{"id":318798,"date":"2026-08-11T17:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318798\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:48:31","slug":"new-york-film-festival-spotlight-slate-a-statement-fjord-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318798\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Film Festival Spotlight Slate: ‘A Statement,’ ‘Fjord’ and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe New York Film Festival<\/a> has revealed its Spotlight lineup for the 64th edition and the section is stacked with fall\u2019s most buzzy names and titles.<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the top of the list is Tom McCarthy, writer and director of best picture winner \u201cSpotlight\u201d (2015), who returns with \u201cA Statement<\/a>.\u201d Described as a gripping ensemble piece built around a pivotal 1980 conference on the threat of climate change, it\u2019s one of the slate\u2019s most significant additions. Set for release from Sony Pictures Classics, the film boasts a deep bench that includes Paul Giamatti, John Turturro, Paul Rudd, Amy Ryan, Evan Peters and Tatiana Maslany.<\/p>\n

\n\tJonathan Glazer, coming off the seismic acclaim of the international feature Oscar winner \u201cThe Zone of Interest,\u201d reunites with composer Mica Levi for \u201cJoy of Joys,\u201d a documentary chronicling the recording of a star-studded charity album for children in conflict zones.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs previously announced, Takashi Yamazaki\u2019s \u201cGodzilla Minus Zero\u201d landed the Spotlight Gala slot on Sept. 26, the follow-up to the franchise\u2019s recent visual effects Oscar winner.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\u201cFjord<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCannes Film Festival<\/p>\n

\n\tThe section also brings films that debuted on the Croisette to Lincoln Center. Romanian auteur and NYFF regular Cristian Mungiu arrives with \u201cFjord,\u201d the Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan drama that won this year\u2019s Palme d\u2019Or. Jordan Firstman makes a splashy directorial debut with the New York-set comedy \u201cClub Kid.\u201d And Louis Clichy\u2019s hand-painted animated feature \u201cIron Boy,\u201d winner of Un Certain Regard Special Jury Prize, adds a rare bit of art-house animation to the mix.<\/p>\n

\n\tWerner Herzog returns to NYFF with \u201cBucking Fastard<\/a>,\u201d which will have its world premiere at the upcoming Venice Film Festival and stars real-life sisters Kate and Rooney Mara. It marks the filmmaker\u2019s first festival appearance in more than four decades, since \u201cFitzcarraldo\u201d closed the fest back in 1982.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lineup doubles as a showcase for actors. <\/p>\n

\n\tAlong with his role in \u201cA Statement,\u201d Turturro delivers towering work as a familiar New York archetype in Noah Segan\u2019s poignant \u201cThe Only Living Pickpocket in New York.\u201d Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti star in \u201cThe Debut,\u201d Jesse Eisenberg\u2019s buzzy musical and comic love letter to the theater. And Andr\u00e9 Gregory \u2014 now in his 90s \u2014 performs Samuel Beckett alongside longtime collaborators Larry Pine and Gerry Bamman in \u201cOne More Time,\u201d a documentary he co-directed with Cindy Kleine.<\/p>\n

\n\tBeyond \u201cJoy of Joys,\u201d which hands London schoolkids cameras to capture the making of War Child Records\u2019 benefit album \u201cHELP (2)\u201d at Abbey Road, Spotlight includes other nonfiction films such as Maiken Baird\u2019s rigorous archival portrait \u201cEdward Said: Between Worlds\u201d and \u201cMaking Marie Antoinette,\u201d the late Eleanor Coppola\u2019s behind-the-scenes account of daughter Sofia\u2019s 2006 feature, which premiered at NYFF 20 years ago. Albert Serra rounds out the nonfiction offerings with \u201cSixteen Moments of My Life,\u201d a concert film capturing German film and fashion legend Ingrid Caven in Paris.<\/p>\n

\n\tTwo shorts programs anchor the section. In Spotlight Shorts, \u201cThe Secret Agent\u201d director Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho debuts \u201cSouth of Tehran,\u201d the inaugural film of the festival\u2019s new NYFF Encounters initiative, alongside work from Kamal Aljafari, Jia Zhangke, Camilo Restrepo and Morgan Fisher. In New York Shorts, \u201cAftersun\u201d director Charlotte Wells returns with the world premiere of \u201cNew York Never Let Me Down,\u201d screening with films by Eliza Barry Callahan, Heather Landsman, Fanny Texier and J. Wortham.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn all, the section spans 13 features and 10 shorts. NYFF64 runs Sept. 25 through Oct. 12 at Lincoln Center and venues across all five boroughs.<\/p>\n

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

\t\tSee all Academy Awards predictions\t<\/p>\n

\n\t
Variety Awards Circuit: Oscars<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\t64th New York Film Festival Spotlight<\/p>\n

\n\tSpotlight Gala
\u201cGodzilla Minus Zero\u201d (dir. Takashi Yamazaki)<\/p>\n

\n\tSpotlight
\u201cBucking Fastard\u201d (dir. Werner Herzog)
\u201cClub Kid\u201d (dir. Jordan Firstman)
\u201cThe Debut\u201d (dir. Jesse Eisenberg)
\u201cEdward Said: Between Worlds\u201d (dir. Maiken Baird)
\u201cFjord\u201d (dir. Cristian Mungiu)
\u201cIron Boy\u201d (dir. Louis Clichy)
\u201cJoy of Joys\u201d (dir. Jonathan Glazer)
\u201cMaking Marie Antoinette\u201d (dir. Eleanor Coppola)
\u201cOne More Time\u201d (dir. Cindy Kleine and Andr\u00e9 Gregory)
\u201cThe Only Living Pickpocket in New York\u201d (dir. Noah Segan)
\u201cSixteen Moments of My Life\u201d (dir. Albert Serra)
\u201cA Statement\u201d (dir. Tom McCarthy)<\/p>\n

\n\tSpotlight Shorts
\u201cSouth of Tehran\u201d (dir. Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho)
\u201cMasao Adachi Takes a Passport Photo\u201d (dir. Kamal Aljafari)
\u201cA Stolen Movie\u201d (dir. Camilo Restrepo)
\u201cTorino Shadow\u201d (dir. Jia Zhangke)
\u201cScreening Room\u201d (dir. Morgan Fisher)<\/p>\n

\n\tNew York Shorts
\u201cThe People\u2019s Beach\u201d (dir. J. Wortham)
\u201cee\u201d (dir. Heather Landsman)
\u201cThe House Call\u201d (dir. Eliza Barry Callahan)
\u201cA Woman\u2019s Place Is Everywhere\u201d (dir. Fanny Texier)
\u201cNew York Never Let Me Down\u201d (dir. Charlotte Wells)<\/p>\n

\n\tOpening Night
\u201cPaper Tiger\u201d (dir. James Gray)<\/p>\n

\n\tCenterpiece
\u201cBehemoth!\u201d (dir. Tony Gilroy)<\/p>\n

\n\tClosing Night
\u201c14th\u201d (dir. Ava DuVernay)<\/p>\n

\n\tMain Slate
\u201c9 Temples to Heaven\u201d (dir. Sompot Chidgasornpongse)
\u201cAll of a Sudden\u201d (dir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi)
\u201cBitter Christmas\u201d (dir. Pedro Almod\u00f3var)
\u201cClarissa\u201d (dir. Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri)
\u201cDao\u201d (dir. Alain Gomis)
\u201cThe Day She Returns\u201d (dir. Hong Sangsoo)
\u201cI Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies\u201d (dir. Mani Haghighi)
\u201cThe Diary of a Chambermaid\u201d (dir. Radu Jude)
\u201cDouble Freedom\u201d (dir. Lisandro Alonso)
\u201cThe Dreamed Adventure\u201d (dir. Valeska Grisebach)
\u201cEverything Else Is Noise\u201d (dir. Nicol\u00e1s Pereda)
\u201cEvery time\u201d (dir. Sandra Wollner)
\u201cFatherland\u201d (dir. Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski)
\u201cGodzilla Minus Zero\u201d (dir. Takashi Yamazaki)
\u201cLa Gradiva\u201d (dir. Marine Atlan)
\u201cI Rarely Wake Up Dreaming\u201d (dir. Isabelle Stever)
\u201cThe Loneliest Man in Town\u201d (dir. Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel)
\u201cA Long Winter\u201d (dir. Andrew Haigh)
\u201cThe Man I Love\u201d (dir. Ira Sachs)
\u201cA Man of His Time\u201d (dir. Emmanuel Marre)
\u201cMinotaur\u201d (dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev)
\u201cMisty Green\u201d (dir. Chris Rock)
\u201cMy Undesirable Friends: Part II \u2014 Exile\u201d (dir. Julia Loktev)
\u201cMy Wife Cries\u201d (dir. Angela Schanelec)
\u201cNowhere to Lay My Eyes\u201d (dir. Hong Sangsoo)
\u201cOnce Upon a Time in Harlem\u201d (dir. William Greaves and David Greaves)
\u201cPossible Love\u201d (dir. Lee Chang-dong)
\u201cRose\u201d (dir. Markus Schleinzer)
\u201cTender Loving Care\u201d (dir. Mike Leigh)
\u201cThe Unknown\u201d (dir. Arthur Harari)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Film Festival has revealed its Spotlight lineup for the 64th edition and the section is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120202,120207,120208,9,14115,11,10],"class_list":["post-318798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-a-statement","tag-bucking-fastard","tag-fjord","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-film-festival","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318798","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=318798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}