Here's your slate for the 2024 New York Film Festival

For film buffs on the East Coast, the New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center are some of the best weeks of the year. Hosting both favorites from this year’s Cannes and Venice Film Festivals, as well as some premieres of its own, NYFF is the first chance for American audiences to see some of the year’s most lauded and awarded films before they open wide. 

This morning, FLC shared their Main Slate for the festival, which includes the hotly-anticipated Cannes Palme D’Or winner Anora, starring Mikey Madison. Beloved directors like David Cronenberg and Paul Schrader are set to have films bow at the festival with The Shrouds and Oh, Canada, respectively, while previous Palme winner Mike Leigh will return to the festival with Hard Truths, a reunion with Secrets & Lies star Marianne Jean-Baptiste. 

“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,” Dennis Lim, the New York Film Festival’s artistic director, said in a press release. “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.”

These films join the already-announced Opening Night, Closing Night, and Centerpiece selections. The festival will open on September 27 with Ramell Ross’ Nickel Boys, based on the Colson Whitehead novel of the same name. Steve McQueen’s Blitz, starring Saoirse Ronan, will have its North American premiere as the closing film of the festival on October 10. Finally, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton will team with Pedro Almodóvar for The Room Next Door, the festival’s Centerpiece, which will open on October 4. Single tickets for the New York Film Festival go on sale to the general public on September 17. You can check out the full roster for this year’s festival below.

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