All seems well—until it isn’t—in a photographer’s marriage to a man with a peculiar condition in this tense exploration of power dynamics and patriarchy.

Indigenous cowboy detective Jay Swan (Aaron Pederson) returns to his outback hometown to solve the murder of a teenage girl whose body is found underneath a trucking route.

Conversion with John Waters moderated by Albert Serra in the occasion of the 2019 Pardo d’onore to John Waters.

Mati Diop’s richly textured documentary—both her experimental debut, and a precursor to her Grand Prix–winning feature Atlantics—tells the story of a young boy’s tragic migratory voyage in Senegal.

Dustin Guy Defa slyly lampoons masculinity in filmmaking with this surprising meta-movie about a filmmaker (Defa himself) suggesting micro-adjustments to actresses between takes.

Eliza Hittman’s sensitive and atmospheric short follows a 17-year-old Russian teenager as she escapes the close-quarters tension of her home into a Brooklyn night charged with freedom and desire.

These two programs—named in homage to the seminal books written by NYFF’s founders, Amos Vogel and Richard Roud—offer a varied, kaleidoscopic view of cinema over the past decade-plus, ranging from award-winning narrative shorts to diaristic, exper...

Eduardo Williams’s immersive work, shot with 360-degree cameras, explores the rhythmic, discursive language of Mariano Blatt’s poem “No es” against the perpetually moving people of Guinea-Bissau.

Akosua Adoma Owusu traces a century of social unrest through correspondence from W. E. B. Du Bois, sumptuous Super-8 footage shot in Pelourinho, and a music video by Spike Lee.

After a breakup, a Shakespearean actress alternates between rehearsing and daydreaming as she starts to slowly embody her character, transforming into the object of desire of other cast members.

This delicate film—created for Alice Rohrwacher’s production of Verdi's La traviata—conjures the protagonist’s interiority and spontaneity through sun-kissed 16mm images of a young girl's hands (Rohrwacher's own daughter, Anita).

This tapestry of recollections offers an imagined myth for the Xąwįska, or the Indian Pipe Plant—used by the Ho-Chunk to revive those who have fainted.

In her final hours, a mother on a Navajo Reservation struggles with alcoholism while seeking belonging within family and tradition.

In honor of his father, Stephen continues making baskets in the tradition of the Mi’kmaq Tribe. He finds a meditative peace in his studio, in connection with the man who taught him his work.

A poetic, hand-painted animation explores notions of diaspora and homeland to reflect on the tragic mass deportations of the Kalmyk people during World War II.

Eva and Manon are two throat singers from an Inuit village in the northern reaches of Canada. They and Johnny Nassak turn the camera on themselves and their Arctic landscape.

An intimate and inspiring conversation with award-winning Canadian activist and screen icon Tantoo Cardinal.

Joan Chen’s documentary debut charts the inspiring life and career of Chinese icon “Jenny” Lang Ping, who won historic volleyball gold and transformed a struggling national team into Olympic champions