Florence Almozini

Florence Almozini is the newly named Senior Director of Programming for Film at Lincoln Center. Previously, as Senior Programmer, she served on the committees for the New York Film Festival, New Directors/New Films, and Rendez-Vous with French Cinema, and oversaw the programming of new releases. She has organized numerous retrospectives at FLC, including Walerian Borowczyk (2015), Anna Magnani (2016), Marcello Mastroianni (2017), Jiri Trnka (2018), Luchino Visconti (2018), The Female Gaze: Contemporary Women Cinematographers (2018), Agnès Varda (2019), and Wong Kar-wai (2020). As the Director of BAMcinématek, where she worked from 1999 to 2013, she presented retrospectives of Hong Sang-soo (2003), Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2005), Manoel de Oliveira (2008), Arnaud Desplechin (2009), Nicolas Winding Refn (2009), Bong Joon-ho (2009), and Andrzej Zulawski (2012). In 2009, she launched the venue’s first ever film festival, BAMcinemaFest, where she served as Festival Director. She was part of the Selection Committee for Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight in 2022, has served on juries for the Berlinale, Mar del Plata and Tribeca Film Festivals, as well as the Cinema Tropical and IFP Gotham Awards. She was awarded the Chevalier of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture in 2013.