Cinephiles, when you’re ready to move on from the bizarre ending to awards season (seriously, WTF?!?), we suggest turning your gaze to the filmmakers that New Directors/New Films deems the future of cinema. Tickets for the 46th annual fete, which runs March 15-26, go on sale this week, and if the 2017 edition is anything like year’s past, you’ll want to act quick. Among this year’s selections are plus-size Sundance hit Patti Cake$, the charming Hasidic drama Menashe, and The Last Family, Jan P. Matuszynski’s black comedy about Polish artist Zdzisław Beksiński. You’ll find the complete list below.

ND/NF, a co-production of the Museum of the Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, is one of the most vital events on New York City’s film calendar. Sandwiched between Rendez-Vous with French Cinema and the Tribeca Film Festival, the fest showcases bold new voices in cinema making the rounds on the international film festival circuit. This year’s class, which draws heavily from Locarno, Sundance, and Cannes, rates an A for authenticity. According to MoMA film curator Raj Roy, the filmmakers selected “share a common commitment to honest personal vision and integrity in storytelling.”

The slate, which is comprised of 29 features and nine shorts, is a mix of narrative, non-fiction and experimental. In addition to the films mentioned above, other highlights include Georgian drama My Happy Family, Turkish filmmaker Mehmet Can Mertoglu’s social satire Albüm, Yance Ford’s intimate documentary about his brother’s death, Strong Island, and theater director William Oldroyd’s debut feature Lady Macbeth, which takes Nikolai Leskov’s novel and relocates it to Victorian England. The festival closes with Person to Person, a New York slice-of-life comedy starring Abbi Jacobson, Michael Cera, and Tavi Gevinson.

Tickets for ND/NF go on sale to the general public on Thursday, March 2 at noon. If you’re a member of MoMA or the Film Society of Lincoln Center, you can get a jump on things, with an early access sale that begins Monday, February 27 at noon. For more information about the films, check below and for schedule or ticket information visit the festival website.

ND/NF Film Slate
Opening Night
Patti Cake$, directed by Geremy Jasper, USA, 2017
New York Premiere
A Fox Searchlight release

Centerpiece
Beach Rats, directed by Eliza Hittman, USA, 2017
New York Premiere
A Neon release.

Closing Night
Person to Person, directed by Dustin Guy Defa, USA, 2017
New York Premiere

4 Days in France / Jours de France, directed by Jérôme Reybaud, France, 2017
French with English subtitles
North American Premiere

Albüm, directed by Mehmet Can Mertoglu, Turkey/France/Romania, 2016
Turkish with English subtitles
New York Premiere

Arábia, directed by João Dumans & Affonso Uchoa, Brazil, 2017
Portuguese with English subtitles
North American Premiere

Autumn, Autumn / Chuncheon, chuncheon, directed by Jang Woo-jin, South Korea, 2017
Korean with English subtitles
North American Premiere
Screens with Léthé, directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili, 2016, France/Georgia
Georgian with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere

Boundaries / Pays, directed by Chloé Robichaud, Canada, 2016
English and French with English subtitles
New York Premiere

By the Time It Gets Dark / Dao Khanong, directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong, France/Netherlands/Qatar/Thailand, 2016
Thai with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere
A KimStim release

The Challenge – Trailer from Slingshot Films on Vimeo.

The Challenge, directed by Yuri Ancarani, Italy/France/Switzerland, 2016
Arabic with English subtitles
New York Premiere

Diamond Island, directed by Davy Chou, Cambodia/France/Germany/Qatar/Thailand, 2016
Khmer with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere

The Dreamed Path / Der traumhafte weg, directed by Angela Schanelec, Germany, 2016
English and German with English subtitles
New York Premiere

El futuro perfecto TRAILER from nele wohlatz on Vimeo.

The Future Perfect / El Futuro perfecto, directed by Nele Wohlatz, Argentina, 2016
Spanish and Mandarin with English subtitles
New York Premiere
Screens with Three Sentences About Argentina / Tres oraciones sobre la Argentina, directed by Nele Wohlatz, Argentina, 2016
Spanish and Mandarin with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere

The Giant / Jätten, directed by Johannes Nyholm, Sweden/Denmark, 2016
Swedish with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere

Happiness University / Bonheur Academie, directed by Kaori Kinoshita & Alain Della Negra, France, 2016
French with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere

HAPPY TIMES WILL COME SOON (2016) by Alessandro Comodin – TRAILER from Richard Lormand on Vimeo.

Happy Times Will Come Soon / I Tempi felici verranno presto, directed by Alessandro Comodin, Italy/France, 2016
Italian with English subtitles
North American Premiere

Lady Macbeth, directed by William Oldroyd, UK, 2016
New York Premiere
A Roadside Attractions release.

The Last Family / Ostatnia rodzina, directed by Jan P. Matuszynski, Poland, 2016
Polish with English subtitles
New York Premiere

The Last of Us / Akher Wahed Fina, directed by Ala Eddine Slim, Tunisia/Qatar/UAE/Lebanon, 2016
North American Premiere

Menashe, directed by Joshua Z. Weinstein, USA, 2017
Yiddish with English subtitles
New York Premiere
An A24 release.

My Happy Family / Chemi bednieri ojakhi, directed by Nana Ekvtimishvili & Simon Gross, Georgia/France, 2017
Georgian with English subtitles
New York Premiere

Pendular, directed by Julia Murat, Brazil/Argentina/France, 2017
Portuguese with English subtitles
North American Premiere

Quest, directed by Jonathan Olshefski, USA, 2017
New York Premiere

Sexy Durga, directed by Sanal Kumar Sasidharan, India, 2017
Malayalam with English subtitles
North American Premiere

Strong Island, directed by Yance Ford, USA/Denmark, 2017
New York Premiere

The Summer Is Gone / Ba yue, directed by Dalei Zhang, China, 2016
Mandarin with English subtitles
New York Premiere

White Sun / Seto Surya, directed by Deepak Rauniyar, Nepal/USA/Qatar/Netherlands, 2016
Nepali with English subtitles
New York Premiere
A KimStim release.

The Wound, directed by John Trengove, South Africa/Germany/Netherlands/France, 2017
Xhosa with English subtitles
New York Premiere
A Kino Lorber release.

Wùlu, directed by Daouda Coulibaly, France/Mali/Senegal, 2016, 95m
Bambara and French with English subtitles
New York Premiere

SHORTS PROGRAMS
Shorts Program 1:
Events in a Cloud Chamber, directed by Ashim Alhuwalia, India, 2016
New York Premiere

Old Luxurious Flat Located in an Ultra-central, Desirable Neighborhood / Apartament interbelic, în zona superbă, ultra-centrală, directed by Sebastian Mihăilescu, Romania, 2016
Romanian with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere

Spiral Jetty, directed by Ricky D’Ambrose, USA, 2017
World Premiere

Manodopera, directed by Loukianos Moshonas, France/Greece, 2016
Greek and Albanian with English subtitles
North American Premiere

Nyo Wveta Nafta, directed by Ico Costa, Portugal/Mozambique, 2017
Portuguese, Gitonga, and Shitsua with English subtitles
U.S. Premiere

Shorts Program 2:
As Without So Within, directed by Manuela De Laborde, Mexico/USA/UK, 2016, 35mm
New York Premiere

The Blue Devils / Los diablos azules, directed by Charlotte Bayer-Broc, France, 2017
Spanish with English subtitles
World Premiere