Stars attend the premiere of ‘Maria’ at the 62nd New York Film Festival on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center in New York City.

The New York Film Festival opened on September 27 with the premiere of 'Nickel Boys,' which wowed and divided audiences in equal measure.

NewFest, New York’s LGBTQ Film Festival, returns Oct. 10-22 with dozens of queer features, shorts, and documentaries available in theaters with select titles

After last year’s industrywide strikes rendered cinema-going a bit less exciting, film festivals have been returning in full force the past few months, renewing excitement around filmmaking at large.

Standout selections include “Nickel Boys,” the Mumbai-set “All We Imagine as Light” and the documentary “Dahomey,” about African repatriation.

Like many of the fall film festivals, New York Film Festival had to mount its 2023 edition during the actors strike and without major stars like Emma Stone (“Poor Things”), Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore (“May December”) or Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal (“All of Us Strangers”) in attendance to promote their movies.

Sixty years ago, the organizers of the first New York Film Festival held their breath as what was then seen as a bold experiment began. Then, just as it is now, the location was Lincoln Center. The world of film and our city has changed a lot since 1963,