41 Films For 41st New Directors/New Films Fest, Including <em>The Rabbi's Cat</em>, <em>Gimme The Loot</em>

Feb. 23, 2012, 5:02 p.m.

ND/NF has given viewers a chance to catch directors like Christopher Nolan, Pedro Almodovar, Wong Kar Wai, Kelly Reichardt, Spike Lee, Steven Spielberg and Atom Egoyan early in their career, so it's a must for cinephiles.

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The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art just announced the lineup for its 41st New Directors/New Films Festival, and 41 films will be screened between March 21 and April 1: 29 feature films (24 narrative, 5 documentary) and 12 short films representing 28 countries.

ND/NF has given viewers a chance to catch directors like Christopher Nolan, Pedro Almodovar, Wong Kar Wai, Kelly Reichardt, Spike Lee, Steven Spielberg and Atom Egoyan early in their career, so it's a must for cinephiles. Some highlights:

  • The opening night feature is Nadine Labaki’s Where Do We Go Now, which "follows the events that transpire after women of different religions in a remote Lebanese village band together and invent schemes to prevent their men from killing each other in the intractable religious conflict that surrounds their community."
  • For the first time, a 3-D film will be screened—it's Antoine Delesvaux and Joann Sfar's animated version of Sfar's graphic novel, The Rabbi's Cat: "Set in 1920’s Algiers, a widower rabbi lives with his voluptuous and dutiful daughter and their pesky cat who swallows a parakeet and begins to speak, driving everyone crazy and moving the plot ahead by insisting on having a bar-mitzvah."
  • Stanley Kubrick's Fear and Desire will be shown. Kubrick directed the film at 24, and some consider the "original to the second half of Full Metal Jacket."
  • Debut director Adam Leon's Gimme The Loot is "an homage to street-smart kids and New York City. Malcolm and Sofia, two determined teens from the Bronx, are the ultimate graffiti writers. When their latest masterpiece is wiped out by a rival gang, they must hustle, steal and scheme to get spectacular revenge and become the biggest graffiti writers in the city." Below is the trailer.

The closing night selection is a surprise and will be announced on April 1. Tickets go on sale on March 11; advance tickets are available on March 4 for MoMA and Film Society members.

Gimme the Loot teaser trailer from skinnyslim on Vimeo.