Opening film | After the Hunt |
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Closing film | Is This Thing On? |
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 26 – October 13, 2025 |
Website | https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff/ |
The 63rd New York Film Festival will take place from September 26 to October 13, 2025 in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center.
Luca Guadagnino's thriller film After the Hunt was selected as the "Opening Night Film" for this edition, [1] Jim Jarmusch's anthology drama film Father Mother Sister Brother was chosen as NYFF's "Centerpiece", [2] while Bradley Cooper's comedy Is This Thing On? was chosen as the "Closing Night Film". [3]
Appearing in the NYFF's "Main Slate" for the first time are Kahlil Joseph, Milagros Mumenthaler, Mary Bronstein, Pedro Pinho, Francesco Sossai, Kent Jones, Hlynur Pálmason, Sergei Loznitsa, Lav Diaz and Mascha Schilinski.
World premieres includes Bradley Cooper's Is This Thing On? , Ulrich Köhler's Gavagai, Ronan Day-Lewis' Anemone, Rebecca Miller's Mr. Scorsese and Ben Stiller's Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost.
The following films were selected to the "Main Slate" section: [4] [5]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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After the Hunt (opening film) | Luca Guadagnino | Italy, United States | |
Below the Clouds | Sotto le nuvole | Gianfranco Rosi | Italy |
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions | Kahlil Joseph | United States | |
Cover-Up | Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus | ||
The Currents | Las Corrientes | Milagros Mumenthaler | Switzerland, Argentina |
Duse | Pietro Marcello | Italy, France | |
Father Mother Sister Brother (centerpiece) | Jim Jarmusch | United States, Ireland, France, Italy, Japan | |
The Fence | Claire Denis | France | |
Gavagai | Ulrich Köhler | Germany, France | |
A House of Dynamite | Kathryn Bigelow | United States | |
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You | Mary Bronstein | ||
I Only Rest in the Storm | O Riso e a Faca | Pedro Pinho | Portugal, Brazil, France, Romania |
Is This Thing On? (closing film) | Bradley Cooper | United States | |
It Was Just an Accident | یک تصادف ساده | Jafar Panahi | Iran, France, Luxembourg |
Jay Kelly | Noah Baumbach | United Kingdom, United States, Italy | |
Kontinental '25 | Radu Jude | Romania, Brazil, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Luxembourg | |
Landmarks | Nuestra tierra | Lucrecia Martel | Argentine, Mexico, France, United States, Netherlands, Denmark |
The Last One for the Road | Le città di pianura | Francesco Sossai | Italy |
Late Fame | Kent Jones | United States | |
The Love That Remains | Ástin Sem Eftir Er | Hlynur Pálmason | Iceland, Denmark, France, Finland, Sweden |
Magellan | Magalhães | Lav Diaz | Portugal, Spain, Philippines, France |
The Mastermind | Kelly Reichardt | United States, United Kingdom | |
Miroirs No. 3 | Christian Petzold | Germany | |
No Other Choice | 어쩔수가없다 | Park Chan-wook | South Korea |
Peter Hujar's Day | Ira Sachs | United States, Germany | |
Resurrection | 狂野时代 | Bi Gan | China, France |
Romería | Carla Simón | Spain, Belgium, Germany | |
Rose of Nevada | Mark Jenkin | United Kingdom | |
The Secret Agent | O Agente Secreto | Kleber Mendonça Filho | Brazil, France, Germany, Netherlands |
Sentimental Value | Affeksjonsverdi | Joachim Trier | Norway, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom |
Sirāt | Oliver Laxe | Spain, France | |
Sound of Falling | In die Sonne schauen | Mascha Schilinski | Germany |
Two Prosecutors | Два прокурора | Sergei Loznitsa | Latvia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Romania, Lithuania |
What Does That Nature Say to You | 그 자연이 네게 뭐라고 하니 | Hong Sang-soo | South Korea |
Film at Lincoln Center announced Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere as the first film of the "Spotlight" section on August 11, 2025. [6] The entire line-up was announced on August 12: [7]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Anemone | Ronan Day-Lewis | United Kingdom, United States | |
Blue Moon | Richard Linklater | United States | |
Grace | La grazia | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy |
Mr. Scorsese (series) | Rebecca Miller | United States | |
Nouvelle Vague | Richard Linklater | France | |
The Perfect Neighbor | Geeta Gandbhir | United States | |
Pillion | Harry Lighton | United Kingdom | |
A Private Life | Vie privée | Rebecca Zlotowski | France |
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk | Sepideh Farsi | France, Palestine, Iran | |
Scarlet | 果てしなきスカーレット | Mamoru Hosoda | Japan |
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere | Scott Cooper | United States | |
Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost | Ben Stiller | ||
Short films | |||
Arguments in Favor of Love | Gabriel Abrantes | Portugal | |
Cairo Streets | Abdellah Taïa | France | |
Carol & Joy | Nathan Silver | United States | |
Doomed and Famous | Bingham Bryant | ||
February Omen | Mary Rose McClain | ||
Fragments for Venus | Alice Diop | France, Italy | |
Index | Radu Muntean | Romania | |
Nervous Energy | Eve Liu | United States | |
Turtle Sandwich | David Cardoza |
The Currents slate includes 16 feature films and 24 short films in five programs, representing 28 countries. The following films were selected: [8]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Back Home | 回家 | Tsai Ming-liang | Taiwan |
Barrio Triste | Stillz | Colombia | |
Bouchra | Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani | Italy, Morocco, United States | |
Dracula | Radu Jude | Romania, Austria, Luxembourg, Brazil | |
Drunken Noodles | Lucio Castro | Argentina, United States | |
Dry Leaf | ხმელი ფოთოლი | Alexandre Koberidze | Germany, Georgia |
Ecce Mole | Heinz Emigholz | Italy | |
Escape / Toso | 逃走 | Masao Adachi | Japan |
Evidence | Lee Anne Schmitt | United States | |
Hair, Paper, Water... | Tóc, Giấy và Nước... | Minh Quý Trương and Nicolas Graux | Vietnam, France, Belgium |
Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes | Anoche conquisté Tebas | Gabriel Azorín | Spain, Portugal |
Levers | Rhayne Vermette | Canada | |
Little Boy | James Benning | United States | |
Mare's Nest | Ben Rivers | United Kingdom, France, Canada | |
Pin de Fartie | Alejo Moguillansky | Argentina | |
Windward | Sharon Lockhart | Canada, United States | |
With Hasan in Gaza | مع حسن في غزّة | Kamal Aljafari | Palestine, Germany, France, Qatar |
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Program 1: Below the Surface | |||
Daria's Night Flowers | گلهای شب ِدریا | Maryam Tafakory | Iran, United Kingdom, France |
Dooni | Kevin Jerome Everson and Claudrena N. Harold | United States | |
Morning Circle | Morgenkreis | Basma al-Sharif | Canada, United Arab Emirates |
A Real Christmas | Justin Jinsoo Kim | United States, South Korea | |
Tigers Can Be Seen in the Rain | Ya se ven los tigres en la lluvia | Oscar Ruiz Navia | Colombia, Canada |
Program 2: Afterimages | |||
09/05/1982 | Jorge Caballero and Camilo Restrepo | Spain, Mexico | |
As Told by a Corpse | Yace Sula | United States | |
A Metamorphosis | Lin Htet Aung | Myanmar | |
Slet 1988 | Marta Popivoda | Germany, France, Serbia | |
Time Life Volume 15. Monument to a Period of Time in Which I Lived | Mungo Thomson | United States | |
Water Sports | Whammy Alcazaren | Philippines | |
Program 3: Common Ground | |||
Anoka | Karthik Pandian | United States, India | |
Give It Back: Crimes Against Realty | New Red Order | United States | |
Jacob's House | Lucas Kane | ||
Program 4: Model Behaviors | |||
Acetone Reality | Sara Magenheimer and Michael Bell-Smith | United States | |
And If the Body | Toby Lee | ||
Fiction Contract | Carolyn Lazard | ||
Their Eyes | Nicolas Gourault | France | |
Program 5: Fields of Vision | |||
As a Tree Walks to Its Forest | Jiayi Chen | United States | |
FELT | Blake Williams | Canada, United States, Spain | |
Keyhole Conversation | Peter Larsson | Sweden | |
Lover, Lovers, Loving, Love | Jodie Mack | United States | |
toward a fundamental theory of physics | Victor Van Rossem | Belgium |
Revivals celebrates works that have been restored, preserved, or digitally remastered. The following films were selected: [9]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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Angel's Egg (1985) | 天使のたまご | Mamoru Oshii | Japan |
The Arch (1968) | 董夫人 | T’ang Shushuen | Hong Kong |
Black Girl (1972) | Ossie Davis | United States | |
Can She Bake a Cherry Pie? (1983) | Henry Jaglom | United States | |
Days and Nights in the Forest (1970) | Araṇyēra Dinarātri | Satyajit Ray | India |
Mortu Nega (1988) | Flora Gomes | Guinea-Bissau | |
Queen Kelly (1929) | Erich von Stroheim | United States | |
The Razor’s Edge / A Suspended Life (1985) | غزل البنات | Jocelyne Saab | France, Lebanon |
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars (1985) | Howard Brookner | United States | |
Shades of Silk (1978) | Ombres de soie | Mary Stephen | Canada, France |
Sholay (director’s cut) (1975) | Ramesh Sippy | India | |
The Wife of Seisaku (1965) | 清作の妻 | Yasuzō Masumura | Japan |