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Polydroso

Using a unique directorial approach, Alexandros Voulgaris tells the story of a woman who returns to Polydroso, the village where she was born and raised, to care for her ailing mother.

A man in a suit and woman in a dress smile and dance comically in a fancy room
All of Me

All of Me

Released when Steve Martin was at the height of his 1980s stardom, All of Me gave the actor an astonishing showcase for his talents for physical comedy, perfectly paired with Lily Tomlin. Screens 3/9 and 3/10 on 35mm.

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The Heartbreak Kid

The Heartbreak Kid

Snubbed: Charles Grodin  Dir. Elaine May. 1972, U.S. 106 mins. 35mm print courtesy of the BFI National Archive. With Charles Grodin, Cybill Shepard, Jeannie Berlin, Eddie Albert, Audra Lindley. May’s gutsy anti-romantic comedy stars a ...

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Working on It (Day One)

The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process. This year’s edition will take place during the afternoons of March 13–15, and is open to ...

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Sujo

Opening Night

For First Look 2024 opening night on 3/13, see the Sundance-awarded drama in which a young man, orphaned by the Mexican drug cartels, grows up in the shadow of violence. Directed by Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez, two of the finest filmmakers of their generation.

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Working on It (Day Two)

The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process.

A man naked from the waist up bathes himself outside in front of a city apartment complex at night

Hazel (dual) + Gwetto

In the economic capital of Madagascar, four undocumented workers from across the country at a neighborhood car wash endure their lot until they can earn enough to secure their identity papers and seek a better future. Paired with Everson’s mesmerizing black-and-white diptych.

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Magic Mountain

In the spectacular mountains of southwest Georgia sits the Abastumani sanatorium, a treatment hospital for patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis, which becomes a site of fantasies and nightmares, a home of the living and the dead, in this reflection of a place and moment.

A young woman in a purple hooded coat leads a horse across a grassy terrain

The Echo (El Eco)

Showcase Screening

Young women in the remote Mexican town of El Echo exude vivacious optimism while shouldering disproportionately gendered responsibilities of family, farm life, and town. See it 3/14 with director Tatiana Huezo in person for First Look 2024.

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Working on It (Day Three)

The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process. This year’s edition will take place during the afternoons of March 13–15, and is open to ...

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Fiona Tan: Footsteps—Artist Reception

Join us for a reception on March 15 with artist Fiona Tan to celebrate the opening of Footsteps, now on view in the Amphitheater Gallery. The reception will include a conversation between Tan and curator Sonia Epstein.

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Solaris Mon Amour

The same year that Alain Resnais’s masterpiece Hiroshima mon amour was released, science fiction writer and theorist Stanisław Lem began writing his influential novel Solaris, an artistic confluence that inspires this wholly original and emotionally resonant found footage film.

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Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020

Over the past thirteen years, Zhang has documented her father’s village in Hubei, China, as a repository of ancestral memory; for the tenth of these films, Zhang installed herself permanently in the village upon the outbreak of COVID-19. The result is an immense accomplishment, vividly depicting a year in the life of a stoic rural community, far removed from an urban-centered pandemic.

A young woman bearing her midriff stands on a garbage can and grasping a New York city street sign, with one arm out
Tendaberry

Tendaberry

Showcase Screening

This rapturous, dazzlingly unconventional debut feature dives deep into the life, mind, and spirit of a twentysomething Dominican American woman finding her footing in South Brooklyn. Screens 3/15 as part of First Look 2024.

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Sloan Screenplay Readings

Select scenes from the two screenplays awarded the 2023 Sloan Student Prizes will be read by professional actors as part of this special program, produced and directed by Mêlisa Annis, and followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers. 

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Flying Lessons

The magnetic pull between artist and filmmaker yields something beguiling and precious, celebrating the fiery Philly even as she and the world she fought to protect are being actively extinguished.

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What Did You Dream Last Night, Parajanov?

This poignant, warts-and-all portrait of a family separated by space but still profoundly connected in each other’s hearts, minds, and dreams is composed almost entirely of webcam footage between the Berlin-based, Iranian émigré filmmaker, his parents, and his friend.

Four images in a quad setup: two women against yellow grass (top left), a tree with fallen boughs touching the ground (top right), a young black man with long hair standing against a white house (bottom right), a glass pouring water into another (bottom left)

Illuminations Program: Elsewhere/Here 

Playful, elusive, and tactile, these eclectic works are unified by their filmmakers’ attempts to orient themselves in a world of constant, turbulent flux.

Seen from behind, a man and woman sit on a hillside looking over a parched, dusty middle-eastern landscape

Achilles

In Farhad Delaram’s seductive, shape-shifting debut feature, former filmmaker Farid works nights at a Tehran hospital—and sleeps there most days too. Estranged from his partner and hopeless about the future, he starts to awaken after meeting a patient in the psychiatric ward whose supposed fits of madness he innately understands.

A truck full of soldiers drives away, while men dressed in fatigues wave from the back of the truck as four other men say goodbye to them by splashing bottled water at them.

1489

Documenting her family’s attempts at locating her brother after he goes missing in a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Shoghakat Vardanyan films things we don’t often see: the struggles, emotions, and Kafkaesque runarounds when missing soldiers and their families are reduced to a statistic. Screens 3/16 as part of First Look 2024.

A black and white archival photo of military generals in uniform, one wearing white, the others darker uniforms, all wearing hats; the image is spotted with water damage and wear and tear.

Behind Closed Doors

In 1968, Brazil’s military dictatorship enacted Institutional Act No. 5, which suspended the constitution, silenced citizens, and opted overtly into totalitarianism. This astonishing and ingenious film features archival audio document of the meeting that decided this act, combined with blithe moving image propaganda perpetuated by the government.

A boxer leans on the ropes in a boxing ring and talks to three men standing on the floor below looking up at him.
The Featherweight

The Featherweight

Showcase Screening

Imagine a lost feature by the Maysles Brothers or Ricky Leacock, filmed right when they might have consorted with a colorful and tragic character like Pep, and you’ve got The Featherweight. See it 3/16 with director Robert Kolodny in person for First Look 2024.

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Knit’s Island

The filmmakers drop into the fictional landscape of the videogame DayZ as journalistic avatars and must battle a zombie apocalypse while endeavoring to stay alive long enough to film their interactions with the surprising community of people who spend their time in this VR world.

A man and woman stand in a cityscape, he behind her as she looks offscreen, both facing camera

Mimang

In Kim Taeyang’s richly cryptic debut feature, a young man and woman, unnamed former acquaintances, meet by chance in the historic Jongno district at the heart of Seoul, then walk and talk, visiting and revisiting Jongno’s landmarks and byways over the years, much of the city and them changing beyond recognition.

A group of people sit in a cafe in an Asian country looking up at a TV offscreen with serious expressions

The Clinic

In Yangon, Myanmar, a couple, Aung Min and San San Oo, operate a neighborhood clinic, providing low-cost treatments and therapies for a range of physical and psychological maladies. They also make art—paintings and films—as revealed in this shapeshifting film that starts as direct cinema then blossoms into a self-reflexive examination of the Burmese soul.

A woman sticks her head out the passenger side of a parked car, kissing a man standing next to the car in a passionate embrace

Arthur&Diana

In this form-blending, refreshing work of autofiction, siblings Arthur and Diana are on a meandering road trip through France, Germany, and Italy that brings out deep-seated family dynamics that will feel familiar to older sisters and younger brothers.

Two men sit in a porch against a bucolic, meditative atmosphere; one reads an open book to the other

Samsara

Lois Patiño’s latest inquiry into the spiritual valences of cinema travels first to the temples of Laos and then to the shores of Tanzania by way of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Screening 3/17 as part of First Look 2024.

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Limitation

Georgian filmmakers Elene Asatiani and Soso Dumbadze construct an archival horror film about 1991’s bloody military coup d'état against the government of Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgia’s first democratically elected president, forgoing contextual titles, narration, or interviews.

A young shirtless man sits at a window smoking a cigarette, with a haze on the image

An Evening Song (for three voices)

Graham Swon’s sophomore feature, displaying a remarkable devotion to craft, combining elements of Gothic horror, pulp mystery, and period romance, screens 3/17 as part of First Look 2024.

A group of teenagers walk down a vast American heartland landscape dotted with windmills

Gasoline Rainbow

Closing Night

In the First Look 2024 closing night film, five recent high-school graduates escape small-town Oregon for one last adventure together, trekking 500 miles westward for their first visit to the Pacific coast. The latest film from Bill and Turner Ross is a joyous exploration (and detonation) of the borderlands of reality, mythology, narrative, improvisation, the discernable, and the ineffable.

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The House of Mirth

The House of Mirth

Terence Davies’s magnificent adaptation of Edith Wharton’s 1905 novel is a sumptuous triumph all around, yet its beating, battered heart belongs to Gillian Anderson, who miraculously evokes tragic heroine Lily Bart. Encore screening 3/22 on 35mm.

A young woman bearing her midriff stands on a garbage can and grasping a New York city street sign, with one arm out
Tendaberry

Tendaberry

Showcase Screening

This rapturous, dazzlingly unconventional debut feature dives deep into the life, mind, and spirit of a twentysomething Dominican American woman finding her footing in South Brooklyn. Screens 3/15 as part of First Look 2024.

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The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes

Powell and Pressburger’s influential backstage drama masterpiece about a rising star ballerina consumed by perfectionism features an unforgettable extended fantasy ballet, and Oscar-winning art direction and musical score. Screens 3/23, 3/24, and 3/29.

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Support the Girls

Support the Girls

Snubbed: Regina Hall   Dir. Andrew Bujalski. 2018, U.S. 93 mins. DCP. With Regina Hall, Haley Lu Richardson, Dylan Gelula, Zoe Graham. Regina Hall is effortlessly magnetic as Lisa, the general manager of the Hooters-like sports ...

A boxer leans on the ropes in a boxing ring and talks to three men standing on the floor below looking up at him.
The Featherweight

The Featherweight

Showcase Screening

Imagine a lost feature by the Maysles Brothers or Ricky Leacock, filmed right when they might have consorted with a colorful and tragic character like Pep, and you’ve got The Featherweight. See it 3/16 with director Robert Kolodny in person for First Look 2024.

A woman with fiery red hair dances, her head turned toward the camera
The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes

Powell and Pressburger’s influential backstage drama masterpiece about a rising star ballerina consumed by perfectionism features an unforgettable extended fantasy ballet, and Oscar-winning art direction and musical score. Screens 3/23, 3/24, and 3/29.

A woman in a black bob wig raises her sunglasses and looks past the camera
Something Wild

Something Wild

Jonathan Demme was at the height of his madcap powers with this quintessential rollicking eighties comic adventure starring a breakout Melanie Griffith as the maniacally free-spirited Lulu.

Four people sit before a table in a conference room; the man and woman in the middle are wearing suit jackets and flowers in their lapels as though getting married, and the younger boy on the left and girl on the right appear to be witnessing to their signing legal marriage papers, which are laid out in front of them.

Housekeeping for Beginners

From acclaimed filmmaker Goran Stolevski (Of an Age) comes a story exploring the universal truths of family: the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves.

Two friends smile and laugh while sitting in a school room in front of a craft table, their heads on each other's shoulders

Marvels of Media Festival Opening Night

Our 3/28 opening night includes a reception; virtual reality showcase; and a selection of short films that explore the multitude of ways autistic people navigate dating and relationships.

A woman with fiery red hair dances, her head turned toward the camera
The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes

Powell and Pressburger’s influential backstage drama masterpiece about a rising star ballerina consumed by perfectionism features an unforgettable extended fantasy ballet, and Oscar-winning art direction and musical score. Screens 3/23, 3/24, and 3/29.

Two women smile and hold purple puppets up to each other

Puppetry Workshop with WonderSpark Puppets

This workshop invites autistic visitors and media-makers are invited to learn how to perform puppetry on screen. Participants will gain knowledge about theater and perform original stories and become more confident puppeteers.

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Flying Lessons + Oreo

This dramatic feature follows two estranged sisters forced together by their mother’s sudden death.

A group of people, children and adults, in bathing suits by a beautiful idyllic lake, sitting in the grass
The Zone of Interest

The Zone of Interest

Glazer has made a film about the Holocaust unlike any other, using obliqueness and the abstraction of terror to speak to the ways in which we all shield our eyes from evil. Screens 3/29–4/6.

A toy shuttle

Collage Animation Workshop

As part of Museum of the Moving Image’s Marvels of Media Festival and co-presented by Strokes of Genius, autistic visitors and media-makers are welcome to join us for the Collage Animation Workshop.

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The Wedding Banquet

The Wedding Banquet

On 3/30 and 3/31, see the breakthrough film in America for Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, the moving, New York–set story of a gay Taiwanese immigrant who marries a woman from China, both to help her procure a green card and to convince his parents that he is straight.

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Spirit Riser

Spirit Riser is a genre-bending fantasy with elements of horror, comedy, action, surrealism, and martial arts from rising New York City filmmaker Dylan Mars Greenberg, who will appear in person!

A man ina tuxedo leans over to kiss a blindfolded bride from the side
The Wedding Banquet

The Wedding Banquet

On 3/30 and 3/31, see the breakthrough film in America for Oscar-winning director Ang Lee, the moving, New York–set story of a gay Taiwanese immigrant who marries a woman from China, both to help her procure a green card and to convince his parents that he is straight.

A woman in a wintry white landscape stares at camera. wearing a red hood and multi-colored parka

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter 

A Tokyo office worker (Rinko Kikuchi) finds a battered VHS tape of a fictional film and becomes convinced the movie’s lost satchel of money is real is David Zellner's breakthrough comic mystery. Screening with filmmakers Nathan Zellner and David Zellner in person 3/31.

A man with gray hair sits in a hospital, his hands under his chin pensively, as he stares at a man with his eyes closed and mouth open in the foreground.

Sometimes a Great Notion 

Paul Newman directed this sweeping saga set in the Pacific Northwest based on the celebrated novel by Ken Kesey about a hard-bitten Oregon lumber family that bucks their close-knit community to deliver a shipment of logs during a strike. Screening 3/31.

A group of people, children and adults, in bathing suits by a beautiful idyllic lake, sitting in the grass
The Zone of Interest

The Zone of Interest

Glazer has made a film about the Holocaust unlike any other, using obliqueness and the abstraction of terror to speak to the ways in which we all shield our eyes from evil. Screens 3/29–4/6.

A hairy sasquatch sits on a log in a forest and stares pensively past camera as a badger perches on the log next to it.

Sasquatch Sunset 

In the forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind—embark on an absurdist, poignant journey over the course of one year. Screening 3/31 with directors Nathan and David Zellner in person!

MoMI x Art Blocks: Generative Moving Image ft. LoVid

MoMI is partnering with Art Blocks, an online platform for code-based generative art, to host their exclusive anchor event during NFT.NYC week, featuring an interactive analog video synthesis demonstration by LoVid.

A man crouches in pile of hay in a barn, wearing a red checkered coat and looking up in a panic

Best of Philip K. Dick Sci-Fi Film Shorts

Followed by a Q&A with directors and producers  Program includes: Homologies  Dir. Bryerly Long. 2023, 12 mins. U.S. In the near future, parents who have paid to genetically enhance their children wonder if they have ...

A group of disabled protestors in wheelchairs and one woman with crutches stands in front of a phalanx of police in riot gear and shields

ReelAbilities Film Festival: La Lucha

Presented as part of the 16th Annual ReelAbilities Film Festival: New York on April 6, this powerful documentary follows Feliza, Mareele, Rose Mery, and Miguel as they spearhead a movement to advocate for the rights of people with disabilities.

A group of people, children and adults, in bathing suits by a beautiful idyllic lake, sitting in the grass
The Zone of Interest

The Zone of Interest

Glazer has made a film about the Holocaust unlike any other, using obliqueness and the abstraction of terror to speak to the ways in which we all shield our eyes from evil. Screens 3/29–4/6.

A bartender in an apron wears a fearful grimace as he greets a disheveled patron, whom we only see from behind as he approaches the bar

Documentary and Short Film Science Fiction Block

Followed by a Q&A with directors and producers and special guest star Arnold Chun (Man in the High Castle)  Program includes: Chaska  Dir. Liz Guarraccino. 2024, 2 mins. U.S. How would you feel if you ...

A man in glasses looks down in a dark room with some exposed wiring hanging by a light on the ceiling on the left of the frame

Creep Box

Followed by a Q&A with director Patrick Biesemans and producer Noah Lang.  Dir. Patrick Biesemans, 2023, US, 95 mins. A scientist uses groundbreaking technology to communicate with the deceased. Once he is through the looking ...

A woman holding a large needle stands over another woman, both under a large pink tent

Humanity Prevails: Sci-Fi Film Shorts

Followed by a Q&A with directors and producers  Program includes: Suppressus  Dir. Grant Jones. 2022,19 mins. U.S. Two neuroscientists work to develop a device that regenerates memories blocked out by dissociative amnesia.   Reverie  Dir. Kelli ...

A man, seen from behind, in white shirt its behind a desk surrounded by shelves of messy TV monitors and exposed wiring

Quantum Suicide 

Followed by a Q&A with director Gerrit Van Woudenberg  Dir. Gerrit Van Woudenberg. 2023, 87 mins. Canada. A reclusive physicist builds a particle accelerator in his garage and embarks on a quest to understand the ...

A man with a cigarette in his mouth looks at camera and stands outside a store with the name WORLD OF DONUTS.

Henry Fool

Hal Hartley’s rowdy, hilarious literary saga about a depraved wanderer who inspires a shy sanitation worker to write a book-length poem is an unlikely ode to bohemian life. Screening 4/7.

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Alone Together

Followed by a Q&A with director William Kresch and producer Eric Reitz  Dir. William Kresch. 2023, 94 mins. U.S. After fleeing their pandemic-ravaged city for the safety of a remote family cabin, a physically and ...

A man with flip sunglasses holds an 8mm camera and a photography camera simultaneously as he stands in front of the side of a bus, with a young man in a striped shirt behind him

14th Orphan Film Symposium

This edition of the international gathering showcasing orphan films (neglected audiovisual media) will respond to the theme(s) of work and/or play, broadly considered. 

A 3D printed sculpture titled Gray Matter which takes the form of a bust of an African American woman's head with her eyes closed, with a skull protruding from the side of the head.

3D Printing Workshop

Museum of the Moving Image is teaming up with NYU-ITP to bring you a 3D printing workshop. This session is open to teens and adults alike.

Three people sit in a grim, sickly-colored room in three separate chairs facing thwe camera, with a glowing clock that maybe reads 4:00 on the wall behind them; two men are on either side of a woman, who sits in then middle with her head back in exasperation and holds a pushbroom.

New York Arab Festival 2024 Shorts Program

From magical realism to sharp critiques of the present, these short films invite us into the alluring world of contemporary Arab cinema, an industry as diverse as the 22 countries that make up the Arab world.

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Carter Burwell on Fargo 

The audacious blend of Midwestern understatement and violent mayhem in Joel and Ethan Coen's Fargo is perfectly captured by Carter Burwell’s lean but unforgettable score. On 4/14, the Oscar-nominated composer will appear in person to discuss his score and his career.

Two women wearing hajibs hug each other while standing on a rooftop, in front of a triangular window, through which we can see a vast mountainous landscape at dusk.

Q

This documentary depicts a secretive matriarchal religious order’s insidious influence on three generations of women in the Chehab family in Lebanon. A Q&A with producer and editor Fahd Ahmed will follow the screening on 4/14.