Museum Of The Moving Image Announces First Look Festival Lineup, Including “Simmering, Sexually Charged” Opening Night Film ‘Murina’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: New York’s Museum of the Moving Image announced the full lineup today for the 11th edition of First Look, its annual festival showcasing adventurous cinema from around the world.The in-person festival, running March 16-20 at MoMI in Astoria, Queens, will kick off with Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s Murina, a “simmering, sexually charged coming-of-age tale set in scenic coastal Croatia,” executive produced by Martin Scorsese.
Murina won the Caméra d’Or at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, an award for Best First Feature.First Look set The Balcony Movie as its closing night film, a documentary that director Pawel Lozinski shot entirely from the balcony of his apartment in Warsaw, Poland.
The film, which MoMI calls “delightful and insightful,” won the Grand Prix at the 2021 Locarno Film Festival’s Critics Week.In all, 38 films will screen at First Look [see full lineup below], a combination of features, shorts, fiction and nonfiction, “as well as forms that fall outside the boundaries of traditional theatrical distribution, from gallery presentations to live performances to artist talks.”The work originates from more than 30 countries.
According to the event organizers, “The Festival introduces New York audiences to formally inventive works that seek to redefine the art form while engaging in a wide range of subjects and styles.”Among the festival’s three Showcase Screenings is Zero Fucks Given (Rien à foutre), directed by Julie Lecoustre and Emmanuel Marre.
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