NYFF Lineup Includes Brady Corbet, Mike Leigh, Pedro Almodovar & Sean Baker

The 2024 New York Film Festival has announced its main slate lineup. As expected, it’s filled with Cannes titles, 13 of them, including Sean Baker’s “Anora” and Mohammad Rasoulof’s “Seed of the Sacred Fig.”

The Venice Film Festival competition titles included in NYFF’s lineup are Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” Pedro Almodovar’s “The Room Next Door,” Dea Kulumbegashvili’s “April,” Athina Rachel Tsangari’s “Harvest,” and Yeo Siew Hua’s “Stranger Eyes.”

Take note, NYFF has decided to continue its auteur-driven curating by including top directors who had their films met with mixed reviews at Cannes, including David Cronenberg’s “The Shrouds,” and Paul Schrader’s “Oh, Canada.” Meanwhile, Mike Leigh’s Cannes and Venice rejected “Hard Truths” will have its U.S. premiere at NYFF.

Now, what’s missing? The most blatant exclusion is Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer” — what’s going on with that one? Other titles curiously not in the NYFF lineup include Pablo Larrain’s “Maria,” Justin Kurzel’s “The Order,” Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here” and Todd Phillips’ “Joker: Folie a Deux.”

62nd New York Film Festival Main Slate
Opening Night
Nickel Boys
Dir. RaMell Ross
Centerpiece
The Room Next Door
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
Closing Night
Blitz
Dir. Steve McQueen
All We Imagine as Light
Dir. Payal Kapadia
Anora
Dir. Sean Baker
April
Dir. Dea Kulumbegashvili
The Brutalist
Dir. Brady Corbet
By the Stream
Dir. Hong Sangsoo
Caught by the Tides
Dir. Jia Zhangke
Dahomey
Dir. Mati Diop
The Damned
Dir. Roberto Minervini
Eephus
Dir. Carson Lund
Grand Tour
Dir. Miguel Gomes
Happyend
Dir. Neo Sora
Hard Truths
Dir. Mike Leigh
Harvest
Dir. Athina Rachel Tsangari
Misericordia
Dir. Alain Guiraudie
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
Dir. Julia Loktev
No Other Land
Dir. Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor
Oh, Canada
Dir. Paul Schrader
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Dir. Rungano Nyoni
Pepe
Dir. Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Dir. Mohammad Rasoulof
The Shrouds
Dir. David Cronenberg
Stranger Eyes
Dir. Yeo Siew Hua
Suburban Fury
Dir. Robinson Devor
Transamazonia
Dir. Pia Marais
A Traveler’s Needs
Dir. Hong Sangsoo
Việt and Nam
Dir. Trương Minh Quý
Who by Fire
Dir. Philippe Lesage
Youth (Hard Times)
Dir. Wang Bing
Youth (Homecoming)
Dir. Wang Bing

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