The 60th New York Film Festival took place from September 30 to October 16, 2022. [1] Noah Baumbach's White Noise was selected to be the Opening Night film of the festival (an identical position received by the movie for the 79th Venice Film Festival), while Laura Poitras' documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed was chosen to be NYFF's Centerpiece (the movie also is bound to a Venice World Premiere, a North American premiere at the 49th Telluride Film Festival and a Canadian premiere at the 47th Toronto International Film Festival, making it the only movie of the 2022 season to hit all the major four fall film festivals). Elegance Bratton's 47th Toronto International Film Festival premiere movie, The Inspection , was selected to be New York Film Festival's closing film, while James Gray's 75th Cannes Film Festival premiered movie, Armageddon Time , was selected to be the festival's celebration movie for its 60th anniversary. [2] [3] [4]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Aftersun | Charlotte Wells | United States, United Kingdom | |
Alcarràs | Carla Simón | Spain, Italy | |
All That Breathes | Shaunak Sen | India, United States, United Kingdom | |
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (centerpiece) | Laura Poitras | United States | |
Armageddon Time (NYFF 60th anniversary celebration) | James Gray | ||
Corsage | Marie Kreutzer | Austria, France, Germany | |
A Couple | Un couple | Frederick Wiseman | France, United States |
De Humani Corporis Fabrica | Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor | France, Switzerland | |
Decision to Leave | 헤어질 결심 | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
Descendant | Margaret Brown | United States | |
Enys Men | Mark Jenkin | United Kingdom | |
EO | Io | Jerzy Skolimowski | Poland, Italy |
The Eternal Daughter | Joanna Hogg | United Kingdom | |
The Inspection (closing film) | Elegance Bratton | United States | |
Master Gardener | Paul Schrader | ||
No Bears | Jafar Panahi | Iran | |
The Novelist's Film | 소설가의 영화 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
One Fine Morning | Un beau matin | Mia Hansen-Løve | France |
Pacifiction | Tourment sur les îles | Albert Serra | France, Spain, Germany, Portugal |
R.M.N. | Cristian Mungiu | Romania | |
Return to Seoul | Retour à Séoul | Davy Chou | France, Cambodia |
Saint Omer | Alice Diop | France | |
Scarlet | L'Envol | Pietro Marcello | France, Italy, Germany, Russia |
Showing Up | Kelly Reichardt | United States | |
Stars at Noon | Claire Denis | France, Panama | |
Stonewalling | Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka | Japan | |
Tár | Todd Field | United States, Germany | |
Trenque Lauquen | Laura Citarella | Argentina, Germany | |
Triangle of Sadness | Ruben Östlund | Sweden, United Kingdom, United States, France, Greece | |
Unrest | Unrueh | Cyril Schäublin | Switzerland |
Walk Up | 탑 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
White Noise (opening film) | Noah Baumbach | United States, United Kingdom |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Bones and All | Luca Guadagnino | United States | |
A Cooler Climate | James Ivory, Giles Gardner | United Kingdom | |
Exterior Night | Esterno notte | Marco Bellocchio | Italy |
Is That Black Enough for You?!? | Elvis Mitchell | United States | |
The Kingdom Exodus | Lars von Trier | Denmark | |
Personality Crisis: One Night Only | Martin Scorsese, David Tedeschi | United States | |
She Said | Maria Schrader | ||
Solaris | Andrei Tarkovsky | Soviet Union | |
"Sr." | Chris Smith | United States | |
The Super 8 Years | Annie Ernaux, David Ernaux-Briot | France | |
Till | Chinonye Chukwu | United States | |
Women Talking | Sarah Polley |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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The Adventures of Gigi the Law | Gigi la legge | Alessandro Comodin | Italy, France, Belgium |
Coma | Bertrand Bonello | France | |
The Dam | Le Barrage | Ali Cherri | France, Lebanon, Sudan, Germany, Serbia, Qatar |
Dry Ground Burning | Mato seco em chamas | Joana Pimenta, Adirley Queirós | Brazil, Portugal |
Human Flowers of Flesh | Helena Wittmann | Germany, France | |
Mutzenbacher | Ruth Beckermann | Austria | |
Queens of the Qing Dynasty | Ashley McKenzie | Canada | |
Remote | Mika Rottenberg, Mahyad Tousi | United States | |
Rewind & Play | Alain Gomis | France, Germany | |
Slaughterhouses of Modernity | Schlachthäuser der Moderne | Heinz Emigholz | Germany |
Tales of the Purple House | Abbas Fahdel | Lebanon, Iraq, France | |
Three Tidy Tigers Tied a Tie Tighter | Três Tigres Tristes | Gustavo Vinagre | Brazil |
The Unstable Object II | Daniel Eisenberg | United States, Germany, France, Turkey | |
Will-o'-the-Wisp | Fogo-Fátuo | João Pedro Rodrigues | Portugal |
You Have to Come and See It | Tenéis que venir a verla | Jonás Trueba | Spain |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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29 Hour Long Birthday | Mark Jenkin | United Kingdom | |
45th Parallel | Lawrence Abu Hamdan | ||
Adaptation | Josh Kline | United States | |
Against Time | Ben Russell | France | |
Aribada | Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau, Natalia Escobar | Germany, Colombia | |
As Time Passes | Jamil McGinnis | United States, Turkey | |
Bigger on the Inside | Angelo Madsen Minax | United States | |
The Demands of Ordinary Devotion | Eva Giolo | Belgium | |
Devil's Peak | Simon Liu | Hong Kong, United States | |
Diana, Diana | Kim Salac | United States | |
Exhibition | Mary Helena Clark | ||
F1ghting Looks Different 2 Me Now | Fox Maxy | ||
Fingerpicking | Diteggiatura | Riccardo Giacconi | Italy |
Flora | Nicolás Pereda | Mexico | |
Glass Life | Sara Cwynar | Canada | |
If Revolution Is a Sickness | Diane Severin Nguyen | United States, Poland | |
In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun | Sylvia Schedelbauer | Germany | |
Into the Violet Belly | Thuy-Han Nguyen-Chi | Belgium, Germany, Iceland, Malta, Denmark | |
It Smells Like Springtime | Mackie Mallison | United States | |
Lesser Choices | Courtney Stephens | United States | |
Life on the CAPS | Meriem Bennani | Morocco, United States | |
Little Jerry | Charlotte Ercoli | United States | |
Lungta | Alexandra Cuesta | Mexico, Ecuador | |
Magic Ring | Alex Ashe | United States | |
NE Corridor | Joshua Gen Solondz | United States | |
The Newest Olds | Pablo Mazzolo | Argentina, Canada | |
Peak Heaven Love Forever | Jordan Strafer | United States | |
Qualities of Life: Living in the Radiant Cold | James Richards | Germany | |
Quarries | Ellie Ga | United States | |
Remembrance: A Portrait Study | Edward Owens | United States | |
Renate | Ute Aurand | Germany | |
Same Old | Lloyd Lee Choi | Canada, United States | |
The Sky's in There | Dani ReStack, Sheilah ReStack | United States | |
The Sower of Stars | El Sembrador de estrellas | Lois Patiño | Spain |
Tiger Strike Red | Sophia Al-Maria | United Kingdom | |
Trust Exercises | Sarah Friedland | United States | |
Underground Rivers | Los mayores ríos se deslizan bajo tierra | Simón Vélez | Colombia |
Urban Solutions | Arne Hector, Luciana Mazeto, Minze Tummescheit, Vinícius Lopes | Germany, Brazil | |
Watch the Fire or Burn Inside It | Il faut regarder le feu ou brûler dedans | Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel | France |
What Rules the Invisible | Tiffany Sia | United States |
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