New Directors/New Films - one of my favorite annual film series starts this weekend.  The series is hosted by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and MoMA and features films from new filmmakers from around the world.

This year they have films from 20 different countries and the line-up looks really good and full of films that bring new issues to light and new ways to look at the world in which we all live. Below you’ll find a complete line-up (the movies I am most excited for are in BOLD), links to the films, screening times and at the end of the piece there are links to various reviews/coverage of the series.

Also - be sure to takepart and support MoMA and then takepart again to support The Film Society of Lincoln Center

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• Amreeka (Cherien Dabis, USA/Canada/Kuwait, 2009; 96m) : screened Wed Mar 25: 7 & 7:30 (MoMA)*
• We Live in Public (Ondi Timoner, USA, 2008; 90m) screens Sun Apr 5: 7 & 7:30 (MoMA)*
• $9.99 (Tatia Rosenthal, Israel/Australia, 2008; 78m) : screens Sun Mar 29: 7 (MoMA) and Wed Apr 1: 9 (FSLC)
• Autumn / Sonbahar (Özcan Alper, Germany/Turkey, 2008; 99m) screens Thu Apr 2: 6:15 (MoMA) and Sat Apr 4: 1:15 (FSLC)
• Barking Water (Sterlin Harjo, USA, 2009; 85m) screens Thu Mar 26: 9 (FSLC) and Sat Mar 28: 3 (MoMA)
• Birdwatchers / BirdWatchers – La terra degli uomini rossi (Marco Bechis, Italy/Brazil, 2008; 108) screens Wed Apr 1: 9 (MoMA) and Thu Apr 2: 6:15 (FSLC)
  
• Can Go Through Skin / Kan door huid heen (Esther Rots, Netherlands, 2009; 94m) screens Fri Apr 3: 9 (MoMA) and Sat Apr 4: 4 (FSLC)
• Cold Souls (Sophie Barthes, USA/Russia, 2008; 101m) screens Fri Mar 27: 9 (MoMA) and Sun Mar 29: 5 (FSLC)
• The Cove (Louie Psihoyos, USA, 2009; 94m) screens Sat Mar 28: 9 (MoMA) and Tue Mar 31: 6:15 (FSLC)
• Every Little Step (James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo, USA, 2008; 96m) screens Fri Mar 27: 6:15 (FSLC) and Sun Mar 29: 4:30 (MoMA)
• The Fly / Mukha (Vladimir Kott, Russia, 2008; 107m) screens Thu Mar 26: 9 (MoMA) and Sun Mar 29: 2 (FSLC)
• Give Me Your Hand / Donne-moi la main (Pascal-Alex Vincent, France/Germany, 2008; 79m) screens Sat Apr 4: 9 (FSLC) and Sun Apr 5: 4 (MoMA)
• Harmony and Me (Bob Byington, USA, 2009; 75m) screens Fri Apr 3: 6:15 (MoMA) and  Sun Apr 5: 4 (FSLC)
• Home (Ursula Meier, Switzerland/France/Belgium, 2008; 95m) screens Thu Apr 2: 9 (FSLC) and  Sat Apr 4: 6:30 (MoMA)
• Louise-Michel (Gustave de Kervern and Benoît Delépine, France, 2008; 90m) screens Sat Mar 28: 9 (FSLC) and Mon Mar 30: 6:15 (MoMA)
• The Maid / La Nana (Sebastián Silva, Chile, 2009; 95m) screens Fri Mar 27: 6:15 (MoMA) and Sun Mar 29: 8 (FSLC)
• Mid-August Lunch / Pranzo di ferragosto (Gianni Di Gregorio, Italy, 2008; 75m) screens Fri Apr 3: 6:15 (FSLC) and Sat Apr 4: 3:45 (MoMA)
• The Milk of Sorrow / La teta asustada (Claudia Llosa, Spain/Peru, 2008; 100m) screens Wed Apr 1: 6:15 (MoMA) and Fri Apr 3: 9 (FSLC)
• Ordinary Boys / Chicos normales (Daniel Hernández, Spain, 2008; 85m) screens Sat Apr 4: 6:30 (FSLC) and Sun Apr 5: 1:30 (MoMA)
• Paper Soldier / Bumaznyj soldat (Alexey German Jr., Russia, 2008; 118m) screens Sat Mar 28: 6 (MoMA) and Thu Mar 31: 9 (FSLC)
• Parque vía (Enrique Rivero, Mexico, 2008; 86m) screens Sat Apr 4: 9 (MoMA) and  Sun Apr 5: 1:30 (FSLC)
• The Shaft / Dixia de tiankong (Zhang Chi, China, 2008; 98m) screens Wed Apr 1: 6:15 (FSLC) and Thu Apr 2: 9 (MoMA)
• Stay the Same Never Change (Laurel Nakadate, USA, 2009; 93m) screens Thu Mar 26: 6:15 (MoMA) and Sat Mar 28: 3:30 (FSLC)
• Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim, USA/South Korea, 2008; 89m) screens Fri Mar 27: 9 (FSLC) and Sun Mar 29: 2 (MoMA)
• Unmade Beds (Alexis Dos Santos, UK, 2008; 93m) screens Sat Mar 28: 6 (FSLC) and Mon Mar 30: 9 (MoMA)

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City as Bane, Nature as Balm in New Directors/New Films ..(New York Times)

New Directors/New Films ‘09: A Critical Overview (indieWIRE)

Film: Real, Rough Life, in Front of a Lens (New York Times)

ND/NF opens with “Amreeka” (the Daily IFC)

New Directors/New Films ‘09: The Connection Between Home and Individual (indieWIRE)