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Festival

New York Asian Film Festival

Through Thursday
Join many filmmakers in person for the 25th edition of the celebrated annual festival
Slide Scary Movies XIV
Festival

Scary Movies XIV

August 12–20
NYC's premium showcase for the best in boundary-pushing horror and genre-bending cinema from around the globe
Slide Free Outdoor Screenings
Series

Free Outdoor Screenings

Through Sunday
In celebration of the World Cup, experience 6 soccer films at Lincoln Center
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New Release

The Hole

New 35mm Print
Tsai Ming-liang's cathartic, funny drama makes its NY theatrical premiere
Slide The Piano
Restoration

The Piano

New 4K Restoration Opens July 24
Jane Campion’s ravishing Palme d’Or winner returns to the big screen
Slide La rabbia di Pasolini + Walk Me Home
Event

La rabbia di Pasolini + Walk Me Home

July 29
Join Film Comment for Pier Paolo Pasolini's rarely screened doc on 35mm and more
Slide 64th New York Film Festival
Festival

64th New York Film Festival

Sept. 25–Oct. 12
James Gray's Paper Tiger is Opening Night selection
Slide The Samurai and the Prisoner
New Release

The Samurai and the Prisoner

Opens July 30
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cannes selection is a meticulously composed whodunit
Slide Late Fame
New Release

Late Fame

Opens August 7
Willem Dafoe stars in Kent Jones’s marvelously witty NYFF63 selection
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New York Film Festival has played a pivotal role in shaping film culture since its inception in 1963 and continues its enduring tradition of introducing audiences to bold and remarkable works from celebrated filmmakers as well as fresh new talent. The 64th edition will take place from September 25 through October 12, 2026.

What’s On

Festival

July 10 - 23

This year’s program features more than 50 filmmakers, ranging from acclaimed veterans to exciting new voices, who will be on hand for post-screening Q&As and special appearances.

Film

Exclusive NY theatrical premiere on new 35mm print

Among the most disarmingly funny and cathartic entries in Tsai Ming-liang’s filmography, The Hole sets one of cinema’s strangest and most tender end-of-the-world romances in a crumbling Taipei apartment block.

Series

July 9 - 19

FLC’s free Summer for the City Outdoor Film Series: Penalty Flicks, part of Lincoln Center’s campus-wide series celebrating the global spirit of soccer and the intersections of arts and sports, takes place July 9–18 at Lincoln Center’s Hearst Plaza.

Film

New 4K restoration opens July 24

Jane Campion’s ravishing, Palme d’Or–winning breakthrough, starring Holly Hunter and Anna Paquin in Oscar-winning roles, returns to the big screen in a new 4K restoration—and still feels startlingly alive.

Film

July 29

This Film Comment program showcasing films renowned critic John Berger shaped, critiqued, or inspired includes a 35mm print of Pasolini’s rarely seen “furious screed against the Western bourgeois world and its hunger for war” and the North American premiere of Timothy Neat’s 1993 feature starring Berger.

Film

Opens July 31 with sneak preview on July 30

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s stately, meticulously composed period drama, set in 16th-century Japan, is a tense and metaphysical whodunit with the director’s characteristic philosophical overtones.

Film

Opens August 7

In Kent Jones’s marvelously witty second feature, a once-upon-a-time New York poet (Willem Dafoe) gets an ego boost when he is welcomed into the world of an emerging literary salon, but must reckon with the authenticity of his newfound circle of twentysomething admirers.

Festival

August 12 - 20

New York City’s premium showcase for the best in boundary-pushing horror and genre-bending cinema from around the globe premieres new works alongside special presentations of spine-tingling classics and rediscoveries, with filmmakers and special guests appearing for post-screening Q&As.

Film

In this delicate and poignantly autobiographical film from Carla Simón (Alcarràs, NYFF60), 18-year-old Marina negotiates her idealized memories of her parents, whom she lost at a young age, when she arrives in sun-kissed Galicia to meet her extended family for the first time.

Film

The singular Cornish filmmaker Mark Jenkin (Enys Men, NYFF60) immerses the viewer in the uncanny environments of the small towns along the coast of Cornwall, here spinning a sci-fi-tinged tale of dislocation and regeneration starring George MacKay and Callum Turner.

Series

October 3, 2026 - June 5, 2027

The Metropolitan Opera’s Peabody- and Emmy Award-winning series Met Opera: Live in HD is back for the 2026-2027 season. Experience operas live from the stage of the Metropolitan at the Walter Reade Theater—specially equipped with high definition screens and surround sound!

The Latest

FLC announces James Gray’s Paper Tiger as the Opening Night selection of the 64th New York Film Festival, presented in partnership with Rolex. The film will make its North American premiere in a gala debut at Alice Tully Hall on Friday, September 25, with Gray and members of the cast and crew in attendance.

Running August 12 through August 20, the 16-film festival will premiere new works alongside special presentations of spine-tingling classics and rediscoveries conjured from the dark recesses of midnight-movie lore, with filmmakers and special guests appearing for post-screening Q&As. 

This week we’re excited to present a conversation from the 2026 edition of New Directors/New Films with Do You Love Me director Lana Daher.

On the latest episode of FLC Luminaries, our video series that spotlights talent at all levels of the filmmaking process who uplift the art and craft of cinema, Rose of Nevada director Mark Jenkin discusses his sci-fi-tinged tale of dislocation and regeneration.

Our 63rd New York Film Festival Talks featured a special conversation with With Hasan in Gaza director Kamal Aljafari, moderated by Film Comment editor Devika Girish.

On the latest episode of FLC Luminaries, our video series that spotlights talent at all levels of the filmmaking process who uplift the art and craft of cinema, Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) director Lucrecia Martel discusses her expansive and enlightening first feature documentary.

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The actor-director returns to discuss his fantastic first feature, exclusively for Film Comment paid subscribers

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey offers up a strangely bloodless vision of Homer’s lively world of men and gods

This year’s edition of the Italian festival devoted to restored and rediscovered films brought the heat

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