New York Film Festival has revealed the Main Slate titles for its 62nd edition, which runs September 27 through October 14. The selection includes feature films from 24 countries, with 18 directors making their NYFF Main Slate debut, and two world, five North American, and 16 U.S. premieres. As previously announced, the festival will open with RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” and close with Steve McQueen’s “Blitz” and will feature Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” as its Centerpiece.
The Main Slate includes celebrated films from festivals worldwide including Cannes prize winners: Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light” (Grand Prize), Sean Baker’s “Anora” (Palme d’Or), Roberto Minervini’s “The Damned” (Best Director, Un Certain Regard, shared with Rungano Nyoni), Miguel Gomes’s “Grand Tour” (Best Director), Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” (Best Director, Un Certain Regard, shared with Roberto Minervini), and Mohammad Rasoulof’s “The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (Special Prize). At this year’s Berlinale, Mati Diop’s “Dahomey” received the Golden Bear; Hong Sangsoo’s “A Traveler’s Needs” won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize; “No Other Land,” directed by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor, took the Panorama Audience Award and the Berlinale Documentary Award; and Philippe Lesage’s “Who by Fire” won the Grand Prize of the Generation section.
Directors making their NYFF Main Slate debut are Brady Corbet, Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias, Payal Kapadia, Philippe Lesage, Carson Lund, Pia Marais, Roberto Minervini, Rungano Nyoni, Mohammad Rasoulof, RaMell Ross, Neo Sora, Trương Minh Quý, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Yeo Siew Hua, and the collective of Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor.
“The festival’s ambition is to reflect the state of cinema in a given year, which often means also reflecting the state of the world,” said Dennis Lim, artistic director, New York Film Festival. “The most notable thing about the films in the Main Slate—and in the other sections that we will announce in the coming weeks—is the degree to which they emphasize cinema’s relationship to reality. They are reminders that, in the hands of its most vital practitioners, film has the capacity to reckon with, intervene in, and reimagine the world.”
Screenings will take place at Lincoln Center and in four partner venues across the city: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Staten Island), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) (Brooklyn), The Bronx Museum (Bronx), and the Museum of the Moving Image (Queens).
The full Main Slate lineup is below:
62nd New York Film Festival Main Slate
Opening Night
Nickel Boys
Dir. RaMell Ross
Centerpiece
The Room Next Door
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Closing Night
Blitz
Dir. Steve McQueen
All We Imagine as Light
Dir. Payal Kapadia
Anora
Dir. Sean Baker
April
Dir. Dea Kulumbegashvili
The Brutalist
Dir. Brady Corbet
By the Stream
Dir. Hong Sangsoo
Caught by the Tides
Dir. Jia Zhangke
Dahomey
Dir. Mati Diop
The Damned
Dir. Roberto Minervini
Eephus
Dir. Carson Lund
Grand Tour
Dir. Miguel Gomes
Happyend
Dir. Neo Sora
Hard Truths
Dir. Mike Leigh
Harvest
Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari
Misericordia
Dir. Alain Guiraudie
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
Dir. Julia Loktev
No Other Land
Dir. Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Oh, Canada
Dir. Paul Schrader
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Dir. Rungano Nyoni
Pepe
Dir. Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Dir. Mohammad Rasoulof
The Shrouds
Dir. David Cronenberg
Stranger Eyes
Dir. Yeo Siew Hua
Suburban Fury
Dir. Robinson Devor
Transamazonia
Dir. Pia Marais
A Traveler’s Needs
Dir. Hong Sangsoo
Việt and Nam
Dir. Trương Minh Quý
Who by Fire
Dir. Philippe Lesage
Youth (Hard Times)
Dir. Wang Bing
Youth (Homecoming)
Dir. Wang Bing
