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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 and online screenings. [1]
The following films were selected to the "Main Slate" section of the Festival: [2]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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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 | 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |