Watch the NYFF63 Trailer and Enter Our Annual Contest to Win Tickets!

September 18, 2025

With only eight days remaining until Opening Night of the 63rd New York Film Festival, we’re thrilled to unveil this year’s official trailer! Featuring selections from the Main Slate, Spotlight, Currents, and Revivals sections (explore here), the trailer offers a memorable snapshot of this year’s offerings, with exclusive first looks at the season’s most-anticipated films. The trailer was edited by Jump Cut and features music from Oliver Laxe’s NYFF63 Main Slate selection Sirât, composed by Kangding Ray.

As seasoned festivalgoers know, with each new NYFF trailer comes the annual NYFF Trailer Contest! In order to enter, all you have to do is fill out this form with the titles of each NYFF selection you spot in the NYFF63 trailer, in the order in which they appear. The deadline to submit is Tuesday, September 23 at 11:59pm ET. The entrant with the most correct selections will win a pair of tickets to this year’s festival!

Tickets are now on sale—see all available tickets here!

Update: Congrats to the eight winners who guessed all films correctly: Matthew T., Michael M., Tarek S., Mark M., Elijah S., Miakoda G., Alicia P., and Blake A. You will be contacted by Sept. 26 to claim your free tickets to select screenings. See the full list of clips revealed below.

  • Gavagai
  • Sentimental Value
  • Father Mother Sister Brother
  • Jay Kelly
  • Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
  • Is This Thing On?
  • BLKNWS
  • Magellan
  • House Of Dynamite
  • Cover-Up
  • If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
  • Hair, Paper, Water
  • Mare’s Nest
  • Is This Thing On?
  • Mr. Scorsese
  • After the Hunt
  • Late Fame
  • Sirāt
  • Last One for the Road
  • Anoka
  • Dooni
  • Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars
  • Black Girl
  • Pillion
  • The Secret Agent
  • Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
  • Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
  • The Mastermind
  • Anemone
  • Blue Moon
  • After The Hunt
  • With Hasan in Gaza
  • Sentimental Value
  • The Love that Remains
  • Angel’s Egg
  • Queen Kelly
  • Peter Hujar’s Day
  • No Other Choice
  • I Only Rest in the Storm
  • Pin de Fartie
  • Blue Moon
  • A Private Life
  • Resurrection
  • Miroirs No. 3
  • Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost
  • Carol & Joy
  • Nouvelle Vague
  • Turtle Sandwich
  • Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes
  • Bouchra
  • What Does that Nature Say to You
  • It Was Only an Accident
  • Drunken Noodles
  • Below the Clouds
  • The Perfect Neighbor
  • Sholay
  • Days and Nights in the Forest
  • La Grazia
  • Rose of Nevada
  • Two Prosecutors (2-shot)
  • Arguments in Favor of Love
  • The Currents
  • Father Mother Sister Brother
  • Sound of Falling
  • Ombres de soie
  • Dracula
  • Toward a Fundamental Theory of Physics
  • House of Dynamite
  • Scarlet
  • Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
  • Kontinental 25