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# Catch the Latest in International Cinema
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/catch-latest-international-cinema-momi-first-look-2021-film-festival/
- Published: 2021-07-27T20:34:14.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:02:00.000Z
- Description: Returning to the Museum of Moving Image, this year’s First Look 20/21 is the largest in the festival’s history.
- Author: Dan Schindel
- Tags: Film, Chloé Galibert-Laîné, Documentary, Events, Kevin B. Lee, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:11 (2021, 2022, part 1)

As befits the name, the [Museum of the Moving Image](http://www.movingimage.us/?ref=hyperallergic.com)’s annual [First Look](http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2021/07/22/detail/first-look-2021/?ref=hyperallergic.com) festival presents the US and/or New York premieres of many of the latest international arthouse films. Because of the pandemic, last year's iteration of the festival had to take place in an abbreviated, online-only form. This year's version is in many ways a "makeup" for last year, hence it being called First Look 20/21\. Mixing both in-person and online events, the program combines new titles with films that had been planned for last year but ended up not being shown. Additionally, the weekend series, [*Working on It*](http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2021/07/23/detail/first-look-2021-working-on-it-2/?ref=hyperallergic.com), will allow passholders into creative workshops with filmmakers and critics.

Highlights of this year's program include Claire Simon's [*The Grocer’s Son, the Mayor, the Village, and the World…*](http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2021/07/22/detail/the-grocers-son-the-mayor-the-village-and-the-world-if-we-say-that-we-are-friends?ref=hyperallergic.com), a documentary about a rural French village that plays host to an online film festival, Michael Andrianaly's [*Nofinofy*](http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2021/07/25/detail/nofinofy?ref=hyperallergic.com), about a Madagascar hairdresser cast adrift after his salon burns down, [*Bottled Songs*](http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2021/07/31/detail/bottled-songs-1-4?ref=hyperallergic.com)*,* a series of epistolary video essays about contemporary terrorist messaging by Kevin B. Lee and Chloé Galibert-Laîné, and Phillip Warnell's [*Intimate Distances*](http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2021/07/25/detail/intimate-distances?ref=hyperallergic.com), which follows a woman interrogating random passersby on the street in Astoria.

Tickets for regular events are $15 ($11 for seniors and students, $9 for youths, $7 for Classic-level MoMI members, free for Senior and Student-level MoMI members). Tickets for the opening and closing night events are $20 ($15 for members). All-access passes (which grants access to opening and closing night, in-person and virtual cinema screenings, and *Working on It*) can be purchased for $100\. An in-person pass (which grants access to all on-site screenings and *Working on It*) costs $65 (the value can be applied to a year-round museum membership).

**Where:** [Online](http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2021/07/26/detail/first-look-2021-online/?ref=hyperallergic.com) and in-person at the Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35 Avenue, Queens)  
**When:** In-person events through August 1, virtual cinema through August 8

*More info available via* [*Museum of the Moving Image*](http://www.movingimage.us/programs/2021/07/22/detail/first-look-2021/?ref=hyperallergic.com).