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]

Official Selection

English title Original title Director(s) Production Country
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

Spotlight

English title Original title Director(s) Production Country
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

Currents

English title Original title Director(s) Production Country
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

Short films

English title Original title Director(s) Country
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

Revivals

English title Original title Director(s) Production Country
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

Amos Vogel Centenary Retrospective

English title Original title Director(s) Production Country
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

Free talks

Section Speakers Notes Ref.
The 2023 Amos Vogel Lecture Albert Serra The filmmaker spoke about his career and legacy [7]
Deep Focus The Making of Mississippi Masala A discussion between director Mira Nair, cinematographer Edward Lachman, and actress Sarita Choudhury.
Jane Campion Campion talked about The Power of the Dog and her career with moderator and director Sofia Coppola.
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi The auteur talked about his Drive My Car with moderator and filmmaker Matías Piñeiro.
Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman The filmmakers talked about cinema as a means of realizing new and better futures with moderator Maya Cade.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul The director talked about their latest film Memoria with novelist Katie Kitamura.
Cross Cuts Mia Hansen-Løve & Joachim Trier The filmmakers talk about their latest films, Bergman Island and The Worst Person in the World respectively.
Silvan Zürcher & Alexandre Koberidze The two talked about their films The Girl and the Spider and What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?.
Maggie Gyllenhaal & Kira Kovalenko The female filmmakers discussed feminism, heroines, transcending the status quo.

References

  1. ^ Dade Hayes, "New York Film Festival To Open With Joel Coen's ‘The Tragedy Of Macbeth’ In Return To In-Person Lincoln Center Mode". Deadline Hollywood, July 22, 2021.
  2. ^ Brent Lang, "Joel Coen's ‘Tragedy of Macbeth’ With Frances McDormand, Denzel Washington Will Open New York Film Festival". Variety, July 22, 2021.
  3. ^ Dade Hayes, "New York Film Festival To Close With Pedro Almodóvar's ‘Parallel Mothers’". Deadline Hollywood, August 3, 2021.
  4. ^ Hayes, Dade (July 27, 2021). "Jane Campion's 'The Power Of The Dog' Chosen As New York Film Festival Centerpiece". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved July 27, 2021.
  5. ^ Pearce, Leonard (August 19, 2021). "59th New York Film Festival Adds C'mon C'mon, Dune, Red Rocket, The French Dispatch & More". The Film Stage. Retrieved August 19, 2021.
  6. ^ Chris Lindahl, "NYFF 2021 Announces Currents Section Focused on Cutting Edge and Experimental Films — Exclusive". IndieWire, August 24, 2021.
  7. ^ "2021 Talks - New York Film Festival". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved August 10, 2024.
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