New York Film Festival Sets Lineup For Currents Strand Led By Jem Cohen’s ‘Little, Big, And Far’

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New York Film Festival parent Film at Lincoln Center has set the slate for its Currents strand at the 62nd edition – 12 features and 28 shorts meant to complement the Main Slate with an emphasis on new, innovative voices.

Currents’ Centerpiece selection is the world premiere of Jem Cohen’s Little, Big, and Far, a tale of catastrophes through the travels of an astronomer in search of a sky dark enough to study the stars.

Other portraits include Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich’s The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, a fragmented recomposition of the Martiniquan writer and activist’s legacy; Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré’s 7 Walks With Mark Brown, following the path of a paleobotanist in search of native plants; Yashaddai Owens’s debut feature, Jimmy, which imagines a young James Baldwin as he arrives in Paris from New York; and Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky’s bluish (winner of the Grand Prix at FIDMarseille), portraying the day-to-day life of two young women recently transplanted to a big city as their early adulthood unfolds.

Films tackle sociopolitical issues as in Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell’s DIRECT ACTION (winner of the Best Film award in the Berlinale’s Encounters section), which traces the actions of a French political eco-activist group, and Dimitris Athiridis’s exergue – on documenta 14, where politics and art collide in a 14-part serial looking behind the scenes of the making of the global contemporary art showcase Documenta 14 and how it signaled major impending political shifts in Europe.