2025 NY Film Festival Main Slate: Palme d’Or Winner ‘It Was Just an Accident,’ Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite,’ More
The New York Film Festival has unveiled its main slate of movies for its 2025 edition.
The 34 films selected include Jafar Panahi’s Cannes’ Palme d’Or winner It Was Just an Accident, Kathryn Bigelow‘s A House of Dynamite, Noah Baumbach‘s George Clooney and Adam Sandler starrer Jay Kelly, Kelly Reichardt‘s The Mastermind, the Laura Poitras- and Mark Obenhaus-directed Seymour Hersh documentary Cover-Up and Mary Bronstein’s Rose Byrne and Conan O’Brien starrer If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. A House of Dynamite is set to get its North American premiere at the fall event in Manhattan, while the others will receive their New York premieres.
Other titles screening at the 2025 NY Film Festival include Cannes winners Sentimental Value, Sound of Falling, Resurrection and Two Prosecutors, as well as former NY Film Festival director Kent Jones’ Late Fame, starring Willem Dafoe and Greta Lee, which will receive its North American premiere.
“Anyone who cares about film knows that it is an art in need of defending, like many of our core values today,” NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim said in a statement. “Across all sections of the festival, the movies we have selected this year suggest that this safeguarding can take many guises: acts of rejuvenation and refusal, expressions of unease and joy, feats of imagination and commemoration. I am particularly struck by the diversity of approaches and forms among the films in this main slate, which affirms that the art of cinema is more than capable of thriving, even in difficult times.”
You Might Also Like
The main slate is made up of movies from 26 countries and features two world premieres, eight North American premieres and 13 U.S. debuts.
The NYFF previously announced its opening night film as Luca Guadagnino’s Julia Roberts starrer After the Hunt, which also features Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield; its centerpiece film as Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother; and its closing night film as Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On?
The 63rd New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center, is set to run from Sept. 26 to Oct. 13.
