{"id":318795,"date":"2026-08-11T17:42:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318795\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:42:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:42:20","slug":"tom-mccarthys-a-statement-to-world-premiere-at-new-york-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318795\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom McCarthy&#8217;s &#8216;A Statement&#8217; To World Premiere At New York Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/tom-mccarthy\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tom-mccarthy\" data-tag=\"tom-mccarthy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tom McCarthy<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/a-statement\/\" id=\"auto-tag_a-statement\" data-tag=\"a-statement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Statement<\/a> and a new documentary by <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jonathan-glazer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jonathan-glazer\" data-tag=\"jonathan-glazer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Glazer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/joy-of-joys\/\" id=\"auto-tag_joy-of-joys\" data-tag=\"joy-of-joys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joy of Joys<\/a>, join <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/godzilla-minus-zero-new-york-film-festival-world-premiere-1237016303\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Takashi Yamazaki\u2019s Godzilla Minus Zero<\/a> as world premieres at this year\u2019s New York Film Festival, as part of the festival\u2019s Spotlight section revealed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">McCarthy\u2019s A Statement is an ensemble piece set at a beachside resort in Florida in 1980 as 20 experts gather for a weekend conference to address a new global issue that\u2019s starting to gain traction: the effects of CO2 emissions on the climate. It stars Paul Rudd, Evan Peters, Amy Ryan, Paul Giamatti, John Turturro, Tatiana Maslany and Jason Clarke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Glazer\u2019s Joy of Joys, in collaboration with Mica Levi, follows the recording of a star-studded charity album aiding children in conflict zones. The helmer enlisted London school kids with cameras to document the recording of War Child Records\u2019 benefit album HELP(2) at Abbey Road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 13 Spotlight features include Cristian Mungiu\u2019s Cannes Palme d\u2019Or\u2013winning Fjord; Louis Clichy\u2019s animated feature Iron Boy, winner of the Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize; Jordan Firstman\u2019s Club Kid; Werner Herzog\u2019s Bucking Fastard; and films by Maiken Baird, Jesse Eisenberg, Cindy Kleine and Andr\u00e9 Gregory, Noah Segan, Albert Serra and the late Eleanor Coppola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ten Spotlight shorts, shown in two programs, include works by The Secret Agent director Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho and Aftersun\u2019s Charlotte Wells, both world premieres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/nyff\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nyff\" data-tag=\"nyff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NYFF<\/a> calls the Spotlight lineup \u201ca curated, eclectic survey of the year\u2019s most eagerly anticipated films\u2026 festival favorites, special presentations, timely conversation starters, and stellar performances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 64th edition of NYFF runs September 25-October 12. The fest announced its larger <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/08\/new-york-film-festival-2026-main-slate-1237018204\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">main slate<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See the Spotlight lineup below.<\/p>\n<p>Spotlight<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spotlight Gala: Godzilla Minus Zero (Takashi Yamazaki)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bucking Fastard (Werner Herzog)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Club Kid (Jordan Firstman)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Debut (Jesse Eisenberg)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edward Said: Between Worlds (Maiken Baird)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fjord (Cristian Mungiu)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iron Boy (Louis Clichy)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joy of Joys (Jonathan Glazer)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Making Marie Antoinette (Eleanor Coppola)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One More Time (Cindy Kleine and Andr\u00e9 Gregory)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (Noah Segan)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sixteen Moments of My Life (Albert Serra)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Statement (Tom McCarthy)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SPOTLIGHT SHORTS<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South of Tehran (Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo (Kamal Aljafari)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Stolen Movie (Camilo Restrepo)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Torino Shadow (Jia Zhangke)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Screening Room (Morgan Fisher)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NEW YORK SHORTS<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The People\u2019s Beach (J. Wortham)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ee (Heather Landsman)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House Call (Eliza Barry Callahan)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Woman\u2019s Place Is Everywhere (Fanny Texier)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Never Let Me Down (Charlotte Wells)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spotlight Films with NYFF descriptions:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Godzilla Minus Zero \/ \u30b4\u30b8\u30e9-0.0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Takashi Yamazaki, 2026, Japan, 135m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japanese with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After Godzilla Minus One\u2019s triumphant reimagination of the timeless Godzilla franchise in 2023, with itsingenious, Oscar-winning visual effects and emotionally gripping back-to-basics storytelling approach, director Takashi Yamazaki returns with a supremely satisfying sequel. Godzilla Minus Zero picks up in 1949, two years after the tumultuous events of Godzilla Minus One, and continues the story of the Shikishima family as they face an all-new calamity. An experience that demands the big screen, featuring even more astounding effects choreography than its predecessor, Godzilla Minus Zero cranks up the terror while always keeping its post-WWII Japan narrative at human eye level. A GKIDS release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bucking Fastard<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Werner Herzog, 2026, Ireland\/U.S., 109m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The oddball brilliance of Werner Herzog is in full effect in this tale of two sisters, Jean and Joan Holbrooke, who live entirely by their own social and emotional rules. They speak in unison, fall in love with the same man, and try to fulfill the same wild dreams and ambitions. As played by Kate and Rooney Mara, in total sync, the driven, single-minded Jean and Joan become classic Herzogian outsiders, like Kaspar Hauser or Fitzcarraldo, daring to transcend the limitations of everyday living and language. Shot across the teeming city streets and the majestic underground caves of Ireland, Bucking Fastard features operatic imagery from the director\u2019s longtime cinematographer Peter Zeitlinger. It\u2019s an uncanny, funny, properly eccentric film that moves from the comic to the grandly pastoral.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Club Kid<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jordan Firstman, 2026, U.S., 122m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Washed-up thirtysomething New York scenester Peter (Jordan Firstman), awakening from a decade-long hangover, receives an unexpected visitor: the 10-year-old British son (Reggie Absolom) he never knew he had. The result of a lone, long-forgotten sexual encounter with a woman, the kid is in desperate need of care after his mother\u2019s death, and though Peter has never put his heart into anything other than promoting massive parties, the experience of becoming an insta-dad prompts a reconsideration of his hedonistic, drug-fueled party boy lifestyle. Swerving from irreverent satire to genuine pathos, this wildly funny and remarkably assured feature debut from writer-director-actor Firstman is an unusual and satisfying take on the challenges and pleasures of queer millennial living, and a loving reminder that it\u2019s never too late to come of age. An A24 release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Debut<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jesse Eisenberg, 2026, U.S., 105m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Julianne Moore flings herself with delicious abandon into the role of Mona, a middle-aged New Jersey housewife who lands a part in a local musical production despite having zero stage experience. She quickly finds herself at odds with the show\u2019s irascible and demanding director, Jerry (Paul Giamatti, in prime exasperation mode), who\u2019s nevertheless determined to mold Mona into a performer. In contrast to her home existence, where she\u2019s almost surreally neglected by her husband and teenage twins, the theater life proves enriching, transformative, and, as she begins to dig deeper into the reality of her character, excitingly dangerous. Writer-director Jesse Eisenberg (A Real Pain, NYFF62), who also wrote the show\u2019s music and lyrics, keeps things expertly balanced on a knife\u2019s edge between musical theater satire and cathartic character study. A lovingly crafted comedy, The Debut reminds us that to find your true self, it might also be necessary to lose yourself a little. An A24 release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Edward Said: Between Worlds<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maiken Baird, 2026, U.S., 107m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">English and Arabic with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The life and mind of the brilliant Palestinian-American professor, author, and public intellectual Edward Said (1935\u20132003) fuels this rich, engrossing documentary. Born in Jerusalem, Said was displaced, along with his refugee family, in 1948, with the founding of Israel. Sent to boarding school in Massachusetts, he would go on to become a Professor of Literature at Columbia University, later finding his calling as a world-renowned advocate for the Palestinian cause, and in essential books like Orientalism, a crucial critic of the way Arab people are othered in Western culture. Using all archival footage, Maiken Baird\u2019s film follows Said from childhood to education to his social politicization, his relationship with his wife Mariam, and his battles with leukemia, always remaining committed to representing the power of his words, thoughts, and humanism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fjord<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cristian Mungiu, 2026, Romania\/France\/Norway\/Sweden\/Denmark, 146m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Romanian, Norwegian, English, and Swedish with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A foundational figure of 21st-century Romanian cinema, Cristian Mungiu earned his second Palme d\u2019Or at the Cannes Film Festival (following his 2007 win for the groundbreaking 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, NYFF45) for this searing, discomfiting social drama. Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve give superbly restrained performances as a married couple who have immigrated from Romania to a small seaside town in Norway with their four children. Members of a conservative Pentecostal religious sect, the outsiders are initially accepted into their progressive community, but they soon fall under suspicion from the local townsfolk after an allegation of parental abuse. Mungiu refuses to supply easy answers or simple paths to identification in this compelling provocation, which poses unresolvable questions to viewers about our biases and presumptions. Fjord returns the director to many of his recurring themes: the freedom of the individual within contemporary political systems, the culture clash between modernity and tradition, and how human care can imperceptibly evolve into a form of control. A NEON release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iron Boy<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Louis Clichy, 2026, France\/Belgium, 90m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">French with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this gorgeously hand-painted coming-of-age tale, 11-year-old Christophe lives with his struggling farming family in the rural Beauce region in France in the late 1980s. In addition to a stern, demanding father, the boy is further plagued by a sudden physical instability, requiring an iron body brace that keeps him ramrod-straight. Despite this, Christophe finds moments of joy, love, and surprising heroism. Louis Clichy, who worked as an animator for Pixar on Wall-E and Up, has made a deeply personal directorial debut of rustic beauty and spiritual grace; every loving brushstroke brings a sense of detailed authenticity to his vision, based on memories of growing up working-class in the French countryside amid vast farmlands, electric towers, and churches. Accompanied by an ethereal score of classical organ and choral music, Iron Boy is a delicately transporting story of a young boy\u2019s emergence into individuality, and a family film of rare nuance. Winner of the Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. A Sony Pictures Classics release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Joy of Joys<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jonathan Glazer, 2026, U.K., 38m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This exuberant yet sobering documentary from Oscar-winning director Jonathan Glazer (The Zone of Interest, NYFF61) goes behind the scenes at Abbey Road Studios to capture the recording of the Mercury Prize\u2013nominated HELP(2), a 2026 charity album from War Child Records, which aids children in conflict zones around the world. To make the film, Glazer enlisted some crucial help: young schoolkids from London were equipped with their own digital cameras and encouraged to shoot the studio recordings any way they wanted. Their curiosity and creativity are paralleled in footage taken by high-spirited children in war-torn parts of the globe\u2014Gaza, Sudan, Ukraine, Yemen\u2014whom Glazer also supplied with cameras. The resulting film, which Glazer and regular music collaborator Mica Levi have dubbed \u201cby children, for children,\u201d serves as a testament to youthful openness and wonder amidst the evils of the adult world. Contributing artists from the album featured in the film include Olivia Rodrigo, Damon Albarn, Cameron Winter, Arctic Monkeys, Beth Gibbons, Fontaines D.C., and Jarvis Cocker. The screening will be followed by an extended Q&amp;A with Jonathan Glazer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Making Marie Antoinette<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eleanor Coppola, 2026, U.S., 86m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Polarizing upon its release, Sofia Coppola\u2019s Marie Antoinette (NYFF44) is now, 20 years later, widely embraced as a 21st-century cinematic cornerstone and a distilled expression of its director\u2019s recurring themes of celebrity, wealth, and isolation. For the first time, Coppola\u2019s dynamic craftsmanship in creating her personal vision for the brief life of the 18th-century queen (Kirsten Dunst) in the years leading up to the French Revolution is on full display in this diary shot by her mother, filmmaker Eleanor Coppola, on the film\u2019s set in Versailles in 2005. From almost 80 hours of video, Eleanor began to assemble the footage during the pandemic lockdown, and Sofia helped finish editing it after Eleanor\u2019s death in 2024. Narrated by Diane Lane, reciting Eleanor\u2019s journals from the time, this is a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse that is both process-oriented and touchingly personal. A MUBI release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One More Time<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cindy Kleine, Andr\u00e9 Gregory, 2026, U.S., 88m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Andr\u00e9 Gregory has been a pillar of the American avant-garde stage and film world for more than half a century. Now in his early nineties, Gregory (My Dinner with Andr\u00e9, NYFF19) shows no sign of slowing down, as evidenced by this delightful, enormously moving document of his inextinguishable creative spark. Directed by his partner of 25 years, Cindy Kleine, One More Time follows Gregory as he and two longtime creative collaborators, actors Larry Pine and Gerry Bamman, decide to film a reading of scenes from Samuel Beckett\u2019s absurdist, apocalyptic Endgame\u2014a play they\u2019ve produced together multiple times over the decades\u2014in Pine\u2019s Long Island home. Undaunted by Bamman\u2019s limited physical mobility or Pine\u2019s struggles with memory loss, the trio find that Beckett\u2019s words still course through their minds and bodies. The invigorating result, executive produced by Martin Scorsese, is a portrait of friendship and camaraderie as much as a paean to an era of experimental New York theater that still shines like a beacon. An Abramorama release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Only Living Pickpocket in New York<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noah Segan, 2026, U.S., 88m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a star performance of effortless command and charisma, John Turturro plays Harry, an aging petty thief from the Bronx who knows his professional days are numbered: the tactile craft of the pickpocket has become increasingly irrelevant in a digital world. Yet he must still make ends meet, especially in caring for his severely disabled wife. When Harry swipes the wallet of an ill-chosen mark (Will Price), however, he is thrust into a borough-hopping race against time to put things back in their right place. Building to a poignant climax, writer-director Noah Segan\u2019s elegant love letter to both New York and to bygone cinematic eras recalls both the 1970s, with its grungy urban antiheroes, and the 1990s, in its American indie ethos. In addition to being a peak of Turturro\u2019s illustrious career, the terrific cast includes Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Esposito, Tatiana Maslany, Victoria Moroles, and Kelvin Han Yee. A Sony Pictures Classics release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sixteen Moments of My Life \/ Seize moments de ma vie<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Albert Serra, 2026, France\/Spain, 86m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">French and German with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North American Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now in her eighties, Ingrid Caven is known for many things: Rainer Werner Fassbinder\u2019s longtime theater and screen collaborator (and onetime wife), a muse to Yves Saint Laurent, and a singular cabaret singer. She looms large in every shot of this mesmerizing concert film by Albert Serra (Afternoons of Solitude, NYFF62), which captures an entrancing one-night-only 2025 performance\u2014also stage-directed by Serra\u2014at the grand Th\u00e9\u00e2tre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris. With her rich rupture of a voice, Caven warbles and quavers 16 autobiographical songs in German and French, accompanied by the electronic Catalan band Molforts. Serra\u2019s immersive event, a rapture of colors and shadows, pays fittingly grandiose tribute to an emissary of a legendary cinematic era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Statement<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tom McCarthy, 2026, U.S., 104m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In October 1980, on the eve of a presidential election that would change the course of history, a group of environmental activists, scientists, and U.S. policymakers convened in a hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida, to discuss an alarming recent government study on the dangers of carbon dioxide emissions and rising global temperatures. Their goal: to come up with a statement with suggestions for how congress should react to the threat. But agreeing upon the wording proves not so easy. Academy Award\u2013winning Spotlight writer-director Tom McCarthy has ingeniously constructed a funny, frightening, and ever timely re-creation of these events, set in the same hotel where the actual meeting took place and using the transcription from the conference to help build the screenplay. A brilliant ensemble cast\u2014including Paul Rudd, Evan Peters, Amy Ryan, Paul Giamatti, John Turturro, Tatiana Maslany, Mary Catherine Garrison, Nina Arianda, and Zach Woods\u2014brings to vivid life a seemingly small moment in history that would have wide repercussions for the fate of the world. A Sony Pictures Classics release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spotlight Shorts:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">85m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South of Tehran<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho, 2026, Brazil\/U.S., 8m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Farsi with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South of Tehran is the first film in the new NYFF Encounters initiative, a commissioning program that invites a filmmaker in the lineup to create an original short during the course of the festival. This prismatic reflection on cinema and memory emerged from conversations between Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho (The Secret Agent) and Jafar Panahi (It Was Just an Accident), both of whom screened films at the 2025 New York Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Masao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo \/ \u8db3\u7acb\u6b63\u751f\u3001\u30d1\u30b9\u30dd\u30fc\u30c8\u5199\u771f\u3092\u64ae\u308b<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kamal Aljafari, 2026, Germany\/France\/Japan, 27m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Japanese with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">U.S. Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now 87, the Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi (Escape, NYFF63) does not have a passport, as a consequence of his 1970s involvement with the revolutionary Japanese Red Army. In a last-ditch attempt to apply for one, he obtains his photos from a small neighborhood shop, maintained for decades by an elderly widow at the mercy of her ancient, fiddly printer. Shot by Neo Sora (Happyend, NYFF62), Aljafari\u2019s film is a work of deadpan hilarity and, like his 2025 feature With Hasan in Gaza (NYFF63), a search for lost time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Stolen Movie \/ Una pel\u00edcula robada<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Camilo Restrepo, 2026, Colombia, 12m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Spanish with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Camilo Restrepo, the director of 2020\u2019s Los conductos (New Directors\/New Films 2020), reappropriates and remixes a real General Motors promotional film depicting an early-1960s exhibition across the Dari\u00e9n Gap in Chevrolet Corvairs. As the representatives of the global North\u2019s industrial might bridge the same chasm that stands between today\u2019s migrants and the United States, Restrepo considers the unequal flows of people and property between the Americas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Torino Shadow<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jia Zhangke, 2026, China\/Italy, 32m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mandarin Chinese and Italian with English subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North American Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An anniversary commission of Torino\u2019s Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Jia Zhangke\u2019s (Caught by the Tides, NYFF62) latest spans the past, present, and future of moving-image culture, from the shadow puppets made by a girl in Guangdong to the smartphone videos her mother sends her from Torino, where she\u2019s traveled to reunite with her husband, but found only a stranger. As in her spouse Jia\u2019s features, Zhao Tao is the still point in a turning, globalized world, with all its disconnections and surprising symmetries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Screening Room<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Morgan Fisher, 1968\/2026, U.S., 35mm, 6m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Initiated in 1968, Morgan Fisher\u2019s Screening Room is a site-specific work, a film remade for and shown only in the place in which it was filmed. This latest version (or, to use Fisher\u2019s term, \u201cstate\u201d) of the film\u2014with production executed by filmmaker James N. Kienitz Wilkins with the support of Mostly Works and camerawork by Dan Fridman\u2014leads the spectator into Film at Lincoln Center\u2019s Walter Reade Theater in a single tracking shot, a journey that unveils cinema\u2019s enigmatic status as, at once, a physical space, a filmic object, and an ephemeral image.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Shorts:<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">80m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The People\u2019s Beach<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">J. Wortham, 2026, U.S., 15m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the city\u2019s legendary cruising spots, Jacob Riis Park in the Rockaways, is today, despite encroaching gentrification, the public space where queer and trans New Yorkers, especially of color, can be most comfortable in the least clothing. Juxtaposing priceless archival material with sunny and sensual new footage, J. Wortham\u2019s documentary is a history, a celebration, and a rallying cry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ee<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Heather Landsman, 2026, U.S., 8m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A girl in a collectibles store covets a rare figurine in Heather Landsman\u2019s sexy hyperpop vignette. Online communities, fandom, shoplifting, and the stealth action video game Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty become interlocking, quicksilver metaphors for the furtive, grasping workings of identity and desire under surveillance. Featuring local cult heroes Isobel Fox and Will Menaker in key supporting roles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The House Call<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eliza Barry Callahan, 2026, U.S., 21m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">English and Italian with no subtitles<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A veterinarian (Victoria Pedretti) drives through the dark to check on a prized white horse, only to be caught up in the intrigues of its shady owners, and a probing late-night conversation about classical philosophy, modern dance, and the nature of vocation. Novelist, musician, and filmmaker Eliza Barry Callahan turns genre on its ear, with voluptuous nocturnal celluloid cinematography by Alfonso Herrera Salcedo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Woman\u2019s Place Is Everywhere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fanny Texier, 2026, U.S., 22m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North American Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Identical twins Emilija and Ona Rygelis have lived their whole lives in an industrial Williamsburg loft renovated by their artist mother in the 1970s. Filmmaker Fanny Texier follows the sisters over three years as they grieve their mother, welcome Ona\u2019s new baby, and fight eviction proceedings, drawing a sharp, sensitive portrait of sisterhood, survival in the city, and the meaning of home. Winner of a Silver Bear Jury Prize at this year\u2019s Berlin International Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York Never Let Me Down<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charlotte Wells, 2026, U.S., 14m<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Premiere<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Charlotte Wells (Aftersun, NYFF60) drops into the YWCA of the Greater Capital Region to visit Paula Spiro, a legendary drummer and drum teacher (whose former students include Luscious Jackson drummer and original Beastie Boy Kate Schellenbach). Having left New York in 2024, the elderly Spiro recalls her life in the city with wonderment and an unerring sense of rhythm, in a tribute to the artists and queer elders being pushed out of the place they shaped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom McCarthy\u2019s A Statement and a new documentary by Jonathan Glazer, Joy of Joys, join Takashi Yamazaki\u2019s Godzilla&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318796,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[120202,120203,120204,9,24,55,54,120205,56,94810,120206],"class_list":["post-318795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-a-statement","tag-jonathan-glazer","tag-joy-of-joys","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-new-york-films-festival","tag-ny","tag-nyff","tag-tom-mccarthy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318795","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=318795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}