The New York Film Festival (NYFF) has announced the highly anticipated Main Slate selection for its 63rd edition, which will take place from September 26 to October 13 at various venues across the city, including Lincoln Center, BAM in Brooklyn, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Staten Island, and the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens. The lineup features 34 films from 26 countries, including two world premieres, eight North American premieres, and thirteen U.S. premieres.

Among the most notable titles in this year’s edition are several award-winning films from Cannes, including It Was Just an Accident by Jafar Panahi (Palme d’Or), Sentimental Value by Joachim Trier (Grand Prix), Sirât by Oliver Laxe, and Sound of Falling by Mascha Schilinski (Jury Prize). Also featured are The Secret Agent by Kleber Mendonça Filho (Best Director and Best Actor) and Resurrection by Bi Gan (Special Award). From Berlin come If I Had Legs I’d Kick You by Mary Bronstein (Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance for Rose Byrne) and Kontinental ’25 by Radu Jude (Silver Bear for Best Screenplay).

Eleven films in the selection will have their world or North American premieres at the Venice Film Festival before screening at NYFF, including Jay Kelly by Noah Baumbach, Late Fame by Kent Jones, and No Other Choice by Park Chan-wook. The festival will open with the North American premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, feature the North American premiere of Jim Jarmusch’s Father, Mother, Sister, Brother as its Centerpiece selection, and close with the world premiere of Is This Thing On? by Bradley Cooper.

Argentinian cinema will have a strong presence this year with the inclusion of Nuestra tierra by Lucrecia Martel and Las corrientes by Milagros Mumenthaler. Nuestra tierra is a documentary co-produced by Argentina, the United States, Mexico, France, the Netherlands, and Denmark. The film tells the story of Javier Chocobar, a member of the Chuchagasta Indigenous community in Tucumán, who was murdered in 2009 while defending his people’s land from a forced eviction. Through a bold and poetic visual approach, Martel weaves together the trial of the perpetrators, the history of the Chuchagasta people, and the enduring colonial legacy of land dispossession in Latin America.

Las corrientes marks the return of Milagros Mumenthaler and will have its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, in addition to competing at San Sebastián. Starring Isabel Aimé González Sola and Esteban Bigliardi, the film portrays the quiet transformation of Lina, a 34-year-old Argentinian stylist who, after an unexpected episode in Switzerland, returns to Buenos Aires with a profound sense of disconnection that disrupts her daily life. Mumenthaler crafts a psychologically complex portrait with an oblique narrative and refined aesthetic, echoing the work of Lucrecia Martel and Todd Haynes while maintaining a distinct and singular emotional perspective.

NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim emphasized the program’s diversity and commitment: “Anyone who cares about film knows that it is an art in need of defending, like many of our core values today. The films in this edition express renewal, resistance, unease, joy, imagination, and memory.” This year’s lineup spans genres ranging from drama and science fiction to documentary, horror, and comedy, including works that challenge or reinvent cinematic language, such as A House of Dynamite by Kathryn Bigelow, The Mastermind by Kelly Reichardt, and Rose of Nevada by Mark Jenkin.

Some of the boldest and most experimental offerings include BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions by Kahlil Joseph, Resurrection, and Sirât. Urgent social and political issues such as economic precarity, authoritarianism, and colonial legacies are explored in films like Kontinental ’25, No Other Choice, The Secret Agent, Two Prosecutors, The Fence, I Only Rest in the Storm, Landmarks, and Magellan.

Main Slate 2025

After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino) – Película de apertura
Is This Thing On? (Bradley Cooper) – Película de clausura
Centerpiece: Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi)
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph)
Cover-Up (Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus) 
Las corrientes (Milagros Mumenthaler)
Duse (Pietro Marcello)
The Fence (Claire Denis)
Gavagai (Ulrich Köhler)
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)
I Only Rest in the Storm (Pedro Pinho)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach)
Kontinental ’25 (Radu Jude)
Nuestra tierra (Lucrecia Martel)
Late Fame (Kent Jones)
The Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai)
The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason)
Magellan (Lav Diaz)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold)
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)
Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs)
Resurrection (Bi Gan)
Romería (Carla Simón)
Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)
O Agente Secreto (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
Sirât (Oliver Laxe)
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)
What Does That Nature Say To You (Hong Sangsoo)