New York Film Festival Unveils 2024 Lineup: Sean Bakers Anora, Paul Schraders O

Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-awarded dramedy “Anora” and other Cannes prizewinners, such as Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light” and Roberto Minervini’s “The Damned,” will play at this year’s New York Film Festival.

Film at Lincoln Center, which presents the annual fete, on Tuesday announced the 33 films that comprise the main slate of the 62nd edition. This year’s lineup includes new works from returning NYFF directors, such as David Cronenberg with “The Shrouds,” Alain Guiraudie with “Misericordia,” Mike Leigh with “Hard Truths” and Paul Schrader with “Oh, Canada.” Several directors will make their festival debut, including Brady Corbet with “The Brutalist,” RaMell Ross with “Nickel Boys” and Kapadia with “All We Imagine as Light.”

Many of those films have (or will have) screened at Cannes, Berlinale and Venice film festivals before making their way to New York. NYFF will host two world premieres: Robinson Devor’s “Suburban Fury,” a nonfiction portrait of would-be presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore, as well as director Julia Loktev’s “My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow,” a documentary on the persistence of independent journalism in Putin’s Russia during the period leading up to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

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“The festival’s ambition is to reflect the state of cinema in a given year, which often means also reflecting the state of the world,” said Dennis Lim, New York Film Festival’s artistic director. “The most notable thing about the films in the main slate — and in the other sections that we will announce in the coming weeks — is the degree to which they emphasize cinema’s relationship to reality. They are reminders that, in the hands of its most vital practitioners, film has the capacity to reckon with, intervene in, and reimagine the world.”

NYFF will take place from Sept. 27 through Oct. 14 with screenings held at four additional venues across the city: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Staten Island), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) (Brooklyn), The Bronx Museum (Bronx), and the Museum of the Moving Image (Queens).

As previously announced, Ross’ historical drama “Nickel Boys” is the opening night film, Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” is the centerpiece and Steve McQueen’s historical drama “Blitz,” starring Saoirse Ronan, is closing the festival.

See the full 62nd New York Film Festival slate:

Opening Night
Nickel Boys
Dir. RaMell Ross

Centerpiece
The Room Next Door
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar

Closing Night
Blitz
Dir. Steve McQueen

All We Imagine as Light
Dir. Payal Kapadia

Anora
Dir. Sean Baker

April
Dir. Dea Kulumbegashvili

The Brutalist
Dir. Brady Corbet

By the Stream
Dir. Hong Sangsoo

Caught by the Tides
Dir. Jia Zhangke

Dahomey
Dir. Mati Diop

The Damned
Dir. Roberto Minervini

Eephus
Dir. Carson Lund

Grand Tour
Dir. Miguel Gomes

Happyend
Dir. Neo Sora

Hard Truths
Dir. Mike Leigh

Harvest
Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari

Misericordia
Dir. Alain Guiraudie

My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
Dir. Julia Loktev

No Other Land
Dir. Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor

Oh, Canada
Dir. Paul Schrader

On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Dir. Rungano Nyoni

Pepe
Dir. Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias

The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Dir. Mohammad Rasoulof

The Shrouds
Dir. David Cronenberg

Stranger Eyes
Dir. Yeo Siew Hua

Suburban Fury
Dir. Robinson Devor

Transamazonia
Dir. Pia Marais

A Traveler’s Needs
Dir. Hong Sangsoo

Việt and Nam
Dir. Trương Minh Quý

Who by Fire
Dir. Philippe Lesage

Youth (Hard Times)
Dir. Wang Bing

Youth (Homecoming)
Dir. Wang Bing

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