2016 New York Film Festival

The 54th New York Film Festival was held September 30 - October 16, 2016.

The lineup consisted of eight sections:

  • Main Slate (25 films and five shorts programs)
  • Spotlight on Documentary (15 films)
  • Explorations (six films)
  • Projections (11 programs)
  • Special Events (six films)
  • Revivals (12 films)
  • Retrospective (19 films)
  • Convergence (trans-media presentations and talks)

The Festival also included various talks and free screenings. The "Explorations" section was a new addition in 2016, described by the Festival as: "This new section is devoted to work from around the world, from filmmakers across the spectrum of experience and artistic sensibility. […] The one quality that they share is that they are adventurous and exploratory, in the very best sense of the word."[1] The primary selection committee included Kent Jones (chair), Dennis Lim, Florence Almozini, Amy Taubin, and Gavin Smith as a consultant. The Shorts Programs were selected by Dilcia Barrera, Laura Kern, Dennis Lim, Gabi Madsen and Dan Sullivan. Projections was programmed by Dennis Lim and Aily Nash. The Revivals and Retrospective sections were programmed by Kent Jones, and Convergence was curated by Matt Bolish.[2]

Sections

Feature-length
Title Original Title Director Country
13th (Opening Night) Ava DuVernay USA
20th Century Women (Centerpiece) Mike Mills USA
The Lost City of Z (Closing Night) James Gray USA
Aquarius Kleber Mendonça Filho Brazil, France
Certain Women Kelly Reichardt USA
Elle Paul Verhoeven France, Germany
Fire at Sea Fuocoammare Gianfranco Rosi Italy, France
Graduation Bacalaureat Cristian Mungiu Romania, France
Hermia and Helena Matías Piñeiro Argentina, USA
I, Daniel Blake Ken Loach UK, France
Julieta Pedro Almodóvar Spain
Manchester by the Sea Kenneth Lonergan USA
Moonlight Barry Jenkins USA
My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea Dash Shaw USA
Neruda Pablo Larraín Chile, Argentina, France, Spain
Paterson Jim Jarmusch USA
Personal Shopper Olivier Assayas France
The Rehearsal Alison Maclean New Zealand
Sieranevada Cristi Puiu Romania
The Son of Joseph Eugène Green France, Belgium
Staying Vertical Rester Vertical Alain Guiraudie France
Things to Come Mia Hansen-Løve France, Germany
Toni Erdmann Maren Ade Germany, Austria
The Unknown Girl La fille inconnue Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne Belgium
Yourself and Yours Hong Sang-soo South Korea

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Shorts
Program Title Original Title Director Country
Program 1: Narrative The Girl Who Danced with the Devil A moça que dançou com o Diabo João Paulo Miranda Maria Brazil
Program 1: Narrative Be Good for Rachel Ed Roe USA
Program 1: Narrative Univitellin Terence Nance France
Program 1: Narrative Little Bullets Küçük Kurşunlar Alphan Eseli Turkey
Program 1: Narrative Dobro Marta Hernaiz Pidal Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mexico
Program 1: Narrative Land of the Lost Sidekicks Roger Ross Williams USA
Program 1: Narrative And The Whole Sky Fit In The Dead Cow’s Eye Y todo el celo cupo en el ojo de la vaca muerta Francisca Alegria Chile, USA
Program 2: International Auteurs A Brief History of Princess X Gabriel Abrantes Portugal, France
Program 2: International Auteurs Sarah Winchester, Phantom Opera Sarah Winchester, Opera Fantôme Bertrand Bonello France
Program 2: International Auteurs The Hedonists Jia Zhangke China
Program 2: International Auteurs From the Diary of a Wedding Photographer Myomano Shel Tzlam Hatonot Nadav Lapid Israel
Program 3: Genre Stories The Signalman Daniel Augusto Brazil
Program 3: Genre Stories Can’t Take My Eyes Off You Johannes Kizler, Nik Sentenza Germany
Program 3: Genre Stories New Gods Jack Burke UK
Program 3: Genre Stories Quenottes (Pearlies) Pascal Thiebaux, Gil Pinheiro Luxembourg, France
Program 3: Genre Stories What Happened to Her Kristy Guevara-Flanagan USA
Program 3: Genre Stories Imposter Adam Goldhammer Canada
Program 4: New York Stories Kitty Chloë Sevigny USA
Program 4: New York Stories I Turn to Jello Andrew T. Betzer USA
Program 4: New York Stories Dramatic Relationships Dustin Guy Defa USA
Program 4: New York Stories This Castle Keep Gina Telaroli USA
Program 4: New York Stories Los Angeles Plays New York John Wilson USA
Program 4: New York Stories The Honeymoon Tommy Davis USA
Program 5: Documentaries Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy Lewie Kloster USA
Program 5: Documentaries El Buzo Esteban Arrangoiz Mexico
Program 5: Documentaries Jean Nouvel: Reflections Matt Tyrnauer USA
Program 5: Documentaries Rotatio Ian McClerin USA
Program 5: Documentaries The Vote Mila Aung-Thwin, Van Royko Canada
Program 5: Documentaries Brillo Box (3¢ off) Lisanne Skyler USA

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Spotlight on Documentary
Title Original Title Director Country
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail Steve James USA
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography Errol Morris USA
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds Alexis Bloom, Fisher Stevens USA
The Cinema Travellers Shirley Abraham, Amit Madheshiya India
Dawson City: Frozen Time Bill Morrison USA
Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy Hissein Habré, une tragédie tchadienne Mahamat-Saleh Haroun France, Chad
I Am Not Your Negro Raoul Peck USA, France, Belgium, Switzerland
I Called Him Morgan Kasper Collin Sweden
Karl Marx City Petra Epperlein, Michael Tucker USA, Germany
Patria O Muerte: Cuba, Fatherland or Death Olatz López Garmendia Cuba, USA
Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan Linda Saffire, Adam Schlesinger USA
The Settlers Shimon Dotan France, Canada, Israel
Two Trains Runnin’ Sam Pollard USA
Uncle Howard Aaron Brookner UK, USA
Whose Country? Mohamed Siam Egypt, USA, France

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Explorations
Title Original Title Director Country
The Death of Louis XIV La Mort de Louis XIV Albert Serra France, Portugal, Spain
Everything Else Todo lo demás Natalia Almada Mexico
I Had Nowhere to Go Douglas Gordon Germany
Kékszakállú Gastón Solnicki Argentina
Mimosas Oliver Laxe Spain, Morocco, France, Qatar
The Ornithologist O ornitólogo João Pedro Rodrigues Portugal, France, Brazil

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Projections
Program Title Director Country
Program 1: The Spaces Between the Words REGAL Karissa Hahn USA
Program 1: The Spaces Between the Words Steve Hates Fish John Smith UK
Program 1: The Spaces Between the Words Real Italian Pizza [1971] David Rimmer Canada
Program 1: The Spaces Between the Words Now: End of Season Ayman Nahle Lebanon
Program 1: The Spaces Between the Words See a Dog, Hear a Dog Jesse McLean USA
Program 1: The Spaces Between the Words Twixt Cup and Lip Stephen Sutcliffe UK
Program 2: Beyond Landscape Burning Mountains That Spew Flame

(Montañas Ardientes Que Vomitan Fuego)

 Helena Girón, Samuel Delgado Spain
Program 2: Beyond Landscape Bending to Earth Rosa Barba USA, Germany
Program 2: Beyond Landscape Ten Mornings Ten Evening and One Horizon Tomonari Nishikawa Japan
Program 2: Beyond Landscape Canadian Pacific I [1974] David Rimmer Canada
Program 2: Beyond Landscape Jáaji Approx. Sky Hopinka USA
Program 2: Beyond Landscape Bad mama, who cares Brigid McCaffrey USA
Program 2: Beyond Landscape Ears, Nose and Throat Kevin Jerome Everson USA
Program 3: The Illinois Parables The Illinois Parables Deborah Stratman USA
Program 3: The Illinois Parables The Horses of a Cavalry Captain

(Die Pferde des Rittmeisters)

 Clemens von Wedemeyer Germany
Program 4: Fade Out Old Hat Zach Iannazzi USA
Program 4: Fade Out Flowers of the Sky Janie Geiser USA
Program 4: Fade Out Answer Print Mónica Savirón USA
Program 4: Fade Out Athyrium filix-femina (for Anna Atkins) Kelly Egan Canada
Program 4: Fade Out Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper [1970] David Rimmer Canada
Program 4: Fade Out Ghost Children João Vieira Torres Brazil, France
Program 4: Fade Out Cilaos Camilo Restrepo France
Program 4: Fade Out Luna e Santur Joshua Gen Solondz USA
Program 5: Site and Sound Indefinite Pitch James N. Kienitz Wilkins USA
Program 5: Site and Sound Europa, Mon Amour (2016 Brexit Edition) Lawrence Lek UK
Program 5: Site and Sound Strange Vision of Seeing Things Ryan Ferko Canada, Serbia
Program 5: Site and Sound Foyer Ismaïl Bahri France, Tunisia
Program 6 All the Cities of the North Dane Komljen Serbia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro
Program 7: Pop Culture Clash A Boy Needs a Friend Steve Reinke USA
Program 7: Pop Culture Clash Spotlight on a Brick Wall Alee Peoples, Mike Stoltz USA
Program 7: Pop Culture Clash Return to Forms Zachary Epcar USA
Program 7: Pop Culture Clash Dream English Kid, 1964–1999 AD Mark Leckey UK
Program 8: Dorsky and Hiler Autumn Nathaniel Dorsky USA
Program 8: Dorsky and Hiler The Dreamer Nathaniel Dorsky USA
Program 8: Dorsky and Hiler Bagatelle II Jerome Hiler USA
Program 9: Event Horizons Há Terra! Ana Vaz Brazil, France
Program 9: Event Horizons Kindah Ephraim Asili USA, Jamaica
Program 9: Event Horizons In Titan’s Goblet [1991] Peter Hutton USA
Program 9: Event Horizons An Aviation Field

(Um Campo de Aviação)

 Joana Pimenta Portugal, USA, Brazil
Program 9: Event Horizons Electrical Gaza Rosalind Nashashibi UK
Program 9: Event Horizons Event Horizon Guillermo Moncayo France
Program 10: From the Notebook of… From the Notebook of… [1971/1998] Robert Beavers Italy, Switzerland
Program 10: From the Notebook of… For Christian Luke Fowler UK, USA
Program 11 The Human Surge

(El auge del humano)

 Eduardo Williams Argentina, Brazil, Portugal

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Special Events
Title Director Country
Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened Lonny Price USA
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk Ang Lee USA
Gimme Danger Jim Jarmusch USA
Hamilton’s America Alex Horwitz USA
Jackie Pablo Larraín USA, Chile, France
A Quiet Passion (Film Comment Presents) Terence Davies UK, Belgium

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Revivals
Title Original Title Director Country Year
L’argent Robert Bresson France 1983
Aux quatre coins Jacques Rivette France 1949
The Battle of Algiers La battaglia di Algeri Gillo Pontecorvo Italy, Algeria 1966
Le divertissement Jacques Rivette France 1952
Harlan County USA Barbara Kopple USA 1976
The Living Idol Albert Lewin USA 1957
Memories of Underdevelopment Memorias del subdesarrollo Tomás Gutiérrez Alea Cuba 1968
One-Eyed Jacks Marlon Brando USA 1961
Panique Julien Duvivier France 1947
Le quadrille Jacques Rivette France 1950
Taipei Story Qing mei zhu ma Edward Yang Taiwan 1985
Ugetsu Ugetsu Monogatari Kenji Mizoguchi Japan 1953

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Retrospective

The 2016 Retrospective contained two programs, both inspired by Bertrand Tavernier. “A Brief Journey Through French Cinema” screened Tavernier’s My Journey Through French Cinema along with several titles cited in the film. The second program focused on Henry Hathaway, a director Tavernier particularly admires.

A Brief Journey Through French Cinema
Title Original Title Director Country Year
My Journey Through French Cinema Voyage à travers le cinéma français Bertrand Tavernier France 2016
Angels of Sin Les anges du péché Robert Bresson France 1943
Antoine and Antoinette Antoine et Antoinette Jacques Becker France 1947
Deadlier Than the Male Voici le temps des assassins Julien Duvivier France 1956
Les enfants terribles Jean-Pierre Melville France 1950
La Marseillaise Jean Renoir France 1938
Safe Conduct Laissez-passer Bertrand Tavernier France 2002

Henry Hathaway
Title Director Country Year
23 Paces to Baker Street Henry Hathaway USA 1956
The Dark Corner Henry Hathaway USA 1946
Down to the Sea in Ships Henry Hathaway USA 1949
Fourteen Hours Henry Hathaway USA 1951
From Hell to Texas Henry Hathaway USA 1958
Garden of Evil Henry Hathaway USA, Mexico 1951
Kiss of Death Henry Hathaway USA 1947
Niagara Henry Hathaway USA 1953
North to Alaska Henry Hathaway USA 1960
Rawhide Henry Hathaway USA 1951
The Shepherd of the Hills Henry Hathaway USA 1941
Spawn of the North Henry Hathaway USA 1938

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