The 53rd New York Film Festival took place September 25–October 11, 2015 at Film at Lincoln Center.

MAIN SLATE

The Walk (Robert Zemeckis) (Opening Night)
Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle) (Centerpiece)
Miles Ahead (Don Cheadle) (Closing Night)
Arabian Nights: Volume 1: The Restless One (Miguel Gomes)
Arabian Nights: Volume 2: The Desolate One (Miguel Gomes)
Arabian Nights: Volume 3: The Enchanted One (Miguel Gomes)
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Brooklyn (John Crowley)
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg)
Carol (Todd Haynes)
Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
Experimenter (Michael Almereyda)
Les Cowboys (Thomas Bidegain)
Don’t Blink – Robert Frank (Laura Israel)
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson)
In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)
Journey to the Shore (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
Maggie’s Plan (Rebecca Miller)
The Measure of a Man (Stéphane Brizé)
Mia Madre (Nanni Moretti)
Microbe & Gasoline (Michel Gondry)
Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)
My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin)
No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sangsoo)
The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu)
Where to Invade Next (Michael Moore)

SPECIAL EVENTS

De Palma (Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow)
Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson)
Junun (Paul Thomas Anderson)

SPOTLIGHT ON DOCUMENTARY

Everything is Copy (Jacob Bernstein)
Field of Vision: New Episodic Nonfiction (Laura Poitras)
Fish Tail (Joaquim Pinto and Nuno Leonel)
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero) Part1: Before the Fall / Part 2: After the Battle (Abbas Fahdel)
Immigration Battle/Reasons to Believe (Michael Camerini and Shari Robertson)
Ingrid Bergman in Her Own Words (Stig Björkman)
In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang (Walter Salles)
Rebel Citizen (Pamela Yates)
Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art (James Crump)
We Are Alive (Carmen Castillo)
The Witness (James Solomon)

PROJECTIONS

Neither God nor Santa María (Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Girón)
Something Horizontal (Blake Williams)
Analysis of Emotions and Vexations (Wojciech Bakowski)
Traces/Legacy (Scott Stark)
Entangled (Riccardo Giacconi)
Prima Materia (Charlotte Pryce)
Intersection (Vincent Grenier)
Port Noir (Laura Kraning)
Centre of the Cyclone (Heather Trawick)
The Devastated Land (Emmanuel Lefrant)
Cathode Garden (Janie Geiser)
Something Between US (Jodie Mack)
brouillard – passage 15 (Alexandre Larose)
A Distant Episode (Ben Rivers)
In Girum Imus Nocte (Giorgio Andreotta Calò)
Half Human, Half Vapor (Mike Stoltz)
Occidente (Ana Vaz)
YOLO (Ben Russell)
Ah humanity! (Ernst Karel, Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor)
Hard as Opal (Jared buckhiester and DAni Leventhal)
Confessions (Curt McDowell)
Non-Stop Beautiful ladies (Alee Peoples)
Mars Garden (Lewis Klahr)
The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky)
Soft Fiction (Chick Strand)
Lost Note (Saul Levine)
Minotaur (Nicolas Pereda)
Live to Live (Laida Lertxundi)
Hello (Simon Fujiwara)
F for Fibonacci (Beatrice Gibson)
Black Code (Louis Henderson)
Lessons of War (Peggy Ahwesh)
Scales in the Spectrum of Space (Fern Silva)
Many Thousands Gone (Ephraim Asili)
88 : 88 (Isiah Medina)
Radio at Night (James Richards)
All That is Solid (Louis Henderson)
Mad Ladders (Michael Robinson)
Erysichthon (Jon Rafman)
Slow Zoom Long Pause (Sara Magenheimer)
Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen (Cécile B. Evans)
Santa Teresa & Other Stories (Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias)
Bunte Kuh (Ryan Ferko, Faraz Anoushahpour & Parastoo Anoushahpour)
The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys (Basim Magdy)
THE SKY TREMBLES AND THE EARTH IS AFRAID AND THE TWO EYES ARE NOT BROTHERS (Ben Rivers)
Chums from Across the Void (Jim Finn)
The Two Sights (Katherin McInnis)
A Disaster Forever (Michael Gitlin)
Terrestrial (Calum Michel Walter)
Night Without Distance (Lois Patiño)
Rabbit Season, Duck Season (Michael Bell-Smith)
All My Love All My Love (Hannah Black)
Velvet Peel 1 (Victoria Fu)
OM Rider (Takeshi Murata)

FILMMAKER in RESIDENCE

Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari)

ANNIVERSARY SCREENING

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Joel and Ethan Coen)

FILM COMMENT PRESENTS

Son of Saul (László Nemes)

REVIVALS

Blow Out (Brian De Palma)
Ran (Akira Kurosawa)
A Touch of Zen (King Hu)
Visit, or Memories and Confessions (Manoel de Oliveira)
Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
Black Girl (Ousmane Sembene)
The Boys from Fengkuei (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Insiang (Lino Brocka)
The Long Voyage Home (John Ford)
The Memory of Justice (Marcel Ophüls)
Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti)

RETROSPECTIVE

Ingreen (Nathaniel Dorsky)
A Fall Trip Home (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Summer wind (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Two Personal Gifts aka Fool’s Spring (Jerome Hiler and Nathaniel Dorsky)
Hours for Jerome Part 1 (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Hours for Jerome Part 2 (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Pneuma (Nathaniel Dorsky)
17 Reasons Why (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Alaya (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Triste (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Variations (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Arbor Vitae (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Song and Solitude (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Threnody (Nathaniel Dorsky)
The Visitation (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Sarabande (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Compline (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Aubade (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Winter (Nathaniel Dorsky)
The Return (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Pastourelle (Nathaniel Dorsky)
August and After (Nathaniel Dorsky)
April (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Song (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Spring (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Summer (Nathaniel Dorsky)
February (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Avraham (Nathaniel Dorsky)
December (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Love’s Refrain (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Intimations (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Prelude (Nathaniel Dorsky)
in the Stone House (Jerome Hiler)
New Shores (Jerome Hiler)
Words of Mercury (Jerome Hiler)
Gladly Given (Jerome Hiler)
Marginalia (Jerome Hiler)

CONVERGENCE

The (Dis)Honesty Project Present The Truth Box (Dan Ariely and Yael Melamede)
The Doghouse (Johan Knattrup Jensen, Mads Damsbo and Dark Matters)
Gamescape
Sherlock Holmes and the Internet of Things (Lance Weiler & Nick Fortugno)
Temping (Michael Rau)
The Deeper They Bury Me (Angad Singh Bhalla and Ted Biggs)
Immersive Storytelling Goes Global: A Live StoryCode Dispatch
Pry (Danny Cannizzaro and Samantha Gorman)
Small Star Seminar (Cory McAbee)

SHORT PROGRAMS

La novia de Frankenstein (Agostina Gálvez and Francisco Lezama)
Monaco (David Easteal)
Carry On (Rafael Haider)
Marea de Tierra (Manuela Martelli and Amirah Tajdin)
The Mad Half Hour (Leonardo Brzezicki)
Territory (Vincent Paronnaud)
We Wanted More (Stephen Dunn)
Sânge (Percival Agüero Mendoza)
How to Be a Villain (Helen O’Hanion)
Ramona (Andrei Cretulescu)
The Lingerie Show (Laura Harrison)
Hot Bod (Claire van Ryzin)
Whole (William Reynish)
Denis the Pirate (Sam Messer)
Sanjay’s Super Team (Sanjay Patel)
Palm Rot (Ryan Gillis)
Food (Siqi Song)
Rolling (Matt Christensen)
Hernia (Jason Giampietro)
Riot (Nathan Silver)
Sundae (Sonya Goddy)
Dragstrip (Pacho Velez and Daniel Claridge)
Special Features (James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
Six Cents in the Pocket (Ricky D’Ambrose)
Bad at Dancing (Joanna Arnow)
My Last Film (Zia Anger)
Review (Dustin Guy Defa)