2024 NY Film Festival Main Slate Lineup: The Damned, Anora

The 2024 New York Film Festival has revealed its main slate lineup including Cannes winners Anora and Seed of the Sacred Fig as well as the U.S. premieres of Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds and Roberto Minervini’s The Damned, which was also awarded at Cannes.

Indeed, the NYFF main slate features a number of Cannes prize winners in addition to Sean Baker’s Anora, which won Cannes’ Palme d’Or; exiled Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof’s Seed of the Sacred Fig, which was awarded a special prize; and The Damned, which won best director in the Un Certain Regard section, shared with Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, which will also screen at NYFF. Other Cannes faves set to play in New York include Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine as Light, which won the grand prize at the French festival; Miguel Gomes’s Grand Tour, which won best director.

The festival will also feature Berlin winners including Golden Bear selection Mati Diop’s Dahomey; Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs (Silver Bear Grand Jury prize); Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s No Other Land (Panorama audience award and the Berlinale documentary award) and Philippe Lesage’s Who by Fire (grand prize, Generation).

And the festival will feature the world premieres of Robinson Devor’s Suburban Fury and Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow.

“The festival’s ambition is to reflect the state of cinema in a given year, which often means also reflecting the state of the world,” said NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim in a statement. “The most notable thing about the films in the main slate—and in the other sections that we will announce in the coming weeks—is the degree to which they emphasize cinema’s relationship to reality. They are reminders that, in the hands of its most vital practitioners, film has the capacity to reckon with, intervene in, and reimagine the world.”

The 62nd New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center, is set to run from Sept. 27-Oct. 14 at Manhattan’s Lincoln Center and four partner venues in other boroughs: Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (Staten Island), BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music) (Brooklyn), The Bronx Museum (Bronx), and the Museum of the Moving Image (Queens).