# 2020 New York Film Festival

The 58th New York Film Festival took place from September 17 to October 11, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was staged through outdoor and online screenings.

## Main slate

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| Atarrabi and Mikelats | Atarrabi et Mikelats | Eugène Green | Belgium, France |
| Beginning | Dasatskisi | Déa Kulumbegashvili | Georgia |
| The Calming | The Calming | Song Fang | China |
| City Hall | City Hall | Frederick Wiseman | United States |
| Days | 日子 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
| The Disciple | The Disciple | Chaitanya Tamhane | India |
| French Exit | French Exit | Azazel Jacobs | United Kingdom, Canada |
| Gunda | Gunda | Viktor Kossakovsky | United States, Norway |
| I Carry You With Me | Te Llevo Conmigo | Heidi Ewing | United States, Mexico |
| Isabella | Isabella | Matías Piñeiro | Argentina |
| Lovers Rock | Lovers Rock | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom |
| Malmkrog | Malmkrog | Cristi Puiu | Romania |
| Mangrove | Mangrove | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom |
| MLK/FBI | MLK/FBI | Sam Pollard | United States |
| Night of the Kings | La Nuit des rois | Philippe Lacôte | France, Côte d'Ivoire, Canada, Senegal |
| Nomadland | Nomadland | Chloé Zhao | United States |
| Notturno | Notturno | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy |
| Red, White & Blue | Red, White & Blue | Steve McQueen | United Kingdom |
| The Salt of Tears | Le Sel des larmes | Philippe Garrel | France |
| Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue | Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue | Jia Zhangke | China |
| Time | Time | Garrett Bradley | United States |
| Tragic Jungle | Tragic Jungle | Yulene Olaizola | Mexico |
| The Truffle Hunters | The Truffle Hunters | Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw | United States, Greece, Italy |
| Undine | Undine | Christian Petzold | Germany |
| The Woman Who Ran | 도망친 여자 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |

## Currents

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| Apparition | Apparition | Ismaïl Bahri | Tunisia, France |
| Fauna | Flora y fauna | Nicolás Pereda | Mexico/Canada |
| Her Name Was Europa | Her Name Was Europa | Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy | Germany |
| Her Socialist Smile | Her Socialist Smile | John Gianvito | United States |
| Hidden | Hidden | Jafar Panahi | France |
| The Inheritance | The Inheritance | Ephraim Asili | United States |
| Its Distorting Mirror | Its Distorting Mirror | Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento | Chile |
| King of Sanwi | King of Sanwi | Akosua Adoma Owusu | USA/Ghana |
| The Last City | The Last City | Heinz Emigholz | Germany |
| The Lobby | The Lobby | Heinz Emigholz | Germany/Argentina |
| My Mexican Bretzel | My Mexican Bretzel | Nuria Giménez | Spain |
| Ouvertures | Ouvertures | The Living and the Dead Ensemble | United Kingdom/France |
| The Plastic House | The Plastic House | Alison Chhorn | Australia |
| A Revolt Without Images | A Revolt Without Images | Pilar Monsell | Spain |
| Slow Machine | Slow Machine | Joe DeNardo, Paul Felten | United States |
| The Tango of the Widower | The Tango of the Widower | Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento | Chile |
| There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse | No existen treinta y seis maneras de mostrar cómo un hombre se sube a un caballo | Nicolás Zukerfeld | Argentina |
| This Day Won't Last | This Day Won't Last | Mouaad el Salem | Tunisia/Belgium |
| Untitled Sequence of Gaps | Untitled Sequence of Gaps | Vika Kirchenbauer | Germany |
| The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) | The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) | C.W. Winter, Anders Edström | United States, Sweden, Japan, United Kingdom |
| The Year of the Discovery | The Year of the Discovery | Luis López Carrasco | Spain |

## Spotlight

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| All In: The Fight for Democracy | All In: The Fight for Democracy | Liz Garbus, Lisa Cortés | United States |
| David Byrne's American Utopia | David Byrne's American Utopia | Spike Lee | United States |
| Hopper/Welles | Hopper/Welles | Orson Welles | United States |
| The Human Voice | The Human Voice | Pedro Almodóvar | Spain |
| The Monopoly of Violence | The Monopoly of Violence | David Dufresne | France |
| On the Rocks | On the Rocks | Sofia Coppola | United States |

## Revivals

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| The Chess Game of the Wind | Shatranj-e-Baad | Mohammad Reza Aslani | Iran |
| Climax | Climax | Gaspar Noé | France, Belgium |
| Damnation | Kárhozat | Béla Tarr | Hungary |
| Flowers of Shanghai | 海上花 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| The Hourglass Sanatorium | Sanatorium pod klepsydrą | Wojciech Has | Poland |
| In the Mood for Love | 花樣年華 | Wong Kar-wai | Hong Kong |
| Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris | Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris | Terence Dixon | United Kingdom, France |
| Muhammad Ali, the Greatest | Muhammad Ali, the Greatest | William Klein | France |
| Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Italy, France |
| Simone Barbes or Virtue | Simone Barbès ou la vertu | Marie-Claude Treilhou | France |
| Smooth Talk | Smooth Talk | Joyce Chopra | United States |
| The Spook Who Sat by the Door | The Spook Who Sat by the Door | Ivan Dixon | United States |
| Xiao Wu (The Pickpocket) | 小武 | Jia Zhangke | China |
| Zero for Conduct | Zéro de conduite | Jean Vigo | France |

## Short films

| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
| Apiyemiyekî? | Apiyemiyekî? | Ana Vaz | Brazil, France, Portugal, Netherlands |
| Aquí y allá | Aquí y allá | Melisa Liebenthal | Argentina, France |
| An Arrow Pointing to a Hole | An Arrow Pointing to a Hole | Steve Reinke | United States, Canada |
| August 22, This Year | August 22, This Year | Graham Foy | Canada |
| Autoficcion | Autoficcion | Laida Lertxundi | Spain, United States, New Zealand |
| The Chicken | The Chicken | Neo Sora | United States |
| Claudette's Star | Claudette's Star | Ayo Akingbade | United Kingdom |
| Correspondence | Correspondence | Carla Simón, Dominga Sotomayor | Spain/Chile |
| Drills | Drills | Sarah Friedland | United States |
| Ekphrasis | Ekphrasis | Riccardo Giacconi | Italy |
| The End of Suffering (a proposal) | The End of Suffering (a proposal) | Jacqueline Lentzou | Greece |
| Episodes – Spring 2018 | Episodes – Spring 2018 | Mathilde Girard | France |
| Extractions | Extractions | Thirza Cuthand | Canada |
| Figure Minus Fact | Figure Minus Fact | Mary Helena Clark | United States |
| – force – | – force – | Simon Liu, Jennie MaryTai Liu | Hong Kong, United States |
| Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995 | Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995 | Ute Aurand | Germany |
| Hard, Cracked the Wind | Hard, Cracked the Wind | Mark Jenkin | United Kingdom |
| Humongous! | Humongous! | Aya Kawazoe | Japan |
| In Sudden Darkness | In Sudden Darkness | Tayler Montague | United States |
| In the Air Tonight | In the Air Tonight | Andrew Norman Wilson | United States |
| The Isolated | The Isolated | Jay Giampietro | United States |
| Labor of Love | Labor of Love | Sylvia Schedelbauer | Germany |
| Letter From Your Far-Off Country | Letter From Your Far-Off Country | Suneil Sanzgiri | United States, India |
| Look Then Below | Look Then Below | Ben Rivers | United Kingdom |
| Malembe | Malembe | Luis Arnías | Venezuela, United States |
| A Night at the Opera | A Night at the Opera | Sergei Loznitza | France |
| Notes, Imprints (On Love): Part I | Notes, Imprints (On Love): Part I | Alexandra Cuesta | United States, Ecuador |
| Object Lessons, or: What Happened Whitsunday | Object Lessons, or: What Happened Whitsunday | Ricky D'Ambrose | United States |
| Once Removed | Once Removed | Lawrence Abu Hamdan | Lebanon |
| Point and Line to Plane | Point and Line to Plane | Sofia Bohdanowicz | Canada |
| Sanfield | Sanfield | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States |
| See You in My Dreams | See You in My Dreams | Shun Ikezoe | Japan |
| Shots in the Dark with David Godlis | Shots in the Dark with David Godlis | Noah Kloster, Lewie Kloster | United States |
| Single Copy | Single Copy | Hsu Che-Yu | Taiwan |
| Stump the Guesser | Stump the Guesser | Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson | Canada |
| To the Harbour | To the Harbour | Anonymous | Hong Kong |
| Trust Study #1 | Trust Study #1 | Shobun Baile | United States |
| The Unseen River | The Unseen River | Phạm Ngọc Lân | Vietnam, Laos |
| While Cursed by Specters | While Cursed by Specters | Burak Çevik | Turkey |
| Wild Bill Horsecock | Wild Bill Horsecock | Oliver Shahery | United States |