The 64th New York Film Festival has revealed its Main Slate: 32 films from 31 countries, including three world premieres, six North American premieres, and 14 U.S. premieres, screening from September 25 through October 12 across Lincoln Center and venues throughout the city Deadline.

James Gray's Paper Tiger opens the festival on September 25. Tony Gilroy's Behemoth! serves as Centerpiece. Ava DuVernay's 14th closes the festival on October 12 — and is one of the three world premieres in the slate, alongside Gilroy's Behemoth! and Mani Haghighi's I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies Deadline.

The slate is thick with Cannes laureates. Andrey Zvyagintsev's Minotaur, which won the Grand Prix — the festival's runner-up honour — screens in the Main Slate, as does Paweł Pawlikowski's Fatherland, for which he won Best Director. Emmanuel Marre's A Man of His Time took Best Screenplay. The Dreamed Adventure won the Jury Prize. All of a Sudden shared the Best Actress award between Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto. Sandra Wollner's Everytime, winner of the Un Certain Regard prize for innovative work outside the main competition, also makes the cut Deadline.

From Berlin, Markus Schleinzer's Rose arrives carrying Sandra Hüller's Silver Bear for performance. La Gradiva, which won the Critics' Week Grand Prize at Cannes, joins the programme as well Deadline.

The directors' roster reads like a roll-call of international festival favourites: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Radu Jude, Lee Chang-dong, Mike Leigh, Pedro Almodóvar, Hong Sangsoo, and Ira Sachs all have films selected. Chris Rock's Misty Green screens after a world premiere at TIFF, the Toronto International Film Festival Deadline.

A few entries carry stories beyond the screen. Julia Loktev's My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile continues a documentary whose first part won numerous critics' awards for best documentary of 2025. Isabelle Stever's I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming is a queer drama set in Ukraine during Russia's invasion. Once Upon a Time in Harlem, about the Harlem Renaissance, was shot in 1972 by William Greaves and finished by his son David Greaves Deadline.

Separately from the Main Slate, the festival will host the world premiere of Godzilla Minus Zero on September 26 as a Spotlight selection Gold Derby. Dennis Lim serves as Artistic Director of the festival, which was launched in 1963 and now screens at Lincoln Center, BAM, Museum of the Moving Image, Alamo Drafthouse, and AMC Bay Plaza Cinema Deadline.

What gives this slate its character is the sheer geographic spread. Thirty-one countries in 32 films, with the world premieres spanning an American historical epic (DuVernay), a studio-scale genre entry (Gilroy), and an Iranian arthouse title with a title that refuses to be abbreviated. The festival's identity — curated rather than competitive, a survey of the year's most talked-about international cinema brought to New York audiences — holds steady.

Passes are on sale through August 13 only Film at Lincoln Center. Individual tickets go on sale September 15 at noon Film at Lincoln Center. The full schedule is slated to launch in late August, with talent appearances announced in early September Film at Lincoln Center.