The Mastermind

Movie at Lincoln Heart introduced as we speak the 34 movies that comprise the Primary Slate of the 2025 New York Movie Competition. The Opening Evening movie is Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, and Jim Jarmusch’s newest, Father Mom Sider Brother is the Centerpiece. The Closing Evening movie, Bradley Cooper’s Is This Factor On?, is a world premiere, and it joins others together with Gavagai by Ulrich Köhler (In My Room, NYFF56), “an astute drama wherein a movie adaptation of Medea turns into the middle of cross-cultural tensions.”

From Sundance there’s Khalil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Phrases & Circumstances, from Venice Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’s Seymour Hersh documentary, Cowl-Up in addition to Kent Jones’s Late Fame; from Cannes there’s Kelly Reichardt’s Mastermind and Oliver Laxe’s Sirat, amongst others.

In a press launch, NYFF Inventive Director Dennis Lim said: “​​Anybody who cares about movie is aware of that it’s an artwork in want of defending, like a lot of our core values as we speak. Throughout all sections of the pageant, the flicks we’ve got chosen this yr counsel that this safeguarding can take many guises: acts of rejuvenation and refusal, expressions of unease and pleasure, feats of creativeness and commemoration. I’m significantly struck by the range of approaches and varieties among the many movies on this Primary Slate, which affirms that the artwork of cinema is greater than able to thriving, even in tough occasions.”

The NYFF Primary Slate choice committee is chaired by Dennis Lim, NYFF Inventive Director, and contains Florence Almozini, Justin Chang, Ok. Austin Collins, and Rachel Rosen. Violeta Bava, Michelle Carey, Leo Goldsmith, and Antoine Thirion are NYFF program advisors.

The New York Movie Competition runs from September 26 – October 13, 2025. Passes are on sale now. NYFF63 movies are screened in theaters at Lincoln Heart and at 4 venues throughout town: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Staten Island), AMC Bay Plaza Cinema (Bronx), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) (Brooklyn), and the Museum of the Shifting Picture (Queens).

The entire listing of movies introduced as we speak follows.

Opening Evening: After the Hunt (Luca Guadagnino)
Centerpiece: Father Mom Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
Closing Evening: Is This Factor On? (Bradley Cooper)
Beneath the Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi)
BLKNWS: Phrases & Circumstances (Kahlil Joseph)
Cowl-Up (Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus)
The Currents (Milagros Mumenthaler)
Duse (Pietro Marcello)
The Fence (Claire Denis)
Gavagai (Ulrich Köhler)
A Home of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)
I Solely Relaxation within the Storm (Pedro Pinho)
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Mary Bronstein)
It Was Simply an Accident (Jafar Panahi)
Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach)
Kontinental ’25 (Radu Jude)
Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel)
Late Fame (Kent Jones)
The Final One for the Highway (Francesco Sossai)
The Love That Stays (Hlynur Pálmason)
Magellan (Lav Diaz)
The Mastermind (Kelly Reichardt)
Miroirs No. 3 (Christian Petzold)
No Different Alternative (Park Chan-wook)
Peter Hujar’s Day (Ira Sachs)
Resurrection (Bi Gan)
Romería (Carla Simón)
Rose of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)
The Secret Agent (Kleber Mendonça Filho) (Joachim Trier)
Sentimental Worth (Joachim Trier)
Sirât (Oliver Laxe)
Sound of Falling (Mascha Schilinski)
Two Prosecutors (Sergei Loznitsa)
What Does That Nature Say To You (Hong Sangsoo)