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New York Latin Film News
January 2023
Alcarràs, Carla Simón’s 2022 film about a Catalan family facing a future where the land they farm will be turned into a solar farm, won the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin International Film Festival, and is Spain’s 2022 Oscar entry. It opens at Film at Lincoln Center on Friday, January 6, 2023. $15 ($10 matinees). 🇪🇸
The 32nd New York Jewish Film Festival 2023, coproduced with the Jewish Museum, screens 29 Jewish films from around the world; at Film at Lincoln Center in the Walter Reade Theater; from January 12-23, 2023. 🇺🇸 🇬🇹 | 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇪🇸 | 🇿🇦 | 🇮🇱
“I am Not” (2022) by Tomer Heymann is a documentary about a boarding school student’s adoption in Guatemala, a false Asperger’s diagnosis, and a trip to his birth country. It screens at the 32nd New York Jewish Film Festival 2023 in the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center on Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 5:30pm. Director Q&A. In Hebrew, English and Spanish with subtitles. $15. 🇬🇹
“Saint Omer” by Alice Diop, France’s shortlisted Oscar entry, opens at Film at Lincoln Center on Friday, January 13, 2023. In French with English subtitles. 🇸🇳🇫🇷
February 2023
The 51st Dance on Camera Festival 2023 puts Latin dance on the big screen at Film at Lincoln Center from Friday-Monday, February 10-13, 2023. $17. 🇫🇷 🇮🇳 🇲🇽
The 11th Winter Film Awards, emerging filmmaker film festival, is February 16-25, 2023. winterfilmawards.com
The MoMA Doc Fortnight 2023 documentary film festival is being curated by Sophie Cavoulacos and Julian Ross at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Manhattan; from Wednesday, February 22 – March 6, 2023.
March 2023
The Art of the Real documentary film festival is at Film at Lincoln Center, usually in March.
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, coproduced with UniFrance, is at Film at Lincoln Center, usually in March. 🇫🇷
The New Directors / New Films festival, coproduced with the Museum of Modern Art, is at Film at Lincoln Center; usually in March and April.
November 2022
The 12th Queens World Film Festival 2022 brings 157 films from 27 countries to the Queens Theatre, Flushing Town Hall, Museum of the Moving Image, Kaufman Astoria Studios and The Local, in Queens, Tuesday-Sunday, November 1-6, 2022. From $15. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇪🇸
The 11th Dominican Film Festival New York 2022 is at the United Palace and Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center in Washington Heights, Cinépolis Chelsea, and the Copacabana in Hell’s Kitchen, for one week Tuesday-Wednesday, November 1-9, 2022. 🇩🇴
“Nanny” is a 2022 Sundance Dramatic Grand Jury Prize winner by Atlanta Sierra Leonean director Nikyatu Jusu. It’s the story of Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant working as a nanny for a wealthy Tribeca couple to make money to bring her own young son from Africa. The couple’s intense fighting traps her in a nightmare and Aisha becomes troubled by the supernatural in her West African context. Screens at Film at Lincoln Center, Wednesday, November 23 – December 1, 2022. $15. 🇸🇱🇸🇳
September 2022
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The 47th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), America’s biggest film festival, is in Toronto, Canada, Sep 8-18. tiff.net 🇨🇦
The New York Latino Film Festival is at multiple venues, September 12-18, 2022. nylatinofilmfestival.com
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The San Sebastían International Film Festival, Spain’s most prestigious film festival, is Sep 16-24. sansebastianfestival.com 🇪🇸
The Dominican Film Festival New York is Sep 21-26, 2022. dominicanfilmfestival.com 🇩🇴
The 60th New York Film Festival is at Film at Lincoln Center, Sep 30 – Nov 16. filmlinc.org
August 2022
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The Venice International Film Festival, known for picking Oscar winners, is at the Lido di Venezia in Venice, Italy, Aug 31 – Sep 10. labiennale.org 🇮🇹
June 2022
The 25th Brooklyn Film Festival 2022, “Unthinkable,” is at Windmill Studios in Greenpoint, and Union Docs in Williamsburg, and online Fri, Jun 3-12, 2022. From $10. Full Pass $35. 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇱🇫🇷🇬🇫🇮🇳🇮🇱🇮🇹🇲🇽🇵🇭🇵🇷🇪🇸
The Tribeca Film Festival 2022 is at the Beacon Theatre in the Upper West Side and all over Manhattan, Wed, June 8-19, 2022. 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇧🇷🇨🇴🇩🇴🇲🇽🇵🇷🇪🇸🇧🇴🇺🇸
The Open Roads: New Italian Cinema film festival is at Film at Lincoln Center Jun 9-15. filmlinc.org 🇮🇹
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The Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexico’s most prestigious, is Jun 10-18. ficg.mx 🇲🇽
The Americas Film Festival New York is at Instituto Cervantes, City College Downtown, Argentine Consulate, Colombian Consulate and the National Museum of the American Indian on various dates Jun 17-24 at taffny.com
The 8th International New York Film Festival is at the Producer’s Club in Hell’s Kitchen, Jun 24-25 and online Jun 24 – Jul 4, 2022. inyfilmfest.com
May 2022
The 17th Harlem International Film Festival, “From Harlem to Hong Kong,” is May 5-8, 2022. harlemfilmfestival.org
The New York African Film Festival 2022 is at Film at Lincoln Center, Thu-Tue, May 12-17, 2022.
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The 2022 Cannes Film Festival is in Cannes, France, May 17-28, 2022. festival-cannes.com 🇫🇷
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022 is at Film at Lincoln Center, Fri-Thu, May 20-26, 2022.
April 2022
Memoria, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s tale of a Scottish woman who starts hallucinating in the Colombian jungle, returns for one week to IFC Center in the West Village Fri, Apr 1-7. $13. ifccenter.com 🇨🇴
Mixtape premieres with a concert by Yonkers Freestyle rapper Jadakiss at the United Palace in Washington Heights, Thu, Apr 7. tribecafilm.com
The ReelAbilities New York disability film festival is at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan in the Upper West Side, Apr 7-13. reelabilities.org
New Directors / New Films 2022 film festival is at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Mon, Apr 25 – May 1. 🇲🇽
The 9th Colombian Film Festival New York is at Cinépolis in Chelsea, Apr 21-24. colfilmny.com 🇨🇴
March 2022
The Rendez-Vous with French Cinema film festival is at Film at Lincoln Center, Mar 3-13. $15. 🇫🇷
The New York International Children’s Film Festival 2022 (NYICFF) screens Oscar-qualifying children’s films for a variety of ages at the SVA Theatre in Chelsea, Manhattan, Fri-Sun, Mar 4-19, 2022. From $17. 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇦🇫🇷🇮🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸🇺🇬🇺🇸
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The SXSW festival is in Austin, Texas, Wed, Mar 11-20. sxsw.com
The 94th Oscars Academy Awards are live on ABC-7 from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, Sun, Mar 27 at 8pm. abc.com
The Art of the Real documentary film festival is at Film at Lincoln Center, Mar 31 – Apr 7. $15 (All-access $79, Students $25).
February 2022
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s story of a Chadian mother’s determination to help her daughter end a pregnancy against all odds, was at Film Forum in Hudson Square, Feb 4 – Mar 3. 🇹🇩
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The 72nd Berlin Film Festival is Feb 10-20, 2022. berlinale.de 🇩🇪
Marry Me, the hilarious new romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez Maluma and Owen Wilson, opened Valentines Weekend, Fri, Feb 11. 🇵🇷🇨🇴
The 28th New York African Film Festival was at Film at Lincoln Center Feb 4-14 and Maysles Cinema in Harlem Feb 18 – Mar 3, 2021. 🇺🇸 [Not in 2022]
Doc Fortnight 2022, MoMA’s documentary film festival, is online to members and in-person at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Wed, Feb 23 – Mar 10. 🇧🇷🇫🇷🇲🇽🇵🇭🇪🇸
New York Film Festivals
- African Diaspora International Film Festival
- Americas Film Festival
- Art of the Real
- Brooklyn Film Festival
- Bushwick Film Festival
- Colombian Film Festival
- Cortocircuito Latino short film festival
- Dance on Camera is a festival of dance films co-produced by the Dance Films Association at Film at Lincoln Center.
- Doc Fortnight is the Museum of Modern Art’s documentary film festival.
- DOC NYC
- Dominican Film Festival *
- Harlem International Film Festival
- Havana Film Festival *
- Human Rights Watch film festival
- Jewish Film Festival
- Kicking + Screening Soccer Film Festival *
- May Sumak Quechua film festival
- Neighboring Scenes Latin American film festival is coproduced by Cinema Tropical at Film at Lincoln Center.
- New Directors / New Films
- New York African Film Festival
New York Film Organizations
These organizations play special roles in New York film.
- Anthology Film Archives is a research library and film presenter that preserves and screens independent film. anthologyfilmarchives.org
- Cinema Tropical is one of America’s leading Latin film promoters. cinematropical.com 🇲🇽
- Film at Lincoln Center produces film festivals all year long, including the New York Film Festival.
- MoMA Film at the Museum of Modern Art holds one of the world’s leading film collections.
- The Museum of the Moving Image is a film, television, and video museum on a historic film studio lot.
- The Paris Theater is Netflix’s main movie theater.
New York Movie Theaters
- Alamo Drafthouse
- Maysles Documentary Center
- Metrograph
- Nitehawk
- Quad Cinema
- Roxy Cinema
- SVA Theatre
New York Film Museums
- Anthology Film Archives is a research library and film presenter that preserves and screens independent film. anthologyfilmarchives.org
- The Museum of Modern Art has one of the world’s leading film collections.
- The Museum of the Moving Image is a film, television, and video museum on a historic film studio lot.
New York Latin Film Origins
Something unique in NYC is the film presenters such as Film at Lincoln Center and MoMA Film who screen films daily and host film festivals all year long. Cinema Tropical is one of America’s leading Latin film promoters.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) holds one of the world’s great film collections. The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) is in Queens’ historic Astoria Studios.
Great independent cinemas include IFC Center and Film Forum. There are outdoor film screenings in parks, and even some drive-ins.
Movie studios release their Oscar hopefuls in December to keep them top of mind among The Academy.
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