Guide | New York Film Festival

October 3

7:45 PM

October 5

October 9

The Room Next Door

Pedro Almodóvar
2024
Spain
106 minutes

Centerpiece · U.S. Premiere · Pedro Almodóvar, Julianne Moore, Tilda Swinton, John Turturro, and Alessandro Nivola in person at Oct. 4 screenings at Alice Tully Hall

Ingrid (Julianne Moore), a best-selling writer, rekindles her relationship with her friend Martha (Tilda Swinton), a war journalist with whom she has lost touch for a number of years. Almodóvar’s finely sculpted drama, his first English-language feature, is the unmistakable work of a master filmmaker.

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October 4

Blitz

Steve McQueen
2024
U.K.
120 minutes

Closing Night · North American Premiere · Steve McQueen, Saoirse Ronan, and Elliott Heffernan in person at Oct. 10 screenings at Alice Tully Hall

This authentic and astonishing recreation of London during its blitzkrieg by the Germans during World War II, about a working-class single mother Rita (Saoirse Ronan) separated from her 9-year-old son, George (newcomer Elliott Heffernan), pushes the artistry of Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) to ever more impressive levels.

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October 10

October 11

All We Imagine as Light

Payal Kapadia
2024
France/India/Netherlands/Luxembourg
118 minutes
Malayalam and Hindi with English subtitles

Q&A with Payal Kapadia on Oct. 7 & 8

The light, the lives, and the textures of contemporary, working-class Mumbai are explored and celebrated with a vivid, humane richness by Payal Kapadia, who won the Grand Prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for her revelatory fiction feature debut about three working-class women dealing with professional and romantic disruptions.

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October 7

October 8

October 10

Anora

Sean Baker
2024
U.S.
138 minutes
English and Russian with English subtitles

Q&A with Sean Baker and Mikey Madison on Sept. 28

Sean Baker’s screwball comedy about sex, love, and money stars Mikey Madison as an exotic dancer from Brighton Beach thrust into the lap of luxury when she’s whisked away on a whirlwind romance with a wealthy young customer. Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

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September 28

September 29

October 8

April

Dea Kulumbegashvili
2024
France/Georgia/Italy
134 minutes
Georgian with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere

When a newborn baby dies after an otherwise routine delivery, obstetrician Nina falls under suspicion for negligence, her standing in the small town further jeopardized by people’s knowledge that she provides illegal abortion services to local women. Dea Kulumbegashvili’s follow-up to her debut Beginning balances long-take realism and nightmarish expressionism.

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October 7

October 8

October 9

The Brutalist

Brady Corbet
2024
U.S.
215 minutes
English, Hungarian, Hebrew, Yiddish, and Italian with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Brady Corbet, Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, and Stacy Martin on Sept. 28

An accomplished Hungarian Jewish architect and World War II survivor (Adrien Brody) reconstructs his life in the U.S. and enters the orbit of an obscenely wealthy captain of industry (Guy Pearce) in Brady Corbet’s richly detailed, brilliantly acted recreation of postwar America.

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September 28

11:45 AM

October 11

1:45 PM

October 12

By the Stream

Hong Sangsoo
2024
South Korea
111 minutes
Korean with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere

Chu Sieon, a retired professional director, arrives at a university to direct a short theater piece at the invitation of his estranged niece, rebuilding his bond to her and forging a new one with an admiring female professor in this deeply affectionate rendering of the constant process of self-actualization.

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October 4

October 11

Caught by the Tides

Jia Zhangke
2024
China
111 minutes
Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Jia Zhangke on Oct. 8 & 9

The preeminent dramatist of China’s rapid 21st-century growth and social transformation, Jia Zhangke has taken his boldest approach to narrative yet with Caught by the Tides, assembled from footage shot over a span of 23 years. The always captivating Zhao Tao carries this marvelous film about cinema’s ability to capture the passage of time and the persistence of change.

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October 8

October 9

October 10

Dahomey

Mati Diop
2024
France/Senegal/Benin
67 minutes
French with English subtitles

Q&A with Mati Diop on Sept. 28 & Oct. 1

Mati Diop documents the voyage home of 26 treasures of the African kingdom of Dahomey after having been plundered by French colonial troops, centering her brilliant, magical film around contemporary questions of belonging in our postcolonial world. Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2024 Berlin Film Festival.

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September 28

October 1

October 3

October 11

The Damned

Roberto Minervini
2024
Italy/U.S./Belgium
88 minutes

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Roberto Minervini on Oct. 8 & 9

A regiment of battle-fatigued Union soldiers makes its way west, forging ahead to survey the forbidding landscape of the Northwest frontier, in this transporting, existential Civil War drama from Roberto Minervini.

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October 8

October 9

October 11

Eephus

Carson Lund
2024
U.S./France
98 minutes

North American Premiere · Q&A with Carson Lund on Oct. 2 & 3

Set in autumnal Massachusetts, sometime in the 1990s, Carson Lund’s poignant and gracefully accomplished debut feature lovingly nestles in with a pair of amateur recreation league baseball teams as they play one last game at their beloved Soldiers Field before it’s torn down for the construction of a middle school.

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October 2

October 3

October 10

Grand Tour

Miguel Gomes
2024
Portugal/Italy/France
128 minutes
Portuguese with English subtitles

Q&A with Miguel Gomes on Oct. 8 & 9

In this fanciful and high-spirited cinematic expedition, Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes (Tabu, Arabian Nights)—winner of this year’s Best Director prize at Cannes—takes a journey across East Asia, skipping through time and countries with delirious abandon as the world both expands and closes in around an unsettled couple from colonial England.

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October 8

October 9

October 11

Happyend

Neo Sora
2024
Japan/U.S.
113 minutes
Japanese with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Neo Sora on Sept. 29 & 30

Contemporary global anxieties over the gradual sliding into governmental totalitarianism find an original and touching outlet in this resonant drama set sometime in the near future in a Tokyo high school, where best friends Kou (Yukito Hidaka) and Yuta (Hayato Kurihara) run afoul of their disciplinarian principal (Shiro Sano), who has installed a draconian surveillance system.

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September 29

September 30

October 8

Hard Truths

Mike Leigh
2024
U.K./Spain
97 minutes

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Mike Leigh and Marianne Jean-Baptiste on Oct. 5 & 6

Mike Leigh returns to a contemporary milieu for the first time since Another Year for this raw, uncompromising domestic drama starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Oscar nominee for Leigh’s Secrets & Lies) in a gutsy, excoriating performance as a middle-aged, working-class woman whose emotional and physical health problems have metastasized into a profound and relentless anger.

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October 5

October 6

October 10

October 11

Harvest

Athina Rachel Tsangari
2024
U.K./U.S./Germany/France
131 minutes
English and French with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Athina Rachel Tsangari and Caleb Landry Jones on Sept. 29 & 30

Rich in atmospherics and thematic resonance, Athina Rachel Tsangari’s new film, starring Caleb Landry Jones and Harry Melling and adapted from the acclaimed novel by British writer Jim Crace, takes place in a remote village in medieval England marked by superstition and the scapegoating of outsiders.

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September 29

September 30

October 2

Misericordia

Alain Guiraudie
2024
France
104 minutes
French with English subtitles

Q&A with Alain Guiraudie on Sept. 29 & 30

The teasingly entwined ambiguities of love and death continue to fascinate Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake, NYFF51), who returns at the top of his game with a sharp, sinister, slyly funny thriller about a young man who returns to his small hometown in rural France and insinuates himself into the lives of a series of acquaintances.

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September 29

September 30

October 8

My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow

Julia Loktev
2024
U.S.
324 minutes
Russian with English subtitles

World Premiere · Q&A with Julia Loktev on Oct. 6

American filmmaker Julia Loktev, born in the Soviet Union, returned to Moscow in 2021 to make a documentary on the persistence of independent media journalism in Putin’s Russia—just months, as it turned out, before the country’s invasion of Ukraine. Structured in five chapters, Loktev’s film is an extraordinary vérité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety.

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October 5

October 6

October 10

October 13

No Other Land

Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
2024
Palestine/Norway
95 minutes
Arabic, English, and Hebrew with English subtitles

Q&A with Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor on Sept. 29 & Oct. 1

This eye-opening, vérité-style documentary, made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four directors over the course of five years, provides a harrowing account of the systematic onslaught of destruction experienced by Masafer Yatta, a group of Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank, at the hands of the Israeli military.

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September 29

October 1

October 5

11:45 AM

October 6

Oh, Canada

Paul Schrader
2024
Canada
95 minutes

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Paul Schrader on Oct. 5 (joined by Uma Thurman and Michael Imperioli) & Oct. 6

In an unvarnished, commanding performance, Richard Gere plays a celebrated documentarian at the end of his life who has agreed to appear in a film by a former protégé in the hopes of setting the record straight about himself. Paul Schrader’s emotionally naked drama feels like a direct address to the viewer.

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October 5

October 6

October 9

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Rungano Nyoni
2024
Zambia/U.K./Ireland
98 minutes
Bemba and English with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere

A middle-aged man’s sudden death brings about a reckoning with the past for an extended Zambian family in Rungano Nyoni’s scalding drama, which balances domestic realism and expressionistic absurdity with precision.

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October 3

October 5

October 11

Pepe

Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias
2024
Dominican Republic/Namibia/Germany/France
123 minutes
Afrikaans, German, Spanish, and Mbukushu with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias on Oct. 5 & 6

A fascinating, strange but true tale told from the perspective of a sentient hippo—which once belonged to murdered drug lord Pablo Escobar—at the moment of its death, Pepe poses provocative questions about the ever-shifting ecological stakes of life on earth and the nature of being.

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October 5

October 6

October 9

12:30 PM

The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Mohammad Rasoulof
2024
Germany/Iran/France
166 minutes
Farsi with English subtitles

Q&A with Mohammad Rasoulof on Sept. 30 & Oct. 1

Winner of a Special Prize from the jury and three other awards at the Cannes Film Festival after its director escaped a prison sentence from Iran for criticizing the government, Mohammad Rasoulof’s searing drama is an epic of anti-patriarchal political conviction about a judge’s investigator at odds with his progressive daughters.

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September 30

October 1

1:45 PM

October 3

12:30 PM

The Shrouds

David Cronenberg
2024
France/Canada
119 minutes

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with David Cronenberg on Oct. 5 & 6

In David Cronenberg’s sly and thought-provoking latest, techno-entrepreneur Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth. While reeling from the loss of his wife (Diane Kruger), Karsh uncovers a potentially vast conspiracy.

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October 5

October 6

5:45 PM

October 10

October 11

Stranger Eyes

Yeo Siew Hua
2024
Singapore
126 minutes
Chinese with English subtitles

North American Premiere · Q&A with Yeo Siew Hua on Sept. 28 & 30

A young married couple’s baby daughter goes missing and suspicion falls on their voyeur neighbor (Lee Kang-sheng, the star of Tsai Ming-liang’s films) in Singaporean writer-director Yeo Siew Hua’s riveting and unsettling thriller about contemporary surveillance culture and the mysteries of the human heart.

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September 28

7:15 PM

September 30

October 4

Suburban Fury

Robinson Devor
2024
U.S.
115 minutes

World Premiere · Q&A with Robinson Devor on Oct. 9 & 10

In September 1975, Sara Jane Moore fired two shots at President Gerald Ford on a crowded sidewalk in San Francisco’s Union Square. Moore holds the center of this fleet and compelling nonfiction drama from protean filmmaker Robinson Devor, who lends it the feel of a 1970s thriller.

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October 9

October 10

October 13

Transamazonia

Pia Marais
2024
France/Germany/Switzerland/Taiwan/Brazil
112 minutes
English and Portuguese with English subtitles

North American Premiere · Q&A with Pia Marais and Jeremy Xido on Oct. 7 & 8

The only survivor of a plane crash, a young girl is used by her missionary father as a faith healer. Just as she is beginning to have a will of her own, another crisis emerges when loggers encroach on the land, threatening the local tribe in Pia Marais’s mesmerizing morality tale.

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October 7

October 8

October 10

A Traveler’s Needs

Hong Sangsoo
2024
South Korea
90 minutes
English, French, and Korean with English subtitles

North American Premiere · Q&A with Isabelle Huppert on Oct. 2 & 3

Isabelle Huppert is a nomadic Frenchwoman named Iris who drifts into the lives of a disconnected group of people in a Seoul suburb in her third delightful outing with Hong Sangsoo, a gentle exploration of human motivation and the surprising connections between people despite—or because of—language barriers.

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October 2

October 3

Việt and Nam

Trương Minh Quý
2024
Philippines/France/Singapore/Italy/Germany/Vietnam
129 minutes
Vietnamese with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Trương Minh Quý on Oct. 1 & 2

Two young coal miners enjoy secret moments of physical embrace before one of them embarks on a dangerous emigration to another country. From this personal drama, Vietnamese filmmaker Trương Minh Quý digs deeper to excavate the memories and legacies of a nation.

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October 1

October 2

October 9

Who by Fire

Philippe Lesage
2024
Canada/France
155 minutes
French with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Philippe Lesage on Oct. 6 & 7

A getaway at a secluded log cabin in the forest becomes the site of escalating, multigenerational tensions and anxieties in this disquieting, impeccably mounted coming-of-age drama from Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage, who has proven unparalleled in evoking the psychological contours of teenagers finding their paths through treacherous emotional landscapes.

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October 6

October 7

October 8

Youth (Hard Times)

Wang Bing
2024
France/Luxembourg/Netherlands
226 minutes
Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Wang Bing on Sept. 28 & 29

In this enveloping second part of the Youth trilogy, shot between 2015 and 2019, Wang Bing deepens his vérité portrait of a generation struggling to survive on meager wages amidst a nation’s economic expansion, emphasizing the distrustful, increasingly combative relationship between workers and management.

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September 28

September 29

October 11

Youth (Homecoming)

Wang Bing
2024
France/Luxembourg/Netherlands
152 minutes
Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Wang Bing on Sept. 29 & Oct. 1

Wang Bing concludes his monumental Youth trilogy in expansive fashion, giving ever wider scope to the lives of migrant workers in Zhili’s textile factories as they plan to go to their remote hometowns to visit their families and celebrate the festivities for New Year’s break.

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September 29

October 1

5:30 PM

October 12

Spotlight expands the vision of the Main Slate, showcasing a selection of the season’s most anticipated and significant films.

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Queer

Luca Guadagnino
2024
Italy/U.S.
135 minutes

Spotlight Gala · U.S. Premiere · Luca Guadagnino, Daniel Craig, and Drew Starkey in person on Oct. 6

Luca Guadagnino’s wildly ambitious adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s cornerstone of transgressive gay literature finds the Italian director in formidable, gutsy mode, casting Daniel Craig in a transformative performance as Burroughs’s alter ego William Lee, pursuing his erotic desires among American expatriates in post-World War II Mexico City.

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October 6

October 7

October 8

Afternoons of Solitude

Albert Serra
2024
Spain
123 minutes
Spanish with English subtitles

North American Premiere · Q&A with Albert Serra on Oct. 3 & 4

Albert Serra trains a patient and poetic lens on the dazzling pomp and devastating brutality of bullfighting in his new documentary portrait of torero Andrés Roca Rey, expertly balancing the visceral thrill of the battle inside the ring, pitting animal instinct against human technique, with a meditative filmmaking style.

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October 3

October 4

October 11

Apocalypse in the Tropics

Petra Costa
2024
Brazil/U.S./Denmark
110 minutes
Portuguese with English subtitles

Q&A with Petra Costa on Sept. 29 & 30

In this gripping and urgent follow-up to her Oscar-nominated The Edge of Democracy, Petra Costa dramatizes the chilling rise of the far right in Brazil. Apocalypse in the Tropics focuses on how the evangelical movement paved the way for the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro and poses the threat of a national theocracy.

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September 29

12:30 PM

September 30

Elton John: Never Too Late

R.J. Cutler, David Furnish
2024
U.S.
102 minutes

U.S. Premiere · Elton John, R.J. Cutler, and David Furnish in person on Oct. 1

Filled with revealing interviews and rare archival material, this rousing, intensely personal documentary offers keen insight into the life and career of a legendary musician marked by soaring highs and crushing lows, and contemplates a legacy defined equally by advocacy and artistry.

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October 1

Emilia Pérez

Jacques Audiard
2024
France
132 minutes
English and Spanish with English subtitles

Q&A with Jacques Audiard, Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, and Adriana Paz on Sept. 30 (joined by Édgar Ramírez) & Oct 1.

Jacques Audiard’s most ambitious and exuberant film to date, Emilia Pérez is at once a darkly funny crime drama and a jaw-dropping musical, powered by a quartet of superb actors—Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, and Adriana Paz—who shared the Best Actress prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, in addition to the film’s Jury Prize.

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September 30

5:15 PM

October 1

October 11

The Friend

Scott McGehee, David Siegel
2024
U.S.
123 minutes

Q&A with David Siegel, Scott McGehee, Naomi Watts, and Bill Murray on Oct. 3 & 4

This deeply fulfilling adaptation of Sigrid Nunez’s beloved, slyly shape-shifting National Book Award winner features Naomi Watts as a novelist who finds her comfortable, solitary New York life thrown into disarray after her closest friend and mentor (Bill Murray) commits suicide and bequeaths his beloved Great Dane to her.

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October 3

October 4

October 14

I’m Still Here

Walter Salles
2024
Brazil/Spain
135 minutes
Portuguese with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Walter Salles, Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, and Marcelo Rubens Paiva on Oct. 9 & 10

This overwhelming, richly realized political drama from Walter Salles (The Motorcycle Diaries) stays tightly wedded to the perspective of Eunice Paiva (a shattering Fernanda Torres), searching for the truth about what happened to her husband, who was kidnapped by the Brazilian government for criticism of its military dictatorship.

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October 9

October 10

It’s Not Me

Leos Carax
2024
France
41 minutes
French with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Leos Carax on Oct. 2

In his new film, French cinema firebrand Leos Carax lovingly evokes the aesthetics of Jean-Luc Godard, paying aptly cheeky respect to the late New Wave master, his own career, and cinema itself, rummaging through a century of movies to situate his work within a continuum of the medium. Followed by a conversation with Leos Carax.

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October 2

5:00 PM

October 7

Maria

Pablo Larraín
2024
Italy/Germany/U.S.
122 minutes

Q&A with Pablo Larraín and Angelina Jolie on Sept. 29 & 30

In an all-consuming performance at once poignant and imperious, Angelina Jolie becomes Maria Callas, the American-born, Greek opera singer whose voice and intensely dramatic life captivated millions before her death from a heart attack at the age of 53. From the director of Jackie and Spencer.

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September 29

September 30

October 5

October 13

Pavements

Alex Ross Perry
2024
U.S.
128 minutes

North American Premiere · Q&A with Alex Ross Perry on Oct. 2 (joined by Robert Greene, Stephen Malkmus, Joe Keery, and Michael Esper) & Intro on Oct. 4

Fueled by a sardonic, tricky sense of humor, Alex Ross Perry’s very funny sorta-documentary about beloved indie rock band Pavement shows little patience for hagiography—or any other orthodoxy—taking a nonlinear, absurdist approach while evincing a deep love for its subject.

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October 2

October 4

11:30 PM

October 7

A Real Pain

Jesse Eisenberg
2024
U.S./Poland
90 minutes

Q&A with Kieran Culkin, Jennifer Grey, and Ali Herting on Oct. 5 (joined by Emma Stone and Dave McCary) and Oct. 6

Cousins David (Jesse Eisenberg) and Benji (Kieran Culkin), having drifted apart over the years, attempt to reconnect on a pilgrimage to the Polish hometown of their grandmother, a Holocaust survivor. Eisenberg’s work of compassion and maturity alternates nimbly between anxious comedy and meditative drama.

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October 5

October 6

October 13

Rumours

Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson
2024
Canada
104 minutes

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, and Galen Johnson on Sept. 28 (joined by Cate Blanchett and Denis Menochet) & Sept. 29

The world’s wealthy democratic world leaders have come together for the annual G7 summit, yet a major crisis looms on the horizon: potential human apocalypse. This sci-fi pulp satire finds Canadian trickster extraordinaire Guy Maddin and fellow Manitoban co-directors Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson in a particularly wacky mood.

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September 28

September 29

October 13

Scénarios + Exposé du Film annonce du film “Scénario”

Jean-Luc Godard
2024
France
53 minutes
French with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Fabrice Aragno on Oct. 2 & 3

Two years after his death, the world has been gifted two more “last films” by the great Jean-Luc Godard: a quintessential, complexly layered Godard work, concluding with an overwhelmingly poignant appearance by the filmmaker himself the day before his death, and a documentary shot the previous year that affords a remarkable glimpse into the maestro’s agile mind at work.

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October 2

7:00 PM

October 3

TWST / Things We Said Today

Andrei Ujică
2024
France/Romania
87 minutes
English, French, and German with English subtitles

North American Premiere · Q&A with Andrei Ujică on Sept. 30 (joined by Tommy McCabe, Therese Azzara, Shea Grant, and Sarah McCluskey) & Oct. 1

It’s August 1965, and the Beatles have descended upon New York for a sold-out concert at Queens’ massive Shea Stadium. Romanian filmmaker Andrei Ujică has constructed a poignant, distinctive film about that hot summer weekend made up entirely of archival material, from news station broadcasts to 8mm film diaries.

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September 30

October 1

Union

Brett Story, Stephen Maing
2024
U.S.
104 minutes

Q&A with Brett Story and Stephen Maing on Oct. 2 & 3

For their immersive and absorbing documentary, Brett Story (The Hottest August) and Stephen Maing (Crime + Punishment) follow the day-to-day struggles of the newly formed Amazon Labor Union and capture the events that led to their historic 2022 vote.

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October 2

October 3

October 4

Currents complements the Main Slate, tracing a more complete picture of contemporary cinema with an emphasis on new and innovative forms and voices.

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Little, Big, and Far

Jem Cohen
2024
Austria/U.S.
121 minutes
German and English with English subtitles

Currents Centerpiece · World Premiere · Q&A with Jem Cohen on Oct. 5 & 6

In the meditative and expansive new film from Jem Cohen (Museum Hours), an Austrian astronomer named Karl, who has been re-evaluating his work and life after turning 70, travels to a mountaintop on a Greek island in search of the darkest sky against which to view the cosmos.

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October 5

October 6

October 7

October 8

7:00 PM

7 Walks with Mark Brown

Pierre Creton, Vincent Barré
2024
France
103 minutes
French with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré on Sept. 28

Accompanied by a small filming crew, Pierre Creton and Mark Barré follow paleobotanist Mark Brown across the Pays des Caux region in Normandy as he seeks out native plants from which an ancient garden could be created and explains, with the loving tenderness of a true expert, the etymology, beauty, and scientific properties of the region’s flora.

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September 28

September 29

The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire

Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich
2024
U.S.
75 minutes
English and French with English subtitles

Q&A with Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, Zita Hanrot, and Josué Gutierrez on Sept. 28 (joined by Motell Foster) & Sept. 29

Overshadowed by her husband, the poet and politician Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire was a feminist activist as well as a member of the Négritude movement in Paris in the 1930s. For this bold project of reclamation, filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich burrows to the complex truths about a woman, artist, and mother forgotten to history.

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September 28

5:45 PM

September 29

October 4

October 6

bluish

Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky
2024
Austria
83 minutes
English, German, and Russian with English subtitles

North American Premiere · Q&A with Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky on Sept. 28 & 30

A film of deep tranquility permeated by sensations of desire and uncertainty, the latest reverie from Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky transmits the tense unfolding of young adulthood by following two women as they move through their day, a physical part of their urban environment yet set apart in emotional isolation.

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September 28

September 30

DIRECT ACTION

Ben Russell, Guillaume Cailleau
2024
France/Germany
212 minutes
French, English, and Arabic with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Guillaume Cailleau and Ben Russell on Oct. 7 & 8

This detailed portrait of the intricate processes of a political eco-activist group in France, a collaboration between American experimental filmmaker Ben Russell and French artist Guillaume Cailleau, is a work of striking, meaningful duration that shows the stakes, pitfalls, and reverberations of taking a militant stance against the injustices of our times.

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October 7

8:15 PM

October 8

5:00 PM

exergue – on documenta 14

Dimitris Athiridis
2024
Greece
848 minutes

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Dimitris Athiridis and Adam Szymczyk on Oct. 3

Present politics collide with global contemporary art in this epic portrait of the making of the controversial 2017 edition of the influential art exhibition documenta. This fully engrossing documentary follows the curators over two volatile years of inspiration, negotiation, and herculean planning, and reveals how the exhibition itself became a political battleground.

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October 1

7:00 PM

October 12

Fire of Wind

Marta Mateus
2024
Portugal/Switzerland/France
72 minutes
Portuguese with English subtitles

North American Premiere · Q&A with Marta Mateus on Sept. 28 & 29

In the feature debut of Portuguese filmmaker Marta Mateus, a peasant community of vineyard workers at harvest time become characters in a timeless myth. Hiding high in the branches of oak trees from a dangerous runaway bull, they escape into dreams and memories.

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September 28

September 29

Jimmy

Yashaddai Owens
2024
France/Turkey
67 minutes

Q&A with Yashaddai Owens on Sept. 28 & 29

In November 1948, James Baldwin left New York and, thanks to a fellowship grant, relocated to Paris. In his first feature, photographer-filmmaker Yashaddai Owens imagines Baldwin’s first experiences in Paris in impressionistic fashion, shooting in black-and-white on 16mm film.

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September 28

September 29

September 30

October 8

Lázaro at Night

Nicolás Pereda
2024
Canada/Mexico
76 minutes
Spanish with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere · Q&A with Nicolás Pereda in person on Sept. 29 & 30

Nicolás Pereda, whose films elegantly balance wry, naturalistic interpersonal comedy and surreal transcendence, returns with a marvelous inquiry into art-making, storytelling, and the fragile bonds of friendship that takes his blend of the theatrical and the mundane to a new level.

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September 29

September 30

October 1

2:30 PM

The Suit

Heinz Emigholz
2024
Germany/Mexico/Argentina/U.S.
90 minutes
English and German with English Subtitles

North American Premiere · Q&A with Heinz Emigholz on Oct. 6 & 7

That loquacious cynic known as “Old White Male,” played by John Erdman in Heinz Emigholz’s 2020 film The Lobby, returns in this delirious, sci-fi-comic follow-up that covers an even wider spectrum of human absurdity and wrestles with the biggest question mark of all: The Future.

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October 6

5:30 PM

October 7

Universal Language

Matthew Rankin
2024
Canada
89 minutes
Farsi and French with English subtitles

Q&A with Matthew Rankin on Oct. 7 & 8

With deadpan, absurdist charm, Manitoban filmmaker Matthew Rankin, inspired by humanistic Iranian films of the 1970s, triangulates a group of interconnected storylines set in a wintry, bleakly beautiful Winnipeg with surreal, Tati-esque humor.

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October 7

October 8

October 9

You Burn Me

Matías Piñeiro
2024
Argentina/Spain
64 minutes
Spanish with English subtitles

North American Premiere · Q&A with Matías Piñeiro on Oct. 3 & 4

The tragic romantic relationship between ancient Greek poet Sappho and the siren goddess Britomartis becomes the starting point for Matías Piñeiro’s elegantly constructed exercise of research, performance, and interpretation by a group of contemporary women.

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October 3

7:15 PM

October 4

October 7

Currents Program 1: The Will to Change

Adam Piron, Miranda Pennell, Jordan Lord, Cauleen Smith
2024
79 minutes

Q&A with Adam Piron, Miranda Pennell, and Jordan Lord on Oct. 3 & 4

Featuring Adam Piron’s Black Glass, Miranda Pennell’s Man number 4, Jordan Lord’s An All-Around Feel Good, and Cauleen Smith’s The Deep West Assembly.

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October 3

October 4

Currents Program 2: Identification Marks

Chanyeol Lee, Hanna Cho, Samgar Rakym, Ali Tynybekov, James Richards, Tolia Astakhishvili, Morgan Quaintance, John Smith
2024
79 minutes

Q&A with Chanyeol Lee, Hanna Cho, Samgar Rakym, and John Smith on Oct. 4 & 5

Featuring Track_ing by Chanyeol Lee, Hanna Cho, Samgar Rakym, and Ali Tynybekov, James Richards and Tolia Astakhishvili’s I Remember (depth of flatten cruelty), Morgan Quaintance's Efforts of Nature, and John Smith’s Being John Smith.

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October 4

October 5

Currents Program 3: Signal to Noise

Zuza Banasińska, Maiko Endo, Sebastián Schjaer, Danielle Dean
2024
79 minutes

Q&A with Zuza Banasińska, Danielle Dean, Sebastián Schjaer, and Melanie Schapiro on Oct. 5 & 6

Featuring Zuza Banasińska’s Grandmamauntsistercat, Maiko Endo’s Jizai, Sebastián Schjaer’s Like an Outburst, and Danielle Dean's Hemel.

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October 5

October 6

Currents Program 4: Space Is the Place

Christina Jauernik, Johann Lurf, Laura Kraning, Lei Lei, Rhayne Vermette, Richard Tuohy, Dianna Barrie, Malena Szlam
2024
75 minutes

Q&A with Johann Lurf, Christina Jauernik, Laura Kraning, Lei Lei, Rhayne Vermette, and Malena Szlam on Oct. 5 & 6

Featuring Christina Jauernik and Johann Lurf’s Revolving Rounds, Laura Kraning’s ESP, Lei Lei’s re-engraved, Rhayne Vermette’s A Black Screen Too, Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie's The Land at Night, and Malena Szlam’s Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya.

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October 5

October 6

Currents Program 5: Material Worlds

Pablo Marín, Pascal Viveros, Luciana Merino, Jordan Strafer, Zachary Epcar, Rosalind Nashashibi
2024
72 minutes

Q&A with Pablo Marín, Pascal Viveros, Luciana Merino, Jordan Strafer, Zachary Epcar, and Rosalind Nashashibi on Oct. 5 & 6

Featuring Pablo Marín’s Vibrant Matter, Pascal Viveros and Luciana Merino’s Towards the Sun, Far from the Center, Jordan Strafer’s No Spank, Zachary Epcar’s Sinking Feeling, and Rosalind Nashashibi’s The Invisible Worm.

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October 5

5:15 PM

October 6

Currents Program 6: Poetry Is Not a Luxury

Simon Liu, Karimah Ashadu, Maryam Tafakory, Kevin Jerome Everson, Francisco Rodríguez Teare
2024
69 minutes

Q&A with Simon Liu, Kevin Jerome Everson, and Francisco Rodríguez Teare on Oct. 6 & 7

Featuring Simon Liu’s Refuse Room, Karimah Ashadu’s Machine Boys, Maryam Tafakory’s Razeh-del, Kevin Jerome Everson’s Practice, Practice, Practice, and Francisco Rodríguez Teare’s October Noon.

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October 6

October 7

Revivals showcases important works from renowned filmmakers that have been digitally remastered, restored, and preserved with the assistance of generous partners.

NYFF62 Revivals is supported by Anne-Victoire Auriault.

Bona

Lino Brocka
1980
Philippines
88 minutes
Filipino and Tagalog with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere of 4K Restoration

A fierce work of quasi-neorealist melodrama that melds pop cinema instincts and political indignation, Lino Brocka’s 1980 feature endures as a lively, searing parable on the plight of Filipino women under the Marcos dictatorship.

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September 28

5:00 PM

September 30

October 2

October 10

Camp de Thiaroye

Ousmane Sembène, Thierno Faty Sow
1988
Senegal/Algeria/Tunisia
154 minutes
Wolof, French, and German with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere of 4K Restoration

Depicting a too-little-known tragedy from the immediate post-WWII period in Senegal, Camp de Thiaroye was banned in France for more than a decade, yet the film endures as one of cinema’s most precise portraits of both war and colonial racism.

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October 7

October 9

Compensation

Zeinabu irene Davis
1999
U.S.
93 minutes

World Premiere of 4K Restoration · Q&A with Zeinabu irene Davis on Oct. 5 (joined by Michelle Banks and John Earl Jelks) & Oct. 7

Inspired by a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Zeinabu irene Davis’s first feature is uniquely bilingual, employing American Sign Language and title cards reminiscent of the silent era to tell parallel stories of two couples across two different time periods in Chicago.

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October 5

October 7

The Fall of Otrar

Ardak Amirkulov
1991
Kazakhstan/USSR
156 minutes
Kazakh, Mandarin Chinese, and Mongolian with English subtitles

World Premiere of 4K Restoration

One of the most astute historical films ever made, Ardak Amirkulov’s staggering epic (co-written by Aleksei German) concerns the intrigues and turmoil preceding Genghis Khan’s systematic destruction of the lost East Asian civilization of Otrar.

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September 28

October 12

Four Nights of a Dreamer

Robert Bresson
1971
France
82 minutes
French with English subtitles

North American Premiere of 4K Restoration

Perhaps Bresson’s most underrated film, Four Nights of a Dreamer captures a series of meetings across consecutive nights between two young strangers, surrounded by the still-smoldering remains of May ’68, conjuring the majesty and mystery of human connection.

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September 28

October 1

October 7

October 11

Hellraiser

Clive Barker
1987
U.K.
93 minutes

North American Premiere of 4K Restoration

Brimming with perverse sexual tension and exquisitely gross practical effects, one-of-a-kind horror/fantasy author Clive Barker’s singular and iconic first feature creates a wholly unique and powerfully visceral world unto itself.

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September 28

10:30 PM

October 5

October 9

Model

Frederick Wiseman
1981
U.S.
129 minutes

North American Premiere of 4K Restoration

In this pivotal work, Frederick Wiseman sets up shop in New York City’s Zoli modeling agency, housed in a townhouse in the East 60s, exploring each and every angle behind the institution of fashion modeling.

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October 9

5:30 PM

October 11

La Musica

Marguerite Duras, Paul Seban
1966
France
100 minutes
French with English subtitles

U.S. Premiere of 4K Restoration

Marguerite Duras’s filmmaking debut, co-directed with Paul Seban and adapting her own one-act play, captures a delicate and devastating dance among three characters whose paths cross in a small northern French town. Preceded by Chantal Akerman’s J’ai faim, j’ai froid.

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September 28

October 3

1:45 PM

October 6

October 10

Nightshift

Robina Rose
1981
U.K.
68 minutes

World Premiere of 4K Restoration

Action is distilled into an eerie series of moods in Robina Rose’s beguiling film, which takes place in a small hotel over the course of one desk clerk’s night shift, and indelibly conjures a nocturnal state of mind.

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October 8

October 11

Northern Lights

John Hanson, Rob Nilsson
1978
U.S.
98 minutes
English, Norwegian, and Swedish with English subtitles

World Premiere of 4K Restoration · Q&A with John Hanson, Rob Nilsson, Susan Lynch, and Joe Spano on Oct. 6 & 7

Winner of the Camera d’Or at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival, this handmade masterpiece and stirring monument to collectivity dramatizes the formation of the populist Nonpartisan League in North Dakota in the mid-1910s and their struggles against the combined forces of industry and finance.

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October 6

October 7

Reporters

Raymond Depardon
1981
France
90 minutes
French and English with English subtitles

World Premiere of 2K Restoration

Having begun his singular career as a photojournalist, documentary filmmaker Raymond Depardon trained his focus on the press agency he founded in this thought-provoking work on the mutually parasitic (and frequently unrewarding) relationship between photographer and subject.

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September 29

October 2

October 10

The Sealed Soil

Marva Nabili
1977
Iran
91 minutes
Farsi with English subtitles

Q&A with Marva Nabili on Oct. 2 & 5

The earliest surviving Iranian film directed by a woman, Marva Nabili’s astonishing debut is a deftly observant and sensually attuned work that conjures the everyday plight of the female subject under the stifling patriarchy of village life in southwestern Iran.

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October 2

October 5

October 9

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Special Events

Cinephile Game Night: NYFF62 Edition

2024
90 minutes

Free and open to the public!

Looking for a chance to win tickets to most of the most-anticipated sold-out screenings at this year's festival? Film at Lincoln Center is proud to bring back Cinephile for a can't-miss live trivia event featuring a mix of movie trivia and other popular Cinephile.

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September 28

September 29

September 30

October 8

Megalopolis

Francis Ford Coppola
2024
U.S.
138 minutes

Pre-screening panel discussion with Francis Ford Coppola, Spike Lee, and Robert De Niro

Decades in the making and even longer in the dreaming, Francis Ford Coppola’s first feature in 13 years is an epic as visually arresting as it is intellectually ambitious, a formidable capstone in one of the greatest careers in American cinema. With a vivid ensemble cast including Adam Driver, Aubrey Plaza, Nathalie Emmanuel, Shia LaBeouf, Giancarlo Esposito, Jon Voight, and Dustin Hoffman.

San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood

Stanley Nelson
2024
U.S.
60 minutes

World Premiere · Q&A with Stanley Nelson, Rita Coburn & more on Oct. 9

Through never-before-accessed records and archives, historical footage, expert commentary, and interviews with residents, San Juan Hill: Manhattan’s Lost Neighborhood traces the neighborhood’s rise and fall and explores the vibrant people, arts, and culture whose enduring legacy still resonates today.

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October 9