Thanks to everyone (from the filmmakers to their audiences) who participated in this year's festival!
Our 2024
#NDNF
YouTube playlist will continue to be updated in the coming days with additional Q&As and programmers previews from the event.
Watch here:
A DIFFERENT MAN (Aaron Schimberg) | New York Premiere | Opening Night Selection
Starring Sebastian Stan, Aaron Schimberg’s hotly anticipated third feature is a social satire that wrangles thorny questions of identity and authenticity with slyly virtuosic storytelling flair.
In
@PsVinothraj
's visceral feature, an impoverished, alcoholic Tamil man embarks on a mission with his young son to retrieve his runaway wife.
@Rowdy_Pictures
@VigneshShivN
#Nayanthara
PEBBLES opens tonight & streams nationwide through May 3! Get tickets:
Announcing the 50th edition of New Directors/New Films! Throughout its rich, half-century history, the festival has celebrated filmmakers who represent the present and anticipate the future of cinema. Explore the full line up:
Announcing the lineup for
#NDNF51
, taking place April 20–May 1! For more than half a century, the festival has celebrated filmmakers who speak to the present and anticipate the future of cinema. This year’s festival will introduce 26 features & 11 shorts:
🧵 Take in a few 📸 from last night’s incredible evening celebrating our
#NDNF
Opening Night selection A DIFFERENT MAN with director Aaron Schimberg & lead actor Sebastian Stan in attendance!
Join us for New Director/New Films, through April 14 only. 🎟️:
Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art are excited to announce the 53rd edition of New Directors/New Films (ND/NF), taking place from April 3 through April 14, 2024.
View the full lineup
Today is the last chance to rent
@amaliaulman
's EL PLANETA,
@PsVinothraj
's PEBBLES, and our Shorts Program 1 at
#NDNF50
!
Rent by 6PM ET and you'll have five days to watch the films. Get nationwide tickets:
Co-presented by
@MuseumModernArt
and
@FilmLinc
, we're excited to announce the 52nd New Directors/New Films, taking place March 29 - April 9.
Explore this year's lineup of celebrated filmmakers who speak to the present and anticipate the future of cinema:
The complete lineup for the 49th annual New Directors/New Films has been announced! We'll see you March 25-April 5 at
@FilmLinc
&
@MoMAFilm
. Explore:
#NDNF
A very limited number of 🎟️ have just been released for our screening on Thursday, April 4 at 8:30pm at
@filmlinc
!
#NDNF
Featuring an in-person Q&A with director Aaron Schimberg and lead actor Sebastian Stan:
Beginning this Wednesday,
@FilmLinc
&
@MoMAFilm
are proud to present the 53rd edition of
#NDNF
, taking place at both venues through April 14 only!
View the complete screening schedule below and secure your 🎟️ to discover your next favorite filmmaker ➡️
Now celebrating its 47th edition, New Directors/New Films returns March 28-April 8 at
@MoMAFilm
&
@FilmLinc
. Stay tuned for the lineup announcement later this month.
@A24
STRESS POSITIONS (Theda Hammel) | New York Premiere | Closing Night Selection
The bewilderment of the early days of COVID is given a manic queer twist in Theda Hammel’s propulsive, brilliantly discombobulating comedy starring John Early and set in Brooklyn in the summer of 2020.
"Film fans can see projects from rising stars, fresh voices, and finally (finally!) get to check out gems like JOYLAND, TOTEM, and DISCO BOY." -
@IndieWire
Read IndieWire's
#NDNF52
picks below and then plan your schedule here:
Now on the
@FilmLinc
YouTube channel, view exclusive highlights from
#NDNF
Opening Night, featuring A DIFFERENT MAN's Sebastian Stan, Aaron Schimberg, & more:
Get 🎟️ to this year's festival, running through April 14! ➡️
@MoMAFilm
New Directors/New Films is back!
#NDNF52
showcases a wide-ranging group of films by emerging directors working at the vanguard of cinema from March 29 – April 9 at
@MuseumModernArt
and
@FilmLinc
.
Get tickets →
Director
@jessybeshir
joins us tmrw evening at
@FilmLinc
to introduce the 5:30pm screening of her hypnotic documentary, FAYA DAYI.
While limited tix remain for 5/7 & 5/10 in-person screenings, the film streams virtually nationwide 5/8 - 5/13. Get tix:
#NDNF51
officially begins tomorrow at
@FilmLinc
and
@MoMAFilm
! Spotlighting 26 features, 11 shorts, and 39 directors, this year's edition showcases filmmakers who speak to the present and anticipate the future of cinema. Explore the lineup and get tickets:
The 48th edition of New Directors/New Films begins in one week at
@MoMAFilm
&
@FilmLinc
! See 3+ films during the festival and save with a discount package:
#NDNF
A landmark work of the New Queer Cinema of the 1990s, Gregg Araki’s THE LIVING END marked a visionary reinvention of the road movie, suffused with the ambient irony, despair & anger in the wake of the AIDS crisis.
Now playing free nationwide through 4/21:
Out of an abundance of caution and at the direction of Lincoln Center Performing Arts, Film at Lincoln Center will be suspending all screenings and events effective 5:00 PM tonight, March 12, 2020, in response to the ongoing health concerns related to COVID-19.
The first entry in the director's "coming-of-age" trilogy, Hou Hsiao-hsien's A SUMMER AT GRANDPA'S screened as a selection of the 15th edition of
#NDNF
in 1986.
#NDNF50
"Sally Potter's ironies, veering between the blunt and the exquisite, the oblique and the confrontational, expose the cruel hazards of nature and the perversities of culture." -
@tnyfrontrow
(
@NewYorker
) on Sally Potter's ORLANDO, a selection of the 22nd
#NDNF
in 1993.
#NDNF50
The 48th edition of New Directors/New Films begins tonight! Over the next 12 days at
@MoMAFilm
&
@FilmLinc
, see the best in contemporary cinema from emerging voices. Schedule + tickets:
#NDNF
A "profoundly affecting meditation on loss," is how
@AVCFilm
described Hirokazu Kore-eda's narrative feature debut, MABOROSI, a delicate portrait of loss and regeneration that was a selection of the 25th
#NDNF
in 1996.
#NDNF50
Using a trove of otherworldly 16mm footage, filmmaker Sara Dosa constructs the narrative of the remarkable lives of world-famous volcanologists and lovers Katia and Maurice Krafft.
FIRE OF LOVE plays tomorrow & Thursday during
#NDNF51
with director Q&As:
Watch
#NDNF52
shorts programmer
@maddiewhittle
explain how Shorts Program 1 captures the phenomenology of being a person moving through the world.
As several shorts will be making their North American or U.S. debuts, be sure to get your tickets now! →
30 years ago this spring, Richard Linklater's SLACKER screened at the 20th edition of
@NDNF
. The comedy classic was praised by
@EW
as having a "marvelously low-key observational cool."
#NDNF50
Months before it would be nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature, Yorgos Lanthimos's second feature, DOGTOOTH screened at the 39th edition of
#NDNF
in 2010.
#NDNF50
Are you ready?
#NDNF51
kicks off this Wednesday with Audrey Diwan's Opening Night Film, HAPPENING. Limited tickets remain for the screenings on April 20 and 21!
Don't miss the Winner of the Venice International Film Festival’s prestigious Golden Lion:
In 1982, THE ROAD WARRIOR, George Miller's second entry in the acclaimed Australian
@MadMaxMovie
saga, screened in the 11th edition of
#NDNF
.
Miller's fifth film in the franchise, FURIOSA, is due to be released in 2023.
#NDNF50
Just remembered that somehow Titus Kaphar's EXHIBITING FORGIVENESS, an aching, furious film featuring a sensational André Holland, still hasn't been acquired. It's playing New Directors/New Films next week. I highly recommend you catch it!
Cinephiles rejoice—tickets are now on sale for
#NDNF52
!
Don't miss a killer lineup of filmmakers who speak to the present and anticipate the future of cinema:
New Directors/New Films 2019 begins next week! Featuring 35 films that exemplify the vitality of contemporary cinema, see the schedule + get tickets:
#NDNF
The 50th edition of
#NDNF
kicks off tomorrow with our Opening Night film, EL PLANETA, a delightful and slyly dark breakthrough from multidisciplinary artist
@amaliaulman
!
Get virtual tickets nationwide and limited in-theater tickets at
@FilmLinc
:
“I write a fake script to go get money, and then I never open it again.” - Valérie Massadian on how “everything changed” in MILLA through shooting and editing.
#NDNF
Act fast—limited tickets to the World Premiere of our Closing Night Film, THE AFRICAN DESPERATE, have just been released!
#NDNF51
Don't miss the wildly engaging debut feature from Martine Syms, followed by Q&As with the director on April 30 and May 1:
Starting this Wednesday, New Directors/New Films 2018 introduces New York audiences to emerging filmmmakers from around the world. Track your viewings with our
@letterboxd
list:
#NDNF
Three additional films open tonight at
#NDNF
! Experience emerging cinema and get nationwide tickets:
· THE MOLE AGENT
· THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN
· THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS
That's a wrap on the 48th edition of New Directors/New Films! Thank you for joining us at
@FilmLinc
&
@MoMAFilm
for 12 days of adventurous new work. Check out our photo round-ups: 📸
#NDNF
The 1989 Closing Night selection of the 18th edition of
#NDNF
, Trinh T. Minh-ha's SURNAME VIET, GIVEN NAME NAM presented a formally complex collage of the experiences of multiple generations of Vietnamese and Vietnamese-American women.
#NDNF50
Wim Wenders’ second feature is a tautly constructed, Hitchcockian tale of anomie & isolation about a goalkeeper enduring an existential crisis.
THE GOALIE'S ANXIETY AT THE PENALTY KICK is now playing free nationwide through Wednesday! Get tickets:
In Chantal Akerman’s THE MEETINGS OF ANNA, a Belgian filmmaker on a promotional tour fluctuates between intimacy & disengagement with a series of figures, including a one-night stand, a former lover, & her distant mother.
Now playing for free nationwide:
🚨 Act fast: a limited number of tickets have been made available for our 6pm screening of STRESS POSITIONS, the Closing Night selection of
#NDNF
, on April 13 at
@filmlinc
with director Theda Hammel and cast members John Early & Faheem Ali in person!
🎟️:
Former
@FilmLinc
program director Richard Peña will host a free virtual talk w/
@kmendoncafilho
this Sunday at 2PM EST to discuss the filmmaker’s incredible body of work, including NEIGHBORING SOUNDS and BACURAU.
#NDNF50
Click here for free tix:
"This is a tremendously moving film." -
@indiewire
#NDNF52
begins this Wednesday with EARTH MAMA, Savanah Leaf’s remarkable debut feature.
Limited 🎟️ remain for our 9pm screening on 3/29 at
@filmlinc
and (with Q&A) 6pm screening on 3/30 at
@MoMAFilm
:
A limited number of 🎟️ have been released for the
#NDNF
Closing Night selection STRESS POSITIONS on Saturday, April 13 at 6pm with director Theda Hammel and cast members
@bejohnce
and Faheem Ali in person!
Don't delay: