This image released by Neon shows Mikey Madison in a scene from "Anora." (Neon via AP/The Canadian Press)


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The New York Film Festival has announced the lineup for its 62nd edition, set to open on September 27. This year’s selection features a diverse range of films from around the world, including Sean Baker's Palme d'Or winner Anora, Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door, and Mati Diop's Dahomey.

The festival, organized by Film at Lincoln Center, will showcase 33 films from 24 countries. Notably, 19 of these films are from directors making their debut in this prestigious section of the festival.

The festival will commence with RaMell Ross's Nickel Boys, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Almodóvar, marking his 15th appearance at the festival, will feature The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, as the centerpiece film. The closing night will present Steve McQueen’s Blitz, which explores the London bombings during World War II.

Several Cannes Film Festival prize-winners will make their U.S. or North American debuts at the festival. These include Anora, Miguel Gomes’s Grand Tour, Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine as Light, Rungano Nyoni's On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, and The Seed of the Sacred Fig by Mohammad Rasoulof, an Iranian filmmaker who escaped his home country to present his film.

Dennis Lim, the festival's artistic director, emphasized that the festival aims to reflect the current state of cinema and the world. He noted that the films in this year’s slate highlight cinema’s ability to engage with and transform reality.

Other notable films include Paul Schrader’s Oh, Canada, featuring Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi, Jia Zhangke’s Caught by the Tides, and David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds. Cannes sidebars will also be represented with Roberto Minervini’s American Civil War drama The Damned and Carson Lund’s baseball-themed film Eephus.

The festival will also feature Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths, Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, starring Adrien Brody, and the world premiere of Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow, a documentary about independent journalism in Russia under Putin.

South Korean director Hong Sangsoo will present two films, By the Stream and A Traveler's Needs, while Chinese documentarian Wang Bing will showcase Youth (Hard Times) and Youth (Homecoming), the second and third parts of his "Youth" trilogy.

The New York Film Festival will run from September 27 to October 14 at Lincoln Center and various other locations throughout the city.

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