ND/NF festival sets slate

'Where Will We Go Ahead Now?A Gotham's annual New Company directors/New Films festival has arranged a 29-feature slate that opens with Nadine Labaki's "Where Will We Go Ahead Now?Inch and shuts having a surprise screening. The final time Film Society of Lincoln subsequently Center, which co-presents ND/NF using the Museum of contemporary Art, skedded an identical surprise was included in last year's NY Film Festival. The under-systems pic switched to be an earlier cut of "Hugo," the Martin Scorcese film that continued to become major honours-season player. "Where Will We Go Ahead Now?Inch focuses on several Lebanese ladies who develop comical schemes to prevent their males from killing one another in religious conflicts. Acquired by The new sony Pictures Classics, the film has performed fests including Cannes, Toronto and Sundance. Another SPC film, Gareth Huw Evans' Indonesian thriller "The Raid," will have ND/NF because 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, would be the fest's first three dimensional offering. Narrative features on tap likewise incorporate Adam Leon's "Gimme the Loot," Roschdy Zem's "Omar Wiped out Me" and Mads Brugger's "The Ambassador," while Sundance alums "Five Damaged Cameras" and "How you can Survive a Plague" are some of the doc choices. Slate includes twelve shorts in addition to 1953 film "Fear and Desire," an earlier work by Stanley Kubrick. New Company directors/New Films runs March 21-April 1. Title from the surprise pic will not be introduced until right before the film unspools. Contact Gordon Cox at gordon.cox@variety.com