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Film at Lincoln Center June 2019 Calendar New Releases Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am The Plagiarists Too Late to Die Young Festivals & Events New York African Film Festival Open Roads: New Italian Cinema Ermanno Olmi Human Rights Watch Film Festival Free Screenings & Talks Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center 144 West 65th Street, New York, NY Walter Reade Theater 165 West 65th Street, New York, NY Tickets: filmlinc.org FESTIVAL New York African Film Festival THROUGH JUNE 4 The 26th New York African Film Festival takes cinema of all genres throughout Africa and the African Diaspora to offer stories that contextualize the present and all of its possible futures. Co-presented by African Film Festival, Inc. Save with a 3+ film package and special discounted tickets for students! Screening with Little Girl when he crosses paths with a 7-year-old girl. Tafadzwa Chiriga, Zimbabwe/USA/Nigeria, Saturday, June 1, 9:00pm & Monday, June 3, 2018, 6m 1:00pm Sunday, June 2, 12:30pm Rattlesnakes Chosen Julius Amedume, USA/UK, 2019, 86m A family Jean-Marie Téno, Cameroon/Ghana/France, man is ambushed by three masked strangers 2018, 89m Following the death of her mother, accusing him of sleeping with their wives. He 14-year-old Nana Banyina Horne becomes the pleads his innocence, though what he does mother figure to eight younger siblings. Years reveal will change all of their lives forever. later, after living and teaching in America, Nana Monday, June 3, 8:30pm is chosen as Queen Mother back in Ghana. Saturday, June 1, 1:00pm Sarraounia Med Hondo, Burkina Faso/Mauritania/France, Fatwa 1986, 120m Based on historical accounts of Mahmoud Ben Mahmoud, Tunisia, 2018, 102m Queen Sarraounia, who led the Azans into Brahim Nadhour is a Tunisian living in France battle against the French colonialists at the HERO who returns to his home country to bury his turn of the century, Med Hondo’s sweeping epic son, Marouane, who was killed in a motorcycle rivals any that American cinema has produced. Baara accident. While there, Brahim finds out that Tuesday, June 4, 8:30pm Marouane was active in a radical Islamist Souleymane Cissé, Mali, 1980, 93m A young group. Sunday, June 2, 6:45pm & Tuesday, Wizard factory manager finds himself faced with an June 4, 3:30pm Kagiso Lediga, South Africa, 2018, 84m emotional and ethical awakening in the great Two boys try to pull off a huge deal, dodge a Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé’s political HERO: Inspired by the kingpin gangster and his violent gang mem- drama. Monday, June 3, 6:00pm Extraordinary Life and Times of bers, get the girl, and, finally, save their own Mr. Ulric Cross lives. Tuesday, June 4, 1:30pm Bigger Than Africa Frances-Anne Solomon, Trinidad and Tobago/ Toyin Ibrahim Adekeye, Nigeria/USA, 2018, Canada, 2018, 110m This is the story of Ulric Shorts Program 90m When the slave boats carrying African Cross, a West Indian lawyer who joined the TRT: 107m Showtime by Shawn Antoine II, people docked in America, Brazil, Cuba, and Pan-African independence movements Suicide by Sunlight by Nikyatu Jusu, No the Caribbean, hundreds of cultures, traditions, sweeping the world in the 1960s. Sunday, Traveler Returns by Ellie Foumbi, Sign Up by and religions landed with them. Today, only the June 2, 4:15pm Abeer Yehia, Wrong Con by Charles Obiemere, culture of the Yorubas remains prominent in the and Hello, Rain by C.J. “Fiery” Obasi Saturday, new world. Sunday, June 2, 9:15pm The Mercy of the Jungle June 1, 3:30pm Joel Karekezi, Belgium/France, 2018, 91m Black Goddess At the outbreak of the Second Congo War, two Paulin Soumanou Vieyra Ola Balogun, Nigeria/Brazil, 1978, 95m Rwandan soldiers left behind in the jungle Shorts Program Black Goddess is a classic Nigerian-Brazilian embark on an odyssey through the most violent TRT: 64m Afrique sur Seine, co-directed with film, spanning three centuries, that journeys forest on earth. Mamadou Sarr, Lamb, and L’Envers du Décor into the past and present of Africa. Tuesday, Screening with The Letter Carrier Sunday, June 2, 2:30pm June 4, 6:00pm Jesse L. Martin and Rick Cosnett, Canada, 2016, 18m Free Amphitheater events to take place Chez Jolie Coiffure Saturday, June 1, 6:00pm & Monday, June 3, June 1-3. Learn more at filmlinc.org. Rosine Mbakam, Belgium/Cameroon, 2018, 3:30pm 71m An immigrant from Cameroon journeys Organized by Mahen Bonetti, Francoise to Belgium, where she finds employment at a Oga Bolaji Bouffault, and Dara Ojugbele, African Film beauty salon where undocumented immigrants Kayode Kasum, Nigeria, 2018, 91m A retired, Festival, Inc. escape daily difficulties and harsh realities. 40-year-old musician’s life changes forever TICKETS: FILMLINC.ORG Free Events Escape in New York: Films on Governors Island Film Comment Talk: Queer & Now & Then For the second year in a row, Film at Lincoln Center is delighted to present Join us for the latest in our monthly Film Comment talk series. This June’s outdoor summer screenings on Governors Island. Screenings are free and special guests include Melissa Anderson (4 Columns), Wesley Morris open to the public with pre-show entertainment kicking off at 7:00pm, (The New York Times), Mark Harris (author, Pictures at a Revolution, including a beer garden and food vendors, and the films beginning at dusk. Five Came Back), and Farihah Zaman, joining Film Comment’s Michael Presented in partnership with the Trust for Governors Island and produced Koresky—writer of its biweekly column Queer & Now & Then—for a by Rooftop Films. June 14, July 12 & August 9, 7:00pm discussion about the changing landscape of LGBTQ cinema and criticism, just in time for Pride Month. June 27, 6:30 pm Moonlight Photo David by Bornfriend/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock Summer of Film at Lincoln Center: Learn more about registering for free event August 8 School Daze (Spike Lee, 1988) 50th Mixtape tickets at filmlinc.org/mixtape. Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 2018) This summer, there’s much to celebrate here June 27 August 15 at Film at Lincoln Center. We have officially Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962) Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello, 2017) been around for half a century. We have a new Portrait of a Lady (Jane Campion, 1996) Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018) name and a new look. More than anything, August 22 July 11 of course, we continue to celebrate cinema demonlover (Olivier Assayas, 2002) Two English Girls (François Truffaut, 1971) itself. To kick things off, as a special gift to our Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016) Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001) audiences—and all New York movie lovers— August 29 July 18 we’ve put together a free summer playlist. Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998) Come Drink with Me (King Hu, 1966) From June to September, we will continue to Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry, 2019) The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2015) celebrate its semi-centennial with a series of September 5 double features presented free of charge. We July 25 Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2005) have handpicked 20 films—all-time and recent The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963) Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016) favorites—to be screened across 10 Thursdays, Happy as Lazzaro (Alice Rohrwacher, 2018) September 11 culminating on September 11 with a final August 1 Film to be decided by public vote! selection to be decided by a public vote. All Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) double features start at 6:00pm. High Life (Claire Denis, 2019) Organized by Florence Almozini and Tyler Wilson. #FILMLINC FESTIVAL Open Roads: New Italian Cinema JUNE 6–12 Open Roads is the only screening series to offer North American audiences a diverse and extensive lineup of contemporary Italian films. This year’s edition—the 19th—again strikes a balance between emerging talents and esteemed veterans, commercial and independent fare, outrageous comedies, gripping dramas, and captivating documentaries. Co-presented by Istituto Luce Cinecittà. See more and save with a 3+ film discount package or All-Access Pass. The Disappearance of My Mother Normal Beniamino Barrese, Italy, 2019, 94m Adele Tulli, Italy, 2019, 67m This atmospheric Cinematographer Beniamino Barrese’s direc- documentary looks at the ways that con- torial debut is an intimate documentary portrait ventional gender expression is instilled and of his mother, the Italian model and activist reinforced. Monday, June 10, 8:30pm Benedetta Barzini. Monday, June 10, 6:00pm Ricordi? Euforia Valerio Mieli, Italy/France, 2018, 106m Valeria Golino, Italy, 2018, 120m When a teacher The past resurfaces in sensory bursts in this becomes ill, he goes to stay with his brother in evocative romance, in which a couple struggles his sprawling bachelor pad, where both men to recapture the urgency that brought them must reckon with family tensions. Saturday, June together. Friday, June 7, 8:30pm 8, 6:00pm & Wednesday, June 12, 2:00pm Laughing Selfie If Life Gives You Lemons Agostino Ferrente, France/Italy, 2019, 78m OPENING NIGHT Ciro D’Emilio, Italy, 2018, 88m A teen boy’s Several years after an unarmed teenager was Piranhas dreams of soccer stardom are threatened by a shot by police in a gang-ravaged region of Claudio Giovannesi, Italy, 2019, 112m chaotic home life. Saturday, June 8, 3:30pm Naples, a pair of 16-year-old boys capture their A pack of cocksure hellions descend into daily lives using smartphone cameras. Sunday, Naples’s violent, paranoid crime world in Laughing June 9, 9:00pm & Tuesday, June 11, 4:15pm Claudio Giovannesi’s haunting reflection Valerio Mastandrea, Italy, 2018, 90m After a on doomed adolescence.