2016 New York Film Festival

The 54th New York Film Festival was held September 30 - October 16, 2016.

The lineup consisted of eight sections:

• Main Slate (25 films and five shorts programs)
• Spotlight on Documentary (15 films)
• Explorations (six films)
• Projections (11 programs)
• Special Events (six films)
• Revivals (12 films)
• Retrospective (19 films)
• Convergence (trans-media presentations and talks)

The Festival also included various talks and free screenings. The "Explorations" section was a new addition in 2016, described by the Festival as: "This new section is devoted to work from around the world, from filmmakers across the spectrum of experience and artistic sensibility. […] The one quality that they share is that they are adventurous and exploratory, in the very best sense of the word." ^[1] The primary selection committee included Kent Jones (chair), Dennis Lim, Florence Almozini, Amy Taubin, and Gavin Smith as a consultant. The Shorts Programs were selected by Dilcia Barrera, Laura Kern, Dennis Lim, Gabi Madsen and Dan Sullivan. Projections was programmed by Dennis Lim and Aily Nash. The Revivals and Retrospective sections were programmed by Kent Jones, and Convergence was curated by Matt Bolish. ^[2]

Sections

Main Slate

Feature-length

Title	Original title	Director	Country
13th (Opening Night)		Ava DuVernay	USA
20th Century Women (Centerpiece)		Mike Mills	USA
The Lost City of Z (Closing Night)		James Gray	USA
Aquarius		Kleber Mendonça Filho	Brazil, France
Certain Women		Kelly Reichardt	USA
Elle		Paul Verhoeven	France, Germany
Fire at Sea	Fuocoammare	Gianfranco Rosi	Italy, France
Graduation	Bacalaureat	Cristian Mungiu	Romania, France
Hermia and Helena		Matías Piñeiro	Argentina, USA
I, Daniel Blake		Ken Loach	UK, France
Julieta		Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
Manchester by the Sea		Kenneth Lonergan	USA
Moonlight		Barry Jenkins	USA
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea		Dash Shaw	USA
Neruda		Pablo Larraín	Chile, Argentina, France, Spain
Paterson		Jim Jarmusch	USA
Personal Shopper		Olivier Assayas	France
The Rehearsal		Alison Maclean	New Zealand
Sieranevada		Cristi Puiu	Romania
The Son of Joseph		Eugène Green	France, Belgium
Staying Vertical	Rester Vertical	Alain Guiraudie	France
Things to Come		Mia Hansen-Løve	France, Germany
Toni Erdmann		Maren Ade	Germany, Austria
The Unknown Girl	La fille inconnue	Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne	Belgium
Yourself and Yours		Hong Sang-soo	South Korea

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Shorts

Program	Title	Original title	Director	Country
Program 1: Narrative	The Girl Who Danced with the Devil	A moça que dançou com o Diabo	João Paulo Miranda Maria	Brazil
Program 1: Narrative	Be Good for Rachel		Ed Roe	USA
Program 1: Narrative	Univitellin		Terence Nance	France
Program 1: Narrative	Little Bullets	Küçük Kurşunlar	Alphan Eseli	Turkey
Program 1: Narrative	Dobro		Marta Hernaiz Pidal	Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico
Program 1: Narrative	Land of the Lost Sidekicks		Roger Ross Williams	USA
Program 1: Narrative	And The Whole Sky Fit In The Dead Cow’s Eye	Y todo el celo cupo en el ojo de la vaca muerta	Francisca Alegria	Chile, USA
Program 2: International Auteurs	A Brief History of Princess X		Gabriel Abrantes	Portugal, France
Program 2: International Auteurs	Sarah Winchester, Phantom Opera	Sarah Winchester, Opera Fantôme	Bertrand Bonello	France
Program 2: International Auteurs	The Hedonists		Jia Zhangke	China
Program 2: International Auteurs	From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer	Myomano Shel Tzlam Hatonot	Nadav Lapid	Israel
Program 3: Genre Stories	The Signalman		Daniel Augusto	Brazil
Program 3: Genre Stories	Can’t Take My Eyes Off You		Johannes Kizler, Nik Sentenza	Germany
Program 3: Genre Stories	New Gods		Jack Burke	UK
Program 3: Genre Stories	Quenottes (Pearlies)		Pascal Thiebaux, Gil Pinheiro	Luxembourg, France
Program 3: Genre Stories	What Happened to Her		Kristy Guevara-Flanagan	USA
Program 3: Genre Stories	Imposter		Adam Goldhammer	Canada
Program 4: New York Stories	Kitty		Chloë Sevigny	USA
Program 4: New York Stories	I Turn to Jello		Andrew T. Betzer	USA
Program 4: New York Stories	Dramatic Relationships		Dustin Guy Defa	USA
Program 4: New York Stories	This Castle Keep		Gina Telaroli	USA
Program 4: New York Stories	Los Angeles Plays New York		John Wilson	USA
Program 4: New York Stories	The Honeymoon		Tommy Davis	USA
Program 5: Documentaries	Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy		Lewie Kloster	USA
Program 5: Documentaries	El Buzo		Esteban Arrangoiz	Mexico
Program 5: Documentaries	Jean Nouvel: Reflections		Matt Tyrnauer	USA
Program 5: Documentaries	Rotatio		Ian McClerin	USA
Program 5: Documentaries	The Vote		Mila Aung-Thwin, Van Royko	Canada
Program 5: Documentaries	Brillo Box (3¢ off)		Lisanne Skyler	USA

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Spotlight on Documentary

Title	Original title	Director	Country
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail		Steve James	USA
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography		Errol Morris	USA
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds		Alexis Bloom, Fisher Stevens	USA
The Cinema Travellers		Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya	India
Dawson City: Frozen Time		Bill Morrison	USA
Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy	Hissein Habré, une tragédie tchadienne	Mahamat-Saleh Haroun	France, Chad
I Am Not Your Negro		Raoul Peck	USA, France, Belgium, Switzerland
I Called Him Morgan		Kasper Collin	Sweden
Karl Marx City		Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker	USA, Germany
Patria O Muerte: Cuba, Fatherland or Death		Olatz López Garmendia	Cuba, USA
Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan		Linda Saffire, Adam Schlesinger	USA
The Settlers		Shimon Dotan	France, Canada, Israel
Two Trains Runnin’		Sam Pollard	USA
Uncle Howard		Aaron Brookner	UK, USA
Whose Country?		Mohamed Siam	Egypt, USA, France

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Explorations

Title	Original title	Director	Country
The Death of Louis XIV	La Mort de Louis XIV	Albert Serra	France, Portugal, Spain
Everything Else	Todo lo demás	Natalia Almada	Mexico
I Had Nowhere to Go		Douglas Gordon	Germany
Kékszakállú		Gastón Solnicki	Argentina
Mimosas		Oliver Laxe	Spain, Morocco, France, Qatar
The Ornithologist	O ornitólogo	João Pedro Rodrigues	Portugal, France, Brazil

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Projections

Program	Title	Director	Country
Program 1: The Spaces Between the Words	REGAL	Karissa Hahn	USA
Program 1: The Spaces Between the Words	Steve Hates Fish	John Smith	UK
Program 1: The Spaces Between the Words	Real Italian Pizza [1971]	David Rimmer	Canada
Program 1: The Spaces Between the Words	Now: End of Season	Ayman Nahle	Lebanon
Program 1: The Spaces Between the Words	See a Dog, Hear a Dog	Jesse McLean	USA
Program 1: The Spaces Between the Words	Twixt Cup and Lip	Stephen Sutcliffe	UK
Program 2: Beyond Landscape	Burning Mountains That Spew Flame (Montañas Ardientes Que Vomitan Fuego)	Helena Girón, Samuel Delgado	Spain
Program 2: Beyond Landscape	Bending to Earth	Rosa Barba	USA, Germany
Program 2: Beyond Landscape	Ten Mornings Ten Evening and One Horizon	Tomonari Nishikawa	Japan
Program 2: Beyond Landscape	Canadian Pacific I [1974]	David Rimmer	Canada
Program 2: Beyond Landscape	Jáaji Approx.	Sky Hopinka	USA
Program 2: Beyond Landscape	Bad mama, who cares	Brigid McCaffrey	USA
Program 2: Beyond Landscape	Ears, Nose and Throat	Kevin Jerome Everson	USA
Program 3: The Illinois Parables	The Illinois Parables	Deborah Stratman	USA
Program 3: The Illinois Parables	The Horses of a Cavalry Captain (Die Pferde des Rittmeisters)	Clemens von Wedemeyer	Germany
Program 4: Fade Out	Old Hat	Zach Iannazzi	USA
Program 4: Fade Out	Flowers of the Sky	Janie Geiser	USA
Program 4: Fade Out	Answer Print	Mónica Savirón	USA
Program 4: Fade Out	Athyrium filix-femina (for Anna Atkins)	Kelly Egan	Canada
Program 4: Fade Out	Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper [1970]	David Rimmer	Canada
Program 4: Fade Out	Ghost Children	João Vieira Torres	Brazil, France
Program 4: Fade Out	Cilaos	Camilo Restrepo	France
Program 4: Fade Out	Luna e Santur	Joshua Gen Solondz	USA
Program 5: Site and Sound	Indefinite Pitch	James N. Kienitz Wilkins	USA
Program 5: Site and Sound	Europa, Mon Amour (2016 Brexit Edition)	Lawrence Lek	UK
Program 5: Site and Sound	Strange Vision of Seeing Things	Ryan Ferko	Canada, Serbia
Program 5: Site and Sound	Foyer	Ismaïl Bahri	France, Tunisia
Program 6	All the Cities of the North	Dane Komljen	Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro
Program 7: Pop Culture Clash	A Boy Needs a Friend	Steve Reinke	USA
Program 7: Pop Culture Clash	Spotlight on a Brick Wall	Alee Peoples, Mike Stoltz	USA
Program 7: Pop Culture Clash	Return to Forms	Zachary Epcar	USA
Program 7: Pop Culture Clash	Dream English Kid, 1964–1999 AD	Mark Leckey	UK
Program 8: Dorsky and Hiler	Autumn	Nathaniel Dorsky	USA
Program 8: Dorsky and Hiler	The Dreamer	Nathaniel Dorsky	USA
Program 8: Dorsky and Hiler	Bagatelle II	Jerome Hiler	USA
Program 9: Event Horizons	Há Terra!	Ana Vaz	Brazil, France
Program 9: Event Horizons	Kindah	Ephraim Asili	USA, Jamaica
Program 9: Event Horizons	In Titan’s Goblet [1991]	Peter Hutton	USA
Program 9: Event Horizons	An Aviation Field (Um Campo de Aviação)	Joana Pimenta	Portugal, USA, Brazil
Program 9: Event Horizons	Electrical Gaza	Rosalind Nashashibi	UK
Program 9: Event Horizons	Event Horizon	Guillermo Moncayo	France
Program 10: From the Notebook of…	From the Notebook of… [1971/1998]	Robert Beavers	Italy, Switzerland
Program 10: From the Notebook of…	For Christian	Luke Fowler	UK, USA
Program 11	The Human Surge (El auge del humano)	Eduardo Williams	Argentina, Brazil, Portugal

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Special Events

Title	Director	Country
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened	Lonny Price	USA
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk	Ang Lee	USA
Gimme Danger	Jim Jarmusch	USA
Hamilton’s America	Alex Horwitz	USA
Jackie	Pablo Larraín	USA, Chile, France
A Quiet Passion (Film Comment Presents)	Terence Davies	UK, Belgium

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Revivals

Title	Original title	Director	Country	Year
L’argent		Robert Bresson	France	1983
Aux quatre coins		Jacques Rivette	France	1949
The Battle of Algiers	La battaglia di Algeri	Gillo Pontecorvo	Italy, Algeria	1966
Le divertissement		Jacques Rivette	France	1952
Harlan County USA		Barbara Kopple	USA	1976
The Living Idol		Albert Lewin	USA	1957
Memories of Underdevelopment	Memorias del subdesarrollo	Tomás Gutiérrez Alea	Cuba	1968
One-Eyed Jacks		Marlon Brando	USA	1961
Panique		Julien Duvivier	France	1947
Le quadrille		Jacques Rivette	France	1950
Taipei Story	Qing mei zhu ma	Edward Yang	Taiwan	1985
Ugetsu	Ugetsu Monogatari	Kenji Mizoguchi	Japan	1953

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Retrospective

The 2016 Retrospective contained two programs, both inspired by Bertrand Tavernier. “A Brief Journey Through French Cinema” screened Tavernier’s My Journey Through French Cinema along with several titles cited in the film. The second program focused on Henry Hathaway, a director Tavernier particularly admires.

A Brief Journey Through French Cinema

Title	Original title	Director	Country	Year
My Journey Through French Cinema	Voyage à travers le cinéma français	Bertrand Tavernier	France	2016
Angels of Sin	Les anges du péché	Robert Bresson	France	1943
Antoine and Antoinette	Antoine et Antoinette	Jacques Becker	France	1947
Deadlier Than the Male	Voici le temps des assassins	Julien Duvivier	France	1956
Les enfants terribles		Jean-Pierre Melville	France	1950
La Marseillaise		Jean Renoir	France	1938
Safe Conduct	Laissez-passer	Bertrand Tavernier	France	2002

Henry Hathaway

Title	Director	Country	Year
23 Paces to Baker Street	Henry Hathaway	USA	1956
The Dark Corner	Henry Hathaway	USA	1946
Down to the Sea in Ships	Henry Hathaway	USA	1949
Fourteen Hours	Henry Hathaway	USA	1951
From Hell to Texas	Henry Hathaway	USA	1958
Garden of Evil	Henry Hathaway	USA, Mexico	1951
Kiss of Death	Henry Hathaway	USA	1947
Niagara	Henry Hathaway	USA	1953
North to Alaska	Henry Hathaway	USA	1960
Rawhide	Henry Hathaway	USA	1951
The Shepherd of the Hills	Henry Hathaway	USA	1941
Spawn of the North	Henry Hathaway	USA	1938

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