About New Directors/New Films One of the premier international showcases for the work of emerging filmmakers. Over three decades, this notable collaboration of two major New York cultural institutions – the Film Society of Lincoln Center and Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art – has introduced many talented directors who have become major figures in world cinema, including Chantal Akerman, Pedro Almodóvar, Héctor Babenco, Terence Davies, Atom Egoyan, Nicole Holofcener, Spike Lee, Richard Linklater, Sally Potter, John Sayles, Steven Spielberg, Wim Wenders and Wong Kar Wai among others.
Scores of films that have gone on to enjoy great critical and popular success have premiered at New Directors/New Films including: Old Joy, and the Academy Award-nominated Half Nelson, and My Country, My Country from 2006; Murderball, Kontroll, Darwin's Nightmare and Junebug from 2005; The Story of the Weeping Camel, Dig!, Control Room, and Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter…and Spring from 2004; Raising Victor Vargas, Respiro, Camp, and My Architect from 2003; Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner, Late Marriage, and Real Women Have Curves from 2002; Lift, Nine Queens, and L.I.E. from 2001; Jesus’ Son, Ratcatcher, and Human Resources from 2000.
Films in the festival are selected by a six-person committee from the Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art (Sally Berger, Jytte Jensen, and Laurence Kardish) and the Film Society of Lincoln Center (Marian Masone, Joanna Ney, and Richard Peña.)
