Although the films selected for New Directors/New Films have not yet appeared on the Web sites of the Film Society of Lincoln Center or the Museum of Modern Art, which jointly present this renowned festival, Variety today announced the 2005 lineup, which will open on March 23 with first-time Angolan film director Zeze Gamboa's The Hero (California Newsreel), which recently won the grand prize in the World Cinema Competition at the Sundance Film Festival.

Additional Sundance titles selected for the 34th ND/NF include Jeff Feuerzeig's The Devil and Daniel Johnson, which won best director in the Documentary Competition, as well as Henry-Alex Rubin and Dan Shapiro's Murderball (ThinkFilm), and Phil Morrison's Junebug (Sony Pictures Classics).

Among the remaining titles selected for ND/NF, which runs through April 3, are: Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's U.S./Cuba co-production, Young Rebels; Hubert Sauper's documentary Darwin's Nightmare, about globalization as reflected in a Tanzanian eco-disaster; Abdelatif Kechiche's L'Esquive (New Yorker Films), one of my favorite films at last year's Berlin International Film Festival; Robin Campillo's They Came Back; Ismael Ferroukhi's Le Grand Voyage (Film Movement), which won an award for Best First Feature at last year's Venice Film Festival; Matteo Garrone's Primo Amore (Strand Releasing); Saverio Costanzo's Private (Avatar Films), which received the Golden Leopard at last year's Locarno Film Festival; Eleonore Faucher's Sequins (New Yorker); Cate Shortland's Somersault (Magnolia Pictures); and Nimrod Antal's Kontroll (ThinkFilm).
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# posted by Steve Gallagher @ 2/22/2005 10:20:00 AM

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Ismael Ferroukhi's Le Grand Voyage really is a road trip that shows the real changes that occur during a road trip between people. It is featured this weekend at the Seattle Film Festival Friday June 3, 2005, check it out.
# posted by  JenLovesPunk @ 6/02/2005 1:36 PM  

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