ND/NF festival sets slate

'Where Can We Proceed Now?A Gotham's annual New Company company directors/New Films festival has arranged a 29-feature slate that opens with Nadine Labaki's "Which Side We Proceed Now?Inch and shuts getting an unexpected screening. The ultimate time Film Society of Lincoln subsequently subsequently Center, which co-presents ND/NF while using Museum of recent Art, skedded the same surprise was incorporated in last year's NY Film Festival. The under-systems pic switched to become an early on cut of "Hugo," the Martin Scorcese film that ongoing being major honours-season player. "Which Side We Proceed Now?Inch concentrates on several Lebanese girls that develop comical schemes to avoid their males from killing each other in religious conflicts. Acquired through the new the new sony Pictures Classics, the film has carried out fests including Cannes, Toronto and Sundance. Another SPC film, Gareth Huw Evans' Indonesian thriller "The Raid," may have ND/NF since the 41-year-old event's first late evening screening, while animated graphic novel adaptation "The Rabbi's Cat," helmed by Antoine Delesvaux and Joann Sfar, will be the fest's first 3d offering. Narrative features on tap have Adam Leon's "Gimme the Loot," Roschdy Zem's "Omar Destroyed Me" and Mads Brugger's "The Ambassador," while Sundance alums "Five Broken Cameras" and "The best way to Survive a Plague" are the doc options. Slate includes twelve shorts additionally to 1953 film "Fear and Desire," an early on work by Stanley Kubrick. New Company company directors/New Films runs March 21-April 1. Title in the surprise pic won't be introduced until before the film unspools. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com