2026 New York Film Festival

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The 64th New York Film Festival took place from September 25 to October 12, 2026, in New York City, presented by Film at Lincoln Center. The festival's official poster was designed by the Canadian contemporary artist Marcel Dzama, and is mainly influenced by Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon (1902), Loie Fuller's Serpentine dance (circa 1890s). James Gray's crime-drama film Paper Tiger was the opening night film. Tony Gilroy's drama-musical film Behemoth! was the festival's centerpiece. While Ava DuVernay's documentary film 14th was the closing night film. Starting with this year's edition, in the Spotlight Gala section, the festival will present "NYFF Encounters", an annual commissioning program that invites a filmmaker with a film selected for the Main Slate to create an original short film during the course of the festival. The program's first production is South of Tehran, directed by the Brazilian filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho, which follows the Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi during...

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