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New York Film Festival Sets Lineup For Currents Strand Led By Jem Cohen’s ‘Little, Big, And Far’
The New York Film Festival has set the lineup of features and short for its Currents strand -- new, innovative work led by Jem Cohen's 'Little, Big, And Far'.
Currents’ Centerpiece selection is the world premiere of Jem Cohen’s Little, Big, and Far, a tale of catastrophes through the travels of an astronomer in search of a sky dark enough to study the stars. Other portraits include Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, a fragmented recomposition of the Martiniquan writer and activist’s legacy; Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré’s 7 Walks With Mark Brown, following the path of a paleobotanist in search of native plants; Yashaddai Owens’s debut feature, Jimmy, which imagines a young James Baldwin as he arrives in Paris from New York; and Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky’s bluish(winner of the Grand Prix at FIDMarseille), portraying the day-to-day life of two young women recently transplanted to a big city as their early adulthood unfolds. Other features include Nicolás Pereda’s Lázaro at Night, an awkward love triangle among actors auditioning for the same film; Matthew Rankin’s Universal Language(winner of the Audience Award at Cannes’ Directors Fortnight), which grasps at connection among relocated Iranians in Canada and Marta Mateus’s Fire of Wind, which mingles past and present traditions through a small community during the harvest season.
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