New York Film Festival announces main slate

Two documentary world premieres among films

by Amber Wilkinson

Grand Prix winner All We Imagine As Light
Grand Prix winner All We Imagine As Light Photo: Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival
New York Film Festival has announced the main slate for its 62nd edition, which will run from September 27 to October 14.

While most of the films have had their world premieres elsewhere, those making a first bow at the event are NYFF Suburban Furly, directed by Robinson Devor, which offers a documentary consideration of presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore, and Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow a factual film about independent journalism in Russia ahead of Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

A number of films will screen from Cannes, including David Cronenberg's The Shrouds, Payal Kapadia's All We Imagine As Light, which won the Grand Prix, and Mohammad Rasoulof's The Seed Of The Sacred Fig. There are also several films from Berlin, including Mati Diop's Golden Bear winner Dahomey and Pepe by Nelson Carlos de los Santos Arias.

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