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New York Film Festival · 2026

New York Film Festival 2026

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At Night

Six women in Paris traverse the anxiety of the city after dark.

(Country: France, UK; Year: 2026; Director: Beatrice Gibson; Stars: Arno Nguyen, Sophie Robinson)

A day In The life Of Jo: Chapter Phaedra

Jo, melancholic, wild and only 15 feels shy to listen to music she truly likes, yet with Phaedra’s etheric song, her heart skips a beat and all quietly shifts. It's a day of changes.

(Country: Greece, Romania, France, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Jacqueline Lentzou; Writer: Jacqueline Lentzou)

Fire Flower (Hanabi)

Filmed in Japan over 10 years, this adaptation of writer Yoko Hayasuke's journal is set in the wake of the tsunami and nuclear disaster after the Tōhoku earthquake.

(Country: France, Brazil; Year: 2026; Director: Ana Vaz; Stars: Yukari Morimoto, Kota Takeuchi, Ayami Awazuhara, Yoko Hayasuke, Ana Vaz, Sadako Aoki, Kazuhiro Ozaki, Tarachine, Naoto Matsumura, Taio Kaneda, Noritsugu Miyagawa, Kaori Morimoto)

Life Of Jorge Luis Borges (Biografía de Jorge Luis Borges)

An attempt to narrate the author and poet's biography through objects and places.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2026; Director: Mariano Llinás; Stars: Jorge Luis Borges, Ernesto Montequín, Nicolás Helft, Laura Paredes, Milva Leonardi, Pablo Dacal)

London

Bobby drives back and forth between Vienna and Salzburg, giving lifts to strangers on the way, sharing conversations that drift from the mundane to the deeply personal. In this tender portrait of today’s Europe, anonymity and warmth still go hand in hand.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2026; Director: Sebastian Brameshuber; Stars: Bobby Sommer)

Red Rocks (Les roches rouges)

On the French Riviera, two gangs of kids compete in their favourite game: jumping off the red cliffs of the Mediterranean. Géo, barely five years old, discovers over the course of a summer a world where friendship blends with rivalry, and where the first stirrings of the heart become a source of tension.

(Country: Belgium, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland; Year: 2026; Director: Bruno Dumont; Writer: Bruno Dumont; Stars: Kaylon Lancel, Kelsie Verdeilles, Louise Podolski, Mohamed Coly, Alessandro Piquera, Meryl Pires)

Tomorrow A Long Time Ago (Morgen vor langer Zeit)

Amid German reunification in 1990, 50-year-old Patty first loses her job and then her friend Jelena. In a small East German town, she collects discarded objects and meets the younger Franz. When her flat becomes so full of belongings that she can no longer enter it, she sets out on a journey.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Luise Donschen; Writer: Luise Donschen; Stars: Gerti Drassl, Clemens Bobke, Manuela Biedermann, Nele Christoph, Pola Friedrichs, Jan Kampmann, Peter Schneider, Uwe Preuss, Egon Berous Schrader, Alexandra Jeschke)