New York Film Festival Announces Main Slate for Its 60th Edition

Davy Chou (New Directors/New Films 2017, Margaret Brown (ND/NF 2017), Laura Citarella, Alice Dip (ND/NF 2021, Art of the Real 2022), Mark Jenkin, Marie Kreutzer (ND/NF 2019), Marie Citarella, Ryuji Oka, and Huang Ji (ND/NF2015).

Hong Sangsoo is one of the returning filmmakers. He marks his 18th and 19th film festival selections, with The Novelist’s Film, Jafar Panahi and Verena Paravel, Lucien Castaing–Taylor, and Kelly Reichardt.

This year, the festival does not require proof of vaccination.

The festival is September 30-October 16, at Lincoln Center, and other venues in the five boroughs.However, masks will be required.

In the coming weeks, we will announce lineups for the Currents and Revivals, Spotlight, Talks and Talks sections, and other fest features.

According to reports, Noah Baumbach’s White Noise and Elegance Bratton’s narrative debut The Inspection will open the festival. The Centerpiece film is Laura Poitras’ documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed. The NYFF 60th Anniversary Screening Event will feature James Gray’s Armageddon Time, which celebrates the New York Film Festival’s enduring spirit.

Dennis Lim, the fest’s artistic director, stated that “If there’s one thing we can learn from this year’s Main Slate it’s cinema’s unlimited capacity for renewal.” The program’s films show that renewal can take many forms. There are stunning debuts, veteran filmmakers pulling off new tricks and filmmakers from all walks of the film industry looking for new forms of representation and expression. We are thrilled to share the diversity and eclecticism of these films with our audiences.