The 59th New York Film Festival taking place September 24 – October 1, 2021 is partnering with local New York City arthouse theaters to bring NYFF59 films to new audiences.
Social Hygiene
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New York Film Festival Partners with Local Arthouse Theaters – Anthology Film Archives, BAM, Maysles
Anthology Film Archive
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New York Film Festival Announces Currents Lineup. Opens with ‘The Tsugua Diaries’
The Tsugua Diaries by Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes The Currents section for the 59th New York Film Festival includes 15 features and 36 short films, representing 27 countries. The Opening Night selection is Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes’s (Arabian Nights, NYFF53) The Tsugua Diaries, a beguiling pandemic-era tale about three housemates in lockdown—one of several films in the section responding to the current health crisis through varying lenses; others include Shengze Zhu’s A River Runs, Turns, Erases, Replaces, a meditation on urban spaces before and after the COVID outbreak, and Denis Côté’s Social Hygiene, an absurdist comedy in which characters exchange barbs from a humorous distance.
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Berlin Film Festival 2021 Announces Encounters, Panorama and Perspektive Deutsches Kino Lineups
Eve Duranceau, G.A. Roy, Maxim Gaudette in Hygiène sociale (Social Hygiene) Berlin International Film Festival 2021 revealed the films selected for Encounters, Panorama and Perspektive Deutsches Kino programs. In the 2021 Perspektive Deutsches Kino, three documentary and three fiction films take us on journeys to places in Denmark, Nigeria, Canada, the USA, Georgia, Hong Kong and Germany – from the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg, to Berlin and Brandenburg, to the Baltic Sea.