Every year, Museum of the Transferring Picture presents First Look, its competition of recent and revolutionary worldwide cinema, with a various slate of main New York premieres, work-in-progress screenings and classes, and recent views on the artwork and strategy of filmmaking. The 14th version runs March 12–16 with a lineup of 38 movies from 21 nations, of which twenty are options, together with 4 world premieres and 23 U.S. or North American premieres.
The competition will open and shut with two scintillating debut options, Durga Chew-Bose’s lush, heart-wrenching Bonjour Tristesse and Giovanni Tortorici’s deft, dashing Diciannove.
These screenings bracket the competition’s showcase centerpieces:
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958–1989, the most recent, must-see epic from archival composer Göran Hugo Olsson (The Black Energy Mixtape)
When the Telephone Rang, an incantatory autofiction from Serbian filmmaker Iva Radivojević
The provocative Zodiac Killer Venture, First Look alumnus Charlie Shackleton’s latest winner of the NEXT Innovator Award on the 2025 Sundance Movie CompetitionDir. Göran Hugo Olsson, “Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958–1989” (2024) (courtesy SVT)
Filmmakers for all of the showcase shows famous above will seem in individual. As filmmaker participation is central to the ethos of First Look, the competition lately introduced practically 40 visitors who will seem to debut new movies, or take part in work-in-progress shows as a part of Engaged on It, which runs concurrent with the competition, March 12–14.
Different worldwide award-winners on the competition embrace:
Miguel Coyula’s Chronicles of the Absurd (IDFA 2024 Envision Competitors, Greatest Image)
Omar Mismar’s A Frown Gone Mad (IDFA 2024, Excellent Creative Contribution)
Yoko Yamanaka’s Desert of Namibia (Cannes 2024, FIPRESCI Prize)
So Yo-hen’s Park (Taiwan Worldwide Documentary Competition, Grand Prize)
Lina Vdovîi and Radu Ciorniciuc’s Tata (2024 Astra Movie Competition, Greatest Director)
Dominique Cabrera’s The Fifth Shot of La Jetée (Dok Leipzig 2024, Golden Dove).
Dir. Yôko Yamanaka, “Desert of Namibia” (2024) (courtesy the Desert of Namibia Movie Companions)
Along with Shackleton, the Museum additionally welcomes again First Look veterans:
Elementary, the most recent from documentary grasp Claire Simon
Measures for a Funeral, Sofia Bohdanowicz’s engrossing gothic fever dream
New works by Ben Balcom, James Edmonds, Kevin Jerome Everson, Eva Giolo, Ewelina Rosinska, and extra—a lot of that are introduced within the Illuminations avant-garde movie program
As a part of the Museum’s Science on Display screen initiative, Brigid McCaffrey’s Sanctuary Station and Gerard Ortín Castellví’s Bliss Level will make their New York debuts.
For schedule, descriptions, and tickets, go to movingimage.org/firstlook2025.
First Look presenting sponsors are Lismore Street and MUBI.
Dir. Omar Mismar, “A Frown Gone Mad” (2024) (courtesy Omar Mismar)
Dir. Deniz Eroglu, “The Shipwrecked Triptych” (2025) (courtesy Deniz Eroglu / Neuzeit)
