MUMBAI: Alain Resnais‘ Wild Grass will open the 47th New York Film Festival while Pedro Almodovar‘s Broken Embraces will close the festival. Sony Pictures Classics holds domestic rights to both titles.
Among the 29 films from 17 countries that would vie for a look up at the festival that would run from 25 September to 11 October, Lee Daniels‘ Precious: Based On The Novel Push By Sapphire will be the centre of attraction.
Notable films to be shown at the festival include Von Trier‘s horror film Antichrist, Haneke‘s Palme d‘Or‘s The White Ribbon, Marco Bellocchio‘s Vincere and Bong Joon-ho‘s thriller Mother.
Audiences will also get to see Catherine Breillat‘s fantasy Bluebeard, Todd Solondz‘s Happiness companion piece Life During Wartime and Clare Denis‘ White Material among others.
Maren Ade with Everyone Else, Samuel Maoz with Lebanon, Joao Pedro Rodrigue with To Die Like A Man and Sabu with his Kanikosen will be among the first-time filmmakers to come to the festival.
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