Shorts Program 2
New Directors/New Films 2018
March 28 - April 8, 2018
The irreverent, melancholic, and transgressive impulses of youth collide in this program of four films, each set within its own impeccably crafted, hermetic world.
Q&As with Sam Kuhn & Carlos Conceição
The irreverent, melancholic, and transgressive impulses of youth collide in this program of four films, each set within their own fully realized, hermetic world.
Copa-Loca
Christos Massalas, Greece, 2017, 14m
Greek with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Teeming with sensational images and absurd dialogue, Christos Massalas’s irreverent coming-of-age story follows a young woman eluding adulthood at an abandoned Greek resort.
After School Knife Fight
Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel, France, 2017, 21m
French with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Four bandmates prepare for the departure of their lead singer in this melancholy 16mm snapshot of youthful longing.
Möbius
Sam Kuhn, USA, 2017, 15m
New York Premiere
Following the death of her boyfriend, a teenage girl drifts through her days in a haze of memory in this eerie and atmospheric high school tale.
Bad Bunny / Coelho Mau
Carlos Conceição, Portugal/France, 2017, 30m
Portuguese with English subtitles
North American Premiere
This impeccably crafted, fabulist work—a beguiling cross between bestiary and family drama—concerns a voyeuristic young man’s plot to punish his mother’s lover and satisfy a forbidden urge.
Read More
Lana Daher on Her Documentary Do You Love Me
This week we’re excited to present a conversation from the 2026 edition of New Directors/New Films with Do You Love Me director Lana Daher.
Rose of Nevada Director Mark Jenkin on His New Sci-Fi Tinged Tale
On the latest episode of FLC Luminaries, our video series that spotlights talent at all levels of the filmmaking process who uplift the art and craft of cinema, Rose of Nevada director Mark Jenkin discusses his sci-fi-tinged tale of dislocation and regeneration.
Kamal Aljafari on With Hasan in Gaza and ‘The Camera of the Dispossessed’
Our 63rd New York Film Festival Talks featured a special conversation with With Hasan in Gaza director Kamal Aljafari, moderated by Film Comment editor Devika Girish.
