Presented by Film at Lincoln Center in partnership with Rolex, the 63rd New York Film Festival takes place September 25 through October 12 at Lincoln Center and in venues across the city, including BAM. The lineup currently includes new films from James Gray, Tony Gilroy, Ava DuVernay, Sompot Chidgasornpongse, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, Pedro Almodóvar, Chris Rock, Werner Herzog, Jesse Eisenberg, Jonathan Glazer, and others.
Join us for exceptional new works from around the world, featuring conversations with filmmakers, industry leaders, and more. Passes are on sale now and tickets go on sale September 15, including screenings at BAM.
Join us for exceptional new works from around the world, featuring conversations with filmmakers, industry leaders, and more. Passes are on sale now and tickets go on sale September 15, including screenings at BAM.
Leadership support for
BAM's strategic initiatives provided by the
Jerome L. Greene Foundation 
Leadership support for
BAM programming provided by
Leadership support for
BAM's strategic initiatives provided by 
Leadership support for
BAM Film provided by
The Thompson Family Foundation
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FilmMy Wife Cries
Fri, Oct 2, 2026
My Wife Cries
Fri, Oct 2, 2026Angela Schanelec’s (Music, NYFF62) formally audacious portrait of contemporary anxieties around love, gender, and trauma concerns a withdrawn construction worker whose wife reveals a shocking truth. -
FilmForeign Travel
Fri, Oct 2, 2026
Foreign Travel
Fri, Oct 2, 2026Ted Fendt’s latest is an exploration of the time, space, and syntax of life and literature centered on a circle of friends in Berlin who meet for a book club tackling the work of magical realist novelist Anna Maria Ortese. -
FilmJoy of Joys
Fri, Oct 2, 2026
Joy of Joys
Fri, Oct 2, 2026Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest)—with the help of London schoolkids—goes behind the scenes at Abbey Road to capture the recording of a charity album from War Child Records, which aids children in conflict zones. -
FilmIn Which Annie Gives it Those Ones
Sat, Oct 3, 2026
In Which Annie Gives it Those Ones
Sat, Oct 3, 2026Featuring the first screenplay by Arundhati Roy (who stars as the titular protagonist’s nonconformist friend), Krishen’s English-language film bounces between hope and cynicism to form a portrait of youth in 1970s New Delhi. -
FilmEverytime
Sat, Oct 3, 2026
Everytime
Sat, Oct 3, 2026After an accident befalls a teenage girl in Berlin, her family and boyfriend drift into a state of suspended grief in Wollner’s atmospheric, constantly surprising new film, winner of the Cannes Un Certain Regard Prize. -
FilmPossible Love
Sat, Oct 3, 2026
Possible Love
Sat, Oct 3, 2026The lives of two couples from different social strata collide in this brilliantly unfolding story of economic precarity, in which a laid-off factory worker and his wife become the subjects for a documentary filmmaker. -
FilmBardi
Sun, Oct 4, 2026
Bardi
Sun, Oct 4, 2026Hadid’s majestic work of earthy imagination follows the rugged, fraternal world of a group of horse-riders in central Morocco, as they take part in an equestrian military ritual that dates to the 16th century. -
FilmMisty Green
Sun, Oct 4, 2026
Misty Green
Sun, Oct 4, 2026In the star-making performance at the center of Chris Rock’s L.A. odyssey, Rosalind Eleazar plays a former actress struggling to make ends meet in an unforgiving Hollywood. -
FilmEverything Else is Noise
Sun, Oct 4, 2026
Everything Else is Noise
Sun, Oct 4, 2026A middle-aged composer allows a friend to use her apartment for a television interview, opening up a quietly revealing space in Nicolás Pereda’s feminist-minded domestic comedy. -
FilmClub Kid
Mon, Oct 5, 2026
Club Kid
Mon, Oct 5, 2026Jordan Firstman’s wildly funny and remarkably assured feature debut about a washed-up thirtysomething New York scenester who discovers he has a 10-year-old British son swerves from irreverent satire to genuine pathos. -
FilmWhat Can’t Be Mentioned + Sounds From Home
Mon, Oct 5, 2026
What Can’t Be Mentioned + Sounds From Home
Mon, Oct 5, 2026Jackie (Tallie Medel) is a social worker in training picking at the knots of her own unresolved issues in microbudget maestro Dan Sallitt’s sequel to his notorious-yet-gentle 2012 taboo-buster The Unspeakable Act. -
FilmFatherland
Tue, Oct 6, 2026
Fatherland
Tue, Oct 6, 2026Oscar nominee Pawlikowski (Cold War, NYFF56) won Best Director at Cannes for his most potent film yet, following novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter (Sandra Hüller) on a German road trip in the aftermath of WWII. -
FilmDao
Tue, Oct 6, 2026
Dao
Tue, Oct 6, 2026French Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis’s (Félicité, NYFF55) ecstatic epic plunges into two separate yet intrinsically interconnected ceremonies: a memorial in Guinea-Bissau and a wedding in Paris. -
FilmNitrate Kisses
Wed, Oct 7, 2026
Nitrate Kisses
Wed, Oct 7, 2026A dizzying mix of archival and original footage, Barbara Hammer’s provocative and pioneering first feature boldly pulls back the curtain on the queer experience. -
FilmClarissa
Wed, Oct 7, 2026
Clarissa
Wed, Oct 7, 2026Oscar nominee Sophie Okonedo stars in twin filmmakers Arie and Chuko Esiri’s tender adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, bringing the 1925 novel to contemporary Nigeria while retaining its spiritual essence. -
FilmDouble Freedom
Thu, Oct 8, 2026
Double Freedom
Thu, Oct 8, 2026Argentinean director Lisandro Alonso expands upon his remarkable first feature, La Libertad (NYFF39), with a contemplative sequel again following woodcutter Misael (Misael Saavedra), who must now take in his mentally unstable sister. -
FilmThe Dreamed Adventure
Thu, Oct 8, 2026
The Dreamed Adventure
Thu, Oct 8, 2026Winner of the Cannes Jury Prize, Valeska Grisebach’s quietly thrilling new film follows a middle-aged archaeologist searching for a disappeared former flame at the fragile boundaries of Eastern and Western Europe.
