NYFF64 – New York Film Festival 64th Edition

Among the highlights of this 64th edition, the festival welcomes French-Senegalese filmmaker and former Villa Albertine resident Alain Gomis with the North American premiere of his latest feature Dao. A remarkable cinematic experience, Gomis’s epic illustrates the power and persistence of African diaspora traditions.

Also featured in the lineup are many Cannes favorites including, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi ‘s All of a Sudden (Best Actress for Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto), Emmanuel Marre’s A Man of His Time (Best Screenplay Award), Valeska Grisebach’s The Dreamed Adventure (Jury Prize), Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Minotaur (Grand Prix), Arthur Harari’s new psychological fantasy film starring Léa Seydoux and Niels Schneider, The Unknown, Marine Atlan’s La Gradiva (Grand Prize at the 2026 Cannes Critics’ Week), as well as the Louis Clichy’s gorgeous hand-painted animation film, Iron boy (winner of the Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section).

The 64th edition of the New York Film Festival is presented by Film at Lincoln Center, with the support of Villa Albertine. 

Learn more about the French films and French co-productions in this year’s lineup below.

Main Slate

• All of a Sudden (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) 
• Dao (Alain Gomis) and Free Talk: Alain Gomis & Arie and Chuko Esiri
• The Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude)  
• The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach) 
• Fatherland (Paweł Pawlikowski) 
• La Gradiva (Marine Atlan) 
• A Man of His Time (Emmanuel Marre)  
• Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev)  
• My Wife Cries (Angela Schanelec) 
• The Unknown (Arthur Harari)  
• 9 Temples to Heaven (Sompot Chidgasornpongse) 

Spotlight

• Iron Boy (Louis Clichy) Animation 
• Fjord (Cristian Mungiu) 
• Sixteen Moments of My Life (Albert Serra)  

Currents

• Bardi (Tala Hadid)  
• At Night (Beatrice Gibson) 
• For the Moon (Éric Baudelaire) 
• Red Rocks (Bruno Dumont) 
• Hanabi (Ana Vaz) 

Revivals

• The Drift (Paula Delsol)  

French Shorts

• Morne Fortune (Mara Chavez and Doris Duhennois)  
• Another Earth (Ben Russell)  
• Elegy for the Forgotten, On an Endless War (Bani Khoshnoudi)  
• Forever…Forever (Johann Lurf)  
• Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo (Kamal Aljafari)

Discover the full lineup here.