Museum Of The Moving Image Announces Full Lineup For “First Look 2024” Festival
14.02.2024 - 03:05
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New York’s Museum of the Moving Image has revealed the full lineup for First Look 2024, the 13th edition of the festival that showcases “new and innovative international cinema,” both fiction and nonfiction.
The festival, set to run March 13-17 at MoMI in Queens, will kick off with Sujo, the drama directed by Mexican filmmakers Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez that won the Grand Jury Prize in World Cinematic Competition at Sundance. The vitality of Latin American cinema is reflected in another film in the First Look 2024 lineup, The Echo, directed by Salvadoran-born and Mexico-based filmmaker Tatiana Huezo. Scroll for the full roster of films.
First Look 2024 will close on Sunday, March 17 with Gasoline Rainbow, a “rambunctious coming-of-age road movie” directed by brothers Bill and Turner Ross, their follow up to their acclaimed 2020 film Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets – winner of the True Vision Award at the True/False festival, Best Director at the Champs-Élysées Film Festival, and the Heterodox Award from the Cinema Eye Honors.
The festival’s slate includes 46 works, including 20 features, representing 21 countries, per MoMI. “The guiding ethos of First Look is openness, curiosity, and discovery, aiming to expose audiences to new art, artists to new audiences, and everyone to different methods, perspectives, interrogations, and encounters,” the cinema museum notes. “For five consecutive days the festival takes over MoMI’s two theaters, as well as other rooms and galleries throughout the Museum—with in-person appearances and dialogue integral to the experience.”
Concurrent with First Look, MoMI’s “Working on It” runs March 13–15, “a laboratory for works in progress and dialogues about process, bringing together