The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center Thursday announces the complete lineup for the 50th anniversary edition of New Directors\/New Films rolling out April 28 – May 8. The films will screen both virtually and at the FLC theater through May 13, making it the first NYC fest to return to the big screen.<\/p>\n
Opening night will feature Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta, <\/em>a portrait of a mother and daughter barely scraping by in Spain’s northwestern seaside town of Gijón. The event will close with All Light, Everywhere<\/em>, director Theo Anthony’s winner of a Sundance Jury Prize for Experimentation in Nonfiction. Anthony’s follow-up to Rat Film<\/em>, All Light, Everywhere<\/em> uses U.S. law enforcement bodycam footage as a treatise on perception, power, and policing.<\/p>\n The fest will showcase 27 films and 11 shorts.<\/p>\n A free virtual retrospective celebrating 50 years of ND\/NF will be available from April 16-28.<\/p>\n “From intimate, personal tales to political, metaphysical, and spiritual inquiries, the films in the 50th edition of New Directors\/New Films embody an inexhaustible curiosity and a fearless desire for adventure,” said La Frances Hui, MoMA’s Curator of Film and 2021 New Directors\/New Films co-chair. “They prove that cinema will continue to illuminate and inspire the way we live, and make art.”<\/p>\n “We’re delighted to finally return to our cinemas,” said Florence Almozini, FLC Senior Programmer at Large and 2021 New Directors\/New Films co-chair. “There’s something so special about walking into a theater, not knowing what to expect, and discovering your new favorite filmmaker on the big screen. For 50 years, ND\/NF has not only launched careers; it’s also, time and again, given audiences that singular, cinematic experience of unearthing something new.”<\/p>\n The complete 2021 New Directors\/New Films lineup:<\/strong><\/p>\n Features<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Aleph <\/em>dir. Iva Radivojević
All Light, Everywhere<\/em> dir. Theo Anthony
All the Light We Can See<\/em> dir. Pablo Escoto Luna
Apples<\/em> dir. Christos Nikou
Azor<\/em> dir. Andreas Fontana
Bebia, à mon seul désir<\/em> dir. Juja Dobrachkous
Bipolar<\/em> dir. Queena Li
Dark Red Forest<\/em> dir. Jin Huaqing
Destello Bravío<\/em> dir. Ainhoa Rodríguez
Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)<\/em> dir. Arie & Chuko Esiri
Faya Dayi<\/em> dir. Jessica Beshir
Friends and Strangers<\/em> dir. James Vaughan
Gull<\/em> dir. Kim Mi-jo
Liborio<\/em> dir. Nino Martinez Sosa
Luzzu<\/em> dir. Alex Camilleri
Madalena<\/em> dir. Madiano Marcheti
Moon, 66 Questions<\/em> dir. Jacqueline Lentzou
Pebbles<\/em> dir. P.S. Vinothraj
El Planeta<\/em> dir. Amalia Ulman
Radiograph of a Family<\/em> dir. Firouzeh Khosrovani
Rock Bottom Riser<\/em> dir. Fern Silva
Short Vacation<\/em> dir. Kwon Min-pyo & Seo Han-sol
Stop-Zemlia<\/em> dir. Kateryna Gornostai
Taming the Garden<\/em> dir. Salomé Jashi
We (Nous)<\/em> dir. Alice Diop
We’re All Going to the World’s Fair<\/em> dir. Jane Schoenbrun
Wood and Water<\/em> dir. Jonas Bak<\/p>\n