Film at Lincoln Center screens independent and international films daily, and produces film festivals all year long, including the iconic New York Film Festival.
It’s a great place to see movies before their general release. Many independent films make their theatrical releases here. Like New York City, Film at Lincoln Center has a slight European focus. Many screenings include Q&As with directors, stars, filmmakers, and critics. If you are starstruck, this is a place for you. You can watch the Metropolitan Opera in The Met: Live in HD.
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MAY
African Film Festival
The 33rd New York African Film Festival 2026 is co-produced by African Film Festival at Film at Lincoln Center from May 6-12, 2026.
Italian Film Festival
The 25th Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2026 film festival is co-produced by Cinecittà at Film at Lincoln Center; from May 28 – June 4, 2026. 🇮🇹
APRIL
New Directors / New Films Festival
The 54th New Directors / New Films 2026 film festival is at Film at Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Manhattan, from April 8-19, 2026.
MARCH
French Film Festival
The 31st Rendez-Vous with French Cinema 2026 French film festival, is co-produced by UniFrance at Film at Lincoln Center from March 5-15, 2026. 🇫🇷
JANUARY
Latin Film Awards
16th Cinema Tropical Awards 2026 ceremony will announce the best Latin American and American Latin films of the past year; at Film at Lincoln Center in Manhattan; on Wednesday, January 7, 2026. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇱 🇨🇴 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇪🇨 🇲🇽 🇵🇦 🇵🇾 🇵🇪 🇻🇪 🇺🇸
Brazilian Film
“Iracema” (Iracema, uma transa amazônica, 1974) by Jorge Bodansky and Orlando Senna, is the story of a teenage Indigenous sex worker who teams up with a tough guy trucker hauling illegal hardwoods on the then new Trans-Amazonian Highway, as the government destroys the Amazon rainforest in the name of progress. This is a raw window into a past that mostly no longer exists. The film premiered at Cannes in 1975. Brazil’s military government banned it in the late 1970s, so it must be good. The film, in Portuguese with English subtitles, is at Film at Lincoln Center in Manhattan; on Wednesday, January 7 at 4pm; and Sunday, January 11, 2026 at 1:30pm. $20. 🇧🇷
Brazilian Film
“The Secret Agent Network” (O Agente Secreto, 2025) by Kleber Mendonça Filho, stars Wagner Moura (Narcos) as a man on the run from his past in 1970s Recife, Brazil (the director’s hometown of his youth). These were some crazy times during Brazil’s military dictatorship. The film is about maintaining your sense of self, while adapting to the pressures of government abuses of power. Brazilians are really good at that. Never thought we would be in this same place, but we are. Brazil’s 2026 Best International Feature Oscars entry won Best Director and Best Actor at Cannes. The film, in Portuguese with English subtitles, is at Film at Lincoln Center in Manhattan; from January 7-13, 2026. $21. 🇧🇷
Jewish Film Festival
The 35th New York Jewish Film Festival 2026 of films about Jewish life around the world, is co-produced by The Jewish Museum at Film at Lincoln Center, from January 14-28, 2026. ✡️
Film Criticism Book Signing + Argentine Film
Screenwriter Melissa Anderson celebrates “The Hunger: Film Writing, 2012-2024,” her new book of film criticism, with a screening of Laura Citarella’s Argentine film “Trenque Lauquen” (2022) with the author signing books. The film, in Spanish with subtitles, screens at Film at Lincoln Center in Manhattan; on Saturday, January 24, 2026 at 12pm. $21. 🇦🇷
SEPTEMBER
New York Film Festival
The 63rd New York Film Festival 2025 brings international filmmakers, movie stars, and film lovers to red carpet premieres, screenings with Q&As, and talks to Film at Lincoln Center and partner venues in each of NYC’s boroughs, from September 26 to October 12, 2025.
Film at Lincoln Center Tickets
Film at Lincoln Center has two theater complexes on either side of West 65th St between Broadway and Amsterdam.
Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center
144 West 65th St (south side).
There is a nice café inside the center.
Walter Reade Theater
165 West 65th St (north side), 2nd Floor
From the Munroe Film Center, cross the street and take the escalator or stairs on the left.
Matinees are often discounted.