2025 NY Film Festival Reveals Currents Lineup
The 2025 New York Film Festival has announced the selections for its Currents lineup.
The international showcase of daring work from adventurous new voices and inventive artists includes 16 feature films and 24 short films from 28 countries.
The Currents centerpiece selection is the U.S. premiere of Ben Rivers‘ Mare’s Nest, described by Film at Lincoln Center, which presents the NYFF, as “an enigmatic road movie set in a post-apocalyptic world ruled by children.”
Other highlights in the Currents slate include the New York premieres of Radu Jude‘s Dracula and Kamal Aljafari’s With Hasan in Gaza.
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“In a film landscape that is so often homogeneous by design, this year’s Currents lineup is energizing for being a showcase of the boundless possibilities of cinematic language,” NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim said in a statement. “Resurrecting old technologies and subverting new ones, the filmmakers and artists here use an ingenious array of styles and forms to investigate the past and illuminate the present, in the process reminding us of all that cinema can do.”
The Currents lineup will feature the world premiere of Sharon Lockhart’s Windward as well as the North American premieres of feature films Tsai Ming-liang’s Back Home/Hui Jia; Lucio Castro’s Drunken Noodles; Masao Adachi’s Escape/Toso; Trương Minh Quý and Nicolas Graux’s Hair, Paper, Water…; Gabriel Azorín’s Last Night I Conquered the CIty of Thebes; James Benning’s Little Boy; and Alejo Moguillansky’s Pin de Fartie.
The following feature films will get their U.S. premieres in the Currents section: Orian Barki and Meriem Bennani’s Bouchra, Alexandre Koberidze’s Dry Leaf and Rhayne Vermette’s Levers.
And Stillz’s Barrio Triste and Lee Anne Schmitt’s Evidence will receive their New York premieres.
The NYFF previously announced its main slate, including its opening night film, Luca Guadagnino’s Julia Roberts starrer After the Hunt, which also features Ayo Edebiri and Andrew Garfield; centerpiece film Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother; and closing night film Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On?
Additional highlights from the 34-film main slate 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.
The 63rd New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center, is set to run from Sept. 26 to Oct. 13.
