Shorts Program 3: New York Stories
55th New York Film Festival
September 29 - October 15, 2017
This program, now in its third year, showcases work from some of the most exciting filmmakers living and working in New York today, including established names and ones to watch.
Q&As with Adinah Dancyger, Pacho Velez, Yoni Brook, Ashley Connor, Joe Stankus, Kevin H Wilson, John Wilson, and J Giampietro at both screenings
This program, now in its third year, showcases work from some of the most exciting filmmakers living and working in New York today, including established names and ones to watch. Programmed by Dan Sullivan
Unpresidented
Directed by Jason Giampietro
Giampietro confronts our uncertain political moment head-on with this dark comedy, in which a man attempts to justify his having bet on Trump to win the 2016 presidential election.
USA, 2017, 14m, New York Premiere
Cheer Up Baby
Directed by Adinah Dancyger
The experience of a young woman (India Menuez) who has been sexually assaulted by a stranger on the subway is rendered with psychological menace and sensory dislocation in Dancyger’s elliptical tale.
USA, 2017, 12m, World Premiere
The Layover
Directed by Ashley Connor & Joe Stankus
This subtle, funny miniature offers a tender glimpse at the shared life of two flight attendants as they observe the one-year anniversary of their beloved dog’s passing.
USA, 2017, 10m, World Premiere
My Nephew Emmett
Directed by Kevin Wilson, Jr.
This visually ravishing and thought-provoking work portrays one of the USA’s great shames—the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till by two white men in Mississippi—and movingly reminds us of this dark episode’s enduring relevance.
USA, 2017, 19m, New York Premiere
The Road to Magnasanti
Directed by John Wilson
Wilson welcomes us to the terrordome with his latest, in which he hilariously and chillingly illustrates NYC’s not-so-gradual transformation into a late-capitalist paradise-cum-dystopia.
USA, 2017, 15m, World Premiere
Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt
Directed by Pacho Velez & Yoni Brook
A man’s inability to get a subway turnstile to accept his Metrocard encapsulates NYC’s ongoing public transit crisis in Velez and Brook’s elegant and formally audacious documentary.
USA, 2017, 9m, New York Premiere
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.