & Seniors / $13 General Public. (Excludes Opening Night screenings at MoMA.)
VIP All-Access Pass – See everything in the series for $1,000, including two tickets to every film, two tickets to Opening Night and Party, invite to Filmmaker Brunch, and invite to Industry Party.
Sold Out! Student Pass – See everything in the series for $50, excluding Opening, Centerpiece, and Closing Night films. (Student ID required. Quantities are limited.)
Note: Film Society member complimentary tickets can not be used for this series.
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