In his razor-sharp new drama, Luca Guadagnino gives Julia Roberts one of the most complex and gratifying starring roles of her career as a philosophy professor whose life is thrown into chaos after her protégée (Ayo Edebiri) accuses her longtime colleague and friend (Andrew Garfield) of sexual assault.

Winner of the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion, Jim Jarmusch’s perceptive study in familial dynamics stars Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Cate Blanchett, Vicky Krieps, Indya Moore, Luka Sabbat, Tom Waits, and Charlotte Rampling.

Will Arnett and Laura Dern play a couple whose separation leads to unpredictable midlife self-reckonings, most dramatically in Alex’s wild career pivot to become a confessional stand-up comic. Director Bradley Cooper’s beautifully lived-in third feature is both lacerating and sweet-souled, funny and tender.

Documentarian Gianfranco Rosi’s monumental latest details with pointillist precision and unnerving beauty a region in Naples living under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius and above the simmering Campi Flegrei volcanic caldera. Winner, Special Jury Prize, Venice Film Festival.

A multidimensional work of vision and ambition, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions expands visual artist Kahlil Joseph’s installation into a feature film, an alternately riotous and meditative compendium of the Black experience.

For the past six decades, Seymour Hersh has been at the front lines of political journalism in the U.S. This arresting documentary, released at a crucial moment for the freedom of the press, tells the wide-ranging story of this breakthrough reporter.

A celebrated fashion designer finds it impossible to readjust to her former life after surviving a shocking plunge into an icy lake in Argentinean filmmaker Milagros Mumenthaler’s existential puzzle, a work of compelling psychological interiority.

Pietro Marcello (Martin Eden, NYFF57) brings both great flourish and historical realism to the story of legendary Italian actress Eleonora Duse, who takes the stage again in her sixties as both post-WWI world politics and the aesthetics of theater itself are on the verge of changing forever.

In Claire Denis’s absorbing and intimate film, set at a white-run construction site in West Africa, Albouny (Isaach de Bankolé) demands the return of his brother’s body, killed in a mysterious work accident, but the site’s foreman (Matt Dillon) is clearly hiding the truth.

In the charged, unexpected metacinematic drama from German director Ulrich Köhler (In My Room, NYFF56), an ambitious new movie production of Medea, drastically altered from Euripides’s original play, becomes the center of a series of unresolvable contemporary tensions.

The detection of an unidentified incoming missile sets in motion an escalating series of actions and reactions across all levels of the U.S. government in Kathryn Bigelow’s kinetic thriller, featuring a terrific ensemble cast led by Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, and Gabriel Basso.

Sergio has traveled from Lisbon to Guinea-Bissau to meet with locals and research the possibility of his European company constructing a highway in this epic, scrappy, sexually fluid portrayal of the contemporary postcolonialist liberal mindset. Winner, Best Actress, Cannes Un Certain Regard for Cleo Diára.

The nightmarish stresses of motherhood and work are pushed to their absurdist extremes in Mary Bronstein’s stellar piece of cinematic anxiety, starring a bravura Rose Byrne (Berlinale Silver Bear winner) as a woman on the verge of something far beyond a nervous breakdown.

Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi reaffirms his status as one of this century’s great cinematic heroes in perhaps his bravest film yet, a tale of revenge and moral choice that won him the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Nominated for Best Original Screenplay and Best International Feature Film at the 2026 Academy Awards.

Noah Baumbach’s stellar character study gives George Clooney his best film role in years, as—fittingly—the last great movie star, who may be harboring more regrets than he cares to admit. With Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Emily Mortimer, and more.

The preeminent satirist of our contemporary sociopolitical miasma, Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude returns with this sly, gutting tale of a modern crisis of conscience about a bailiff who evicts a homeless man from a local house to make way for the construction of a boutique hotel.

Two best friends, who can never seem to make that “one last drink” truly the last, aimlessly if coolly navigate the absurdities of middle age in Italian director Francesco Sossai’s genial, wistful hangout movie. Winner of eight David di Donatello awards, including Best Film and Best Director.

In Kent Jones’s marvelously witty second feature, a once-upon-a-time New York poet (Willem Dafoe) gets an ego boost when he is welcomed into the world of an emerging literary salon, but must reckon with the authenticity of his newfound circle of twentysomething admirers.

Charting the gradual evolution of a family in the midst of an irreparable fracture, Hlynur Pálmason’s follow-up to Godland is a poignant domestic drama that observes life’s changes with humor and whimsy, set against the majestic, ever-shifting Icelandic landscape. Iceland’s official selection for Best International Feature at the 2026 Academy Awards.

Every astonishing visual composition carries historical and political weight in the monumental new film from singular Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz, who mounts an absorbing story of colonial conquest and obsession, starring Gael García Bernal as Ferdinand Magellan.

Against a Nixon-era backdrop of alienation and disillusionment, a taciturn family man (Josh O’Connor) makes the rash, largely inscrutable decision to orchestrate a heist at the local art museum in this restrained and often funny anti-thriller from Kelly Reichardt (Showing Up, NYFF60).

Christian Petzold’s (Transit, NYFF56) haunting, beautifully crafted new film stars Paula Beer as a pianist from Berlin who’s taken in by a mysterious woman in an isolated country house after surviving a violent car crash.

In his diabolical new thriller, Park Chan-wook (Decision to Leave, NYFF60) crafts a dark fable about the cutthroat nature of contemporary work culture, starring Lee Byung Hun as a husband and father who takes violent action after being laid off.

Lucrecia Martel’s (Zama, NYFF55) expansive and enlightening first feature documentary takes a sweeping approach to the tragic true story of a member of Argentina’s Indigenous Chuchagasta community who was killed trying to defend his people from being forcibly evicted from their land.

Ira Sachs’s mesmerizing latest film is based on rediscovered transcripts from an unused 1974 interview by nonfiction writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), in which photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) narrates the events of the previous day in minute detail.

This phantasmagoric dream machine from visionary Chinese director Bi Gan (Long Day’s Journey Into Night, NYFF56) is an elusive yet monumental love letter to a century of cinema, unfolding over five chapters that feature a dazzling array of styles and genres.

In this delicate and poignantly autobiographical film from Carla Simón (Alcarràs, NYFF60), 18-year-old Marina negotiates her idealized memories of her parents, whom she lost at a young age, when she arrives in sun-kissed Galicia to meet her extended family for the first time.

The singular Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin (Enys Men, NYFF60) immerses the viewer in the uncanny environments of the small towns along the coast of Cornwall, here spinning a sci-fi-tinged tale of dislocation and regeneration starring George MacKay and Callum Turner.

Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau, NYFF57) returns with a thrillingly unpredictable, shape-shifting epic set in his hometown of Recife during the late 1970s, starring a magnetic Wagner Moura as a man on the run from his past. Winner, Best Director and Best Actor at Cannes. Nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Wagner Moura).

In Joachim Trier’s Cannes Grand Prix–winning follow-up to The Worst Person in the World (NYFF59), Renate Reinsve burrows to the steely core of an acclaimed stage actress reconnecting with her estranged movie director father (Stellan Skarsgård).

The glorious and forbidding Moroccan desert provides the backdrop for this extraordinary psychological journey from Oliver Laxe, a sensory experience of audacity and shock about a middle-aged father (Sergi López) searching for his missing daughter. Joint winner, Cannes Jury Prize. Nominated for Best Sound and Best International Feature Film at the 2026 Academy Awards.

Ghosts of the past walk the rooms and environs of a rural farmhouse in Mascha Schilinski’s Cannes Jury Prize–winning multigenerational saga, which skips back and forth through time, alighting on moments of both horror and grace across a century in the lives of four women.

Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s (My Joy, NYFF48) tense and precise tale of the horrors of totalitarian bureaucracy centers on an idealistic prosecutor trying to expose the mistreatment of a dissident Bolshevik writer during Stalin’s regime.

Over the winding course of one languorous day, a good-natured thirtysomething poet meets his girlfriend’s parents and sister at their suburban home—and his anxieties gradually surface. Hong Sangsoo’s latest keeps revealing new emotional layers.

Jeremy Allen White inhabits a legend in Scott Cooper’s exceptionally moving biographical drama, chronicling the early-’80s crossroads in Bruce Springsteen’s career when he crafted the intensely personal acoustic songs that would become his mythic album Nebraska.

Daniel Day-Lewis roars back to the screen for his first role in eight years in this emotionally charged family drama—directed by Ronan Day-Lewis and co-written by father and son—about lives undone by seemingly irreconcilable legacies of political and personal violence on a path toward familial redemption.

A portrait of one crucial night in the melancholy life of legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart (played by Ethan Hawke, in a tour de force), Blue Moon is a surprising yet entirely fitting addition to the Richard Linklater canon.

Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty, Il Divo) returns to the baroque world of Italian presidential politics, crafting an elegantly restrained portrait of a fictional ruler (Toni Servillo, who won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the 2025 Venice Film Festival) reckoning with age, power, and moral obligation as his term comes to a close.

The 63rd New York Film Festival presented a secret screening of a highly anticipated new film.

The unflaggingly vital American cinema legend gets the definitive portrait his epochal career deserves in Rebecca Miller’s five-part documentary, told through Scorsese’s own words and new interviews with creative collaborators and family members.

The spirit of cinematic revolution is alive and well in Richard Linklater’s affectionate and wildly entertaining passion project, which transports the viewer back to a creative landmark: the 1959 making of Breathless by Jean-Luc Godard.

Brilliantly edited into a gripping and devastating narrative almost entirely from police body-cam footage, Geeta Gandbhir’s documentary is an intimate account of an appalling, racially motivated crime that took place in Florida.

In his unorthodox queer romance, Harry Lighton crafts a film about a sadomasochistic relationship that is both transgressive and disarming, starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård in fearless performances as a mild young man and his leather-clad dom lover.

Rebecca Zlotowski’s unpredictable and playful murder mystery stars an entrancing Jodie Foster, in her first French-language performance, as an American psychoanalyst in Paris whose tightly knit world begins to unravel after the sudden death of a patient.

Sepideh Farsi’s documentary follows photojournalist Fatma Hassouna over the course of a year as she experiences one loss after another while trying to survive in Gaza. Seen entirely in smartphone correspondence, Fatma is our guide to the horror of living under siege.

In his towering new achievement, animator-director Mamoru Hosoda transports viewers to jaw-dropping fantasy worlds, combining weighty Shakespearean themes with wondrous anime imagery as he conjures a phantasmal riff on Hamlet.

In this funny, moving documentary from director Ben Stiller—the most personal film of his career—he tells the story of his parents: the comedy duo of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, who were a beloved mainstay of 1960s and ’70s American culture.

This shorts program includes Radu Muntean’s Index, Gabriel Abrantes’s Arguments in Favor of Love, Abdellah Taïa’s Cairo Streets, and Alice Diop’s Fragments for Venus.

This shorts program includes Bingham Bryant’s Doomed and Famous, Eve Liu’s Nervous Energy, Mary Rose McClain’s February Omen, Nathan Silver’s Carol & Joy, and David Cardoza’s Turtle Sandwich.

Filmmaker Ben Rivers envisions a child-ruled post-apocalyptic world in this enigmatic, ever-shifting road movie, a showcase for Rivers’s awe-inspiring view of the natural world and, in one startling sequence, a surprise Don DeLillo adaptation.

Tsai Ming-liang documents Days star Anong Houngheuangsy in an atmospheric series of landscapes in his home village in Laos in the North American premiere of Back Home, and Heinz Emigholz explores cinema’s own spatial and symbolic dimensions through two Turin landmarks in the world premiere of Ecce Mole.

Bad Bunny collaborator Stillz makes his feature debut with this gangland tale, a Los Olvidados for the LiveLeak era that melds high-speed heists and found-footage textures with supernatural eeriness.

The creative and personal struggles of a queer Moroccan expat are at the center of this endearing, pathos-laden animated feature, both a story of immigrant identity and an innovative view of life in New York City.

Radu Jude melds his vision of modern dystopia with classic vampire mythos in this lacerating, delightfully vulgar critique of AI, capitalism, and cultural degradation.

Daring queer Argentinean auteur Lucio Castro (End of the Century, ND/NF 2019) weaves five chapters in the sexual life of an art student named Adnan (Laith Khalifeh), all of them united by a waggish, erotic magical realism.

Shot on an old Sony Ericsson phone, this melancholic mystery from the intrepid Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze presents the country’s landscapes through a tour of its rural football fields, creating a temporal rhythm and visual texture entirely its own.

Masao Adachi distills six decades as a filmmaker and revolutionary into this biopic of a Japanese outlaw, combining archival material, restagings, and fantasy for a story of terror and resistance.

Lee Anne Schmitt’s essay film is a fleet and intricate account of modern American conservatism, an exegesis on motherhood, and a confession of familial sins that generates the tension and shock of a genre film.

Trương Minh Quý (Việt and Nam, NYFF62) and Nicolas Graux’s 16mm-shot film, an unassuming yet vivid portrait of one Vietnamese Rục family led by Mrs. Hậu, who was born in a cave more than 60 years ago, emboldens one’s love of this earth and the words used to share it.

Shimmering with beauty and freighted with mystery, Gabriel Azorín’s feature debut—set in the vicinity of an ancient Roman bath in the Spanish countryside—is a cosmic hangout film that announces its director as a major new voice.

Rhayne Vermette’s (Ste. Anne, NYFF59) newest feature spins an eerie tale about humanity’s uneasy relationship with the natural world, featuring a mysterious narrative, tactile visuals, and dense soundscapes.

James Benning’s mesmerizing new film spans decades of U.S. history with simple and seemingly minor gestures. The cumulative image is one of a society doomed to cycles of domestic decline and international terror in the name of “peace-making” interventionism.

The newest production from boundlessly imaginative Argentine collective El Pampero Cine (La Flor, NYFF57 and Trenque Lauquen, NYFF60) is a delightful and revelatory spin on a Samuel Beckett play punctuated by music, tennis, and a brilliant turn from Laura Paredes.

Comprising 12 arresting tableaux of the landscapes and shoreline of Fogo Island off Newfoundland, Windward is a work that heightens one’s senses and underscores director Sharon Lockhart’s remarkable eye for color, composition, light, and shadow.

Drawing on MiniDV footage from 2001, when he went in search of an old prison mate in Gaza, Kamal Aljafari’s haunting documentary has been constructed nearly a quarter-century later, both foretelling and mirroring present-day atrocities.

This shorts program includes Basma al-Sharif’s Morning Circle, Oscar Ruiz Navia’s Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain, Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold’s Dooni, Justin Jinsoo Kim’s A Real Christmas, and Maryam Tafakory’s Daria’s Night Flowers.

This shorts program includes Yace Sula’s As Told by a Corpse, Mungo Thomson’s Time Life Volume 15. Monument to a Period of Time in Which I Lived, Lin Htet Aung’s A Metamorphosis, Jorge Caballero and Camilo Restrepo’s 09/05/1982, Marta Popivoda’s Slet 1988, and Whammy Alcazaren’s Water Sports.

This shorts program includes Lucas Kane’s Jacob’s House; Karthik Pandian’s Anoka; and New Red Order’s Give It Back: Crimes Against Realty.

This shorts program includes Sara Magenheimer and Michael Bell-Smith’s Acetone Reality, Nicolas Gourault’s Their Eyes, Toby Lee’s And If the Body, and Carolyn Lazard’s Fiction Contract.

This shorts program includes Blake Williams’s FELT; Jodie Mack’s Lover, Lovers, Loving, Love; Peter Larsson’s Keyhole Conversation, Victor Van Rossem’s toward a fundamental theory of physics, and Jiayi Chen’s As a Tree Walks to Its Forest.

Now recognized as a landmark work of animation, Mamoru Oshii’s cryptic and mesmerizing experimental allegory Angel’s Egg is perhaps his most personal work and a crucially important film in anime history.

Set in 17th-century China, T’ang Shushuen’s groundbreaking debut feature—among the first Hong Kong independent films to garner international acclaim—traces the plight of a widow torn between her love for her daughter and the attentions of a younger suitor.

Ossie Davis’s vibrant and fiercely honest third feature, adapted from J. E. Franklin’s popular off-Broadway play, stars Peggy Pettitt as Billie Jean, a misunderstood young Black woman attempting to build a new life for herself by becoming a dancer.

The Upper West Side comes to life in the freewheeling and dryly comedic fourth feature from actor-director Henry Jaglom, who died in September 2025. Karen Black plays a middle-aged woman who forges a topsy-turvy romance with Jaglom regular Michael Emil.

Among Satyajit Ray’s crowning achievements—albeit one ripe for reappreciation—Days and Nights in the Forest is an astonishing, fully dimensional portrait of a generation of young Indian men yearning for a break with the tyranny of everyday life.

A structurally fascinating and texturally engrossing meditation on revolution, Flora Gomes’s pioneering debut feature follows a wounded soldier’s devoted wife as she heads to battle to be with her husband during the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence.

Suffused with alluring atmospherics and a slight air of the oneiric, Hong Kong-born (and future Éric Rohmer editor) Mary Stephen’s debut feature evocatively traces the uncertain relationship between two Chinese women in Shanghai in 1935.

A decadent late-silent masterpiece, Erich von Stroheim’s epic unfinished swan song pulls no punches in this story of a prince (Walter Byron), the orphan girl he falls in love with (Gloria Swanson), and the mad queen whose jealousy wreaks havoc on everyone involved.

Set amid the Lebanese Civil War, Jocelyne Saab’s fiction feature, which centers on the bond formed between a fortysomething painter and a teenager who grew up in war-torn Beirut, is a striking meditation on humanity’s struggle in the face of unthinkable horror.

Howard Brookner’s thorough, compulsively watchable documentary follows theater artist Robert Wilson (who died in July at age 83) as he sets out to create an epic 12-hour opera, a collaboration between six international theater companies, for the 1984 Summer Olympics.

The biggest action-adventure film ever made in India, Ramesh Sippy’s towering 1975 “Curry Western” is a delirious four-course meal of action, musical numbers, Indian cinema’s most iconic actors, and jaw-dropping widescreen 70mm cinematography.

In this elegant masterwork of Yasuzo Masumura, a widow falls for an idealistic young soldier, but when the Russo-Japanese War breaks out, he’s called to battle, and she goes to extreme lengths to ensure she won’t lose another beloved.

Visionary auteur Lucrecia Martel, whose latest feature and first work of documentary filmmaking, Nuestra Tierra (Landmarks), screens in the NYFF63 Main Slate, delivers the fifth edition of the Amos Vogel Lecture.

Jafar Panahi (It Was Just An Accident) returns to NYFF in person for the first time in 25 years for a special conversation with Martin Scorsese.

NYFF is proud to welcome Claire Denis for a conversation about her iconoclastic, boundary-pushing career, her approach to adapting a work from stage to screen, and her new film’s unflinching indictment of Europe’s colonial past and present, moderated by filmmaker Barry Jenkins.

An in-depth conversation with Palestinian filmmaker Kamal Aljafari will cover his career, his influences and inspirations, and the making of his new film, With Hasan in Gaza.

The stars of two NYFF63 selections, Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon) and Willem Dafoe (Late Fame) discuss their creative philosophies, inspirations, and portraying aging artists on the brink of an uncertain future.

Mark Jenkin (Rose of Nevada) and Alexandre Koberidze (Dry Leaf) pair to discuss their mutual interests in myth and the materiality of cinema, and their proclivity for audacious formal innovation.

Join Noah Baumbach (Jay Kelly) and Joachim Trier (Sentimental Value) for a discussion of their approaches to writing lived-in characters and the collaborations that have shaped their own illustrious bodies of work.

Ben Rivers (Mare’s Nest) and Oliver Laxe (Sirât) pair for a wide-ranging conversation about the making of their new films and their intersecting artistic and thematic preoccupations.

Join Rebecca Miller, Ari Aster, Margaret Bodde, and more for a special panel discussion that will take viewers behind the scenes of Miller’s comprehensive biographical portrait and celebrate the enduring influence and still-evolving legacy of this icon of American cinema.

BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions director Kahlil Joseph, artist Kaneza Schaal, and other artists and thinkers discuss cinema as a force for Black world-making, shaping memory, and imagining new futures.

Kent Jones, Kelly Reichardt, and Lucio Castro join Film Comment editors for a conversation exploring the temporality of cinema, the challenge of being a working artist, and the craft behind their new films.

In this virtual event, Radu Jude will present a compilation of Romanian TikTok videos created in collaboration with scholar Andrei Rus, followed by a discussion on the cinematic and cultural dimensions of this bite-size form.

Join critics Molly Haskell, J. Hoberman, and Beatrice Loayza and Film Comment editors for a spirited wrap-up discussion about the movies they’ve seen in the NYFF lineup.

IndieWire’s Editor-at-Large Anne Thompson and Executive Editor Ryan Lattanzio discuss the fall film festival season, new releases, awards buzz, and industry news in a live recording of their Screen Talk podcast.

Do you want a chance to win tickets to sold-out screenings? The New York Film Festival is proud to welcome back Cinephile for our fourth year of NYFF Trivia Night events during the festival at the EBM Amphitheater!