NYFF63: 63rd New York Film Festival Main Slate Announced
Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) has announced the 34 films selected for the Main Slate of the 63rd New York Film Festival (NYFF63), taking place September 26 through October 13, 2025.
As previously announced, the Opening Night selection is the North American premiere of Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt; the North American premiere of Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother is the Centerpiece selection; and the world premiere of Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On? is the Closing Night selection. Currents, Spotlight, Revivals, and Talks sections will be announced in the coming weeks.
This year’s Main Slate features films from 26 countries, among them two world premieres, eight North American premieres, and 13 U.S. premieres. Acclaimed films from festivals worldwide include Cannes prizewinners: Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident (Palme d’Or); Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value (Grand Prix); joint Jury Prize winners Oliver Laxe’s Sirât and Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling; Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent (Best Director, Best Actor); and Bi Gan’s Resurrection (Special Award). At this year’s Berlinale, Rose Byrne won the Silver Bear for best leading performance for Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, and Radu Jude won the Silver Bear for best screenplay for Kontinental ’25. Of the Main Slate films, 11 are set to premiere at the 82nd Venice Film Festival across various sections—including Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, Kent Jones’s Late Fame, and Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice.
NYFF63 world premieres include Gavagai by Ulrich Köhler (In My Room, NYFF56), an astute drama in which a film adaptation of Medea becomes the center of cross-cultural tensions, and Closing Night selection Is This Thing On?, a keenly observed comedic drama by Bradley Cooper (Maestro, NYFF61 Spotlight Gala) about a couple navigating their recent separation. Filmmakers making their Main Slate debut are Mary Bronstein, Bradley Cooper, Kent Jones, Kahlil Joseph, Milagros Mumenthaler, Mark Obenhaus, Hlynur Pálmason, Pedro Pinho, Mascha Schilinski, and Francesco Sossai.
NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim stated: “Anyone who cares about film knows that it is an art in need of defending, like many of our core values today. Across all sections of the festival, the movies we have selected this year suggest that this safeguarding can take many guises: acts of rejuvenation and refusal, expressions of unease and joy, feats of imagination and commemoration. I am particularly struck by the diversity of approaches and forms among the films in this Main Slate, which affirms that the art of cinema is more than capable of thriving, even in difficult times.”
63rd New York Film Festival Main Slate
Opening Night: After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino) – North American Premiere
Centerpiece: Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch – North American Premiere
Closing Night: Is This Thing On? (Bradley Cooper) – World Premiere
Below the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi) – U.S. Premiere
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph) – New York Premiere
Cover-Up (Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus) – New York Premiere
The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler) – U.S. Premiere
Duse (Pietro Marcello) – U.S. Premiere
The Fence (Claire Denis) – U.S. Premiere
Gavagai (Ulrich Köhler) – World Premiere
A House of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow) – North American Premiere
I Only Rest in the Storm (Pedro Pinho) – North American Premiere
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein) – New York Premiere
It Was Just an Accident (Jafar Panahi) – New York Premiere
Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach) – New York Premiere
Kontinental ’25 (Radu Jude) – North American Premiere
Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel) – New York Premiere
Late Fame (Kent Jones) – U.S. Premiere
The Last One for the Road (Francesco Sossai) – North American Premiere
The Love That Remains (Hlynur Pálmason) – U.S. Premiere
Magellan (Lav Diaz) – U.S. Premiere
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt) – New York Premiere
Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold) – U.S. Premiere
No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook) – U.S. Premiere
Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs) – New York Premiere
Resurrection (Bi Gan) – New York Premiere
Romería (Carla Simón) – North American Premiere
Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin) – U.S. Premiere
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho) (Joachim Trier) – New York Premiere
Sentimental Value (Joachim Trier) – New York Premiere
Sirât (Oliver Laxe) – U.S. Premiere
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski) – U.S. Premiere
Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa) – U.S. Premiere
What Does That Nature Say To You (Hong Sangsoo) – North American Premiere
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