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2020 New York Film Festival
The 58th New York Film Festival took place from September 17 to October 11, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was staged through outdoor through online screenings.
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The 58th New York Film Festival took place from September 17 to October 11, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was staged through outdoor through online screenings.
Appearing in the NYFF's "Main Slate" for the first time are Eugène Green, Déa Kulumbegashvili, Song Fang, Chaitanya Tamhane, Azazel Jacobs, Viktor Kossakovsky, Heidi Ewing, Matías Piñeiro, Sam Pollard, Philippe Lacôte, Garrett Bradley, Yulene Olaizola, Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw.
World premieres included Azazel Jacobs's French Exit, Steve McQueen's Lovers Rock, Mangrove and Red, White and Blue, David Dufresne's The Monopoly of Violence and Sofia Coppola's On the Rocks.
The following films were selected to the "Main Slate" section of the Festival:
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Atarrabi and Mikelats | Atarrabi et Mikelats | Eugène Green | Belgium, France |
| Beginning | დასაწყისი | Déa Kulumbegashvili | Georgia |
| The Calming | Song Fang | China | |
| City Hall | Frederick Wiseman | United States | |
| Days | 日子 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
| The Disciple | Chaitanya Tamhane | India | |
| French Exit | Azazel Jacobs | United Kingdom, Canada | |
| Gunda | Viktor Kossakovsky | United States, Norway | |
| I Carry You with Me | Te Llevo Conmigo | Heidi Ewing | United States, Mexico |
| Isabella | Matías Piñeiro | Argentina | |
| Lovers Rock (opening film) | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom | |
| Malmkrog | Cristi Puiu | Romania | |
| Mangrove | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom | |
| MLK/FBI | Sam Pollard | United States | |
| Night of the Kings | La Nuit des rois | Philippe Lacôte | France, Côte d'Ivoire, Canada, Senegal |
| Nomadland | Chloé Zhao | United States | |
| Notturno | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy | |
| Red, White and Blue | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom | |
| The Salt of Tears | Le Sel des larmes | Philippe Garrel | France |
| Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue | 一直游到海水变蓝 | Jia Zhangke | China |
| Time | Garrett Bradley | United States | |
| Tragic Jungle | Selva trágica | Yulene Olaizola | Mexico |
| The Truffle Hunters | Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw | United States, Greece, Italy | |
| Undine | Christian Petzold | Germany | |
| The Woman Who Ran | 도망친 여자 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| All In: The Fight for Democracy | Liz Garbus, Lisa Cortés | United States | |
| David Byrne's American Utopia | Spike Lee | United States | |
| Hopper/Welles | Orson Welles | United States | |
| The Human Voice | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain | |
| The Monopoly of Violence | Un pays qui se tient sage | David Dufresne | France |
| On the Rocks | Sofia Coppola | United States |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apparition | Ismaïl Bahri | Tunisia, France | |
| Fauna | Flora y fauna | Nicolás Pereda | Mexico, Canada |
| Her Name Was Europa | Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy | Germany | |
| Her Socialist Smile | John Gianvito | United States | |
| Hidden | Jafar Panahi | France | |
| The Inheritance | Ephraim Asili | United States | |
| Its Distorting Mirror | Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento | Chile | |
| King of Sanwi | Akosua Adoma Owusu | USA/Ghana | |
| The Last City | Heinz Emigholz | Germany | |
| The Lobby | Heinz Emigholz | Germany/Argentina | |
| My Mexican Bretzel | Nuria Giménez | Spain | |
| Ouvertures | The Living and the Dead Ensemble | United Kingdom/France | |
| The Plastic House | Alison Chhorn | Australia | |
| A Revolt Without Images | Pilar Monsell | Spain | |
| Slow Machine | Joe DeNardo and Paul Felten | United States | |
| The Tango of the Widower | Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento | Chile | |
| There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse | No existen treinta y seis maneras de mostrar cómo un hombre se sube a un caballo | Nicolás Zukerfeld | Argentina |
| This Day Won't Last | Mouaad el Salem | Tunisia/Belgium | |
| Untitled Sequence of Gaps | Vika Kirchenbauer | Germany | |
| The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) | C.W. Winter and Anders Edström | United States, Sweden, Japan, United Kingdom | |
| The Year of the Discovery | Luis López Carrasco | Spain |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chess of the Wind (1976) | شطرنج باد | Mohammad Reza Aslani | Iran |
| Climax (2018) | Gaspar Noé | France, Belgium | |
| Damnation (1988) | Kárhozat | Béla Tarr | Hungary |
| Flowers of Shanghai (1998) | 海上花 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) | Sanatorium pod klepsydrą | Wojciech Has | Poland |
| In the Mood for Love (2000) | 花樣年華 | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong |
| Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris | Terence Dixon | United Kingdom, France | |
| Muhammad Ali, the Greatest | William Klein | France | |
| Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) | Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy, France |
| Simone Barbes or Virtue | Simone Barbès ou la vertu | Marie-Claude Treilhou | France |
| Smooth Talk | Joyce Chopra | United States | |
| The Spook Who Sat by the Door | Ivan Dixon | United States | |
| Xiao Wu (The Pickpocket) | 小武 | Jia Zhangke | China |
| Zero for Conduct | Zéro de conduite | Jean Vigo | France |
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apiyemiyekî? | Ana Vaz | Brazil, France, Portugal, Netherlands | ||
| Aquí y allá | Melisa Liebenthal | Argentina, France | ||
| An Arrow Pointing to a Hole | Steve Reinke | United States, Canada | ||
| August 22, This Year | Graham Foy | Canada | ||
| Autoficcion | Laida Lertxundi | Spain, United States, New Zealand | ||
| The Chicken | Neo Sora | United States | ||
| Claudette's Star | Ayo Akingbade | United Kingdom | ||
| Correspondence | Carla Simón, Dominga Sotomayor | Spain/Chile | ||
| Drills | Sarah Friedland | United States | ||
| Ekphrasis | Riccardo Giacconi | Italy | ||
| The End of Suffering (a proposal) | Jacqueline Lentzou | Greece | ||
| Episodes – Spring 2018 | Mathilde Girard | France | ||
| Extractions | Thirza Cuthand | Canada | ||
| Figure Minus Fact | Mary Helena Clark | United States | ||
| – force – | Simon Liu, Jennie MaryTai Liu | Hong Kong, United States | ||
| Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995 | Ute Aurand | Germany | ||
| Hard, Cracked the Wind | Mark Jenkin | United Kingdom | ||
| Humongous! | Aya Kawazoe | Japan | ||
| In Sudden Darkness | Tayler Montague | United States | ||
| In the Air Tonight | Andrew Norman Wilson | United States | ||
| The Isolated | Jay Giampietro | United States | ||
| Labor of Love | Sylvia Schedelbauer | Germany | ||
| Letter From Your Far-Off Country | Suneil Sanzgiri | United States, India | ||
| Look Then Below | Ben Rivers | United Kingdom | ||
| Malembe | Luis Arnías | Venezuela, United States | ||
| A Night at the Opera | Sergei Loznitza | France | ||
| Notes, Imprints (On Love): Part I | Alexandra Cuesta | United States, Ecuador | ||
| Object Lessons, or: What Happened Whitsunday | Ricky D'Ambrose | United States | ||
| Once Removed | Lawrence Abu Hamdan | Lebanon | ||
| Point and Line to Plane | Sofia Bohdanowicz | Canada | ||
| Sanfield | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | ||
| See You in My Dreams | Shun Ikezoe | Japan | ||
| Shots in the Dark with David Godlis | Noah Kloster, Lewie Kloster | United States | ||
| Single Copy | Hsu Che-Yu | Taiwan | ||
| Stump the Guesser | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson | Canada | ||
| To the Harbour | Anonymous | Hong Kong | ||
| Trust Study #1 | Shobun Baile | United States | ||
| The Unseen River | Phạm Ngọc Lân | Vietnam, Laos | ||
| While Cursed by Specters | Burak Çevik | Turkey | ||
| Wild Bill Horsecock | Oliver Shahery | United States |
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