Organized by Chief Curator David Schwartz and Assistant Film Curator Aliza Ma

The six films selected for the annual series Curators’ Choice are inventive and invigorating works that offer fresh cinematic visions. Master directors Wong Kar-wai (The Grandmaster) and Jia Zhangke (A Touch of Sin) reinvent the wuxia genre with their own distinctive styles. The emerging Argentine director Matías Piñeiro (Viola) and the versatile avant-garde filmmaker Jem Cohen (Museum Hours) create exquisite urban tales that embrace and deconstruct the nature of narrative filmmaking, playfully exploring the ways that theater and art interact with real life. And Andrew Bujalski (Computer Chess) and Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Pavel (Leviathan) fully immerse us in two very different subcultures—the early days of computer chess programming, and the rugged world of deep-sea fishing—to create unique and evocative cinematic experiences.