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The Inhabitants. 2024. France/Portugal. Directed by Maureen Fazendeiro. Courtesy Uma Pedra no Sapato

Landscapes of Longing. 2024. India. Directed by Alisha Tejpal, Mireya Martinez, Anoushka Mirchandani. New York premiere. In Hindi, English; English subtitles. 14 min.
Three generations of women explore their connections and differences through a family archive of photographs, music, and storytelling in an intimate search for their identity and roots, bringing memories to life via the ever-evolving, dissociative experiences of longing and migration.

You Can’t See It From Here (No se ve desde acá). 2024. Colombia/USA. Directed by Enrique Pedráza-Botero. New York premiere. In Spanish and English; English subities. 19 min.
The state of the American Dream is assessed through a series of vignettes that follow the opportunities available to Latin American immigrants of disparate social and economic status arriving in modern-day Miami. Questions of identity, economic opportunity, and cultural assimilation play out against the bureaucracy of immigration, as archival footage underscores the nation’s obsession with American individualism.

In Retrospect (Rückblickend betrachtet). 2025. Germany. Directed by Daniel Asadi Faezi, Mila Zhlutenko. US premiere. In German; English subtitles. 14 min.
Inaugurated in 1972, Munich’s Olympia mall was built by Gastarbeiter (“temporary workers”). In 2016, a mass shooting motivated by xenophobic, far-right extremism occurred in its vicinity. In Retrospect expertly uses archival footage, current images, and Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Addressee Unknown (1983)—about an affair between a white German woman and a Turkish architect—to offer a chilling reflection on our political present.

The Inhabitants. 2024. France/Portugal. Directed by Maureen Fazendeiro. North American premiere. In French; English subtitles. 41 min.
The co-director of The Tsugua Diaries (2021) draws inspiration from Chantal Akerman’s News from Home (1977) to blend images of the tranquil Parisian suburb of her upbringing with letters from her mother, one of the few women who defiantly assists the commune’s newest inhabitants: a Roma community.

Program approx. 89 min.

This screening may include flashing and flickering images that can impact people who are sensitive to blinking lights.

This film accompanies New Directors/New Films 2025.

Past events

Thu, Apr 10, 2025, 8:30 p.m.

Followed by a conversation with the filmmakers

MoMA, Floor T2, Theater 2

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Wed, Apr 9, 2025, 6:00 p.m.

Followed by a conversation with the filmmakers

Film at Lincoln Center, Walter Reade Theater

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