The Latest: Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear winner Dahomey opens Friday, with Q&As with Mati Diop on Saturday and Sunday • Don’t miss a landmark of Soviet cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, in a new 4K restoration • Sean Baker’s knockout Anora continues after record-setting opening • More NYFF favorites coming soon to FLC theaters, including Palestinian-Israeli doc No Other Land, Steve McQueen’s Blitz, Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light, and Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs • Are you age 17–25? Enroll by November 14 for a free FLC 25 & Under membership!

Please note that all FLC screenings start at the listed time, with previews running before the film’s start time.

Opens Friday, October 25

Q&A w. Mati Diop Saturday & Sunday!

Dahomey

“Diop fashions her superb, short but potent hybrid doc Dahomey as a slim lever that cracks open the sealed crate of colonial history, sending a hundred of its associated erasures and injustices tumbling into the light.” –Variety

The African kingdom of Dahomey, which ruled over its region at the west of the continent until the turn of the 20th century, saw hundreds of its splendid royal artifacts plundered by French colonial troops in its waning days. Now, as 26 of these treasures are set to return to their homeland—now within the Republic of Benin—filmmaker Mati Diop documents their voyage back. Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival.

Q&As with Mati Diop at the following screenings:

• Saturday, Oct. 26 at 3:30pm
• Saturday, Oct. 26 at 5:30pm
• Sunday, Oct. 27 at 7:00pm

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New 4K Restoration

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

One of the most beloved Soviet-era films, winner of multiple international awards, Sergei Parajanov’s visionary feature from 1965 summons a world of psychedelic folklore and ritual with bracing originality. Set in a remote village in the Carpathian Mountains, the story follows Ivan (Ivan Mykolaichuk) and Marichka (Larisa Kadochnikova), star-crossed lovers whose families are embroiled in a blood feud.

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New York Times Critic’s Pick

Anora

“I’ve seen it twice, and both times I left the theater on a high, exhilarated by the performances, the rhythm, the emotional shape of it.” –The New York Times

Thank you to everyone who came out to enjoy Anora’s opening weekend on 35mm with Sean Baker and the team in person—it was FLC’s biggest opening ever! Baker’s rambunctious Palme d’Or winner film continues in our theaters, starring Mikey Madison as an exotic dancer from Brighton Beach thrust into the lap of luxury when she’s whisked away on a whirlwind romance with a wealthy young customer.

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Opens November 1 | Exclusive one-week run

No Other Land

Made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors over the course of five years, No Other Land serves as a moving portrait of friendship between Adra and Abraham, who form a philosophical and political alliance despite the drastic differences in their abilities to exist freely in this world. Winner of multiple awards, including the Panorama Audience Award for Best Documentary Film at the 2024 Berlinale.

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Opens November 1

Blitz

This authentic and astonishing recreation of London during its blitzkrieg by the Germans during World War II, about a working-class single mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) separated from her 9-year-old son, George (newcomer Elliott Heffernan), pushes the artistry of Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) to ever more impressive levels.

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Opens November 15 | Q&A w. Payal Kapadia at sneak preview November 14!

All We Imagine as Light

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated with a vivid, humane richness by Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut.

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Opens November 22

A Traveler’s Needs

Isabelle Huppert is a nomadic Frenchwoman who drifts into the lives of a disconnected group of people in a Seoul suburb in her third delightful outing with Hong Sangsoo, a gentle exploration of the surprising connections between people despite—or because of—language barriers.

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Opens November 27

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Winner of a Special Prize from the jury and three other awards at the Cannes Film Festival after its director escaped a prison sentence from Iran for criticizing the government, Mohammad Rasoulof’s searing drama is an epic of anti-patriarchal political conviction about a judge’s investigator at odds with his progressive daughters.

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FOR YOUR EYES AND EARS

Amos Vogel Lecture: Jia Zhangke 

Director Jia Zhangke returned to the New York Film Festival this year to present Main Slate selection Caught by the Tides and to give the Amos Vogel Lecture.

The Amos Vogel Lecture is delivered annually by an artist or thinker who embodies the subversive spirit of NYFF co-founder Amos Vogel’s cinephilia and brings it into conversation with the present and future of cinema. This year Jia Zhangke was joined in conversation by filmmaker Walter Salles, who was at NYFF62 with his Spotlight selection I’m Still Here.

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Mati Diop on Dahomey, Repatriation, and Crafting a Cinematic Documentary

This week we’re excited to present a conversation with director Mati Diop on Dahomey, a Main Slate selection of the 62nd New York Film Festival. Diop’s striking documentary on a lost past and an unsure present opens at FLC on Friday, with Q&As opening weekend.

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FLC Fall/Winter 2024 Programming

• Hard Truths – December 6 – Exclusive one-week run; returning to FLC January 10
• Robert Siodmak: Dark Visionary – December 11–19
• The Room Next Door – Opens December 20
• And more!

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Ukrainian Cultural Festival Film Screenings

The Ukrainian Cultural Festival will host six film screenings in NYC with a key spotlight on La Palisiada, Ukraine’s 2025 narrative feature entry for the Academy Awards. Also, don’t miss the animated shorts program and Ukrainian short films curated with Linoleum and Kyiv International Shorts Film Festival. Q&As will follow after the screenings.

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