# 2017 New York Film Festival

The 55th New York Film Festival took place from September 28 to October 15, 2017. The festival's opening film was Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying, and its closing film was Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel.

## Main slate

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| Before We Vanish | 散歩する侵略者 (Sanpo Suru Shinryakusha) | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan |
| BPM (Beats per Minute) | 120 battements par minute | Robin Campillo | France |
| Call Me by Your Name | Call Me by Your Name | Luca Guadagnino | Italy, United States, France |
| The Day After | 그 후 (Geu-hu) | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| Faces Places | Visages Villages | Agnès Varda, JR | France |
| Félicité | Félicité | Alain Gomis | Senegal |
| The Florida Project | The Florida Project | Sean Baker | United States |
| Ismael's Ghosts | Les Fantômes d'Ismaël | Arnaud Desplechin | France |
| Lady Bird | Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig | United States |
| Last Flag Flying | Last Flag Flying | Richard Linklater | United States |
| Let the Sunshine In | Un beau soleil intérieur | Claire Denis | France |
| Lover for a Day | L'Amant d'un jour | Philippe Garrel | France |
| The Meyerowitz Stories | The Meyerowitz Stories | Noah Baumbach | United States |
| Mrs. Hyde | Madame Hyde | Serge Bozon | France |
| Mudbound | Mudbound | Dee Rees | United States |
| On the Beach at Night Alone | 밤의 해변에서 혼자 (Bamui Haebyeoneseo Honja) | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| The Other Side of Hope | Toivon tuolla puolen | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland |
| The Rider | The Rider | Chloé Zhao | United States |
| Spoor | Pokot | Agnieszka Holland | Poland |
| The Square | The Square | Ruben Östlund | Sweden, France, Germany, Denmark |
| Thelma | Thelma | Joachim Trier | Norway |
| Western | Western | Valeska Grisebach | Germany, Bulgaria |
| Wonder Wheel | Wonder Wheel | Woody Allen | United States |
| Wonderstruck | Wonderstruck | Todd Haynes | United States |
| Zama | Zama | Lucrecia Martel | Argentina |

## Spotlight on Documentaries

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| Arthur Miller: Writer | Arthur Miller: Writer | Rebecca Miller | United States |
| Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat | Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat | Sara Driver | United States |
| Cielo | Cielo | Alison McAlpine | Chile, Canada |
| Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? | Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? | Travis Wilkerson | United States |
| El Mar La Mar | El Mar La Mar | Joshua Bonnetta, J.P. Sniadecki | United States |
| Filmworker | Filmworker | Tony Zierra | United States |
| Hall of Mirrors | Hall of Mirrors | Ena Talakic, Ines Talakic | United States |
| Jane | Jane | Brett Morgen | United States |
| Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold | Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold | Griffin Dunne | United States |
| No Stone Unturned | No Stone Unturned | Alex Gibney | Northern Ireland |
| Piazza Vittorio | Piazza Vittorio | Abel Ferrara | Italy, United States |
| The Rape of Recy Taylor | The Rape of Recy Taylor | Nancy Buirski | United States |
| Sea Sorrow | Sea Sorrow | Vanessa Redgrave | United Kingdom |
| A Skin So Soft | Ta peau si lisse | Denis Côté | Canada, France, Switzerland |
| Speak Up | À voix haute | Stéphane de Freitas | France |
| The Venerable W. | Le vénérable W. | Barbet Schroeder | France, Switzerland |
| Voyeur | Voyeur | Myles Kane, Josh Koury | United States |
| Three Music Films by Mathieu Amalric: C’est presque au bout du monde, Zorn, Music Is Music | Three Music Films by Mathieu Amalric: C’est presque au bout du monde, Zorn, Music Is Music | Mathieu Amalric | France |

## Special events

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| First Reformed | First Reformed | Paul Schrader | United States |
| Mindhunter | Mindhunter | David Fincher | United States |
| Pandora's Box | Die Büchse der Pandora | G. W. Pabst | Germany |
| The Opera House | The Opera House | Susan Froemke | United States |
| Shoah: Four Sisters | Shoah: Four Sisters | Claude Lanzmann | France |
| Spielberg | Spielberg | Susan Lacy | United States |
| Trouble No More | Trouble No More | Jennifer Lebeau | United States |
| Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America | Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America | Rory Kennedy | United States |

## Projections

In addition to the following feature films, the Projections lineup also included several programs of short films, including programs devoted to the work of Barbara Hammer and Mike Henderson.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| Caniba | Caniba | Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor | United States, France, United Kingdom |
| Dragonfly Eyes | Qing ting zhi yan | Xu Bing | China |
| Electro-Pythagoras and Vivian’s Garden | Electro-Pythagoras and Vivian’s Garden | Luke Fowler | United Kingdom |
| Le Fort des fous | Le Fort des fous | Narimane Mari | France, Algeria, Greece, Germany, Qatar |
| Good Luck | Good Luck | Ben Russell | France, Germany |
| Occidental | Occidental | Neïl Beloufa | France |
| Tonsler Park | Tonsler Park | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States |
| The Worldly Cave | | Zhou Tao | China |

## Revivals

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| L'Atalante | L'Atalante | Jean Vigo | France |
| Bob the Gambler | Bob le flambeur | Jean-Pierre Melville | France |
| The Crime of Monsieur Lange | Le Crime de Monsieur Lange | Jean Renoir | France |
| The Crucified Lovers (A Story from Chikamatsu) | 近松物語 (Chikamatsu Monogatari) | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
| Down to Earth | Casa de Lava | Pedro Costa | Portugal |
| Daughter of the Nile | Ni luo he nyu er | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| Grandeur and Decadence (a/k/a The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company) | Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma | Jean-Luc Godard | France |
| Hallelujah the Hills | Hallelujah the Hills | Adolfas Mekas | United States |
| Lucía | Lucía | Humberto Solás | Cuba |
| The Old Dark House | The Old Dark House | James Whale | United States |
| One Sings, the Other Doesn't | L'une chante, l'autre pas | Agnès Varda | France |
| Le Révélateur | Le Révélateur | Philippe Garrel | France |
| Sansho the Bailiff | 山椒大夫 (Sanshō Dayū) | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
| The Secret Son | L'Enfant secret | Philippe Garrel | France |

## Robert Mitchum Retrospective

| Film | Director(s) |
| Angel Face | Otto Preminger |
| Blood on the Moon | Robert Wise |
| Cape Fear | J. Lee Thompson |
| Cape Fear | Martin Scorsese |
| Crossfire | Edward Dmytryk |
| Dead Man | Jim Jarmusch |
| El Dorado | Howard Hawks |
| Farewell, My Lovely | Dick Richards |
| The Friends of Eddie Coyle | Peter Yates |
| His Kind of Woman | John Farrow |
| Home from the Hill | Vincente Minnelli |
| The Lusty Men | Nicholas Ray |
| Macao | Josef von Sternberg, Nicholas Ray |
| Nice Girls Don't Stay for Breakfast | Bruce Weber |
| The Night of the Hunter | Charles Laughton |
| Out of the Past | Jacques Tourneur |
| Pursued | Raoul Walsh |
| River of No Return | Otto Preminger |
| The Story of G.I. Joe | William Wellman |
| Till the End of Time | Edward Dmytryk |
| Thunder Road | Arthur Ripley |
| Track of the Cat | William Wellman |
| Undercurrent | Vincente Minnelli |
| The Wonderful Country | Robert Parrish |
| The Yakuza | Sydney Pollack |

## Shorts

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| All Over the Place | All Over the Place | Mariana Sanguinetti | Argentina |
| Birthday | Birthday | Alberto Viavattene | Italy |
| Bonboné | Bonboné | Rakan Mayasi | Palestine, Lebanon |
| The Brick House | The Brick House | Eliane Esther Bots | Netherlands |
| Cheer Up Baby | Cheer Up Baby | Adinah Dancyger | United States |
| Creswick | Creswick | Natalie Erika James | Australia |
| Cucli | Cucli | Xavier Marrades | Spain |
| The Disinherited | Los Desheredados | Laura Ferrés | Spain |
| Douggy | Douggy | Matvey Fiks | United States, Russia |
| Drip Drop | Drip Drop | Jonna Nilsson | Sweden |
| A Gentle Night | A Gentle Night | Qiu Yang | China |
| Hedgehog's Home | Hedgehog's Home | Eva Cvijanović | Canada, Croatia |
| Hitchhiker | Hitchhiker | Damien Power | Australia |
| Hombre | Hombre | Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz | Chile |
| The Last Light | The Last Light | Angelita Mendoza | United States, Mexico |
| The Layover | The Layover | Ashley Connor, Joe Stankus | United States |
| Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt | Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt | Pacho Velez, Yoni Brook | United States |
| My Nephew Emmett | My Nephew Emmett | Kevin Wilson, Jr. | United States |
| Program | Program | Gabriel de Urioste | United States |
| The Road to Magnasanti | The Road to Magnasanti | John Wilson | United States |
| Scaffold | Scaffold | Kazik Radwanski | Canada |
| The True Tales | Une histoire vraie | Lucien Monot | Switzerland |
| Two | Due | Riccardo Giacconi | Italy, France |
| Unpresidented | Unpresidented | Jason Giampietro | United States |