The 63rd New York Film Festival will soon be upon us, running from September 26 through October 13, 2025, and promising a bountiful crop of awards-hopefuls.
Presented by Film at Lincoln Center in partnership with Rolex, NYFF63’s Main Slate will offer 34 features from 26 countries with Luca Guadagnino’s divisive After the Hunt (which world premiered at Venice) opening the Fest and the world premiere of Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On? as the closer.
Jim Jarmusch’s droll Venice Golden Lion winner, Father Mother Sister Brother, will be the Centerpiece.
The Spotlight Series will showcase Daniel Day-Lewis’s award-worthy acting return in the world premiere of his son Ronan Day-Lewis’s debut feature, Anemone. The film also stars Sean Bean and Samantha Morton, all potential Oscar nominees. Quite the family affair, Daniel’s spouse and Ronan’s mom, Rebecca Miller, will present her 5-part documentary on one of America’s greatest filmmakers, Mr. Scorsese.
Celebrated Cannes prize-winners in the lineup include Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident (Palme d’Or); Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value (Grand Prix and Norway’s Oscar entry); joint Jury Prize winners Oliver Laxe’s Sirât and Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling (Germany’s Oscar submission); Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent (Best Director, Best Actor); and Bi Gan’s Resurrection (Special Award).
Berlinale Silver Bear winner for Best Leading Performance, Rose Byrne, stars in Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. And the winner of the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay, Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25 will also screen.
Venice world premieres slated also include, Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, Kent Jones’s Late Fame, Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice (South Korea’s Oscar sub), Gianfranco Rosi’s Below the Clouds, Pietro Marcello’s biopic, Duse, Mark Jenkin’s Rose of Nevada and Kathyrn Bigelow’s riveting A House of Dynamite.
Gael Garcia Bernal plays the titular Magellan in Lav Diaz’s historical epic (The Philippines’ Oscar entry), also screening.
And world premiering, Ulrich Köhler’s thought-provoking Gavagai, where a controversial film adaptation of Medea is at the center of a look at racism, infidelity and betrayal, among other themes.
The Spotlight Gala selection is Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere.
Also part of Spotlight, popular NYFF-alum Richard Linklater returns for the sixth time with Blue Moon, about a special night in the life of lyricist Lorenz Hart as Oklahoma! opens on Broadway, along with Nouvelle Vague, a reimagining of the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless.
Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia will also be showcased. Toni Servillo, a Sorrentino stalwart, won the Venice Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his role in the film.
Jodie Foster makes her French-language cinematic debut in Rebecca Zlotowski’s A Private Life, and the Cannes Best Screenplay winner, Harry Lighton’s queer romance, Pillion, starring Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård, will see it’s NY premiere in the Spotlight series.
Among the highly-anticipated films on the Currents slate, Radu Jude’s epic Dracula and Lucio Castro’s gay-themed Drunken Noodles.
Below are the Main Slate movies. For the full Spotlight, Currents and Revivals Lineup and for tickets visit NYFF63.
63rd New York Film Festival Main Slate
Opening Night: After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino)
Centerpiece: Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
Closing Night: Is This Thing On? (Bradley Cooper)
Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi)
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph)
Cover-Up (Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus)
The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler)
Duse (Pietro Marcello)
The Fence (Claire Denis)
Gavagai (Ulrich Köhler)
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)
I Only Rest in the Storm (Pedro Pinho)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach)
Kontinental ’25 (Radu Jude)
Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel)
Late Fame (Kent Jones)
The Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai)
The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason)
Magellan (Lav Diaz)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold)
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)
Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs)
Resurrection (Bi Gan)
Romería (Carla Simón)
Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho) (Joachim Trier)
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier)
Sirât (Oliver Laxe)
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)
What Does That Nature Say To You (Hong Sangsoo)
