The New York Film Festival has revealed its main slate lineup, which includes a number of Cannes selections like Minotaur, Fatherland and All of a Sudden as well as Clarissa and The Man I Love.
The 32 movies that make up the NY Film Festival’s main slate include the previously announced opening, closing night and centerpiece films, with the latter two projects (Ava DuVernay’s 14th and Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth!) serving as two of three world premieres, the third of which is Mani Haghighi’s I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies, a documentary about an artist and activist whose path intersects with the U.S.-Iran war. There will be seven North American premieres, including the opening night film, James Gray’s Paper Tiger, and 13 U.S. premieres.
Minotaur, Fatherland and All of a Sudden all won awards at Cannes. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur, which won Cannes’ runner-up prize, the Grand Prix, explores personal, political and patriarchal corruption in contemporary Russia. Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, which won best director, follows a novelist and his daughter, returning to a post-World War II Germany after years of exile in the U.S. And Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden saw its two leads Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto share the best actress prize at Cannes. Other Cannes award winners screening as part of the NY Film Festival include A Man of His Time (best screenplay), The Dreamed Adventure (jury prize) and La Gradiva (Critics’ Week Grand Prize). Additionally, Rose, for which Sandra Hüller won the Silver Bear for her performance at the Berlin Film Festival, will have its New York premiere at the NY Film Festival.
