2015 New York Film Festival

The 53rd New York Film Festival was held September 25 – October 11, 2015.

The lineup consisted of seven sections:

• Main Slate (26 films and four shorts programs)
• Spotlight on Documentary (11 films and one shorts program)
• Projections (14 programs)
• Special Events (10 films)
• Revivals (11 films)
• Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler Retrospective (12 programs)
• Convergence (transmedia presentations and talks)

The Festival also included various talks and free screenings. The primary selection committee included Kent Jones (chair), Dennis Lim, Marian Masone, Gavin Smith, and Amy Taubin. The Shorts Programs were selected by Sarah Mankoff, Laura Kern, Matt Bolish, Florence Almozini, and Dan Sullivan. Projections was programmed by Dennis Lim, Aily Nash, and Gavin Smith. The Dorsky/Hiler retrospective was programmed by Gavin Smith, and Convergence was curated by Matt Bolish.^[1][2]

Sections

Main Slate

Feature-length

Title	Original Title	Director	Country
The Walk (Opening Night)	The Walk	Robert Zemeckis	United States
Steve Jobs (Centerpiece)	Steve Jobs	Danny Boyle	USA
Miles Ahead (Closing Night)	Miles Ahead	Don Cheadle	USA
Arabian Nights	As 1001 Noites	Miguel Gomes	Portugal France Germany Switzerland
The Assassin	聶隱娘 Nie Yin Niang	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Taiwan China Hong Kong
Bridge of Spies	Bridge of Spies	Steven Spielberg	USA
Brooklyn	Brooklyn	John Crowley	UK Ireland Canada
Carol	Carol	Todd Haynes	USA
Cemetery of Splendour	รักที่ขอนแก่น Rak Ti Khon Kaen	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Thailand France Germany Malaysia
Les Cowboys	Les Cowboys	Thomas Bidegain	France
Don't Blink – Robert Frank	Don't Blink – Robert Frank	Laura Israel	USA Canada
Experimenter	Experimenter	Michael Almereyda	USA
The Forbidden Room	The Forbidden Room	Guy Maddin Evan Johnson	Canada
In the Shadow of Women	L'Ombre des femmes	Philippe Garrel	France
Journey to the Shore	岸辺の旅 Kishibe no tabi	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Japan France
The Lobster	The Lobster	Yorgos Lanthimos	France Netherlands Greece UK
Maggie's Plan	Maggie's Plan	Rebecca Miller	USA
The Measure of a Man	La Loi du marché	Stéphane Brizé	France
Mia Madre	Mia Madre	Nanni Moretti	Italy France
Microbe & Gasoline	Microbe et Gasoil	Michel Gondry	France
Mountains May Depart	山河故人 Shan He Gu Ren	Jia Zhangke	China France Japan
My Golden Days	Trois souvenirs de ma jeunesse	Arnaud Desplechin	France
No Home Movie	No Home Movie	Chantal Akerman	Belgium France
Right Now, Wrong Then	지금은맞고그때는틀리다 Jigeumeun-matgo-geuttaeneun-tteullida	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea
The Treasure	Comoara	Corneliu Porumboiu	Romania
Where to Invade Next	Where to Invade Next	Michael Moore	USA

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Shorts

Program	Title	Director	Country
Program 1: International	La novia de Frankenstein	Agostina Gálvez, Francisco Lezama	Argentina
Program 1: International	Monaco	David Easteal	Australia
Program 1: International	Carry On	Rafael Haider	Austria
Program 1: International	Marea de Tierra	Manuela Martelli, Amirah Tajdin	Chile, France
Program 1: International	The Mad Half Hour	Leonardo Brzezicki	Argentina, Denmark
Program 2: Genre Stories	Territory (Territoire)	Vincent Paronnaud	France
Program 2: Genre Stories	We Wanted More	Stephen Dunn	Canada
Program 2: Genre Stories	Sânge	Percival Argüero Mendoza	Mexico
Program 2: Genre Stories	How to Be a Villain	Helen O’Hanlon	UK
Program 2: Genre Stories	Ramona	Andrei Cretulescu	Romania
Program 3: Animation	The Lingerie Show	Laura Harrison	USA
Program 3: Animation	Whole	William Reynish	Denmark
Program 3: Animation	Sanjay’s Super Team	Sanjay Patel	USA
Program 3: Animation	Rolling	Matt Christensen	USA
Program 3: Animation	Hot Bod	Claire van Ryzin	USA
Program 3: Animation	Food	Siqi Song	USA
Program 3: Animation	Denis the Pirate	Sam Messer	USA
Program 3: Animation	Palm Rot	Ryan Gillis	USA
Program 4: New York	Hernia	Jason Giampietro	USA
Program 4: New York	Riot	Nathan Silver	USA
Program 4: New York	Sundae	Sonya Goddy	USA
Program 4: New York	Dragstrip	Pacho Velez, Daniel Claridge	USA
Program 4: New York	Special Features	James N. Kienitz Wilkins	USA
Program 4: New York	Six Cents in the Pocket	Ricky D’Ambrose	USA
Program 4: New York	Bad at Dancing	Joanna Arnow	USA
Program 4: New York	My Last Film	Zia Anger	USA
Program 4: New York	Review	Dustin Guy Defa	USA

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Spotlight on Documentary

Feature-length

Title	Original Title	Director	Country
Everything is Copy	Everything is Copy	Jacob Bernstein	USA
Fish Tail	Rabo De Peixe	Joaquim Pinto Nuno Leonel	Portugal
Homeland (Iraq Year Zero)	Homeland (Iraq Year Zero)	Abbas Fahdel	Iraq France
Immigration Battle: Reasons to Believe	Immigration Battle/Reasons to Believe	Michael Camerini Shari Robertson	USA
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words	Jag är Ingrid	Stig Björkman	Sweden
In Jackson Heights	In Jackson Heights	Frederick Wiseman	USA
Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang	Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang	Walter Salles	Brazil France
Rebel Citizen	Rebel Citizen	Pamela Yates	USA
Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art	Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art	James Crump	USA
We Are Alive	On est vivants	Carmen Castillo	France Belgium
The Witness	The Witness	James Solomon	USA

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Field of Vision: New Episodic Nonfiction

Title	Director	Country
Asylum (selected episodes)	Laura Poitras	USA, Germany
Peace in the Valley	Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher	USA, Germany
Notes from the Border	Iva Radivojevic	USA, Germany
The Above	Kirsten Johnson	USA, Germany
God Is an Artist	Dustin Guy Defa	USA, Germany
Birdie	Heloisa Passos	USA, Germany

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Projections

Program	Title	Director	Country
Program 1	Neither God nor Santa María	Samuel M. Delgado, Helena Girón	Spain
Program 1	Something Horizontal	Blake Williams	USA, Canada
Program 1	Analysis of Emotions and Vexations	Wojciech Bakowski	Poland
Program 1	Traces/Legacy	Scott Stark	USA
Program 1	Entangled (Entrelazado)	Riccardo Giacconi	Colombia, Italy
Program 2	Prima Materia	Charlotte Pryce	USA
Program 2	Intersection	Vincent Grenier	USA
Program 2	Port Noir	Laura Kraning	USA
Program 2	Centre of the Cyclone	Heather Trawick	USA, Canada
Program 2	The Devastated Land (Le Pays Dévasté)	Emmanuel Lefrant	France
Program 2	Cathode Garden	Janie Geiser	USA
Program 2	Something Between Us	Jodie Mack	USA
Program 2	brouillard – passage 15	Alexandre Larose	Canada
Program 3	A Distant Episode	Ben Rivers	UK, Morocco
Program 3	In Girum Imus Nocte	Giorgio Andreotta Calò	Italy
Program 3	Half Human, Half Vapor	Mike Stoltz	USA
Program 3	Occidente	Ana Vaz	France, Portugal
Program 3	YOLO	Ben Russell	USA, South Africa
Program 3	Ah humanity!	Ernst Karel, Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor	Japan, France, USA
Program 4	Hard as Opal	Jared Buckhiester, Dani Leventhal	USA
Program 4	Confessions [1971]	Curt McDowell	USA
Program 4	Non-Stop Beautiful Ladies	Alee Peoples	USA
Program 4	Mars Garden	Lewis Klahr	USA
Program 4	The Exquisite Corpus	Peter Tscherkassky	Austria
Program 5	Soft Fiction [1979]	Chick Strand	USA
Program 5	Lost Note [1969/2015]	Saul Levine	USA
Program 6	Minotaur	Nicolás Pereda	Mexico, Canada
Program 6	Live to Live (Vivir para Vivir)	Laida Lertxundi	USA, Spain
Program 7	Hello	Simon Fujiwara	Germany
Program 7	F for Fibonacci	Beatrice Gibson	UK
Program 7	Black Code (Code Noir)	Louis Henderson	France
Program 7	Lessons of War	Peggy Ahwesh	USA
Program 7	Scales in the Spectrum of Space	Fern Silva	USA
Program 7	Many Thousands Gone	Ephraim Asili	USA, Brazil
Program 8	88:88	Isiah Medina	Canada
Program 9	Radio at Night	James Richards	Germany, UK
Program 9	All That Is Solid	Louis Henderson	France, UK, Ghana
Program 9	Mad Ladders	Michael Robinson	USA
Program 9	Erysichthon	Jon Rafman	Canada
Program 9	Slow Zoom Long Pause	Sara Magenheimer	USA
Program 9	Hyperlinks or It Didn’t Happen	Cécile B. Evans	UK
Program 10	Santa Teresa & Other Stories	Nelson Carlo de Los Santos Arias	Dominican Republic, Mexico, USA
Program 10	Bunte Kuh	Ryan Ferko, Faraz Anoushahpour, Parastoo Anoushahpour	Canada
Program 10	The Everyday Ritual of Solitude Hatching Monkeys	Basim Magdy	Egypt
Program 11	The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers	Ben Rivers	UK, Morocco
Program A	Chums from Across the Void	Jim Finn	USA
Program A	The Two Sights	Katherin McInnis	USA
Program A	A Disaster Forever	Michael Gitlin	USA
Program B	Terrestrial	Calum Michel Walter	USA
Program B	Noite Sem Distância	Lois Patiño	Portugal, Spain
Program C	Rabbit Season, Duck Season	Michael Bell-Smith	USA
Program C	All My Love All My Love	Hannah Black	UK
Program C	Velvet Peel 1	Victoria Fu	USA
Program C	OM Rider	Takeshi Murata	USA

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Special Events

Title	Original Title	Director	Country
Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton	Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton	Guy Maddin Evan Johnson Galen Johnson	Canada
Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman	Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman	Chantal Akerman	France
Chevalier	Chevalier	Athina Rachel Tsangari	Greece
De Palma	De Palma	Noah Baumbach Jake Paltrow	USA
Heart of a Dog	Heart of a Dog	Laurie Anderson	USA France
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles	Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles	Chantal Akerman	Belgium France
Junun	Junun	Paul Thomas Anderson	USA
The Martian	The Martian	Ridley Scott	USA
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (15th Anniversary Screening)	O Brother, Where Art Thou?	Joel Coen Ethan Coen	USA
Son of Saul (Film Comment Presents)	Saul fia	László Nemes	Hungary

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Revivals

Title	Original Title	Director	Country
Blow Out	Blow Out	Brian De Palma	USA
Ran	乱	Akira Kurosawa	Japan
A Touch of Zen	俠女 Xiá nǚ	King Hu	Taiwan
Visit, or Memories and Confessions	Visita ou Memórias e Confissões	Manoel de Oliveira	Portugal
Black Girl	La Noire de…	Ousmane Sembène	France Senegal
The Boys from Fengkuei	風櫃來的人 Fēngguì lái de rén	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Taiwan
Heaven Can Wait	Heaven Can Wait	Ernst Lubitsch	USA
Insiang	Insiang	Lino Brocka	Philippines
The Long Voyage Home	The Long Voyage Home	John Ford	USA
The Memory of Justice	The Memory of Justice	Marcel Ophüls	UK USA France Germany
Rocco and His Brothers	Rocco e i suoi fratelli	Luchino Visconti	Italy France

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Retrospective

Nathaniel Dorsky

Program	Title	Director	Year
Early Sounds/Middle Silence	Ingreen	Nathaniel Dorsky	1964
Early Sounds/Middle Silence	A Fall Trip Home	Nathaniel Dorsky	1964
Early Sounds/Middle Silence	Summerwind	Nathaniel Dorsky	1965
Early Sounds/Middle Silence	Kodachrome Dailies from the Time of Song and Solitude (Reel 1)	Nathaniel Dorsky	2005-2006
Hours and More for Jerome	Two Personal Gifts aka Fool’s Spring	Jerome Hiler, Nathaniel Dorsky	1966-1967
Hours and More for Jerome	Hours for Jerome Part 1	Nathaniel Dorsky	1966-1982
Hours and More for Jerome	Hours for Jerome Part 2	Nathaniel Dorsky	1966-1982
Excavations	Pneuma	Nathaniel Dorsky	1977-1983
Excavations	17 Reasons Why	Nathaniel Dorsky	1985-1987
Excavations	Alaya	Nathaniel Dorsky	1976-1987
Three Cinematic Songs	Triste	Nathaniel Dorsky	1974-1996
Three Cinematic Songs	Variations	Nathaniel Dorsky	1992-1998
Three Cinematic Songs	Arbor Vitae	Nathaniel Dorsky	1999-2000
Three Devotional Songs	Song and Solitude	Nathaniel Dorsky	2005-2006
Three Devotional Songs	Threnody	Nathaniel Dorsky	2004
Three Devotional Songs	The Visitation	Nathaniel Dorsky	2002
The Quartet	Sarabande	Nathaniel Dorsky	2008
The Quartet	Compline	Nathaniel Dorsky	2009
The Quartet	Aubade	Nathaniel Dorsky	2010
The Quartet	Winter	Nathaniel Dorsky	2007
New Beginnings	The Return	Nathaniel Dorsky	2011
New Beginnings	Pastourelle	Nathaniel Dorsky	2010
New Beginnings	August and After	Nathaniel Dorsky	2012
Worlds Emerging	April	Nathaniel Dorsky	2012
Worlds Emerging	Song	Nathaniel Dorsky	2013
Worlds Emerging	Spring	Nathaniel Dorsky	2013
The Late Quartet	Summer	Nathaniel Dorsky	2013
The Late Quartet	February	Nathaniel Dorsky	2014
The Late Quartet	Avraham	Nathaniel Dorsky	2014
The Late Quartet	December	Nathaniel Dorsky	2014
Contemplations	Love’s Refrain	Nathaniel Dorsky	2000-2001
Contemplations	Intimations	Nathaniel Dorsky	2015
Contemplations	Prelude	Nathaniel Dorsky	2015

Jerome Hiler

Program	Title	Director	Year
Passing Glances	In the Stone House	Jerome Hiler	1967-1970/2012
Passing Glances	New Shores	Jerome Hiler	1970-1990/2012
Inhabited Places	Words of Mercury	Jerome Hiler	2011
Inhabited Places	Gladly Given	Jerome Hiler	1997
Inhabited Places	Marginalia	Jerome Hiler	2015

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