The 64th New York Film Festival continues to build out its high-profile late additions. Film at Lincoln Center announced today that Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s You Can See Everything has been added to the Spotlight section, making its New York premiere at Alice Tully Hall on Sept. 30 with both filmmakers in attendance.
The film was the surprise TBA screening that had been the talk of Telluride for days, kept under such intense secrecy that the title wasn’t revealed until the screening began and audiences’ cellphones were locked away for the duration. The nearly three-hour documentary follows Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her partner Billy Evans in the weeks before she reported to prison in 2023 to serve her 11-year sentence for defrauding investors, with Fielder actually moving in with the couple during her final days at home.
This surprise addition comes on the heels of another major festival stunner that changed the calculus for fall film festival season: Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial — widely assumed to be sitting out the festival circuit alongside absent titles like Digger and Dune: Part Three — will instead have its world premiere at NYFF’s 64th edition. The highly anticipated drama starring Andrew Garfield as OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman plays for audiences on Oct. 5 with the director and cast in attendance.
Artificial ran into its own drama earlier this year when Amazon MGM, which financed the production, declined to release it. After multiple distributors circled the film, Neon ended up with the rights and planned on a 2027 awards season launch rather than holding it until the 2028 cycle. The choice to skip the season’s first three festivals — Venice, Toronto, and Telluride — suggested that Artificial would go straight into theaters, but NYFF instead successfully wooed a world premiere to Manhattan’s Alice Tully Hall
Two factors definitely worked in NYFF’s favor; first, the festival has a long history with Guadagnino, having screened Call Me by Your Name, Bones and All, Queer, and After the Hunt at previous editions. And back in 2010, NYFF provided the launching pad for David Fincher and Aaron Sorkin’s tech drama, The Social Network, which went on to score eight Oscar nods, including Best Picture. Notably, Sorkin’s follow-up, The Social Reckoning, appears to be another fall festival dodger, allowing Artificial to take that NYFF berth instead.
NYFF announced the addition of Paul Thomas Anderson’s concert film Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall — the director’s follow-up to his Best Picture-winning One Battle After Another — to its world premiere lineup. That film is scheduled to screen on Oct. 1 with both the director and Winter in attendance, and will be released by Janus Films and Criterion later this year.
Artificial and Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall join other recent NYFF additions like Naza, a new documentary from Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the four filmmakers behind 2024’s acclaimed No Other Land, which won Best Documentary Feature at the 2025 Oscar ceremony. (Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal were also part of that film’s directing team.)
Filmed largely at night in Tel Aviv, the film offers vivid footage of Israel’s ongoing bombing campaign in Gaza in its continued conflict with Hamas; the title refers to the expected number of civilian casualties as a result of those airstrikes.
See the full lineup for NYFF’s 2026 edition below.
Godzilla vs. Gotham
The New York Film Festival announced Aug. 4 that Godzilla Minus Zero — the sequel to 2023’s Oscar-winning Godzilla Minus One — will have its world premiere at the 64th New York Film Festival. The film will screen on on Sept. 26 as the Spotlight Gala.
“It is truly an honor to introduce our film to a global audience for the first time in a place of such history and prestige,” director Takashi Yamazaki said in a statement furnished to Gold Derby. “I am filled with both awe and excitement to see how far the power of Japan’s Godzilla can terrify audiences around the world, and whether they will resonate with what lies beyond that fear.”
Based on the last teaser trailer, we new the king of the kaiju was setting its sights on the Big Apple via a shot of the giant lizard looming over New York’s Statue of Liberty. “When people find out what Godzilla is trying to do and what its motive is in that scene, everyone is going to be floored,” Yamazaki promised Gold Derby earlier this year. The film is set for its North American release on Nov. 6.
Behemoth! has landed
The Behemoth! has landed. Film at Lincoln Center announced July 28 that writer-director Tony Gilroy‘s latest feature will have its world premiere at the festival as the Centerpiece selection.
Gilroy’s first directorial effort since 2012’s The Bourne Legacy, Behemoth! stars Pedro Pascal as a cellist named Alex who navigates various professional and personal obstacles, including a strained relationship with an ex-lover (played by Olivia Wilde) and the looming shadow of his family’s expectations for his stalled career. The supporting cast includes Eva Victor, Alexa Swinton, Kaya Ralls, Erik Griffin, JoBeth Williams, Margarita Levieva, Hank Azaria, and Will Arnett.
“I have been orbiting NYFF for the great majority of my life,” Gilroy said in a statement provided to Gold Derby. “I was baptized by Fitzcarraldo. I was tending bar across the street and a customer tipped me a single ticket. It was a bad seat to the most remarkable screening I’d ever attended. There were many memorable nights to follow. The Centerpiece invitation is a fantasy I’ve conjured more times than I care to admit. NYFF has always been the benchmark for me; the opportunity to premiere a film I cannot wait to show, in that hall, to that audience, feels every bit as thrilling as I’d imagined. I’m honored.”
“We are delighted to present the world premiere of Tony Gilroy’s anticipated return to the big screen as this year’s NYFF Centerpiece,” NYFF’s artistic director, Dennis Lim, said in a separate statement. “There is so much to savor in this immaculately crafted film, from its creative use of music to its note-perfect ensemble cast. Holding it all together is a tour de force by Pedro Pascal, one of the performances of the year from one of our true movie stars.”
Gilroy is a previous Oscar nominee for his 2007 hit, Michael Clayton, which earned seven nods, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay. Most recently, he oversaw the Emmy-winning Star Wars series Andor on Disney+. Behemoth! is already registering in multiple categories on Gold Derby’s Oscar leaderboards including Best Original Screenplay (No. 6) and Best Actor (No. 6).
Opening and closing night
As previously announced, James Gray‘s Paper Tiger will serve as NYFF’s opening-night presentation on Sept. 25. Paper Tiger had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May where Gray was joined by his stars, Adam Driver and Miles Teller. It will open theatrically on Nov. 20 as it seeks to be the writer-director’s first feature to break into the Oscar race. Set in 1980s-era New York, Paper Tiger features Adam Driver and Miles Teller as brothers who pursue a business opportunity that lands them in trouble with the Russian mob.
“I’m immensely grateful to be welcomed back to this remarkable festival,” Gray remarked in a statement provided to Gold Derby. “This deeply personal film is rooted in New York City; from my upbringing to life-changing family experiences. To be here, at the heart of art and cinema, with our cast and crew — many of whom are New Yorkers — is a privilege. Thank you to the entire New York Film Festival team. It is an honor.”
A staple of the New York filmmaking scene going all the way back to his breakout 1994 debut, Little Odessa, this will be Gray’s fourth time screening a film for NYFF audiences. The Immigrant was a Main Slate selection in 2013; The Lost City of Z served as the 2016 festival’s closing-night presentation; and Armageddon Time pulled double duty as a Main Slate selection and 60th Anniversary Screening in 2022.
The world premiere of Ava DuVernay’s 14th will be the closing-night presentation at the 64th NYFF. The documentary is the follow-up to DuVernay’s Oscar-nominated documentary 13th, which served as the opening-night world premiere presentation at NYFF’s 2016 edition. That film explored the legacy of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which officially abolished slavery in America, but also contributed to racist legislation being passed in statehouses across the country in the decades following the Civil War. It was nominated for Best Documentary at the 89th Oscars, where O.J.: Made in America took home the statuette.
14th looks at the 14th Amendment, which grants citizenship to all Americans born or naturalized in the U.S. That’s an amendment that’s been the subject of recent attacks by President Donald Trump and his administration as it seeks to exert control over birthright citizenship. 14th will include interviews with such political, legal, and social scholars as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Sherrilyn Ifill, Stacey Abrams, and Hasan Piker.
“Exactly a decade after 13th opened the New York Film Festival, it feels especially meaningful to return with 14th as the 2026 closing-night selection,” DuVernay said in a statement provided to Gold Derby. “NYFF has always been a place where films invite conversation rather than simply applause. To that end, 14th attempts to interrogate a promise powerful enough to change a nation — and controversial enough to divide it for more than 150 years.”
More 2026 NYFF announcements will be coming in the weeks ahead. Here’s everything you need to know about this year’s festival.
Main Slate Lineup
14th (Dir. Ava DuVernay)
9 Temples to Heaven (Sompot Chidgasornpongse)
All of a Sudden (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)
Artificial (Luca Guadagnino)
Behemoth! (Tony Gilroy)
Bitter Christmas (Pedro Almodóvar)
Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Clarissa (Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri)
Dao (Alain Gomis)
The Day She Returns (Hong Sangsoo)
The Diary of a Chambermaid (Radu Jude)
Double Freedom (Lisandro Alonso)
The Dreamed Adventure (Valeska Grisebach)
Everything Else Is Noise (Nicolás Pereda)
Everytime (Sandra Wollner)
Fatherland (Paweł Pawlikowski)
I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies (Mani Haghighi)
I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming (Isabelle Stever)
La Gradiva (Marine Atlan)
The Loneliest Man in Town (Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel)
A Long Winter (Andrew Haigh)
The Man I Love (Ira Sachs)
A Man of His Time (Emmanuel Marre)
Minotaur (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Misty Green (Chris Rock)
My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile (Julia Loktev)
My Wife Cries (Angela Schanelec)
Naza (Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor)
Nowhere To Lay My Eyes (Hong Sangsoo)
Once Upon a Time in Harlem (William Greaves and David Greaves)
Paper Tiger (James Gray)
Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong)
Rose (Markus Schleinzer)
Tender Loving Care (Mike Leigh)
The Unknown (Arthur Harari)
Spotlight Lineup
Godzilla Minus Zero (Takashi Yamazaki)
Bucking Fastard (Werner Herzog)
Club Kid (Jordan Firstman)
The Debut (Jesse Eisenberg)
Edward Said: Between Worlds (Maiken Baird)
Fjord (Cristian Mungiu)
Iron Boy (Louis Clichy)
Joy of Joys (Jonathan Glazer)
Making Marie Antoinette (Eleanor Coppola)
One More Time (Cindy Kleine and André Gregory)
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (Noah Segan)
Sixteen Moments of My Life (Albert Serra)
A Statement (Tom McCarthy)
Shorts
South of Tehran (Kleber Mendonça Filho)
Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo (Kamal Aljafari)
A Stolen Movie (Camilo Restrepo)
Torino Shadow (Jia Zhangke)
Screening Room (Morgan Fisher)
New York Shorts
The People’s Beach (J. Wortham)
ee (Heather Landsman)
The House Call (Eliza Barry Callahan)
A Woman’s Place Is Everywhere (Fanny Texier)
New York Never Let Me Down (Charlotte Wells)
Currents Lineup
Bardi (Tala Hadid)
At Night (Beatrice Gibson)
A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (Jacqueline Lentzou)
For the Moon (Éric Baudelaire)
Foreign Travel (Ted Fendt)
Hanabi (Ana Vaz)
Heil Jupiter! (Carlos Reygadas)
Life of Jorge Luis Borges (Mariano Llinás)
London (Sebastian Brameshuber)
Overt Listening (Tiffany Sia)
Red Rocks (Bruno Dumont)
The Remotes (John Torres)
Suicide Note (Fred Camper)
Tomorrow a Long Time Ago (Luise Donschen)
What Can’t Be Mentioned (Dan Sallitt) preceded by Sounds From Home (Nathan Silver)
Currents Program 1: The Hidden Dimension
Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness (Yixuan Zhang)
A Correspondence (Josh Weissbach)
Chronicle of Tiredness (Natalia Marín)
Rebecca’s Mess (Jamie Crewe)
Harmony (Tatsu Aoki)
Currents Program 2: The Visible Invisible
Fevers (James Richards)
The End (Artavazd Pelechian)
Forever…Forever (Johann Lurf)
Screening Room (Morgan Fisher)
Currents Program 3: Surface Noise
Procedures (Simon Liu)
Practice Towards Light (Jonathan Seungjoon Lee)
Interwoven Intervals (Laura Kraning)
Flim Flam (Siegfried A. Fruhauf)
Moored Shadow (Karissa Hahn)
Day One (Cameron Worden)
Currents Program 4: The Real World
Certainties (Calum Walter)
RW-LO (Martine Syms)
Placeholder (Jesse McLean)
Moon Palace (Jiaqi Yu)
Currents Program 5: The Material Ghost
The Wayfinders (Peggy Ahwesh)
National Seating (Kevin Jerome Everson)
The Flesh of the Mountain (Adam Piron)
Elegy for the Forgotten, On an Endless War (Bani Khoshnoudi)
Currents Program 6: Out of the Present
They’re Here (Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller)
Another Earth (Ben Russell)
This Suffocating Now (Vika Kirchenbauer)
Morne Fortune (Mara Chavez and doris duhennois)
Revivals
The Devils (Ken Russell)
The Drift (Paula Delsol)
Gone to Earth (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
Goodbye South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (Pradip Krishen)
L’innocente (Luchino Visconti)
Just Like Weather (Allen Fong)
Nitrate Kisses (Barbara Hammer)
Report to Mother (John Abraham)
Suicide Note (Fred Camper)
A Well for the Thirsty (Yuri Ilyenko)
Yesterday Girl (Alexander Kluge)
Pelechian Project Program 1 (Artavazd Pelechian)
Mountain Patrol
Land of the People
We
The Seasons
Pelechian Project Program 2 (Artavazd Pelechian)
The Beginning
Our Century
The End
Life
Talks
The 2026 Amos Vogel Lecture: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Deep Focus
James Gray, in conversation with Martin Scorsese
Lee Chang-dong
Mike Leigh
Valeska Grisebach
Ava DuVernay
Crosscuts
Andrew Haigh & Ira Sachs
Pedro Almodóvar & Sofia Coppola
Alain Gomis & Arie and Chuko Esiri
Roundtables
Seeing Stars
Making the Cut
NYFF Currents and The Edges of Cinema
Film Comment Live
Film Comment Live: Sex in the Cinema
Film Comment Live: Festival Report
Ticket information
Tickets to the festival go on sale to the general public on Sept. 15 at noon ET. Pre-sale access will be available to FLC members and pass holders prior to that date.
When will NYFF take place
The 2026 New York Film Festival runs Sept. 25-Oct. 12.
This post was originally published on July 16, and updated on Sept. 10 with additional programming news.
