2017 New York Film Festival
| Opening film | Last Flag Flying |
|---|---|
| Closing film | Wonder Wheel |
| Location | New York City, United States |
| Founded | 1963 |
| Founded by | Richard Roud and Amos Vogel |
| Hosted by | Film at Lincoln Center |
| Artistic director | Kent Jones |
| Festival date | September 28 – October 15, 2017 |
| Website | https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff/ |
The 55th New York Film Festival took place from September 28 to October 15, 2017, in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center.[1]
The festival's opening film was Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying. Todd Haynes' Wonderstruck was the festival's centerpiece. Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel was the closing film.[2]
Appearing in the NYFF's "Main Slate" for the first time were: Robin Campillo, Luca Guadagnino, JR, Alain Gomis, Sean Baker, Greta Gerwig, Serge Bozon, Dee Rees, Chloé Zhao, and Valeska Grisebach.
World premieres included: Claude Lanzmann's Shoah: Four Sisters, Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying, Rory Kennedy's Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America, Susan Lacy's Spielberg, and Woody Allen's Wonder Wheel
Official Selections
Main slate
The following film were selected for the Main Slate section:[3]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Before We Vanish | 散歩する侵略者 | Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan |
| BPM (Beats per Minute) | 120 battements par minute | Robin Campillo | France |
| Call Me by Your Name | Luca Guadagnino | Italy, United States, France, Brazil | |
| The Day After | 그 후 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| Faces Places | Visages Villages | Agnès Varda and JR | France |
| Félicité | Alain Gomis | Senegal, France | |
| The Florida Project | Sean Baker | United States | |
| Ismael's Ghosts | Les Fantômes d'Ismaël | Arnaud Desplechin | France |
| Lady Bird | Greta Gerwig | United States | |
| Last Flag Flying (opening film) | Richard Linklater | ||
| Let the Sunshine In | Un beau soleil intérieur | Claire Denis | France |
| Lover for a Day | L'Amant d'un jour | Philippe Garrel | |
| The Meyerowitz Stories | Noah Baumbach | United States | |
| Mrs. Hyde | Madame Hyde | Serge Bozon | France |
| Mudbound | Dee Rees | United States | |
| On the Beach at Night Alone | 밤의 해변에서 혼자 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
| The Other Side of Hope | Toivon tuolla puolen | Aki Kaurismäki | Finland, Germany |
| The Rider | Chloé Zhao | United States | |
| Spoor | Pokot | Agnieszka Holland | Poland, Czech Republic, Germany |
| The Square | Ruben Östlund | Sweden, France, Germany, Denmark | |
| Thelma | Joachim Trier | Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France | |
| Western | Valeska Grisebach | Germany, Austria, Bulgaria | |
| Wonderstruck (centerpiece) | Todd Haynes | United States | |
| Wonder Wheel (closing film) | Woody Allen | ||
| Zama | Lucrecia Martel | Argentina, Spain | |
Special Events
The following film were selected to be screened:[4]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Gentle Creature | Кро́ткая | Sergei Loznitsa | France, Ukraine, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Russia |
| First Reformed | Paul Schrader | United States | |
| Mindhunter (episodes 1 and 2) | David Fincher | ||
| The Opera House | Susan Froemke | ||
| Pandora's Box (1929) | Die Büchse der Pandora | G. W. Pabst | Germany |
| Shoah: Four Sisters | Les quatre soeurs | Claude Lanzmann | France |
| Spielberg | Susan Lacy | United States | |
| Trouble No More | Jennifer Lebeau | ||
| Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America | Rory Kennedy | ||
Spotlight on Documentaries
The following film were selected to the Spotlight on Documentary section:[5]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arthur Miller: Writer | Rebecca Miller | United States | |
| Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat | Sara Driver | ||
| Cielo | Alison McAlpine | Chile, Canada | |
| Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? | Travis Wilkerson | United States | |
| El mar la mar | Joshua Bonnetta and J. P. Sniadecki | ||
| Filmworker | Tony Zierra | ||
| Hall of Mirrors | Ena Talakic and Ines Talakic | ||
| Jane | Brett Morgen | ||
| Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold | Griffin Dunne | ||
| No Stone Unturned | Alex Gibney | United Kingdom | |
| Piazza Vittorio | Abel Ferrara | Italy, United States | |
| The Rape of Recy Taylor | Nancy Buirski | United States | |
| 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 | Myles Kane and Josh Koury | United States | |
| Three Music Films by Mathieu Amalric: C’est presque au bout du monde, Zorn, Music Is Music | Mathieu Amalric | France | |
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.[6]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caniba | Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor | France, United States | |
| Dragonfly Eyes | Qing ting zhi yan | Xu Bing | China |
| Electro-Pythagoras and Vivian’s Garden | Luke Fowler | United Kingdom | |
| Le Fort des fous | Narimane Mari | France, Algeria, Greece, Germany, Qatar | |
| Good Luck | Ben Russell | France, Germany | |
| Occidental | Neïl Beloufa | France | |
| Tonsler Park | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | |
| The Worldly Cave | Zhou Tao | China | |
Revivals
The following film were selected to be screened:[7]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| L'Atalante (1934) | Jean Vigo | France | |
| Bob the Gambler (1956) | Bob le flambeur | Jean-Pierre Melville | |
| The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) | Le Crime de Monsieur Lange | Jean Renoir | |
| The Crucified Lovers (1954) | 近松物語 | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
| Down to Earth (1995) | Casa de Lava | Pedro Costa | Portugal |
| Daughter of the Nile (1987) | 尼羅河女兒 | Hou Hsiao-hsien | Taiwan |
| L'Enfant Secret (1979) | Philippe Garrel | France | |
| Grandeur and Decadence (a/k/a The Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company) (1986) | Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma | Jean-Luc Godard | |
| Hallelujah the Hills (1963) | Adolfas Mekas | United States | |
| Lucía (1968) | Humberto Solás | Cuba | |
| The Old Dark House (1932) | James Whale | United States | |
| One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) | L'une chante, l'autre pas | Agnès Varda | France |
| Le Révélateur (1968) | Philippe Garrel | ||
| Sansho the Bailiff (1954) | 山椒大夫 | Kenji Mizoguchi | Japan |
Robert Mitchum Retrospective
The following film were selected to be screened:[8]
Shorts
The following short films were selected to be screened:[4]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Over the Place | Mariana Sanguinetti | Argentina | |
| Birthday | Alberto Viavattene | Italy | |
| Bonboné | Rakan Mayasi | Palestine, Lebanon | |
| The Brick House | Eliane Esther Bots | Netherlands | |
| Cheer Up Baby | Adinah Dancyger | United States | |
| Creswick | Natalie Erika James | Australia | |
| Cucli | Xavier Marrades | Spain | |
| The Disinherited | Los Desheredados | Laura Ferrés | Spain |
| Douggy | Matvey Fiks | United States, Russia | |
| Drip Drop | Jonna Nilsson | Sweden | |
| A Gentle Night | Qiu Yang | China | |
| Hedgehog's Home | Eva Cvijanović | Canada, Croatia | |
| Hitchhiker | Damien Power | Australia | |
| Hombre | Juan Pablo Arias Muñoz | Chile | |
| The Last Light | Angelita Mendoza | United States, Mexico | |
| The Layover | Ashley Connor, Joe Stankus | United States | |
| Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt | Pacho Velez, Yoni Brook | ||
| My Nephew Emmett | Kevin Wilson, Jr. | ||
| Program | Gabriel de Urioste | ||
| The Road to Magnasanti | John Wilson | ||
| Scaffold | Kazik Radwanski | Canada | |
| The True Tales | Une histoire vraie | Lucien Monot | Switzerland |
| Two | Due | Riccardo Giacconi | Italy, France |
| Unpresidented | Jason Giampietro | United States | |
References
- ↑ Joe McGovern, "New York Film Festival 2017 lineup includes Call Me By Your Name, The Square, and Adam Sandler". Entertainment Weekly, August 8, 2017.
- ↑ Tartaglione, Nancy (August 8, 2017). "New York Film Festival Main Slate: 'The Square', 'The Rider', 'Mudbound', 'Meyerowitz Stories' & More". Deadline. Retrieved October 28, 2025.
- ↑ "55th New York Film Festival". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved June 10, 2026.
- 1 2 "Spielberg Documentary, Bob Dylan Concert Film Added to New York Film Festival Lineup". EW.com. Retrieved October 28, 2025.
- ↑ Hipes, Patrick (August 23, 2017). "New York Film Festival Sets Documentary Lineup". Deadline. Retrieved October 28, 2025.
- ↑ Erbland, Kate (August 17, 2017). "New York Film Festival Announces Full Projections Slate, Including Films From Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, and Xu Bing". IndieWire. Retrieved October 28, 2025.
- ↑ Newman, Nick (August 21, 2017). "NYFF55 Revivals Includes Restored Films By Godard, Hou, Costa, Tarkovsky & More". Retrieved October 28, 2025.
- ↑ Kate Erbland, "Massive Robert Mitchum Centenary Tribute Set As NYFF 2017 Retrospective — Exclusive". IndieWire, July 24, 2017.