Legendary auteur Claire Denis returns to the New York Film Festival this year with a feature that is as slippery, sensuous, and acridly political as her best work. Adapted from an English-language translation of Bernard-Marie Koltès’s play Black Battles with Dogs, The Fence stars Denis regular Isaach de Bankolé as a man demanding the body of his brother, who died in a work accident on a construction site in West Africa, resulting in a precariously civil confrontation with the development’s foreman (Matt Dillon) that threatens to erupt into something darker. NYFF is proud to welcome Denis for a conversation about her iconoclastic, boundary-pushing career, her approach to adapting a work from stage to screen, and her new film’s unflinching indictment of Europe’s colonial past and present, moderated by filmmaker Barry Jenkins (Moonlight, NYFF54; If Beale Street Could Talk, NYFF56), who served as an executive producer for The Fence.