{"id":314519,"date":"2026-08-05T18:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314519\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T18:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:48:18","slug":"new-york-film-festival-2026-misty-green-a-long-winter-clarissa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/314519\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Film Festival 2026: Misty Green, A Long Winter, Clarissa"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe New York Film Festival<\/a> has announced the 32-film main slate for its 64th edition, anchored by four world premieres: centerpiece selection \u201cBehemoth!\u201d from writer and director Tony Gilroy; closing night selection \u201c14th,\u201d the new documentary feature from Ava DuVernay; \u201cI Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies\u201d from Iranian filmmaker Mani Haghighi, and recently announced<\/a> monster epic \u201cGodzilla Minus Zero\u201d from Takashi Yamazaki.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lineup leans heavily on Cannes titles, drawing breakouts including Ry\u00fbsuke Hamaguchi\u2019s French-language drama \u201cAll of a Sudden,\u201d Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri\u2019s \u201cMrs. Dalloway\u201d reimagining \u201cClarissa,\u201d Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski\u2019s monochrome postwar drama \u201cFatherland\u201d and the Grand Prix winner \u201cMinotaur\u201d from Andrey Zvyagintsev.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso among the buzzy movies screening in the Big Apple are Andrew Haigh\u2019s 1950s drama \u201cA Long Winter<\/a>,\u201d Chris Rock\u2019s Hollywood drama \u201cMisty Green<\/a>,\u201d which marks his return behind the camera, Mike Leigh\u2019s likely final movie \u201cTender Loving Care,\u201d Lee Chang-dong\u2019s South Korean drama \u201cPossible Love<\/a>,\u201d Pedro Almod\u00f3var\u2019s meta-cinematic \u201cBitter Christmas\u201d and Ira Sachs\u2019 1980s New York story \u201cThe Man I Love\u201d with Rami Malek.<\/p>\n

\n\tSandra Wollner\u2019s \u201cEverytime\u201d won the Un Certain Regard prize at this year\u2019s Cannes Film Festival and is one of several prizewinners from the Croisette landing in the main slate. The others include \u201cMinotaur\u201d (Grand Prix), \u201cFatherland\u201d (best director), \u201cA Man of His Time\u201d (best screenplay), \u201cThe Dreamed Adventure\u201d (Jury Prize) and \u201cAll of a Sudden,\u201d which earned a shared best actress prize for Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto. Marine Atlan\u2019s \u201cLa Gradiva\u201d won the Critics\u2019 Week Grand Prize.<\/p>\n

\n\tSeventeen directors are showing features in the main slate for the first time, among them Atlan (\u201cLa Gradiva\u201d), Gilroy (\u201cBehemoth!\u201d), David Greaves (\u201cOnce Upon a Time in Harlem\u201d), Haghighi (\u201cI Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies\u201d), Emmanuel Marre (\u201cA Man of His Time\u201d), Rock (\u201cMisty Green\u201d), Sompot Chidgasornpongse (\u201c9 Temples to Heaven\u201d), Isabelle Stever (\u201cI Rarely Wake Up Dreaming\u201d) and Zvyagintsev (\u201cMinotaur\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tHong Sangsoo is the only filmmaker with two titles in the main selection, bringing both his 34th feature, \u201cThe Day She Returns,\u201d and his 35th, \u201cNowhere To Lay My Eyes,\u201d which stars Kim Min-hee.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe festival, which was founded in 1963, kicks off on Sept. 25 with James Gray\u2019s period thriller \u201cPaper Tiger,\u201d starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller, screening as a North American premiere.<\/p>\n

\n\tFilms screen in theaters at Lincoln Center and at four other venues across the city \u2014 BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on Staten Island and AMC Bay Plaza Cinema in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s hard to recall a prior Main Slate program in which the state of the world has been as urgently reflected in so many creative ways,\u201d says Dennis Lim, artistic director of the New York Film Festival. \u201cYou could take any cross section of this lineup and come away with a vivid picture of what our present looks, sounds, and feels like. I\u2019m deeply encouraged to be able to introduce New York audiences to works by so many fearless, imaginative directors whose artistry has been inspired by the shared realities of our world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe main slate selection committee is chaired by Lim and includes Florence Almozini, Justin Chang and Rachel Rosen. The New York Film Festival runs Sept. 25 through Oct. 12.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe full list is below.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u201cClarissa\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Neon, Cannes Film Festival<\/p>\n

Opening Night: \u201cPaper Tiger\u201d (James Gray)<\/p>\n

Centerpiece: \u201cBehemoth!\u201d (Tony Gilroy)<\/p>\n

Closing Night: \u201c14th\u201d (Ava DuVernay)<\/p>\n

\u201c9 Temples to Heaven\u201d (Sompot Chidgasornpongse), U.S. premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of a Sudden\u201d (Ry\u00fbsuke Hamaguchi), New York premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cBitter Christmas\u201d (Pedro Almod\u00f3var), U.S. premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cClarissa\u201d (Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri), New York premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cDao\u201d (Alain Gomis), North American premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Day She Returns\u201d (Hong Sangsoo), North American premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cI Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies\u201d (Mani Haghighi), world premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Diary of a Chambermaid\u201d (Radu Jude), U.S. premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cDouble Freedom\u201d (Lisandro Alonso), U.S. premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Dreamed Adventure\u201d (Valeska Grisebach), U.S. premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything Else Is Noise\u201d (Nicol\u00e1s Pereda), U.S. premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time\u201d (Sandra Wollner), U.S. premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cFatherland\u201d (Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski), New York premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cGodzilla Minus Zero\u201d (Takashi Yamazaki), World premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cLa Gradiva\u201d (Marine Atlan), U.S. premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cI Rarely Wake Up Dreaming\u201d (Isabelle Stever), North American premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Loneliest Man in Town\u201d (Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel), U.S. premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cA Long Winter\u201d (Andrew Haigh), New York premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Man I Love\u201d (Ira Sachs), New York premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cA Man of His Time\u201d (Emmanuel Marre), North American premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cMinotaur\u201d (Andrey Zvyagintsev), New York premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cMisty Green\u201d (Chris Rock), U.S. premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Undesirable Friends: Part II \u2014 Exile\u201d (Julia Loktev), New York premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cMy Wife Cries\u201d (Angela Schanelec), U.S. premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cNowhere To Lay My Eyes\u201d (Hong Sangsoo), North American premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce Upon a Time in Harlem\u201d (William Greaves and David Greaves), New York premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cPossible Love\u201d (Lee Chang-dong), U.S. premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cRose\u201d (Markus Schleinzer), New York premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cTender Loving Care\u201d (Mike Leigh), New York premiere<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Unknown\u201d (Arthur Harari), New York premiere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Film Festival has announced the 32-film main slate for its 64th edition, anchored by four…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[118742,118743,9,24,55,54,14115,56,118744],"class_list":["post-314519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-a-long-winter","tag-misty-green","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-film-festival","tag-ny","tag-possible-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}