Nikyatu Jusu and Nikkia Moulterie on Nanny, NDNF51

Director Nikyatu Jusu and producer Nikkia Moulterie s Nanny, an official selection of the 51st New Directors, New Films, opens at Film at Lincoln Center for one week only on November 23. Bring a friend and take part in a special holiday promotion: buy one ticket, get one free for all screenings through November 27: A riveting Anna Diop commands nearly every frame of director Nikyatu Jusus feature debut, a breakout at this years Sundance, where it won the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize. In this psychologically complex fable of displacement tinged with supernatural horror, Diop plays Aisha, a woman who recently emigrated from Senegal and is hired to care for the adorable daughter of an affluent couple (Michelle Monaghan and Morgan Spector) living in New Yorks Tribeca neighborhood. Increasingly unsettled by the familys volatile home life, though desperate to make enough money to bring over her young son from Senegal, Aisha begins to unravel, finding her life in Amer