63rd New York Film Festival: Biopics, New Filmmakers, & More

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Published on Wednesday, 13 August 2025 14:16

Written by Brad Balfour

 

Lincoln Center’s massive cinema showcase, the New York Film Festival, returns for its 63d instalment September 26 to October 13. The Spotlight portion of the festival showcases films about great creative minds from great directors: Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon about a night in the life of lyricist Lorenz Hart and Nouvelle Vague, a film set during the production of Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless. Mr. Scorsese from Rebecca Miller is a five part chronicle of the life of Martin Scorsese told through interviews and archival footage. From Ben Stiller comes a film about the lives of his comedian parents, Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost. The Spotlight Gala selection is Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Scott Cooper’s biographical drama that captures the early-’80s period when Bruce Springsteen created the raw, acoustic songs that became his landmark album Nebraska.

With a focus on new and adventurous voices in international filmmaking, the Currents slate includes 16 feature films and 24 short films in five programs, representing 28 countries. The Currents Centerpiece selection is the U.S. premiere of Mare’s Nest by Ben Rivers (Two Years at Sea wich screened at NYFF49), an enigmatic road movie set in a post-apocalyptic world ruled by children. 

“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,” said Dennis Lim, Artistic Director, New York Film Festival. “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.”

Also part of the festival is Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother as the Centerpiece Selection, Bradley Cooper’s Is This Thing On? and Anemone, which features Daniel Day-Lewis in his first on-screen performance in eight years.

 

To learn more, go to: https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff/ 

63rd New York Film Festival
September 26 - October 13, 2025

Lincoln Center and Other Venues in NYC