The 59th New York Film Festival took place from September 24 to October 10, 2021. [1] Unlike the 2020 New York Film Festival, which was staged online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 festival returned to physical screenings at the Lincoln Center.
Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth was announced as the opening film [2] with Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers announced as the closing film. [3] Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog was the festival's centerpiece screening. [4] [5] [6]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Opening Film | |||
The Tragedy of Macbeth | Joel Coen | United States | |
Centerpiece | |||
The Power of the Dog | Jane Campion | New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia | |
Closing Film | |||
Parallel Mothers | Madres Paralelas | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
Main Slate | |||
A Chiara | Jonas Carpignano | Italy | |
Ahed's Knee | Habereḵ | Nadav Lapid | France, Israel, Germany |
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn | Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc | Radu Jude | Romania, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Croatia |
Benedetta | Paul Verhoeven | France, Netherlands | |
Bergman Island | Mia Hansen-Løve | France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden | |
Il Buco | Michelangelo Frammartino | Italy, France, Germany | |
Drive My Car | Doraibu mai kā | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation | Avi Mograbi | France, Finland, Israel, Germany | |
Flee | Jonas Poher Rasmussen | Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway | |
France | Bruno Dumont | France, Germany, Belgium, Italy | |
Futura | Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi, Alice Rohrwacher | Italy | |
The Girl and the Spider | Das Mädchen und die Spinne | Ramon Zürcher, Silvan Zürcher | Switzerland |
Hit the Road | Panah Panahi | Iran | |
In Front of Your Face | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea | |
Întregalde | Radu Muntean | Romania | |
Introduction | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea | |
Memoria | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Colombia, Thailand, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Mexico, Qatar | |
Neptune Frost | Saul Williams, Anisia Uzeyman | United States, Rwanda | |
Passing | Rebecca Hall | United States, United Kingdom | |
Petite Maman | Céline Sciamma | France | |
Prayers for the Stolen | Noche de fuego | Tatiana Huezo | Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Qatar |
The Souvenir Part II | Joanna Hogg | United Kingdom | |
Titane | Julia Ducournau | France | |
Unclenching the Fists | Разжимая кулаки | Kira Kovalenko | Russia |
The Velvet Underground | Todd Haynes | United States | |
Vortex | Gaspar Noé | France | |
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky? | რას ვხედავთ როდესაც ცას ვუყურებთ? | Alexandre Koberidze | Georgia, Germany |
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy | Gūzen to Sōzō | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | Japan |
The Worst Person in the World | Verdens verste menneske | Joachim Trier | Norway |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Belle | 竜とそばかすの姫 | Mamoru Hosoda | Japan |
C'mon C'mon | Mike Mills | United States | |
Dune | Denis Villeneuve | ||
The French Dispatch | Wes Anderson | ||
Jane by Charlotte | Charlotte Gainsbourg | France | |
The Lost Daughter | Maggie Gyllenhaal | United States, Greece | |
Marx Can Wait | Marco Bellocchio | Italy | |
Red Rocket | Sean Baker | United States | |
The Souvenir | Joanna Hogg | United Kingdom, United States |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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All About My Sisters | Jia ting lu xiang | Wang Qiong | United States |
The Great Movement | El Gran Movimiento | Kiro Russo | Bolivia, France, Qatar, Switzerland |
Haruhara-san's Recorder | Haruharasan no uta | Kyoshi Sugita | Japan |
I Want to Talk About Duras | Vous ne désirez que moi | Claire Simon | France |
Just a Movement | Juste une mouvement | Vincent Meessen | Belgium, France |
Nature | La Nature | Artavazd Peleshian | France, Germany, Armenia |
A Night of Knowing Nothing | Payal Kapadia | France, India | |
Outside Noise | Ted Fendt | Germany, South Korea, Austria | |
Prism | Éléonore Yameogo, An van Dienderen and Rosine Mbakam | Belgium | |
Returning to Reims | Retour à Reims (Fragments) | Jean-Gabriel Périot | France |
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces | Gang-eun heuleugo, gub-ichigo, jiugo, doebichunda | Shengze Zhu | United States |
Social Hygiene | Hygiène sociale | Denis Côté | Canada |
Ste. Anne | Rhayne Vermette | ||
The Tale of King Crab | Re Granchio | Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis | Italy, Argentina, France |
The Tsugua Diaries | Diários de Otsoga | Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes | Portugal |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
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38 | Daniel Chew, Micaela Durand | United States | |
All of Your Stars Are But Dust on My Shoes | Haig Aivazian | Lebanon | |
Blind Body | Allison Chhorn | Australia | |
The Canyon | Zachary Epcar | United States | |
The Capacity for Adequate Anger | Vika Kirchenbauer | Germany | |
Cutting the Mushroom | Mike Crane | United States | |
Day Is Done | Zhang Dalei | China | |
Do Not Circulate | Tiffany Sia | Hong Kong | |
Dog Star Descending | Aykan Safoğlu | Turkey, Germany | |
Dreams Under Confinement | Christopher Harris | United States | |
earthearthearth | Daïchi Saïto | Canada | |
Elle | Luise Donschen | Germany | |
Estuary | Ross Meckfessel | United States | |
Fictions | Manuela de Laborde | Mexico, Germany | |
Grandma's Scissors | Erica Sheu | Taiwan, United States | |
Here Is the Imagination of the Black Radical | Rhea Storr | United Kingdom | |
Homage to the Work of Philip Henry Gosse | Pablo Martín Weber | Argentina | |
Home When You Return | Carl Elsaesser | United States | |
A Human Certainty | Morgan Quaintance | United Kingdom | |
If I Could Name You Myself (I Would Hold You Forever) | Hope Strickland | United Kingdom | |
In and Out a Window | Richard Tuohy | United States | |
In Flow of Words | Eliane Esther Bots | Netherlands | |
Kindertotenlieder | Virgil Vernier | France | |
May June July | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | |
Night Colonies | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand | |
No Subject | Guillermo Moncayo | France, Colombia | |
Personality Test | Justin Jinsoo Kim | South Korea, United States | |
Reach Capacity | Ericka Beckman | United States | |
Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 1 | Tomonari Nishikawa | ||
South | Morgan Quaintance | United Kingdom | |
Strange Object | Miranda Pennell | United States | |
Sycorax | Lois Patiño, Matías Piñeiro | Spain, Portugal | |
To Pick a Flower | Shireen Seno | Philippines | |
Tonalli | Los Ingrávidos | Mexico | |
What Is It That You Said? | Shun Ikezoe | Japan |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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Adoption (1976) | Örökbefogadás | Márta Mészáros | Hungary |
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) | John Carpenter | United States | |
Bluebeard's Castle (1963) | Herzog Blaubarts Burg | Michael Powell | Germany |
Chameleon Street (1989) | Wendell B. Harris, Jr. | United States | |
James Baldwin: From Another Place (1973) | Sedat Pekay | Turkey | |
Hester Street (1975) | Joan Micklin Silver | United States | |
Kummatty (1979) | Govindan Aravindan | India | |
Mississippi Masala (1991) | Mira Nair | United Kingdom, United States | |
Radio On (1979) | Chris Petit | United Kingdom, West Germany | |
Ratcatcher | Lynne Ramsay | United Kingdom, France | |
The Round-Up (1966) | Miklós Jancsó | Hungary | |
Rude Boy (1980) | Jack Hazan & David Mingay | United Kingdom | |
Sambizanga (1972) | Sarah Maldoror | Angola, France | |
Songs for Drella (1990) | Ed Lachman | United States | |
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) | Melvin Van Peebles | ||
Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987) | Christine Choy |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
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The Lead Shoes (1949) | Sidney Peterson | United States | |
Unconscious Motivation (1949) | Lester F. Beck | ||
The Battle of San Pietro (1949) | John Huston | ||
Study No. 11 (1932), Allegretto (1936-43), and Motion Painting No. 1 (1947) | Oskar Fischinger | Germany | |
Barravento | Glauber Rocha | Brazil | |
Pearls of the Deep (1965) | Perličky na dně | Jiří Menzel, Jan Němec, Evald Schorm, Věra Chytilová, and Jaromil Jireš | Czechoslovakia |
The Flicker (1966) | Tony Conrad | United States | |
Echoes of Silence (1965) | Peter Emanuel Goldman | ||
Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom (1964) | Lebert Bethune | France | |
Now (1965) | Santiago Álvarez | Cuba | |
Black Natchez | David Neuman and Ed Pincus | United States | |
The Jungle (1966) | 12th and Oxford Street Film Makers | ||
Film Club (1968) | Jaime Barrios | ||
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971) | Dušan Makavejev | Yugoslavia, West Germany | |
Nebula II (1971) | Robert Frerck | United States |
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