The 54th New York Film Festival took place September 30–October 16, 2016 at Film at Lincoln Center.

MAIN SLATE

13th (Ava DuVernay) (Opening Night)
20th Century Women (Mike Mills) (Centerpiece)
The Lost City of Z (James Gray) (Closing Night)
Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)
Elle (Paul Verhoeven)
Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi)
Graduation (Cristian Mungiu)
Hermia & Helena (Matías Piñeiro)
I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)
Julieta (Pedro Almodóvar)
Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)
My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (Dash Shaw)
Neruda (Pablo Larraín)
Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)
Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)
The Rehearsal (Alison Maclean)
Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)
Staying Vertical (Alain Guiraudie)
The Son of Joseph (Eugéne Green)
Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve)
Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)
The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne)
Yourself and Yours (Hong Sangsoo)

SPECIAL EVENTS

Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened (Lonny Price)
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ang Lee)
Gimme Danger (Jim Jarmusch)
Hamilton’s America (Alex Horwitz)

SPOTLIGHT ON DOCUMENTARY

Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Steve James)
The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography (Errol Morris)
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (Alexis Bloom and Fisher Stevens)
The Cinema Travellers (Shirley Abramham and Amit Madheshiya)
Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison)
Hissein Habré, a Chadian Tragedy (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun)
I Am Not Your Negro (Raoul Peck)
I Called Him Morgan (Kasper Collin)
Karl Marx City (Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker)
Patria O Muerte: Cuba, Fatherland or Death (Olatz López Garmendia)
Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan (Linda Saffire and Adam Schlesinger)
The Settlers (Shimon Dotan)
Two Trains Runnin’ (Sam Pollard)
Uncle Howard (Aaron Brooken)
Whose Country (Mohamed Siam)

EXPLORATIONS

The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)
Everything Else (Natalia Almada)
I Had Nowhere to Go (Douglas Gordan)
Kékszakállú (Gastón Solnicki)
Mimosas (Oliver Laxe)
The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues)

PROJECTIONS

Regal (Karissa Hahn)
Steve Hates Fish (John Smith)
Real Italian Pizza (David Rimmer)
Now: End fo Season (Ayman Nahle)
See a Dog, Hear a Dog (Jesse Mclean)
Twixt Cup and Lip (Stephen Sutcliffe)
Burning Mountains that Spew Flame (Helena Girón and Samuel Delgado)
Bending to Earth (Rosa Barba)
Ten Mornings Ten Evenings and One Horizon (Tomonari Nishikawa)
Canadian Pacific I (David Rimmer)
Jáaji Approx (Sky Hopinka)
Bad Mama who cares (Brigid McCaffrey)
Ears, Nose and Throat (Kevin Jerome Everson)
The Illinois Parables (Deborah Stratman)
The Horses of a Cavalry Captain (Clemens von Wedemeyer)
Old Hat (Zach Iannazzi)
Flowers of the Sky (Janie Geiser)
Answer Print (Mónica Savirón)
Athyrium filix-femina (for Anna Atkins) (Kelly Egan)
Variations on a Cellophane Wrapper (David Rimmer)
Ghost Children (Joao Vieira Torres)
CILAOS (Camilo Restrepo)
Luna E Santur (Joshua Gen)
Indefinite Pitch (James N Kienitz Wilkins)
Europa, mon Amoutr(2016 Brexit Edition) (Lawrence Lek)
Strange Vision of Seeing Things (Ryan Ferko)
Foyer (Ismaïl Bahri)
All the Cities of the North (Dance Komljen)
A Boy Needs Friend (Steve Reinke)
Spotlight on A Brick Wall (Alee Peoples and Mike Stolz)
Return to Forms (Zachary Epcar)
Dream English Kid, 1964-1999 AD (Mark Leckey)
Autumn (Nathaniel Dorsky)
The Dreamer (Nathaniel Dorsky)
Bagatelle II (Jerome Hiler)
HáTerra! (Ana Vaz)
Kindah (Ephraim Asil)
In Titan’s Goblet (Peter Hutton)
An Aviation Field (Joana Pimenta)
Electrical Gaza (Rosalind Nashashibi)
Event Horizon (Guillermo Moncayo)
From the Notebook of… (Robert Beavers)
For Christian (Luke Fowler)
The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams)

REVIVALS

L’argent (Robert Bresson)
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo)
Harlan County (Barbara Kopple)
The Living Idol (Albert Lewin)
Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea)
One-Eyed Jacks (Marlon Brando)
Panique (Julien Duviver)
Taipei Story (Edward Yang)
Ugestsu Monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi)
Aux Quatre Coins (Jacques Rivette)
Le quadrille (Jacques Rivette)
Le Divertissement (Jacques Rivette)

RETROSPECTIVE

A two-part lineup headlined and inspired by Bertrand Tavernier’s My Journey Through French Cinema: a selection of French classics featured in the documentary and a 12-film exploration of one of Tavernier’s favorite American directors, Henry Hathaway.

Angels of Sin (Robert Bresson)
Antonie and Antoinette (Jacques Becker)
Deadlier Than the Male (Julien Duviver)
Les enfants terribles (Jean-Pierre Melville)
La Marseillaise (Jean Renoir)
Safe Conduct (Bertrand Tavernier)
23 Paces to Baker Street (Henry Hathaway)
The Dark Corner (Henry Hathaway)
Down to the Sea in Ships (Henry Hathaway)
Fourteen Hours (Henry Hathaway)
From Hell to Texas (Henry Hathaway)
Garden of Evil (Henry Hathaway)
Kiss of Death (Henry Hathaway)
Niagara (Henry Hathaway)
North to Alaska (Henry Hathaway)
Rawhide (Henry Hathaway)
The Shepherd of the Hills (Henry Hathaway)
Spawn of the North (Henry Hathaway)

SHORT PROGRAMS

Narrative

The Girl who Danced with the Devil (João Paulo Miranda Maria)
Be Good for Rachel (Ed Roe)
Univitellin (Terence Nace)
Little Bullets (Alphan Eseli)
Dobro (Marta Hernaiz Pidal)
Land of the Lost Sidekicks (Roger Ross Williams)
And the Whole Sky Fit in a Dead cow’s Eye (Francisca Alegria)

International Auteurs

A Brief History of Princess X (Gabriel Abrantes)
Sarah Winchsester, Phantom Opera (Bertand Bonello)
The Hedonisits (Jia Zhangke)
From the Diary of a Weding Photographer (Nadav Lapid)

New York Stories

Kitty (Cholë Sevigny)
I Turn Jello (Andrew T. Betzer)
Dramatic Relationship (Dustin Guy Defa)
This Castle Keep (Gina Telaroli)
Los Angles Plays New York (John Wilson)
The Honeymoon (Tommy Davis)

Documentary

Legal Smuggling with Christine Choy (Lewie Kloster)
El Buzo (Esteban Arrangoiz)
Jean Nouvel: Reflections (Matt Tyrnauer)
Rotatio (Ian McClerin)
The Vote (Mila Aung-Thwin and Van Royko)
Brillo Box(3¢ off) (Lisanne Skyler)

Genre Stories

The Signalman (Daniel Augusto)
Can’t Take My Eyes Off You (Johannes Kizler and Nik Sentenza)
New Gods (Jack Burke)
Quenottes (Pascal Thiebaux and Gil Pinheriro)
What Happened to Her (Kristy Guevara-Flanagan)
Imposter (Adam Goldhammer)

CONVERGENCE

Cardboard City (Kiira Benzing and Stina Hamlin)
EKO (Sandeep Parikh, Casey Donahue, Lawrence Chen, Daniel Scheinert, Billy Chew)
Giant (Milica Zec and Winslow Turner Porter III)
Late Shift (Baptiste Planche and Tobias Weber)
Lives in Transit (Global Live Project)
Oceans VR: Net Positive (The Economist Obect Normal)
Priya’s Mirror (Ram Devineni, Dan Goldman, Paromita Vohra, Shubhara Prakash, Monca Singh)
Ricerca VR (Yo-Yo Lin, Will Cherry, Steve Dabal, Elle Callahan, Micheal Matchen)
Sherlock Holmes and the Internet of Things (Lance Weiler, Nick Fortungno)
SoundHunters (François Le Gall, Nicolas Blies, Marion Guth, Stéphane Hueber-Blies, Beryl Koltz)