Film at Lincoln Center has announced an ambitious and wide-ranging slate of programming for its Summer 2025 season, offering a vibrant mix of restorations, auteur-driven new releases, retrospectives, and festival showcases running through September.
Headlining the summer’s new releases is Cloud, the latest genre-blurring vision from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who will appear in person for select Q&As. Other major new titles include Hong Sangsoo’s intimate By the Stream and Yeo Siew Hua’s surveillance thriller Stranger Eyes, both official selections of the 62nd New York Film Festival (NYFF). Highlights from this year’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema include Boris Lojkine’s Cannes-lauded Souleymane’s Story and Olivier Assayas’s pandemic-set Suspended Time.
Revival screenings will showcase landmark films in fresh 4K restorations, including Edward Yang’s Yi Yi, Uli Edel’s Christiane F., and Shinji Sōmai’s The Friends. A particularly rare gem, Ardak Amirkulov’s The Fall of Otrar, will receive its long-overdue New York theatrical premiere with a newly restored print, continuing FLC’s commitment to world cinema preservation.
A trio of special retrospectives will celebrate cinema’s most distinctive voices. Gene Hackman is honored with A Week with the Gene Genie, while Luc Moullet, a singular French New Wave talent, will appear in person for a long-overdue tribute to his innovative career. Meanwhile, Night at the Movies: An M. Night Shyamalan Retrospective will pair each of Shyamalan’s films with a companion feature selected by the director himself, with Shyamalan attending to discuss his influences and legacy.
Genre fans can rejoice in the return of Scary Movies XIII, the popular horror showcase revived after a five-year hiatus, promising a full slate of chilling global fare and midnight movie thrills. Also returning are the New York Asian Film Festival and the 63rd edition of NYFF, the latter presented in partnership with Rolex.
Other featured screenings include Andres Veiel’s Riefenstahl, a provocative documentary about the controversial Nazi propagandist; Embeth Davidtz’s directorial debut Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight; and a special 70mm run of Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice, timed with anticipation for his upcoming feature.
Film at Lincoln Center’s summer season reaffirms its position as one of New York’s most essential cinematic destinations—curating a lineup as thoughtful, eclectic, and expansive as the medium itself. Full schedules are available at filmlinc.org.