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.
3½ Minutes, Ten Bullets
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May 6, 2015
Opening NightPost-screening panel with Marc Silver, Orlando Bagwell, and Maria McFarland Sánchez-Moreno, moderated by Khalil Gibran MuhammadThis riveting documentary explores the danger and subjectivity of Florida's Stand Your Ground self-defense laws by investigating the trial of Michael Dunn, a middle-aged white man who in 2012, after a brief altercation about the volume of their music, fired 10 bullets into the car of four unarmed African-American teenagers, killing one of them. Winner of a Special Jury Award for Social Impact, U.S. Documentary at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
A Night of Film and Food: El Bulli
By Nicholas Kemp
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May 4, 2015
For the third year, New Wave (film lovers under 40) is partnering with the James Beard Foundation Greens (foodies under 40) to present a fabulous evening of film and food. Guests will enjoy a special screening of the acclaimed film El Bulli: Cooking in Progress, followed by a reception featuring some of New York's finest chefs, cocktails, beer, and wine.
Love at First Fight
By Nicholas Kemp
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May 1, 2015
Easygoing Arnaud becomes smitten with hard-charger Madeleine and follows her to boot camp in this warm and refreshing coming-of age story that was a triple winner at last year’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight. Winner of three César Awards, for Most Promising Actor, Best Actress, and Best First Film.
The State-Mafia Pact
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April 29, 2015
North American PremiereDisgraced former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is only the tip of the sleazy iceberg in Sabina Guzzanti’s bombshell hybrid documentary that shows the collaboration between high-ranking government officials and the mafia in the early 1990s.
Short Skin
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April 29, 2015
North American PremiereQ&A with Duccio Chiarini on June 5A 17-year-old who suffers from phimosis (a congenital problem with the foreskin) yearns to lose his virginity while his family struggles with sexual issues of their own in Duccio Chiarini’s endearing and hilarious coming-of-age tale.
Natural Resistance
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April 29, 2015
World-renowned sommelier and director of Mondovino Jonathan Nossiter offers a strong case in favor of organic wines from an environmental and political perspective in this must-see for any foodie.
N-Capace
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April 29, 2015
North American PremiereQ&A with Eleonora Danco on June 5This sparklingly imaginative autobiographical story of playwright/director/actress Danco evokes the spirit of Fellini’s 8 ½ and sometimes pulls people of all ages on the street into its fanciful stagings that, even at their lightest, belie a deep poignancy.
Money Buddies
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April 29, 2015
North American PremiereBetter Call Saul, Italian-style! In this timeless and fun buddy comedy, an unscrupulous lawyer and a penniless man just released from jail after 30 years for a crime he didn’t commit team up in the hopes of suing the state for big cash.
Leopardi
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April 29, 2015
A luscious portrait of the great Italian poet Giacomo Leopardi, from his days as the toast of Florentine literary circles to his death in the Neapolitan countryside.
The Lack
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April 28, 2015
North American PremiereQ&A with MASBEDO on June 4Directing duo MASBEDO bridges the gap between the worlds of video art and narrative filmmaking in this poetic work of pure cinema, a vignette-based investigation of the meaning of “lack” through the journeys of six women on the Aeolean Islands.