New York Film Festival: 2026 Film Guide

Two brothers pursue the American Dream but get entangled in a dangerous Russian mafia scheme that terrorizes their family, testing their bond as betrayal becomes possible.

Follows a musician from a family of musicians who returns to Los Angeles. A love letter to the music of the movies and the people who make it.

Follows filmmaker Ava DuVernay as she speaks with scholars, politicians, and legal experts about the 14th Amendment, exploring who gets to belong in America and the ongoing fight over birthright citizenship.

A man takes his sick mother and nine family members on a single-day temple pilgrimage after his boss predicts she may die soon.

Marie-Lou runs a nursing home near Paris and strives for more humane elder care. Her friendship with Mari, a Japanese theatre director facing terminal cancer, deepens her commitment to residents' dignity.

In 2004, an ad director faces a turbulent Christmas weekend. In 2026, a filmmaker turns her story into a screenplay, blurring the lines between reality, fiction, and the people closest to him.

Based on Mrs Dalloway. Follows a Lagos society wife preparing for a party while reflecting on her youth and the choices that led her to marry a respected man instead of her poet boyfriend.

While preparing for her daughter's wedding in Paris, Gloria remembers the ceremony years before in Guinea-Bissau which consecrated her father as an ancestor.

After completing an indie film, an actress struggles to recall details from her three press interviews when asked to recreate them during her acting class.

Iranian artist Nasser Bakhshi's vast archive of found objects and unofficial historical documents preserves collective memory in Tabriz. His partner Roghayeh Najdi's surrealist paintings address women's roles in Iranian society.

A young Romanian woman living in France works for a French family and joins a theatre company who are adapting Octave Mirbeau's "The Diary of a Chambermaid."

Misael lives as an independent logger in the woods, enjoying his solitary freedom. When he must care for his older sister, his peaceful existence is upended and the foundations of his carefully constructed life begin to fall apart.

A woman who agrees to a deal to help an old acquaintance. She follows the hero on his adventure and enters dangerous territory where she is then confronted with her own desire.

In Mexico, musician Tere hosts fellow composer Rosa for a TV interview. Their conversation wanders as unexpected guests arrive. A witty, absurdist comedy that lampoons art-world phoniness and pretension while honoring female friendship.

Follows a mother, her daughter, and a teenage boy blamed for a tragic death as they travel to Tenerife together, confronting grief, blame, and forgiveness on a family holiday that never happened.

At the height of the Cold War, Fatherland centers on the relationship between the writer Thomas Mann and his daughter Erika—actress, writer and rally driver—as they embark on a road trip in a black Buick cruiser across a Germany in ruins.

A group of high school students sets off on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii. They are seized by a sense of vertigo. They allow themselves to be overwhelmed by desire and anger, until they surrender completely.

The love of Olya and Oleh, a young queer Ukrainian couple, is put to the test when one partner's gender transition collides with Russia's full-scale invasion. As war narrows and challenges the boundaries of masculinity and femininity, they struggle to preserve their bond and sense of self. What does it mean to be a man in a country that is fighting for its identity and survival?

When blues musician Al Cook's memory-filled apartment faces demolition, an old dream emerges from his isolated life.

Set high in the mountains, fall comes to an end and a family prepares for the long winter ahead.

In 1980s NYC, an artist experiences a precious window between sickness and mortality - a time when beauty and love remain within reach.

In 1940, Henri Marre arrives in Vichy with his self-taught political manuscript Notre Salut, hoping to establish himself in the new regime and publish his work. He seeks to save France from collapse—or perhaps himself.

A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence unravels when professional crises, global chaos, and marital betrayal converge, pushing him toward a dangerous breaking point.

Years after her Hollywood breakthrough, a talented actress whose career has stalled fights for her second act.

Follows Russian journalists from TV Rain who fled their country after being labeled "foreign agents" by Putin's regime. Now scattered across Europe and beyond, they continue reporting on Ukraine despite espionage charges.