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New York Film Festival Unveils Main Slate
New York Film Festival Main Slate showcases Cannes and Berlin festival winners, films by David Cronenberg, Mike Leigh, Hong Sangsoo
Cannes’ two top prizewinners, Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light(Grand Prize) and Sean Baker’s Anora(Palme d’Or) are among 32 features from 18 countries set for the New York Film Festival ’s Main Slate, unveiled today. Two U.S. directors will have world premieres: Robinson Devor’s Suburban Fury, a nonfiction portrait of would-be presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore dramatized against the background of 1970s political unrest and militancy; and Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow, a documentary on the persistence of independent journalism in Putin’s Russia during the period leading up to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. “The most notable thing about the films in the Main Slate — and in the other sections that we will announce in the coming weeks — is the degree to which they emphasize cinema’s relationship to reality.
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