Eye For Film >> Festivals >> A-Z >> New Directors/New Films >> 2025
New York's celebration of upcoming voices in cinema runs from April 2 to April 13. It will open with Familiar Touch.
View previous years coverage of the New Directors/New Films festival:
NDNF Latest Reviews

A retail employee infiltrates the inner circle of an artist on the verge of stardom. As he gets closer to the budding music star, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.

In 2001, three teenagers from the outskirts of Buenos Aires all fall in love with Diego. Natalia has always had the most chemistry with him, but when it seems inevitable that their friendship will turn into something more, the older and more experienced Silvia appears and soon captures Diego’s attention.

In the aftermath of a conspiracy-minded father’s unexpected death, his daughter receives his patent for an experimental healing device.

Two familes try to cope with trauma after a weekend getaway turns sour.

Follows an octogenarian woman’s transition to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.

When young Gonga and his uncle Bart stumble upon a case of rusty crosses in a scrapyard, they repurpose them into neon crucifixes and start selling them in their neighbourhood.

A dad and his twin kids go on a boat holiday filled with unexpected encounters.
New Directors/New Films Features

59th New York Film Festival early bird highlights Futura, Jane By Charlotte, James Baldwin: From Another Place and The Velvet Underground
Eye For Film continues to support festivals both locally and across the world. At the moment, we're covering:
New York's Rendez-Vous With French Cinema
Celebration of Francophone cinema
Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival
Celebration of factual film

Cannes Film Festival
Archive of festival coverage.
Sundance Film Festival
Daily diary and reviews from 2005-2018.
Berlin Film Festival
Coverage of the lynchpin German festival.

