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2026 New York Film Festival

New York Film Festival

25 September – 12 October 2026 · New York City, United States

119 films across 5 sections

  • Opened with Paper Tiger
  • Closed with 14th

Main Slate 34

  • 9 Temples to Heaven
    9 Temples to HeavenSompot ChidgasornpongseThailand · Singapore · France · Norway · China · Hong Kong · Indonesia · Qatar
  • 14th
    14thAva DuVernayUnited Statesclosing film
  • All of a Sudden
    All of a SuddenRyusuke HamaguchiFrance · Japan · Germany · Belgium
  • Artificial
    ArtificialLuca GuadagninoUnited States · United Kingdom · Italy
  • Behemoth! (centerpiece)
    Behemoth! (centerpiece)Tony GilroyUnited States
  • Bitter Christmas
    Bitter ChristmasPedro AlmodóvarSpain
  • Clarissa
    ClarissaArie Esiri, Chuko EsiriUnited States · Nigeria · Egypt
  • Dao
    DaoAlain GomisFrance · Guinea-Bissau · Senegal
  • The Day She Returns
    The Day She ReturnsHong Sang-sooSouth Korea
  • The Diary of a Chambermaid
    The Diary of a ChambermaidRadu JudeFrance · Romania
  • Double Freedom
    Double FreedomLisandro AlonsoArgentina · Chile · Luxembourg · Germany · Italy · Uruguay · United Kingdom
  • The Dreamed Adventure
    The Dreamed AdventureValeska GrisebachGermany · France · Austria · Bulgaria
  • Everything Else Is Noise
    Everything Else Is NoiseNicolás PeredaCanada · Germany · Mexico
  • Everytime
    EverytimeSandra WollnerAustria · Germany
  • Fatherland
    FatherlandPaweł PawlikowskiPoland · France · Italy · Germany
  • La Gradiva
    La GradivaMarine AtlanFrance · Italy
  • I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies
    I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the SkiesMani HaghighiIran
  • I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming
    I Rarely Wake Up DreamingIsabelle SteverGermany · Ukraine
  • The Loneliest Man in Town
    The Loneliest Man in TownTizza Covi, Rainer FrimmelAustria
  • A Long Winter
    A Long WinterAndrew HaighCanada · United Kingdom
  • The Man I Love
    The Man I LoveIra SachsUnited States · France
  • A Man of His Time
    A Man of His TimeEmmanuel MarreBelgium · France
  • Minotaur
    MinotaurAndrey ZvyagintsevFrance · Latvia · Germany
  • Misty Green
    Misty GreenChris RockUnited States
  • My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile
    My Undesirable Friends: Part II – ExileJulia Loktev
  • My Wife Cries
    My Wife CriesAngela SchanelecGermany · France
  • NAZA
    NAZAYuval Abraham, Rachel SzorUnited Kingdom
  • Nowhere to Lay My Eyes
    Nowhere to Lay My EyesHong Sang-sooSouth Korea
  • Once Upon a Time in Harlem
    Once Upon a Time in HarlemWilliam Greaves, David GreavesUnited States
  • Paper Tiger
    Paper TigerJames GrayUnited States · Brazil · Italyopening film
  • Possible Love
    Possible LoveLee Chang-dongSouth Korea
  • Rose
    RoseMarkus SchleinzerAustria · Germany
  • Tender Loving Care
    Tender Loving CareMike LeighUnited Kingdom
  • The Unknown
    The UnknownArthur HarariFrance · Italy

Spotlight 25

  • Bucking Fastard
    Bucking FastardWerner HerzogIreland · United States
  • Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall
    Cameron Winter at Carnegie HallPaul Thomas AndersonUnited States
  • Club Kid
    Club KidJordan Firstman
  • The Debut
    The DebutJesse Eisenberg
  • Edward Said: Between Worlds
    Edward Said: Between WorldsMaiken Baird
  • Fjord
    FjordCristian MungiuRomania · Norway · Denmark · Finland · France · Sweden
  • Godzilla Minus Zero (Spotlight Gala)
    Godzilla Minus Zero (Spotlight Gala)Takashi YamazakiJapan
  • Iron Boy
    Iron BoyLouis ClichyFrance · Belgium
  • Joy of Joys
    Joy of JoysJonathan GlazerUnited Kingdom
  • Making Marie Antoinette
    Making Marie AntoinetteEleanor CoppolaUnited States
  • One More Time
    One More TimeCindy Kleine, André Gregory
  • The Only Living Pickpocket in New York
    The Only Living Pickpocket in New YorkNoah Segan
  • Sixteen Moments of My Life
    Sixteen Moments of My LifeAlbert SerraFrance · Spain
  • A Statement
    A StatementTom McCarthyUnited States
  • You Can See Everything
    You Can See EverythingNathan Fielder, Lance Oppenheim

Spotlight Shorts

  • Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo
    Masao Adachi Takes a Passport PhotoKamal AljafariGermany · France · Japan
  • South of Tehran (NYFF Encounters)
    South of Tehran (NYFF Encounters)Kleber Mendonça FilhoBrazil · United States
  • A Stolen Movie
    A Stolen MovieCamilo RestrepoColombia
  • Torino Shadow
    Torino ShadowJia ZhangkeChina · Italy
  • Screening Room (1968–2026)
    Screening Room (1968–2026)Morgan FisherUnited States

New York Shorts

  • The People's Beach
    The People's BeachJ. WorthamUnited States
  • ee
    eeHeather Landsman
  • The House Call
    The House CallEliza Barry Callahan
  • New York Never Let Me Down
    New York Never Let Me DownCharlotte Wells
  • A Woman’s Place Is Everywhere
    A Woman’s Place Is EverywhereFanny Texier

Currents 15

  • At Night
    At NightBeatrice GibsonUnited Kingdom · France
  • Bardi (currents' centerpiece)
    Bardi (currents' centerpiece)Tala HadidMorocco · France · Qatar
  • A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra
    A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter PhaedraJacqueline LentzouGreece
  • Foreign Travel
    Foreign TravelTed FendtGermany
  • For the Moon
    For the MoonÉric BaudelaireFrance
  • Hanabi
    HanabiAna VazFrance · Brazil
  • Heil Jupiter!
    Heil Jupiter!Carlos ReygadasMexico · Poland · Portugal · Norway · Sweden
  • Life of Jorge Luis Borges
    Life of Jorge Luis BorgesMariano LlinásArgentina
  • London
    LondonSebastian BrameshuberAustria
  • Overt Listening
    Overt ListeningTiffany SiaUnited States · Austria · Germany
  • Red Rocks
    Red RocksBruno DumontFrance · Belgium · Italy · Portugal · Spain
  • The Remotes
    The RemotesJohn TorresPhilippines
  • Suicide Note (1976–1984)
    Suicide Note (1976–1984)Fred CamperUnited States
  • Tomorrow a Long Time Ago
    Tomorrow a Long Time AgoLuise DonschenGermany
  • What Can't Be Mentioned
    What Can't Be MentionedDan SallittUnited States

Currents Shorts 27

Program 2: The Visible Invisible

  • Screening Room (1968–2026)
    Screening Room (1968–2026)Morgan FisherUnited States

Program 1: The Hidden Dimension

  • Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness
    Branching Streams Flow in the DarknessYixuan ZhangUnited States · China
  • Chronicle of Tiredness
    Chronicle of TirednessNatalia MarínSpain
  • A Correspondence
    A CorrespondenceJosh Weissbach, Ben BalcomUnited States
  • Harmony
    HarmonyTatsu AokiUnited States
  • Rebecca's Mess
    Rebecca's MessJamie CreweUnited Kingdom

Program 2: The Visible Invisible

  • The End
    The EndArtavazd PeleshyanArmenia
  • Fevers
    FeversJames RichardsGermany
  • Forever…Forever
    Forever…ForeverJohann LurfAustria · France

Program 3: Surface Noise

  • Day One
    Day OneCameron WordenUnited States
  • Flim Flam
    Flim FlamSiegfried A. FruhaufAustria
  • Interwoven Intervals
    Interwoven IntervalsLaura KraningUnited States
  • Moored Shadow
    Moored ShadowKarissa Hahn
  • Practice Towards Light
    Practice Towards LightJonathan Seungjoon LeeSouth Korea
  • Procedures
    ProceduresSimon LiuHong Kong · United States

Program 4: The Real World

  • Certainties
    CertaintiesCalum WalterUnited States
  • Moon Palace
    Moon PalaceJiaqi YuChina · United States
  • Placeholder
    PlaceholderJesse McLeanUnited States
  • RW-LO
    RW-LOMartine Syms

Program 5: The Material Ghost

  • Elegy for the Forgotten, On an Endless War
    Elegy for the Forgotten, On an Endless WarBani KhoshnoudiIran · France
  • The Flesh of the Mountain
    The Flesh of the MountainAdam PironUnited States
  • National Seating
    National SeatingKevin Jerome Everson
  • The Wayfinders
    The WayfindersPeggy Ahwesh

Program 6: Out of the Present

  • Another Earth
    Another EarthBen RussellFrance
  • Morne Fortune
    Morne FortuneMara Chavez, Doris DuhennoisAustria · Saint Lucia · Martinique · United Kingdom
  • This Suffocating Now
    This Suffocating NowVika KirchenbauerGermany
  • They're Here
    They're HereLaura Poitras, Rachel Lauren MuellerUnited States

Revivals 20

  • Suicide Note (1976–1984)
    Suicide Note (1976–1984)Fred CamperUnited States
  • Amma Ariyan
    Amma AriyanJohn AbrahamIndia
  • The Devils
    The DevilsKen RussellUnited Kingdom · United States
  • The Drift
    The DriftPaula DelsolFrance
  • Gone to Earth
    Gone to EarthMichael Powell, Emeric PressburgerUnited Kingdom
  • Goodbye South, Goodbye
    Goodbye South, GoodbyeHou Hsiao-hsienTaiwan · Japan
  • In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones
    In Which Annie Gives It Those OnesPradip KrishenIndia
  • The Innocent
    The InnocentLuchino ViscontiItaly · France
  • Just Like Weather
    Just Like WeatherAllen FongHong Kong
  • Nitrate Kisses
    Nitrate KissesBarbara HammerUnited States
  • A Spring for the Thirsty (1965-1987)
    A Spring for the Thirsty (1965-1987)Yuri IlyenkoSoviet Union
  • Yesterday Girl
    Yesterday GirlAlexander KlugeWest Germany

Peleshyan Project: Program 1

  • The Land of the People
    The Land of the PeopleArtavazd PeleshyanSoviet Union
  • Mountain Patrol
    Mountain Patrol
  • Seasons of the Year
    Seasons of the Year
  • We
    We

Peleshyan Project: Program 2

  • Beginning
    BeginningArtavazd PeleshyanSoviet Union
  • End
    EndArmenia
  • Life
    Life
  • Our Century
    Our CenturySoviet Union