2024 New York Film Festival

2024 New York Film Festival

Festival poster by David Byrne
Opening film	Nickel Boys by RaMell Ross
Closing film	Blitz by Steve McQueen
Location	New York City, United States
Founded	1963
Founded by	Richard Roud and Amos Vogel
Hosted by	Film at Lincoln Center
Artistic director	Dennis Lim
Festival date	September 27 – October 14, 2024
Website	https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2024/
New York Film Festival
2025 2023

The 62nd New York Film Festival took place September 27 to October 14, 2024, presented by Film at Lincoln Center.

RaMell Ross' historical drama film Nickel Boys was selected as the "Opening Night Film" for this edition, ^{[1] [2]} Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door was chosen as NYFF's "Centerpiece", ^[3] while Steve McQueen's Blitz was chosen as the "Closing Night Film". ^[4]

Appearing in the NYFF's "Main Slate" for the first time were Payal Kapadia, Roberto Minervini, Carson Lund, Neo Sora, Julia Loktev, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor, Rungano Nyoni, Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias, Mohammad Rasoulof, Yeo Siew Hua, Robinson Devor, Pia Marais and Minh Quý Trương.

World premieres includes Julia Loktev's My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow and Robinson Devor's Suburban Fury .

Official Selections

Main Slate

The following films were selected to the "Main Slate" section of the Festival: ^[5]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
All We Imagine as Light	പ്രഭയായ് നിനച്ചതെല്ലം	Payal Kapadia	India, France, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Anora		Sean Baker	United States
April	აპრილი	Dea Kulumbegashvili	Georgia, France, Italy
Blitz (closing film)		Steve McQueen	United Kingdom, United States
The Brutalist		Brady Corbet	United States, United Kingdom, Hungary
By the Stream	수유천	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea
Caught by the Tides	风流一代	Jia Zhangke	China
Dahomey		Mati Diop	Benin, France, Senegal
The Damned	Les Damnés	Roberto Minervini	Belgium, Italy, United States
Eephus		Carson Lund	United States
Grand Tour		Miguel Gomes	Portugal, France, Italy
Happyend		Neo Sora	Japan, United States
Hard Truths		Mike Leigh	United Kingdom, Spain
Harvest		Athina Rachel Tsangari	United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, France, United States
Misericordia	Miséricorde	Alain Guiraudie	France, Portugal, Spain
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow		Julia Loktev	United States
Nickel Boys (opening film)		RaMell Ross	United States
No Other Land		Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor	Palestine, Norway
Oh, Canada		Paul Schrader	United States
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl		Rungano Nyoni	Ireland, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia
Pepe		Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias	Dominican Republic, Namibia, Germany, France
The Room Next Door (centerpiece)	La habitación de al lado	Pedro Almodóvar	Spain
The Seed of the Sacred Fig	دانه انجیر مقدس	Mohammad Rasoulof	Iran, Germany, France
The Shrouds		David Cronenberg	France, Canada
Stranger Eyes	默视录	Yeo Siew Hua	Singapore, Taiwan, France, United States
Suburban Fury		Robinson Devor	United States
Transamazonia		Pia Marais	France, Germany, Switzerland, Taiwan, Brazil
A Traveler's Needs	여행자의 필요	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea
Viet and Nam	Trong lòng đất	Minh Quý Trương	Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, France, Netherlands
Who by Fire	Comme le feu	Philippe Lesage	Canada, France
Youth (Hard Times)	青春（苦）	Wang Bing	France, Luxembourg, Netherlands
Youth (Homecoming)	青春（归）

Spotlight

Film at Lincoln Center announced Queer as the first film of the "Spotlight" section on August 08, 2024. ^[6] The entire line-up was announced on August 14, 2024: ^{[7] [8]}

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Afternoons of Solitude	Tardes de soledad	Albert Serra	Spain
Apocalypse in the Tropics	Apocalipse nos Trópicos	Petra Costa	Brazil, United States, Denmark
Elton John: Never Too Late		R.J. Cutler and David Furnish	United States, United Kingdom
Emilia Pérez		Jacques Audiard	France
The Friend		Scott McGehee and David Siegel	United States
I’m Still Here	Ainda Estou Aqui	Walter Salles	Brazil, France
It's Not Me	C'est Pas Moi	Leos Carax	France
Maria		Pablo Larraín	Italy, Germany
Pavements		Alex Ross Perry	United States
Queer		Luca Guadagnino	Italy, United States
A Real Pain		Jesse Eisenberg	United States, Poland
Rumours		Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson and Galen Johnson	Canada, Germany
Exposé du Film Annonce du Film "Scénario"		Jean-Luc Godard	France, Japan
Scénarios
TWST / Things We Said Today		Andrei Ujică	France, Romania
Union		Brett Story, Stephen Maing	United States

Currents

Film at Lincoln Center announced Little, Big, and Far as the Currents section "Centerpiece" on August 15, 2024, alongside the announcement of the entire line-up: ^[9]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
7 Walks with Mark Brown		Pierre Creton and Vincent Barré	France
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire		Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich	United States
bluish		Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky	Austria
Direct Action		Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell	Germany, France
exergue – on documenta 14		Dimitris Athiridis	Greece
Fire of Wind		Marta Mateus	Portugal, Switzerland, France
Jimmy		Yashaddai Owens	France, Turkey
Lázaro at Night	Lázaro de noche	Nicolás Pereda	Canada, Mexico
Little, Big, and Far(currents centerpiece)		Jem Cohen	Austria, United States
The Suit		Heinz Emigholz	Germany, Mexico, Argentina, United States
Universal Language	آواز بوقلمون	Matthew Rankin	Canada
You Burn Me	Tú me abrasas	Matías Piñeiro	Argentina, Spain

Currents Shorts

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Program 1: The Will to Change
An All-Around Feel Good		Jordan Lord	United States
Black Glass		Adam Piron
The Deep West Assembly		Cauleen Smith
Man number 4		Miranda Pennell	United Kingdom
Program 2: Identification Marks
Being John Smith		John Smith	United Kingdom
Efforts of Nature		Morgan Quaintance
I Remember (depth of flatten cruelty)		James Richards and Tolia Astakhishvili	Germany
Track_ing		Chanyeol Lee, Hanna Cho, Samgar Rakym and Ali Tynybekov	South Korea, Kazakhstan
Program 3: Signal to Noise
Grandmamauntsistercat		Zuza Banasińska	Netherlands, Poland
Hemel		Danielle Dean	United States, United Kingdom
Jizai		Maiko Endo	Japan
Like an Outburst		Sebastián Schjaer	Argentina
Program 4: Space Is the Place
A Black Screen Too		Rhayne Vermette	United States
Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya		Malena Szlam	Australia, Canada
ESP		Laura Kraning	United States
The Land at Night		Richard Tuohy and Dianna Barrie	Australia
re-engraved		Lei Lei	United States
Revolving Rounds		Christina Jauernik and Johann Lurf	Austria
Program 5: Material Worlds
The Invisible Worm		Rosalind Nashashibi	United Kingdom
No Spank		Jordan Strafer	Greece
Sinking Feeling		Zachary Epcar	United States
Towards the Sun, Far from the Center		Pascal Viveros and Luciana Merino	Chile
Vibrant Matter		Pablo Marín	Argentina, Spain
Program 6: Poetry Is Not a Luxury
Machine Boys		Karimah Ashadu	Nigeria, Germany, Italy
October Noon		Francisco Rodríguez Teare	Chile, France
Practice, Practice, Practice		Kevin Jerome Everson	United States
Razeh-del		Maryam Tafakory	Iran, United Kingdom, Italy
Refuse Room		Simon Liu	Hong Kong, United States

Revivals

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Bona (1980)		Lino Brocka	Philippines
Camp de Thiaroye (1988)		Ousmane Sembène and Thierno Faty Sow	Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia
Compensation (1999)		Zeinabu irene Davis	United States
The Fall of Otrar (1991)	Отырардың күйреуі	Ardak Amirkulov	Soviet Union
Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971)	Quatre nuits d'un rêveur	Robert Bresson	France
Hellraiser (1987)		Clive Barker	United Kingdom
J’ai faim, j’ai froid (1984)		Chantal Akerman	France
La Musica (1967)		Marguerite Duras and Paul Seban
Model (1981)		Frederick Wiseman	United States
Nightshift (1981)		Robina Rose	United Kingdom
Northern Lights (1978)		John Hanson and Rob Nilsson	United States
Reporters (1981)		Raymond Depardon	France
The Sealed Soil (1977)	خاک سر به مهر	Marva Nabili	Iran

References

1. Center, Film at Lincoln (2024-07-22). "RaMell Ross's Nickel Boys Will Open the 62nd New York Film Festival". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
2. Goldsmith, Jill (2024-07-22). "RaMell Ross' 'Nickel Boys' To Open New York Film Festival". Deadline. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
3. Center, Film at Lincoln (2024-08-01). "Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door Is Centerpiece of the 62nd New York Film Festival". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
4. Center, Film at Lincoln (2024-07-25). "Steve McQueen's Blitz to Make North American Premiere as Closing Night of the 62nd New York Film Festival". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
5. Center, Film at Lincoln (2024-08-06). "62nd New York Film Festival Main Slate Announced". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2024-08-06.
6. Center, Film at Lincoln (2024-08-08). "Luca Guadagnino's Queer Announced as Spotlight Gala of the 62nd New York Film Festival". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2024-08-08.
7. Center, Film at Lincoln (2024-08-14). "62nd New York Film Festival Spotlight Announced". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2024-08-14.
8. "Afternoons of Solitude". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2024-08-31.
9. Center, Film at Lincoln (2024-08-15). "62nd New York Film Festival Currents Announced". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2024-08-15.