film at lincoln center

2019 events

21 Aug 2019 | Scary Movies XII

ready or not

a film by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin & Tyler Gillett (2019)

12 Jul 2019 | Dance on Camera

from knee to heart

a film by Susanna Barranco (2018)

13 Jun 2019 | Human Rights Watch Film Festival

ADVOCATE

A FILM BY Rachel Leah Jones & Philippe Bellaiche (2019)

A riveting contemplation and exposition of justice and criminality shaped by religious conflict, Advocate documents Israeli human rights lawyer, Leah Tsemel, as she navigates her latest cases. Over the last five decades, Tsemel has applied her practice to singularly seeking justice for Palestinians regularly discriminated against and unjustly convicted in Israeli court. Condemned by the media and public as a traitor, Tsemel refuses to be pressured into national and religious allegiance or be corrupted by social stigma. In a demonstration of ferocity, she is rewarded with change and due leniency for her clients. Beyond the fight for justice, Tsemel’s efforts are a call for acceptance of the differences that enable diversity, conversation, compassion, and which inherently inform how we decide what we deserve.

07 Jun 2019 | Open Roads: New Italian Cinema

remember? (ricordi?)

A film by VALERIO MIELI (2018)

Fabricating a constantly rewriting form of storytelling, Valerio Mieli entwines his pair of unnamed lovers in the fickle matter of memory. Played by Luca Marinelli (the Man) and Linda Caridi (the Woman), the lovers meet at a soiree that both remember as a sweet memory turned bitter as their relationship cripples under the density of the Man’s traumatic histories. The dynamics Mieli explores – past, present; caution, impulse; gain for loss, loss for gain – create a zipper in time as the lovers revisit their shared though distant moments. A contemplation of whether memory is the result of remembrance or memorisation, Remember? reveals how some of our strongest memories are governed more by pain than by joy.

06 Jun 2019 | Open Roads: New Italian Cinema

The vice of hope (Il vizio della speranza)

A film by Edoardo De Angelis (2018)

A successful trafficker cannot have compassion. This is a cruel reality and conscious decision that Maria (Pina Turco) struggles more to navigate when she becomes the trafficked. Her lifeline and that of her family depend on her overseeing the care, surrender, and transport of prostituted surrogate mothers paid to promise their children to the highest bidder. When Maria unwillingly becomes pregnant, her position in this twisted underground network is reversed and she allows compassion to seduce her with the prospect of a future for a fellow surrogate, for herself, and her unborn child. Set in the floating fortresses of Castel Volturno, in the shadowed fringes of Neapolitan law, The Vice of Hope is unrelenting light in a place where hoping is unbearable.

31 May 2019 | New Releases

too late to die young (Tarde Para Morir Joven)

a film by Dominga Sotomayor

22 May 2019 | New Releases

august at akiko’s

a film by christopher makoto yogi (2018)

Amidst the lush serenity of Hawaii, Christopher Makoto Yogi’s August at Akiko’s is a zen narrative on mindfulness in the pursuit of life. Alex (Alex Zhang Hungtai) is a saxophonist who returns to the Big Island after a decade away. Wandering in reverie, he chances upon a Buddhist bed and breakfast run by Akiko (Akiko Masuda), a spirited elderly woman who becomes his guide to island life and personal wellbeing. As Alex rediscovers his childhood, accompanied by wild saxophone riffs and avian trills, Hawaii’s jungle-scape distils the language of thought into a visceral essence. With nature as a muse and mindfulness a lesson, August at Akiko’s is a tender reminder to recover our inner harmonies between body and mind, mind and matter.