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Changeling
Clint Eastwood’s anticipated latest (starring Angelina Jolie) re-creates 1920s Los Angeles, alternately seedy and glamorous, in a true-crime murder mystery.
Wendy and Lucy
Drifting through the Pacific Northwest, Michelle Williams loses her dog and goes on a desperate search in small-town Oregon.
I’m Gonna Explode
Two disaffected Mexico City high-school students decide to go on the lam—but don’t get very far.
Afterschool
Drug overdoses, teen angst and video voyeurism all play a part in Antonio Campos’s icy indie flick, filmed at a posh Connecticutprep school.
The Windmill Movie
A film student pays tribute to his deceased professor, Richard P. “Dick” Rogers, in this affectionate doc—which visits Rogers’s Hamptons summer home.
Che
Half of Steven Soderbergh’s four-hour-plus epic goes down in Cuba, of course, and half, provocatively, takes place in Bolivia, where the fight was tougher.
Tony Manero
A Saturday Night Fever–obsessed serial killer in Santiago, Chile, is stayin’ alive (unlike his victims) in Pablo Larrain’s offbeat thriller.
The Headless Woman
After an Argentine dentist hits something (or somebody?) with her car, she spends weeks wandering around in a daze.
Let It Rain
Festival favorite Agnès Jaoui returns with this dramedy about a French female politician on the rise (cough, cough) and the filmmakers who ride her coattails to fame.
The Wrestler
New Jersey, represent! Darren Aronofsky’s hotly buzzed-about drama, about an over-the-hill body-slammer (Mickey Rourke), hits the boardwalk and beyond.
The Northern Land
Identity and history inform this Portuguese drama about a woman investigating an old manor house.
Gomorrah
All levels of society in Naples and its outskirts are corrupted by organized crime in Matteo Garrone’s bold, big-scale indictment.
Bullet in the Head
Spanish filmmaker Jaime Rosales imagines the events that led up to a violent real-life encounter between two policemen on a stakeout and several Basque separatists.
Hunger
Virtually the whole of this concentrated Irish Troubles film takes place at the notorious, shuttered Maze prison just outside Belfast.
Happy-Go-Lucky
First seen pedaling on a bicycle, the effervescent Sally Hawkins plays a North London primary-school teacher who can’t be fazed.
Summer Hours
Olivier Assayas is back with this relatively quiet Paris-set domestic drama, about a grown-up clan grappling with inheritance issues.
The Class
The festival’s opening-night selection finds Laurent Cantet (Time Out) turning a multiethnic Parisian classroom—populated by actual students and teachers—into a potent social metaphor.
A Christmas Tale
A Parisian extended family, riven by estrangement and simmering jealousies, reunites for the holidays. Everyone gets along just fine.
Lola Montès
Max Ophüls’s 1955 romantic classic follows the scandalous title character (Martine Carol) around the globe, but settles in Bavaria, where she seduces the king.
Four Nights with Anna
Polish-cinema bigwig Jerzy Skolimowski is back, and this creepy tale about a man obsessed with his female neighbor proves that he can still unnerve.
Tulpan
You know how you’ve been anxiously awaiting a Kazakh comedy about a shepherd courting his true love? Your prayers have finally been answered.
Waltz with Bashir
Animated films don’t normally bring us to war zones in West Beirut, Lebanon, but like last year’s Persepolis, this one’s unusually daring.
Chouga
We’ve all seen variations on Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, but this new adaptation—set in Kazakhstan—puts the story’s overtones front and center.
Serbis
Who doesn’t like a movie set in a Filipino porn theater, especially if it’s directed by rising talent Brillante Mendoza?
Night and Day
South Korea’s Hong Sang-soo continues to explore the dynamics of love triangles in his latest ode to the power of three.
Tokyo Sonata
The suburbs of Japan’s biggest metropolis are the site of Magnolia-esque family meltdowns in this adventurous fest entry.
Ashes of Time Redux
Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai pulls a Coppola and revisits/recuts his 1994 samurai drama starring Tony Leung and Brigitte Lin.
The New York Film Festival runs Fri 26–Oct 12.
