Join selection committee members Kent Jones, Dennis Lim, Marian Masone, and Amy Taubin in conversation about the 52nd New York Film Festival and the titles that made the cut.

Film critics and historians talk about Godard’s films and career. Panelists include The New Yorker’s Richard Brody and Goodbye to Language star Héloise Godet. Presented with the NYFF Critics Academy.

Join us for a conversation with several of the NYFF52 shorts filmmakers who will discuss their work. Panelists include Tal Zagreba (Humor), Marcelo Grabowsky (Chlorine), Jayisha Patel (A Paradise), Andrew Rodgers (Crooked Candy), Oscar Sharp (The Kármán Line), Yohann Kouam (The Return), and Tommy Davis (Hepburn).

Damien Chazelle will join Amy Taubin in conversation about Whiplash, the thrilling NYFF52 feature about a young jazz musician that was expanded from a NYFF51 short.

Joshua Oppenheimer discusses The Look of Silence, an emotionally wrenching companion piece to his first film, The Act of Killing, about the mid-1960s Indonesian Genocide.

Abderrahmane Sissako will discuss Timbuktu, a serenely composed vision of the humiliation and terror wrought by foreign Islamic jihadists who occupy the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu.

Join us for a conversation between Projections programmers Aily Nash and Gavin Smith and filmmakers Sylvia Schedelbauer (Sea of Vapors), Jean-Paul Kelly (The Innocents), Jacqueline Goss (The Measures), and Deborah Stratman (Second Sighted).

This panel seeks to discuss the myriad decisions that are made during the restoration and preservation process. How are decisions made about when to use digital tools? How can digital and celluloid workflows benefit each other? How can original artistic vision be maintained when digital tools were unavailable at the time of a work’s creation?

The cast and crew of Mr. Turner talk about making Mike Leigh’s remarkable portrait of painter J.M.W. Turner. Panelists include cast members Marion Bailey and Dorothy Atkinson, as well as producer Georgina Lowe, director of photography Dick Pope, and production designer Suzie Davies.

One of the most exciting French actresses today, Marion Cotillard, who won an Academy Award playing Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose, stars in Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne’s Two Days, One Night, a film that is at once an unforgettable drama and a tough ethical inquiry.

When dramatic feature films are about to be released, who decides whether they are good? Who decides whether they will be shown at major film festivals? Who tells audiences which new films they should go to see? The reality is that the majority of gatekeepers and taste makers are white men.

Come meet the filmmakers involved in this year’s Artist Academy, a showcase for some of the most exciting up-and-coming local talents.

Join us for a special Artist Academy edition of NYFF Live, featuring a discussion with Oscar-winning filmmaker Bruce Cohen and CreativeFuture’s Ruth Vitale about the challenges and opportunities for content creators today.

Writers of some of the most hotly anticipated NYFF selections discuss their protagonists’ self-immolating urges and behaviors, and how to portray these characteristics credibly and effectively on-screen. Featuring Dan Futterman (Foxcatcher) and Alex Ross Perry (Listen Up Philip).

Filmmaker in Residence Lisandro Alonso (Jauja) joins a slate of other NYFF52 filmmakers to discuss the challenges of sustaining a career while staying true to an artistic vision. Additional panelists include Nick Broomfield (Tales of the Grim Sleeper), Debra Granik (Stray Dog), and Matías Piñeiro (The Princess of France).

Legendary documentarian Albert Maysles joins a member of the NYFF Selection Committee to discuss Iris, a portrait of fashion- and interior-design maven Iris Apfel as she celebrates a late wave of popularity.