We got a nice sampling of Berlinale (e.g. the Golden Bear winner Dahomey) and Cannes (e.g. the Palme d’Or winner Anora) items with a Golden Lion Venice quintet in Dea Kulumbegashvili‘s April, Brady Corbet‘s The Brutalist, Athina Rachel Tsangari‘s Harvest, Yeo Siew Hua‘s Stranger Eyes and Wang Bing‘s Youth (Hard Times) shoring up in the Main Slate section at the upcoming 62nd edition of the New York Film Festival. Both Hong Sangsoo and Wang Bing will be serving not one, but two films this year.
For those who are paying attention we have two world premieres that were completely off our radar in Julia Loktev‘s My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow and Robinson Devor‘s Suburban Fury – a docu project he has been working on for more than a decade. Loktev’s latest is a five-parter series – the filmmaker returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of independent journalism in Putin’s Russia—just months, as it turned out, before the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Devor’s Suburban Fury looks at 45-year-old Sara Jane Moore who took a revolver out of her purse and fired two shots at President Gerald Ford on a crowded sidewalk in San Francisco’s Union Square. Other sections will be announced in the weeks to come, but here is the Main Slate line-up:
All We Imagine as Light – Payal Kapadia
Anora – Sean Baker
April – Dea Kulumbegashvili
The Brutalist – Brady Corbet
By the Stream – Hong Sangsoo
Caught by the Tides – Jia Zhangke
Dahomey – Mati Diop
The Damned – Roberto Minervini
Eephus – Carson Lund
Grand Tour – Miguel Gomes
Happyend – Neo Sora
Hard Truths – Mike Leigh
Harvest – Athina Rachel Tsangari
Misericordia – Alain Guiraudie
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow – Julia Loktev
No Other Land – Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Oh, Canada – Paul Schrader
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl – Rungano Nyoni
Pepe – Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias
The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Mohammad Rasoulof
The Shrouds – David Cronenberg
Stranger Eyes – Yeo Siew Hua
Suburban Fury – Robinson Devor
Transamazonia – Pia Marais
A Traveler’s Needs – Hong Sangsoo
Việt and Nam – Trương Minh Quý
Who by Fire – Philippe Lesage
Youth (Hard Times) – Wang Bing
Youth (Homecoming) – Wang Bing
