NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS
Film at Lincoln Center and MoMA’s yearly showcase of emerging filmmakers.
Father’s Day,
April 27 Kivu Ruhorahoza’s drama braids together three stories about parenting and patriarchy in modern-day Rwanda, from a masseuse grieving her teen son, to a woman wondering whether to donate an organ to her sick father, to a petty criminal whose kid gets pulled into his business.
Fire of Love,
April 27 and 28 Katia and Maurice Krafft, married French volcanologists, may look like whimsical fictional characters at first, but they were very real, and this doc—narrated by Miranda July—matches their passion and their eccentricity.
Dos Estaciones,
April 29 and 30 A mesmerizing Teresa Sánchez stars in Juan Pablo González’s immersive drama about a struggling family-owned tequila factory.
The African Desperate,
April 30 and May 1 Martine Syms’s feature directorial debut stars Diamond Stingily as a sculptor who vows to skip her M.F.A. grad party in an act of protest that doesn’t go quite as planned. alison willmore