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Walter Reade Theater 165 West 65th Street, New York, NY FESTIVAL Rendez-Vous with French Cinema MARCH 5–15 Co-presented with UniFrance, the 25th edition of Rendez-Vous demonstrates that the landscape of French cinema is as fertile, inspiring, and distinct as ever. Organized by Florence Almozini with UniFrance. ( In-Person Appearance) Special Student Savings! $50 All-Access Pass

NEW YORK PREMIERE Deerskin Quentin Dupieux, France, 2019, 77m Oscar- winner Jean Dujardin and Adèle Haenel star in a rollicking take on the midlife crisis movie, directed by Rendez-Vous mainstay Quentin Dupieux. A Greenwich Entertainment release. Sunday, March 8, 9:15pm Saturday, March 14, 9:00pm

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE An Easy Girl Rebecca Zlotowski, France, 2019, 92m Cuties Rebecca Zlotowski’s fourth feature taps into the universal hunger of adolescence, and

OPENING NIGHT • NEW YORK PREMIERE U.S. PREMIERE imbues an empathetic coming-of-age story The Truth Burning Ghost with a sharp class critique. A Netflix release. Hirokazu Kore-eda, France/Japan, 2019, 106m Stéphane Batut, France, 2019, 104m Winner of Saturday, March 7, 9:00pm In his follow-up to the Palme d’Or–winning the prestigious Prix Jean Vigo, this smoldering Thursday, March 12, 4:00pm Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda casts two titans feature debut from Stéphane Batut is an of French cinema, and entrancing tale of aching romanticism on the NEW YORK PREMIERE Juliette Binoche, in a film structured around the precipice of life and death. Happy Birthday rippling tensions underlying a family gathering. Tuesday, March 10, 1:45pm Cédric Kahn, France/Belgium, 2019, 101m An IFC Films release. Friday, March 13, 6:30pm Set during one hectic day, this buoyant and Thursday, March 5, 6:30pm bittersweet ensemble piece directed by Cédric Thursday, March 5, 9:15pm NEW YORK PREMIERE Kahn and headlined by Catherine Deneuve Cuties tests the ties that bind a family. NEW YORK PREMIERE Maïmouna Doucouré, France, 2020, 95m Thursday, March 12, 9:15pm Alice and the Mayor As 11-year-old Amy rehearses with a hip-hop Sunday, March 15, 6:15pm Nicolas Pariser, France/Belgium, 2019, 103m dance troupe, her newfound talent conflicts A philosophy graduate (Anaïs Demoustier) with her family’s traditional expectations for NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE becomes advisor to a mayor (Fabrice Luchini) her future in this vibrant, entertaining debut Isadora’s Children who is running out of ideas in this heartfelt and from director Maïmouna Doucouré, winner of Damien Manivel, France/South Korea, 2019, thought-provoking tale of political action over Sundance’s Directing Award. 84m Isadora Duncan responded to the tragic empty rhetoric. A Netflix release. death of her children by choreographing a three- Saturday, March 7, 1:00pm Tuesday, March 10, 6:30pm part piece called Mother. This film depicts three Wednesday, March 11, 9:30pm Thursday, March 12, 2:00pm characters engaging with Duncan’s work of art. Friday, March 6, 4:00pm NEW YORK PREMIERE NEW YORK PREMIERE Saturday, March 14, 2:00pm The Best Years of a Life The Dazzled Claude Lelouch, France, 2019, 90m With a Sarah Suco, France, 2019, 99m A 12-year-old U.S. PREMIERE thoughtful, ruminative script by Claude Lelouch acrobat is pressured by her church to quit Joan of Arc and Valérie Perrin, this sequel to Lelouch’s her training in actress-turned-director Sarah Bruno Dumont, France, 2019, 137m Ten-year- classic 1966 Palme d’Or–winner A Man and a Suco’s debut feature, a provocative, mesmer- old Lise Leplat Prudhomme commands this wild Woman weaves a career-spanning tapestry izing slow burn that’s set in an insular Catholic Joan of Arc reimagining, shot amid rolling hills for Jean-Louis Trintignant and Anouk Aimée, community. and vaulted cathedrals. A KimStim release. reprising their roles. Sunday, March 8, 6:30pm Wednesday, March 11, 6:15pm Saturday, March 7, 3:45pm Friday, March 13, 4:15pm Friday, March 13, 1:30pm

TICKETS: FILMLINC.ORG NEW YORK PREMIERE Rémy (François Civil) and research assistant On a Magical Night Mélanie (Ana Girardot) have never met, but live Christophe Honoré, France/Belgium/ parallel lives; the seemingly star-crossed duo Luxembourg, 2019, 87m Chiara Mastroianni orbit around each other, remaining out of reach. won Best Actress in Cannes’s Un Certain Monday, March 9, 9:00pm Regard section for her fierce performance in Saturday, March 14, 6:30pm this fantastical spin on a Rohmerian moral tale. A Strand Releasing release. U.S. PREMIERE Friday, March 6, 8:45pm South Terminal Monday, March 9, 4:15pm Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche, France/Algeria, 2019, 96m The haunting, experiential latest NEW YORK PREMIERE from Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche (Story of Judas) Papicha centers on a doctor (Ramzy Bedia) in nineties Mounia Meddour, France/Algeria/Belgium/ Algeria who finds his moral positions shaken as Qatar, 2019, 106m Nedjma is a university his world rapidly becomes a war zone. student during the Algerian Civil War with a Wednesday, March 11, 4:00pm On a Magical Night passion for fashion design. Defying religious Sunday, March 15, 4:00pm conservatism, she makes dresses for her peers SPECIAL EVENT that are examples of individual expression. A U.S. PREMIERE The Truth: A Conversation with DistribFilms release. The Specials Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke Friday, March 6, 1:45pm Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano, France, The French and American stars, first-time Thursday, March 12, 6:15pm 2019, 114m This heartfelt comic drama from collaborators on Rendez-Vous Opening Night the directing duo behind The Intouchables and selection The Truth, sit down for an intimate, NEW YORK PREMIERE starring Vincent Cassel and Reda Kateb targets in-depth conversation. Perfect Nanny structural neglect in the French medical system. Thursday, March 5, 5:00pm Lucie Borleteau, France, 2019, 100m In this Saturday, March 14, 4:00pm unsettling , two new parents discover Sunday, March 15, 8:45pm their nanny is entrenching herself deeper and Free Talks deeper into their lives, her behavior growing NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE Presented by ever stranger. A DistribFilms release. Spellbound Monday, March 9, 6:15pm Pascal Bonitzer, France, 2019, 90m An uncanny Exploring Space on Film Wednesday, March 11, 1:45pm triangle emerges in this update of a Henry Alice Winocour, director of astronaut drama James story. A book critic (Sara Giraudeau) is Proxima, explores various approaches films NEW YORK PREMIERE assigned a profile of a reclusive painter (Nicolas have taken in wondering what might become of Proxima Duvauchelle), who claims to have seen his humanity once we leave our planet behind. Alice Winocour, France/Germany, 2019, 107m mother’s spirit just before her death. Saturday, March 7, 5:00pm Alice Winocour’s third feature, which stars Sunday, March 8, 4:00pm Eva Green and Matt Dillon, wrestles with the Friday, March 13, 9:15pm Serge Toubiana on Helen Scott earthly loose ends and internal pressures of Celebrated author Serge Toubiana, president space travel. A Vertical Entertainment release. U.S. PREMIERE of Unifrance and former director of the Saturday, March 7, 6:15pm Spread Your Wings Cinematheque française, will discuss the life Tuesday, March 10, 9:15pm Nicolas Vanier, France/Norway, 2019, 113m and work of the legendary Helen Scott, subject A teenager helps his environmentalist father of his latest book, L’amie américaine. A signing NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE train endangered geese to follow a new migra- with Toubiana to follow. Presented in collabo- School Life tory path, avoidant of pollution and human- ration with Albertine Books. Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir, France, made threats, in this freewheeling adventure. Sunday, March 8, 3:00pm 2019, 111m Slam poet Grand Corps Malade and Sunday, March 15, 1:30pm Mehdi Idir’s second collaboration after 2016’s From Book to Film Step by Step is a rousing look at the importance U.S. PREMIERE What are the challenges and implications of of encouraging untapped potential despite Who You Think I Am adapting a book to the screen, and how does institutional odds. A Netflix release. Safy Nebbou, France/Belgium, 2019, 101m literature nurture cinema? How do films allow Sunday, March 8, 1:00pm When Claire (Juliette Binoche) creates a creators and audiences to revisit and reimagine Tuesday, March 10, 4:00pm Facebook profile for a 24-year-old alter ego, familiar narratives? What concrete steps must her plans veer into uncharted territory, leading one must take to adapt a book? A selection of NEW YORK PREMIERE to a dizzying game of mirrors in Safy Nebbou’s French and American filmmakers and writers Someone, Somewhere ingenious film. A Cohen Media release. will join to discuss these topics. Presented in Cédric Klapisch, France/Belgium, 2019, 110m Friday, March 6, 6:00pm partnership with French in Motion and IFP. In this almost-romance, warehouse employee Monday, March 9, 2:00pm Monday, March 9, 5:00pm

#FILMLINC SERIES Mapping Bacurau MARCH 13–24 Brazilian critic-turned-filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho (Aquarius) and co-director Juliano Dornelles exhilarated audiences at the 2019 NYFF with their class warfare fable Bacurau. Winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes, Bacurau draws on a network of film historical references—from horror and Hollywood pulp to spaghetti westerns to Brazil’s own political movement. On the occasion of Bacurau’s release, Mendonça Filho and Dornelles have handpicked films that map the cinematic universe to which their inventive, anything-goes creation belongs. Organized by Dennis Lim and Tyler Wilson. ( In-Person Appearance) See 3+ films and save!

Leone’s epic -cum-war-picture, which their weekend exercise in a Louisiana swamp features one of Ennio Morricone’s finest scores. turns into a violent survival game. Friday, March 20, 9:00pm Saturday, March 21, 3:30pm

The Guns SCREENING IN 70MM! Ruy Guerra, Brazil/Argentina, 1964, 80m Starman Made in response to a 1924 incident in Brazil John Carpenter, USA, 1984, 70mm, 115m when a group of soldiers shot and killed a An alien (Jeff Bridges) takes the form of the sacred ox, Ruy Guerra’s Berlinale winner is an deceased husband of a young Wisconsinite essential work of Brazilian cinema. (Karen Allen) in this warm romance and Sunday, March 22, 3:30pm melancholic ghost story, which has the breezy

The Wicker Man Courtesy of Rialto Pictures/Studiocanal pacing of a . The Hour and Turn of Thursday, March 19, 6:30pm Blood for Dracula Augusto Matraga Paul Morrissey, 1974, 35mm, 103m In this Roberto Santos, Brazil, 1965, 109m Twenty Years Later outrageous cult classic, the inimitable Udo Kier In this Cinema Novo western, a violent farmer Eduardo Coutinho, Brazil, 1984, 119m is the Count, who comes upon the beautiful is betrayed by his wife and nearly killed. After In 1964, Eduardo Coutinho was making a film daughters of an aristocratic landowner, only to being rescued, he devotes his life to contrition about João Pedro Teixeira, murdered by the be interfered with by the estate caretaker (Joe until the opportunity for revenge arrives. police while trying to organize farm workers. Dallesandro). Tuesday, March 17, 9:00pm Shooting was halted due to a military coup, Wednesday, March 18, 9:00pm but two decades later he resumed production, Lone Star resulting in a -defying essay on political Bye Bye Brazil John Sayles, USA, 1996, 135m Among the commitment and life under dictatorship. Carlos Diegues, Argentina/Brazil/France, finest films in the career of American filmmaker Friday, March 13, 9:30pm 1980, 35mm, 110m A rollicking caravan of John Sayles, Lone Star is an intricately staged, traveling performers entertains audiences spellbinding neo-western—one of cinema’s across Brazil’s Amazonian northwest, leading most searing portraits of border-town politics. Ted Kotcheff, , 1971, 108m Wake to a string of adventures. Monday, March 16, 9:00pm in Fright is a visceral, overlooked gem of the Sunday, March 15, 3:30pm Australian New Wave about a teacher (Gary Long Weekend Bond) who arrives in a rough outback mining Compañeros Colin Eggleston, Australia, 1978, 97m On a town and goes on a self-destructive bender. Sergio Corbucci, Italy/Spain/West Germany, weekend camping trip, an unhappy suburban Saturday, March 14, 3:30pm 1970, 16mm, 115m Sergio Corbucci’s action- couple show little respect for the environ- packed film pairs stalwarts ment and face the karmic vengeance of the The Wicker Man: The Final Cut Franco Nero and Tomas Milian as an odd couple Australian bush in Colin Eggleston’s brutal, Robin Hardy, UK, 1974, 94m Robin Hardy’s caught in the middle of the Mexican Revolution. nail-bitingly intense environmental . brilliant classic follows a devoutly Monday, March 23, 9:00pm Thursday, March 19, 9:00pm Christian policeman (Edward Woodward), who travels to a remote Scottish island to Duck, You Sucker! Southern Comfort investigate a lead on a missing girl. This is a 4K Sergio Leone, Italy/Spain, 1972, 35mm, 138m Walter Hill, USA/Switzerland/UK, 1981, restoration of the most complete version. An IRA dynamite expert on the lam (James 35mm, 106m In Walter Hill’s backwoods horror Tuesday, March 24, 9:00pm Coburn) and a Mexican bandit (Rod Steiger) masterpiece, the specter of the Vietnam War Acknowledgments: Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano become accidental revolutionaries in Sergio looms over a squad of National Guards when Dornelles; Kino Lorber; American Genre Film Archive; Canal Brasil; Luiz Carlos Barreto, Lucy Barreto and Paula Barreto, LC Barreto Produções Cinematográficas; Marília Pinhanez and Claudio Pinhanez; Peter Azen; Fabio Andrade TICKETS: FILMLINC.ORG NEW RELEASES

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“A nifty, twisty drama… An elegant and “A perfect blend of blistering social “««««« Exquisite! Directed with remarkable stylishly crafted piece of entertainment.” commentary and illicit genre-flick thrills.” precision. This is, instantly, perhaps inevitably, –The Guardian –Rolling Stone one of Deneuve’s greatest performances.” The Whistlers Bacurau –The Times Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania, 98m Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles, The Truth In a delightful twist, leading Romanian director Brazil, 130m Hirokazu Kore-eda, France/Japan, 2019, 106m Corneliu Porumboiu has made his first all-out A vibrant, diverse backcountry Brazilian town The rippling undercurrents of a family gathering genre film—a clever, swift, and elegant neo-noir finds its sun-dappled day-to-day disturbed structure this latest outing from Hirokazu Kore- with a wonderfully off-kilter central conceit. when its inhabitants become the targets of a eda—his follow-up to the Palme d’Or–winning Easily corruptible Bucharest police detective group of armed mercenaries. The perpetrators Shoplifters, and a singular stage for two titans of Cristi—played by the eternally stoic Vlad Ivanov— of this class warfare, however, may have met French cinema, Catherine Deneuve and Juliette arrives on the mist-enshrouded Canary Island their match in the fed-up, resourceful denizens Binoche. With a controlled intensity, Deneuve of La Gomera, where he learns a clandestine, of little Bacurau. Those who remember Kleber plays Fabienne, a French screen icon preparing tribal language, improbably made entirely out Mendonça Filho’s wonderful NYFF54 crowd- to publish her memoirs. The version of her of whistling; this form of hidden communication pleaser Aquarius starring Sônia Braga—who life preserved on the page is critiqued by her will keep his superiors off his trail as he becomes appears here in a memorable supporting daughter Lumir (Binoche), who visits Fabienne’s increasingly embroiled in a convoluted gangster role—might be surprised by the new terrain and secluded home with her husband (Ethan Hawke) scheme involving a stash of Euros hidden in a occasional ultraviolence of his latest, codirected and their young daughter. Resentments seep mattress and a sultry femme fatale named, of with his longtime production designer Juliano out as their drama swirls around Fabienne’s next course, Gilda. Porumboiu’s take on the crime Dornelles. Yet this shape-shifter shares with project, in which she uneasily shares the screen drama furthers his explorations of the intricacies that film the exhilaration of seeing society’s with a rising young actress (Manon Clavel). In and limitations of language, but is also his most forgotten and marginalized standing up for its deft grappling with aging, memory, and guilt, playful, even exuberant, film. A Magnolia Pictures themselves by any means necessary. This The Truth points to an everyday tenderness that release. An NYFF57 selection. winner of the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film can thaw even the deepest-rooted tensions. An Festival is a vividly angry power-to-the-people IFC Films release. A Rendez-Vous with French fable like no other. A Kino Lorber release. An Cinema 2020 selection. NYFF57 selection. Director Q&As at select shows on March 8, 10, 12 & 13!

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“Show-stopping… a handsomely shot, true-crime gangster movie.” –The Hollywood Reporter

The Traitor Marco Bellocchio, Italy, 145m Since the galvanizing burst of his unforgettable debut feature Fists in the Pocket (NYFF3), Marco Bellocchio has remained an Italian of rigor and fury. In his 80th year, he has returned with one of his most compelling films, the decades-spanning true-life narrative as Tommaso Buscetta, the mafia boss turned informant who helped take down a large swath of organized crime leaders in Sicily in the eighties. This is a very different kind of mafia drama, one that has the structure of a procedural but coasts on the waves of psychological portraiture. A Sony Pictures Classics

Image by Laura by Image Siervi release. An NYFF57 selection.

#FILMLINC FESTIVAL 49th New Directors/New Films MARCH 25–APRIL 5 The rich legacy of New Directors/New Films has encompassed such filmmakers as (our 2020 Chaplin Award Gala honoree), Chantal Akerman, Steven Spielberg, Marielle Heller, Pedro Almodóvar, Wong Kar-wai, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Kelly Reichardt, to name just a few. For this 49th edition, get acquainted with an extraordinary lineup of fresh talent, featuring 27 features and 10 shorts from 35 countries. Co-presented by and . Organized by Florence Almozini, Sophie Cavoulacos, La Frances Hui, Dennis Lim, Rajendra Roy, and Dan Sullivan. Check newdirectors.org for the complete schedule with full-length descriptions. See 3+ films and save, plus special ticket discounts for students!

Collective Alexander Nanau, Romania, 2019, 109m In October 2015, a devastating fire broke out at the Bucharest nightclub Colectiv, killing 27 people that night; in the following weeks, nearly 40 more people who had suffered burns and other injuries died in hospital. A seeming exposé into a tragic accident turns into something deeper and more shocking in this revelatory documentary. A Magnolia Pictures release.

Anne at 13,000 Ft. Courtesy of Cinema Guild Los conductos Camilo Restrepo, France/Colombia/Brazil, OPENING NIGHT and recklessness. This cleansing emotional 2020, 70m A former criminal and cult member Boys State experience coaxes our compassion for a difficult living under cloak of night in the crevices and Jesse Moss & Amanda McBaine, USA, 2020, character. A Cinema Guild release. corners of the Colombian city of Medellín 109m The sensational winner of the Grand makes his way back into civilization, yet is Jury Prize for documentary at this year’s Atlantis gripped by a shadowy past, in this first feature Sundance Film Festival is a wildly entertaining Valentyn Vasyanovych, Ukraine, 2019, 106m from Camilo Restrepo, a work of off-handed, immersion into a week-long annual program Set five years into the future, this all-too-real fragmented beauty. in which a thousand Texas high school seniors dystopia, set in the wartorn Donbass in Eastern gather for an elaborate mock exercise: Ukraine, follows Sergey, a Ukrainian soldier Days of Cannibalism building their own state government. An Apple suffering from PTSD as he tries to restart his life Teboho Edkins, France/South Africa/ release. amongst these scourged, uninhabitable lands. Netherlands, 2020, 78m South Africa-raised filmmaker Teboho Edkins’s remarkable CLOSING NIGHT Babyteeth documentary starts in the Chinese port city of The Mole Agent Shannon Murphy, Australia, 2019, 117m In a Guangzhou and moves to Lesotho, a mountain- Maite Alberdi, Chile, 2020, 90m Sergio is a poignant and tersely funny domestic drama, ous, landlocked region in the middle of South dapper widower in his early eighties hired Shannon Murphy achieves an impressive Africa. This expansive work redefines the rules by a private detective to go undercover in a tonal balancing act, capturing the wild ups of the “western” genre. nursing home. His investigative journey yields and intense downs in the life of a teenage girl unexpected emotional results in this clever, (Little Women’s Eliza Scanlen) who knows she The Dove and the Wolf entirely unexpected delight, which weds a spy doesn’t have long to live. An IFC Films release. Carlos Lenin, Mexico, 2019, 106m Factory movie to a documentary framework. workers Paloma and Lobo share a loving The Cloud in Her Room relationship, though as their story unfolds it Anne at 13,000 Ft. Zheng Lu Xinyuan, China, 2020, 101m This grows ever clearer that something from long ago Kazik Radwanski, Canada, 2019, 75m Nimble mesmerizing debut feature—winner of the is obstructing their happiness; the terrors of the Canadian filmmaker Kazik Radwanski dives Rotterdam Film Festival’s top prize—is an past haunt their present in this astonishing debut. headlong into the daily struggles of Anne autobiographically tinged portrait of a 22-year- (a sensational Deragh Campbell), a young old woman drifting through her days and nights Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains daycare worker in Toronto whose seemingly after returning to her hometown, and unable to Gu Xiaogang, China, 2019, 150m Taking its steady life gives way to increasing anxiety let go of her past. title from a renowned 14th-century Chinese

TICKETS: FILMLINC.ORG scroll painting, this debut feature from Gu Portuguese filmmaker Catarina Vasconcelos Xiaogang is a panoramic evocation of one year sifting through the memories and dreams of in the life of a provincial family, shot over the her ancestors. course of two years—the first in a declared trilogy of films about life along the Yangtze Nafi’s Father River. Mamadou Dia, Senegal, 2019, 109m A personal conflict between brothers escalates into a The Fever political, religious, and moral crisis in the Maya Da-Rin, Brazil, 2019, 98m In her first fea- gripping debut from Senegalese filmmaker ture, Brazilian director Maya Da-Rin centers on Mamadou Dia, winner of Best First Feature at the lives of a father and daughter of indigenous the Locarno Film Festival. Desana descent who have moved from their Nafi’s Father community to the northwestern city of Manaus. Nasir The film is at once realist and mythic, modern Arun Karthick, India, 2020, 80m A day-in- The Trouble with Being Born and spiritual. the-life portrait expands into something Sandra Wollner, Austria/Germany, 2020, 94m else entirely in this patient yet ultimately This eerily placid work of science fiction—which Giraffe startling sophomore breakthrough from Tamil begins as a summer idyll in an isolated forest Anna Sofie Hartmann, Germany/Denmark, filmmaker Arun Karthick, which takes place house between a middle-aged man and 2019, 87m A finely observed burgeoning in Coimbatore, a town in Tamil Nadu, where a what appears to be his adolescent daughter— romance between an ethnologist in her late small Muslim community lives alongside the becomes a disturbing vision of the effects of thirties and a laborer in his twenties is set Hindu population. technology on human life and memory. against a rapidly changing landscape in this spare and humane portrait of the dissolving Red Moon Tide Twelve Thousand boundaries of our ever more globalized world. Lois Patiño, Spain, 2020, 84m Singularly Nadège Trebal, France, 2019, 111m In her fic- brilliant at creating transfixing ghostly images tion debut, which she also wrote and co-stars Identifying Features of enormous power, Lois Patiño has made his in, Nadège Trebal masters tonal shifts for an Fernanda Valadez, Mexico/Spain, 2020, 94m most haunting film yet, a journey into a phan- entertaining, sexually unapologetic portrait of Middle-aged Magdalena has lost contact with tom world, set on Spain’s Galician coast, where a couple contending with economic instability her son after he took off for the U.S. border to a diver who retrieved bodies from shipwrecks and fighting to maintain relationship equality. find work. Desperate, she embarks on a dan- has gone missing. gerous journey to discover the truth. Fernanda Two of Us Valadez has crafted a lyrical, suspenseful slow Servants Filippo Meneghetti, France/Luxembourg/ burn, equally constructed of moments of beauty Ivan Ostrochovsky, Slovakia/Romania/Czech Belgium, 2019, 95m In this intensely moving and horror. A Kino Lorber release. Republic/Ireland, 2020, 80m Set in totalitarian middle-aged queer romance, Martine Czechoslovakia in 1980, Servants takes place Chevallier and the legendary Barbara Sukowa Kala azar at a Catholic seminary put under pressure are Madeleine and Nina, two women who live Janis Rafa, Netherlands/Greece, 2020, 91m by the ruling Communist party to fall in line. in the same apartment building and have been Set in a desolate landscape in which people Slovak filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovsky turns a carrying on a love affair in secret for decades. A and their pets live together in a kind of liminal fraught moment in his nation’s history into a Magnolia Pictures release. state, Greek director Janis Rafa’s first film spare, tense morality tale that moves like a surveys the grim but matter-of-fact day-to- thriller. Window Boy Would Also Like to day lives of a young, unfettered couple who Have a Submarine work for a crematorium service. The Shepherdess Alex Piperno, Uruguay/Argentina/Brazil/ and the Seven Songs Netherlands/Philippines, 2019, 85m Enter a The Killing of Two Lovers Pushpendra Singh, India, 2020, 98m world of the unexpected in this exceptional Robert Machoian, USA, 2020, 84m An evocative Pushpendra Singh’s visually entrancing fable surrealist debut from Uruguayan poet and and atmospheric transmission from wintry with a core of steel centers on the unforget- filmmaker Alex Piperno, a delightful fantasia Utah, this impressive new work of American table Laila, a ferociously independent young in which doors never lead to where they’re independent cinema is a compact, economical Bakarwal woman who wants to be free to make supposed to and the world is a lot smaller than portrait of a husband and father trying to keep her own decisions in a modernizing world. it appears. it together while seething with rage during a trial separation from his wife. Surge Shorts Programs 1 & 2 Aneil Karia, UK, 2020, 99m Ben Whishaw Programmed by Brittany Shaw and Tyler Wilson The Metamorphosis of Birds commands the center of every frame in the Check newdirectors.org for details Catarina Vasconcelos, Portugal, 2020, 101m propulsive debut of British filmmaker Aneil An unorthodox documentary that has the feel Karia, a drama about a young man’s mental New Directors/New Films is presented by Film at Lincoln Cen- ter and The Museum of Modern Art and is supported by Film at of a precious heirloom, this impressionistic breakdown that takes off as if from a slingshot Lincoln Center’s New Wave Membership Program, American Airlines, The New York Times, Hudson Hotel, and the Annual yet emotionally rich generational saga finds and never lets up. Film Fund of The Museum of Modern Art. Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center 144 West 65th Street, New York, NY March 2020 Walter Reade Theater 165 West 65th Street, New York, NY

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 New Releases 1:00 Met HD Encore: New Releases New Releases Rendez-Vous with Opens today! 1:00 Alice and screening every day! Agrippina screening every day! screening every day! French Cinema Bacurau the Mayor Opening Day Showtimes at Showtimes at Showtimes at Showtimes at 3:45 The Best Years filmlinc.org filmlinc.org filmlinc.org 5:00 A Conversation filmlinc.org of a Life with Juliette 5:00 Free Talk: Binoche and 1:45 Papicha Exploring Space Ethan Hawke 4:00 Isadora’s Children on Film 6:30 The Truth 6:00 Who You Think 6:15 Proxima 9:15 The Truth I Am 9:00 An Easy Girl 8:45 On a Magical Night

8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1:00 School Life 2:00 Who You Think 1:45 Burning Ghost 1:45 Perfect Nanny 2:00 Cuties 1:30 Joan of Arc 2:00 Isadora’s 3:00 Free Talk: Serge I Am 4:00 School Life 4:00 South Terminal 4:00 An Easy Girl 4:15 The Dazzled Children Toubiana on 4:15 On a Magical 6:30 Cuties 6:15 Joan of Arc 6:15 Papicha 6:30 Burning Ghost 3:30 Wake in Fright Helen Scott Night 9:15 Proxima 9:30 Alice and 9:15 Happy Birthday 9:15 Spellbound 4:00 The Specials 4:00 Spellbound 5:00 Free Talk: From the Mayor 9:30 Twenty Years 6:30 Someone, 6:30 The Dazzled Book to Film Later Somewhere 9:15 Deerskin 6:15 Perfect Nanny 9:00 Deerskin 9:00 Someone, Somewhere

15 16 17 18 19 20 21 1:30 Spread Your Wings 1:00 Met HD Encore: 9:00 The Hour and 9:00 Blood for Dracula 6:30 Starman Opens today! 3:30 Southern Comfort 3:30 Bye Bye Brazil Der Fliegende Turn of Augusto 9:00 Long Weekend The Truth Hollander Matraga 4:00 South Terminal Showtimes at 6:15 Happy Birthday 5:00 Met HD Encore: filmlinc.org Der Fliegende 8:45 The Specials Hollander 9:00 Duck, You Sucker! 9:00 Lone Star

22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3:30 The Guns 9:00 Compañeros 9:00 The Wicker Man: New Directors/New New Directors/ New Directors/ New Directors/ The Final Cut Films Opening Day New Films New Films New Films Showtimes at Showtimes at Showtimes at filmlinc.org filmlinc.org filmlinc.org

29 30 31 Rendez-Vous with French Cinema (March TH 5-15) 46 CHAPLIN New Directors/ New Directors/ New Directors/ New Films New Films New Films Mapping Bacurau (March 13-24) AWARD GALA Showtimes at Showtimes at Showtimes at New Directors/New Films (March 25–April 5) filmlinc.org filmlinc.org filmlinc.org New Releases: The Traitor held over from Honoring February, The Whistlers opens February 28, Bacurau opens March 6, The Truth opens March 20 SPIKE LEE In-Person Appearance April 27

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This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. Cover image: Bacurau. Photo by Victor Jucá, Courtesy of Kino Lorber