2026 NYFF Main Slate complete list
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MAIN SLATE
"A curated selection of bold and remarkable works by acclaimed directors and emerging talents."
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PAPER TIGER
James Gray
Opening Night
North American Premiere
Main Slate
Paper Tiger
Opening Night is presented in partnership with
Rolex U.S.115 minutes
Adam Driver, Miles Teller, and Scarlett Johansson star in James Gray’s brilliant New York thriller, charting the tragic fallout after a family man is pulled into a shady scheme with Russian criminals by his former cop brother.
BEHEMOTH!
Tony Gilroy
Centerpiece
World Premiere
2026|U.S.| 124 minutes
An American drama of uncommon intelligence, humor, and grace, the latest from writer-director Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton) stars Pedro Pascal in a career-best performance as a cellist picking up the pieces of a fractured life.
14th
Ava DuVernay
Closing Night
World Premiere
Main Slate
14th
2026 . U.S.|100 minutes
Ava DuVernay follows her epochal 2016 documentary 13th with a thrillingly expansive sequel of sorts, which passionately and persuasively details how the tenets of the 14th Amendment, ratified post–Civil War, are now under systematic attack.
9 TEMPLES TO HEAVEN
Sompot Chidgasornpongse
North American Premiere
2026|Thailand / Singapore / France / Norway / China / Hong Kong / Indonesia / Qatar|
140 minutes| Thai with English subtitles
A Thai family accompanies its ailing matriarch on a pilgrimage to nine separate Buddhist temples all in one day in this contemplative spiritual journey from Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s longtime assistant director, Sompot Chidgasornpongse. Thailand’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 2027 Academy Awards.
ALL OF A SUDDEN
Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
U.S. Premiere 2026|
France / Japan / Germany / Belgium196 minutes| French with English subtitles
Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto shared the Best Actress prize at Cannes for Academy Award–winning director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s (Drive My Car, NYFF59) radiant new film about a nursing home director promoting a radical new care program. Japan’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 2027 Academy Awards.
ARTIFICIAL
Luca Guadagnino
In 2003, Soviet-born computer scientist Ilya Sutskever (Yura Borisov) began studying artificial neural networks under University of Toronto professor Geoffrey “Godfather of AI” Hinton (Mark Rylance). A decade later, while employed by Google, Sutskever fatefully crosses paths with a young entrepreneur named Sam Altman (Andrew Garfield), the eventual co-founder and CEO of OpenAI."
A BITTER CHRISTMAS
Pedro Almodóvar
U.S. Premiere
Main Slate Bitter Christmas2026|Spain| 111 minutes|
Spanish with English subtitles
The incomparable Pedro Almodóvar explores the artist’s tenuous relationship with fiction and reality in this film about an actress writing a script inspired by the lives of those around her—which is itself the invention of an Almodóvar-like filmmaker.
CLARISSA
Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri
U.S. Premiere
2026|Nigeria / U.S.|125 minutes
Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo stars in twin filmmakers Arie and Chuko Esiri’s tender adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, which transports the 1925 novel to contemporary Nigeria while retaining the spiritual essence of Woolf’s themes.
DAO
Alain Gomis
North American Premiere
2026|France / Senegal / Guinea-Bissau| 183 minutes|
French, Wolof, Manjak, and Portuguese Creole with English subtitles
French Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis’s (Félicité, NYFF55) ecstatic epic plunges headfirst into two separate yet intrinsically interconnected ceremonies—a memorial in Guinea-Bissau and a wedding in Paris—which Gomis cuts between with kinetic abandon.
THE DAY SHE RETURNS
Hong Sangsoo
North American Premiere
2026| South Korea| 84 minutes| Korean with English subtitles
Hong Sangsoo returns to themes of aging and the creative pursuit, centering on a middle-aged actress whom we come to know through three spellbinding conversations during a press tour for her first film after years of retirement. Preceded by Kleber Mendonça Filho’s South of Tehran.
THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID
Radu Jude
U.S. Premiere
2026| France / Romania|94 minutes| rench and Romanian with French and English subtitles
Radu Jude brilliantly explores Europe’s modern-day power and class dynamics through the trenchant story of a young Romanian woman working for a well-to-do family in Paris, while her own young daughter misses her back home.
DOUBLE FREEDOM
Lisandro Alonso
U.S. Premiere
2026| Chile / Argentina / Luxembourg / Germany / U.K.| 100 minutes|
Spanish with English subtitles
Argentinean director Lisandro Alonso expands upon his remarkable first feature, La Libertad (NYFF39), with a contemplative, elegantly crafted sequel again following charismatic woodcutter Misael (Misael Saavedra), who must now take in his mentally unstable sister.
THE DREAMED ADVENTURE
Valeska Grisebach
U.S. Premiere
202Germany / France / Bulgaria / Austria| 164 minutes|
Bulgarian with English subtitles
Winner of the Cannes Jury Prize, Valeska Grisebach’s quietly thrilling new film about a middle-aged archaeologist searching for a disappeared former flame at the fragile boundaries of Eastern and Western Europe gradually shifts into a wide-ranging crime saga.
EVERYTHING ELSE IS NOISE
Nicolás Pereda
U.S. Premiere
2026|Mexico / Germany / Canada| 70 minutes|
Spanish with English subtitles
A middle-aged composer allows her friend to use her apartment to film a television interview, opening up a quietly revealing space, in Nicolás Pereda’s feminist-minded domestic comedy, an expert blend of realism and subtle absurdity.
EVERYTIME
Sandra Wollner
U.S. Premiere Germany / Austria|121 minutes|
German with English subtitles
After a shocking accident befalls a teenage girl in Berlin, her mother, younger sister, and boyfriend drift into a state of suspended grief in Sandra Wollner’s atmospheric, constantly surprising new film, winner of the Cannes Un Certain Regard Prize. Germany’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 2027 Academy Awards.
FATHERLAND
Paweł Pawlikowski
New York Premiere 2026|
Poland / Germany / Italy / France|
82 minutes|
German, English, French, and Russian with English subtitles
Oscar-nominated director Paweł Pawlikowski (Cold War, NYFF56) won Best Director at Cannes for his most potent film yet, following novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika Mann (Sandra Hüller) on a road trip across Germany in the aftermath of World War II.
LA GRADIVA
Marine Atlan
U.S. Premiere 2026|
France|
145 minutes|
French with English subtitles
Director Marine Atlan’s exceptionally accomplished feature debut turns a high school trip to Naples for a group of French teenagers into a revelatory experience, capturing the intimacies of her youthful characters with pinpoint emotional precision.
I DESERVE A LOVER WHOSE EVERY RISE SETS FIERY DOOMS RAGING ACROSS THE SKIES
Mani Haghighi
Iran| 76 minutes| Turkish and Farsi with English subtitles
Unorthodox Iranian filmmaker Mani Haghighi’s lively, stimulating documentary profiles Nasser Bakhshi, a painter, conceptual artist, collector, and curator—and some would say hoarder—whose monumental archive creates a record of collective memory. Preceded by Kleber Mendonça Filho’s South of Tehran.
NAZA
Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
2026|U.K.|80 minutes| Hebrew and English with English subtitles
Directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the co-directors of the 2024 Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land (NYFF62), NAZA reveals the systems behind Israel’s bombing of Gaza and its mass killing of Palestinian civilians.
I RARELY WAKE UP DREAMING
Isabelle Stever
North American Premiere 2026| Germany / Ukraine| 100 minutes|
Ukrainian with English subtitles
A timely and tender account of internal and external transformations, German filmmaker Isabelle Stever’s striking drama centers on a young queer couple navigating unprecedented waters in Ukraine during the height of the Russia invasion.
THE LONELIEST MAN IN TOWN
Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel
North American Premiere
2026| Austria 86 minutes| German with English subtitles
Vienna meets the Mississippi Delta in Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel’s delightful and poignant portrait of Austria’s preeminent blues musician, Al Cook, who discovers that he must evacuate his beloved apartment, set for demolition.
A LONG WINTER
Andrew Haigh
New York Premiere 2026| Canada / U.K.| 118 minutes
High in the stark Mountain West, Mikey (Fred Hechinger) watches as his family slowly comes undone in Andrew Haigh’s (All of Us Strangers, NYFF61) beautiful yet forbidding 1950s-set tale of disappearance and growth, adapted from a Colm Tóibín story.
THE MAN I LOVE
Ira Sachs
New York Premiere 2026|U.S.|97 minutes
Ira Sachs’s finely detailed period drama about an emotionally complicated cabaret star and performance artist (Oscar winner Rami Malek) living with AIDS in 1980s New York is a reminder that art and imagination are keys to human survival in the darkest times.
A MAN OF HIS TIME
Emmanuel Marre
North American Premiere 2026 France|155 minutes|
French with English subtitles
A mild-mannered bureaucrat (Swann Arlaud) in 1940s Vichy France gradually comes to realize the extent of his government’s collaboration with Nazi Germany in Emmanuel Marre’s quietly sinister portrayal of the incremental evil of fascism, winner of Best Screenplay at Cannes.
MINOTAUR
Andrey Zvyagintsev
New York Premiere 2026|
Latvia / France / Germany|
140 minutes| Russian with English subtitles
Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, Russian filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev’s riveting, razor-sharp tale of personal, patriarchal, and governmental corruption follows a wealthy CEO who begins to suspect his wife is having an extramarital affair.
MISTY GREEN
Chris Rock
U.S. Premiere 2026| U.S.| 105 minutes
In the star-making performance at the center of Chris Rock’s L.A. odyssey, Rosalind Eleazar plays a former actress struggling to make ends meet in an unforgiving Hollywood. The marvelous supporting cast includes Rock, Adam Driver, Daniel Kaluuya, Anna Kendrick, and more.
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II - EXILE
Julia Loktev
New York Premiere 2026| U.S.| 355 minutes| Russian with English subtitles
In the expansive and equally intimate second chapter of her monumental documentary, Julia Loktev traces the paths of a network of fearlessly outspoken broadcast journalists endangered for dissent against the Putin regime across Europe and even farther afield.
MY WIFE CRIES
Angela Schanelec
U.S. Premiere 2026|
Germany / France| 93 minutes|
German with English and French subtitles
Angela Schanelec’s (Music, NYFF62) formally audacious portrait of contemporary anxieties around love, gender, and trauma concerns a withdrawn construction worker whose wife reveals a shocking truth, upending perceptions about their seemingly comfortable marriage.
NAZA
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor
North American Premiere 2026|U.K.| 80 minutes|
Hebrew and English with English subtitles
Directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the co-directors of the 2024 Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land (NYFF62), NAZA reveals the systems behind Israel’s bombing of Gaza and its mass killing of Palestinian civilians.
NOWHERE TO LAY MY EYES
Hong Sangsoo
North American Premiere
Main Slate. 2026 South Korea| 72 minutes|
Korean with English subtitles
Hong Sangsoo follows Sanghee (Kim Min-hee), an experimental filmmaker on a rare visit to see her semi-estranged mother (Choi Myung-gil), in this emotionally grounded yet customarily elusive exploration of aging, family, and the artistic impulse. Winner of Best Direction and Best Performance (Kim Min-hee) at the 2026 Locarno Film Festival.
ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM
William Greaves and David Greaves
New York Premiere 202U.S.| 100 minutes
In 1972, legendary filmmaker William Greaves gathered an extraordinary group of artists, writers, actors, musicians, and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance. After more than 50 years, his son David Greaves has completed his breathtaking miracle of a movie.
POSSIBLE LOVE
Lee Chang-dong
U.S. Premiere 2026| South Korea| 164 minutes|
Korean with English subtitles
The lives of two married couples from different social strata collide in Lee Chang-dong’s brilliantly unfolding narrative about economic precarity, in which a laid-off factory worker and his wife become the camera subjects for a documentary filmmaker. South Korea’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 2027 Academy Awards.
ROSE
Markus Schleinzer
New York Premiere 2026|
Austria / Germany| 94 minutes|
German with English subtitles
Berlin’s Silver Bear winner for Best Leading Performance, Sandra Hüller fully inhabits the daunting role of a 17th-century woman who disguises herself as a male soldier, only to continue the ruse after battle, in Markus Schleinzer’s enthralling fable of faith and social intolerance. Austria’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 2027 Academy Awards.
TENDER LOVING CARE
Mike Leigh
New York Premiere 2026| U.K.| 107 minutes
Mike Leigh’s portrayal of overwhelmed, resilient lives in post-Brexit England should be received as one of his signature works, a film with a leveling sense of humor about the difficulty of asking for—and accepting—help in a world that continually lets us down.
THE UNKNOWN
Arthur Harari
New York Premiere
2026| France|137 minutes|
French with English subtitles
After an impulsive hookup, a Parisian photographer (Niels Schneider) finds that he has somehow swapped bodies with a German actress (Léa Seydoux). Arthur Harari treats this wild metaphysical gambit with the utmost sincerity in this uncanny supernatural drama.