2021 New York Film Festival

The 59th New York Film Festival took place from September 24 to October 10, 2021.^[1] Unlike the 2020 New York Film Festival, which was staged online due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 festival returned to physical screenings at the Lincoln Center.

2021 New York Film Festival

Opening film	The Tragedy of Macbeth
Closing film	Parallel Mothers
Location	New York City, United States
Founded	1963
Founded by	Richard Roud and Amos Vogel
Hosted by	Film at Lincoln Center
Artistic director	Dennis Lim
Festival date	September 30 – October 16, 2022
Website	https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2021/

Joel Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth was announced as the opening film^[2] with Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers announced as the closing film.^[3] Jane Campion's The Power of the Dog was the festival's centerpiece screening.^[4][5][6]

Official Selection

Main Slate

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production Country
The Tragedy of Macbeth (opening film)		Joel Coen	United States
The Power of the Dog (centerpiece)		Jane Campion	New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia
Parallel Mothers (closing film)	Madres Paralelas	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
A Chiara		Jonas Carpignano	Italy
Ahed's Knee	הַבֶּרֶךְ	Nadav Lapid	France, Israel, Germany
Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn	Babardeală cu bucluc sau porno balamuc	Radu Jude	Romania, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Croatia
Benedetta		Paul Verhoeven	France, Netherlands
Bergman Island		Mia Hansen-Løve	France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden
Il buco		Michelangelo Frammartino	Italy, France, Germany
Drive My Car	ドライブ・マイ・カー	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	Japan
The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation		Avi Mograbi	France, Finland, Israel, Germany
Flee		Jonas Poher Rasmussen	Denmark, France, Sweden, Norway
France		Bruno Dumont	France, Germany, Belgium, Italy
Futura		Pietro Marcello, Francesco Munzi and Alice Rohrwacher	Italy
The Girl and the Spider	Das Mädchen und die Spinne	Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher	Switzerland
Hit the Road	جاده خاکی	Panah Panahi	Iran
In Front of Your Face	당신 얼굴 앞에서	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea
Întregalde		Radu Muntean	Romania
Introduction	인트로덕션	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea
Memoria		Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Colombia, Thailand, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Mexico, Qatar
Neptune Frost		Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman	United States, Rwanda
Passing		Rebecca Hall	United States, United Kingdom
Petite Maman		Céline Sciamma	France
Prayers for the Stolen	Noche de fuego	Tatiana Huezo	Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Qatar
The Souvenir Part II		Joanna Hogg	United Kingdom
Titane		Julia Ducournau	France
Unclenching the Fists	Разжимая кулаки	Kira Kovalenko	Russia
The Velvet Underground		Todd Haynes	United States
Vortex		Gaspar Noé	France
What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?	რას ვხედავთ როდესაც ცას ვუყურებთ?	Alexandre Koberidze	Georgia, Germany
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy	偶然と想像	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	Japan
The Worst Person in the World	Verdens verste menneske	Joachim Trier	Norway

Spotlight

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production Country
Belle	竜とそばかすの姫	Mamoru Hosoda	Japan
C'mon C'mon		Mike Mills	United States
Dune		Denis Villeneuve
The French Dispatch		Wes Anderson
Jane by Charlotte	Jane par Charlotte	Charlotte Gainsbourg	France
The Lost Daughter		Maggie Gyllenhaal	United States, Greece
Marx Can Wait	Marx può aspettare	Marco Bellocchio	Italy
Red Rocket		Sean Baker	United States
The Souvenir (2019)		Joanna Hogg	United Kingdom, United States

Currents

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production Country
All About My Sisters	Jia ting lu xiang	Wang Qiong	United States
The Great Movement	El Gran Movimiento	Kiro Russo	Bolivia, France, Qatar, Switzerland
Haruhara-san's Recorder	Haruharasan no uta	Kyoshi Sugita	Japan
I Want to Talk About Duras	Vous ne désirez que moi	Claire Simon	France
Just a Movement	Juste une mouvement	Vincent Meessen	Belgium, France
Nature	La Nature	Artavazd Peleshyan	France, Germany, Armenia
A Night of Knowing Nothing		Payal Kapadia	France, India
Outside Noise		Ted Fendt	Germany, South Korea, Austria
Prism		Éléonore Yameogo, An van Dienderen and Rosine Mbakam	Belgium
Returning to Reims	Retour à Reims (Fragments)	Jean-Gabriel Périot	France
A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces	Gang-eun heuleugo, gub-ichigo, jiugo, doebichunda	Shengze Zhu	United States
Social Hygiene	Hygiène sociale	Denis Côté	Canada
Ste. Anne		Rhayne Vermette
The Tale of King Crab	Re Granchio	Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis	Italy, Argentina, France
The Tsugua Diaries	Diários de Otsoga	Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes	Portugal

Short films

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
38		Daniel Chew, Micaela Durand	United States
All of Your Stars Are But Dust on My Shoes		Haig Aivazian	Lebanon
Blind Body		Allison Chhorn	Australia
The Canyon		Zachary Epcar	United States
The Capacity for Adequate Anger		Vika Kirchenbauer	Germany
Cutting the Mushroom		Mike Crane	United States
Day Is Done		Zhang Dalei	China
Do Not Circulate		Tiffany Sia	Hong Kong
Dog Star Descending		Aykan Safoğlu	Turkey, Germany
Dreams Under Confinement		Christopher Harris	United States
earthearthearth		Daïchi Saïto	Canada
Elle		Luise Donschen	Germany
Estuary		Ross Meckfessel	United States
Fictions		Manuela de Laborde	Mexico, Germany
Grandma's Scissors		Erica Sheu	Taiwan, United States
Here Is the Imagination of the Black Radical		Rhea Storr	United Kingdom
Homage to the Work of Philip Henry Gosse		Pablo Martín Weber	Argentina
Home When You Return		Carl Elsaesser	United States
A Human Certainty		Morgan Quaintance	United Kingdom
If I Could Name You Myself (I Would Hold You Forever)		Hope Strickland	United Kingdom
In and Out a Window		Richard Tuohy	United States
In Flow of Words		Eliane Esther Bots	Netherlands
Kindertotenlieder		Virgil Vernier	France
May June July		Kevin Jerome Everson	United States
Night Colonies		Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Thailand
No Subject		Guillermo Moncayo	France, Colombia
Personality Test		Justin Jinsoo Kim	South Korea, United States
Reach Capacity		Ericka Beckman	United States
Six Seventy-Two Variations, Variation 1		Tomonari Nishikawa
South		Morgan Quaintance	United Kingdom
Strange Object		Miranda Pennell	United States
Sycorax		Lois Patiño, Matías Piñeiro	Spain, Portugal
To Pick a Flower		Shireen Seno	Philippines
Tonalli		Los Ingrávidos	Mexico
What Is It That You Said?		Shun Ikezoe	Japan

Revivals

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production Country
Adoption (1976)	Örökbefogadás	Márta Mészáros	Hungary
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)		John Carpenter	United States
Bluebeard's Castle (1963)	Herzog Blaubarts Burg	Michael Powell	Germany
Chameleon Street (1989)		Wendell B. Harris, Jr.	United States
James Baldwin: From Another Place (1973)		Sedat Pekay	Turkey
Hester Street (1975)		Joan Micklin Silver	United States
Kummatty (1979)		Govindan Aravindan	India
Mississippi Masala (1991)		Mira Nair	United Kingdom, United States
Radio On (1979)		Chris Petit	United Kingdom, West Germany
Ratcatcher		Lynne Ramsay	United Kingdom, France
The Round-Up (1966)		Miklós Jancsó	Hungary
Rude Boy (1980)		Jack Hazan & David Mingay	United Kingdom
Sambizanga (1972)		Sarah Maldoror	Angola, France
Songs for Drella (1990)		Ed Lachman	United States
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)		Melvin Van Peebles
Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1987)		Christine Choy

Amos Vogel Centenary Retrospective

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production Country
The Lead Shoes (1949)		Sidney Peterson	United States
Unconscious Motivation (1949)		Lester F. Beck
The Battle of San Pietro (1949)		John Huston
Study No. 11 (1932), Allegretto (1936-43), and Motion Painting No. 1 (1947)		Oskar Fischinger	Germany
Barravento		Glauber Rocha	Brazil
Pearls of the Deep (1965)	Perličky na dně	Jiří Menzel, Jan Němec, Evald Schorm, Věra Chytilová, and Jaromil Jireš	Czechoslovakia
The Flicker (1966)		Tony Conrad	United States
Echoes of Silence (1965)		Peter Emanuel Goldman
Malcolm X: Struggle for Freedom (1964)		Lebert Bethune	France
Now (1965)		Santiago Álvarez	Cuba
Black Natchez		David Neuman and Ed Pincus	United States
The Jungle (1966)		12th and Oxford Street Film Makers
Film Club (1968)		Jaime Barrios
WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)		Dušan Makavejev	Yugoslavia, West Germany
Nebula II (1971)		Robert Frerck	United States

Free talks

Section	Speakers	Notes	Ref.
The 2023 Amos Vogel Lecture	Albert Serra	The filmmaker spoke about his career and legacy	[7]
Deep Focus	The Making of Mississippi Masala	A discussion between director Mira Nair, cinematographer Edward Lachman, and actress Sarita Choudhury.
	Jane Campion	Campion talked about The Power of the Dog and her career with moderator and director Sofia Coppola.
	Ryûsuke Hamaguchi	The auteur talked about his Drive My Car with moderator and filmmaker Matías Piñeiro.
	Saul Williams & Anisia Uzeyman	The filmmakers talked about cinema as a means of realizing new and better futures with moderator Maya Cade.
	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	The director talked about their latest film Memoria with novelist Katie Kitamura.
Cross Cuts	Mia Hansen-Løve & Joachim Trier	The filmmakers talk about their latest films, Bergman Island and The Worst Person in the World respectively.
	Silvan Zürcher & Alexandre Koberidze	The two talked about their films The Girl and the Spider and What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?.
	Maggie Gyllenhaal & Kira Kovalenko	The female filmmakers discussed feminism, heroines, transcending the status quo.