All Films

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Rent now to ensure your spot while supplies last. The earliest viewing periods will begin on the first day of NYFF, September 17. Each film will have its own specific start date and corresponding availability window. You can see this information when renting the film.

Dates noted below indicate the first day a film will become available. 8:00pm ET is the standard start time for all films.

NYFF films are available to rent and view in the US only.

NYFF has various safeguards in place to protect the rights of creators, including traceable watermarking. Recording or photographing is strictly prohibited.

Main Slate

48 Hours Only
Lovers Rock - Encore (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Steve McQueen
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  • 1h 8m
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Viewing Window Expired
Limited Viewing Window: Sep 26, 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM ET
Nomadland (2020)
  • Centerpiece, Main Slate
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  • Chloé Zhao
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  • 1h 48m
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One Night Only
Limited Viewing Window: Oct 10, 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM ET
French Exit (2020)
  • Closing Night, Main Slate
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  • Azazel Jacobs
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  • 1h 50m
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Atarrabi and Mikelats (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Eugène Green
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  • 2h 3m
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Beginning (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Dea Kulumbegashvili
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  • 2h 5m
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Ends Sep 30, 8:00 PM ET
City Hall (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Frederick Wiseman
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  • 4h 32m
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Ends Sep 30, 8:00 PM ET
Days (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Tsai Ming-liang
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  • 2h 7m
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Last Chance to Rent Oct 4, 8:00 PM ET
The Disciple (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Chaitanya Tamhane
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  • 2h 8m
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One Night Only
I Carry You With Me (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Heidi Ewing
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  • 1h 51m
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Isabella (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Matías Piñeiro
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  • 1h 20m
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48 Hours Only
Mangrove - Encore (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Steve McQueen
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  • 2h 8m
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MLK/FBI (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Sam Pollard
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  • 1h 44m
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Night of the Kings (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Philippe Lacôte
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  • 1h 33m
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Notturno (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Gianfranco Rosi
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  • 1h 40m
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48 Hours Only
Red, White and Blue (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Steve McQueen
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  • 1h 18m
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Last Chance to Rent Oct 4, 8:00 PM ET
The Salt of Tears (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Philippe Garrel
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  • 1h 40m
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Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Jia Zhangke
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  • 1h 51m
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Tragic Jungle (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Yulene Olaizola
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  • 1h 36m
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One Night Only
The Truffle Hunters (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Michael Dweck
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  • Gregory Kershaw
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  • 1h 24m
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Available Oct 9, 8:00 PM ET
Undine (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Christian Petzold
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  • 1h 30m
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Available Oct 2, 8:00 PM ET
The Woman Who Ran (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Hong Sangsoo
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  • 1h 17m
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Time (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Garrett Bradley
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  • 1h 21m
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This is film is unavailable
The Calming (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Song Fang
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  • 1h 33m
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This film is unavailable
Malmkrog (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Cristi Puiu
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  • 3h 20m
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Viewing Window Expired
Gunda (2020)
  • Main Slate
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  • Victor Kossakovsky
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  • 1h 33m
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Spotlight
David Byrne’s American Utopia (2020)
  • Spotlight
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  • Spike Lee
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  • 1h 45m
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A Message From Spike Lee & David Byrne
Last Chance to Rent Oct 3, 8:00 PM ET
HOPPER/WELLES (2020)
  • Spotlight
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  • Orson Welles
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  • 2h 10m
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The Human Voice + Conversation
  • Spotlight
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  • Pedro Almodóvar
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The Monopoly of Violence (2020)
  • Spotlight
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  • David Dufresne
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  • 1h 26m
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Viewing Window Expired
Limited Viewing Window: Sep 23, 8:00 PM - 11:59 PM ET
On the Rocks (2020)
  • Spotlight
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  • Sofia Coppola
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  • 1h 35m
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Viewing Window Expired
All In: The Fight for Democracy (2020)
  • Spotlight, Free
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  • Lisa Cortés
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  • Liz Garbus
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  • 1h 42m
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Currents

Last Chance to Rent Oct 4, 8:00 PM ET
Her Name Was Europa, preceded by A Night At The Opera
  • Currents
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The Last City (2020)
  • Currents
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  • Heinz Emigholz
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  • 1h 40m
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The Lobby (2020)
  • Currents
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  • Heinz Emigholz
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  • 1h 16m
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Last Chance to Rent Oct 3, 8:00 PM ET
My Mexican Bretzel (2019)
  • Currents
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  • Nuria Giménez
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  • 1h 14m
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Ouvertures (2020)
  • Currents
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  • The Living and the Dead Ensemble
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  • 2h 12m
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The Plastic House, preceded by Autoficción and See You in My Dreams
  • Currents
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Slow Machine, preceded by Hard, Cracked the Wind
  • Currents
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Last Chance to Rent Sep 30, 8:00 PM ET
There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse, preceded by Stump the Guesser
  • Currents
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The Year of the Discovery (2020)
  • Currents
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  • Luis López Carrasco
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  • 3h 20m
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Last Chance to Rent Sep 30, 8:00 PM ET
Program 3: Letters from Home
  • Currents
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Last Chance to Rent Oct 3, 8:00 PM ET
Program 4: There Are Other Worlds They Have Not Told You Of
  • Currents
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Program 5: The Medium Is the Message
  • Currents
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Program 6: Here and Elsewhere
  • Currents
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Program 7: Code Unknown
  • Currents
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Program 8: New York Stories
  • Currents
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Her Socialist Smile (2020)
  • Currents
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  • John Gianvito
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  • 1h 33m
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The Inheritance (2020)
  • Currents
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  • Ephraim Asili
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  • 1h 40m
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Fauna (2020)
  • Currents
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  • Nicolás Pereda
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  • 1h 10m
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The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (2020)
  • Currents
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  • Raúl Ruiz
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  • Valeria Sarmiento
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  • 1h 4m
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Program 1: Remains to Be Seen
  • Currents
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Program 2: Free Radicals
  • Currents
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Revivals

Last Chance to Rent Oct 3, 8:00 PM ET
In the Mood for Love (2000)
  • Revivals
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  • Wong Kar Wai
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  • 1h 38m
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Last Chance to Rent Sep 30, 8:00 PM ET
Xiao Wu (1997)
  • Revivals
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  • Jia Zhangke
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  • 1h 52m
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Simone Barbes or Virtue (1980)
  • Revivals
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  • Marie-Claude Treilhou
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  • 1h 17m
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Flowers of Shanghai (1998)
  • Revivals
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  • Hou Hsiao-hsien
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  • 1h 53m
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Available Oct 11, 8:00 PM ET
Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1971)
  • Revivals, Free
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  • Terence Dixon
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  • 27min
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Muhammad Ali, the Greatest (1974)
  • Revivals
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  • William Klein
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  • 2h 3m
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Zero for Conduct / Zéro de conduite (1933)
  • Revivals, Steve McQueen Selects
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  • Jean Vigo
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  • 49min
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The Chess Game of the Wind (1976)
  • Revivals
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  • Mohammad Reza Aslani
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  • 1h 33m
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TCM Presents Smooth Talk
Smooth Talk (1985)
  • Revivals
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  • Joyce Chopra
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  • 1h 32m
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Damnation (1986)
  • Revivals
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  • Béla Tarr
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  • 1h 56m
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This film is unavailable
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973)
  • Revivals, Ephraim Asili Selects
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  • Ivan Dixon
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  • 1h 42m
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