The Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center announced the 54th edition of New Directors/New Films (ND/NF), taking place from April 2 through April 13, and have now released a trailer for the event. Since 1972, New Directors/New Films has showcased new and emerging filmmakers whose distinctive visions and risk-taking works highlight the vitality and potential of cinema. This year’s ND/NF will present 24 features and nine short films, including 20 North American or U.S. premieres.Opening ND/NF is the New York premiere of Familiar Touch, Sarah Friedland’s debut, which won three top prizes in the 2024 Venice Film Festival Orizzonti Competition and showcases an astonishing performance by Kathleen Chalfant. The festival will close with the New York premiere of Alex Russell’s feature debut Lurker, a tense thriller about the darker side of pop-star worship fresh from screenings at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals.Films in the ND/NF program probe a diverse array of themes, including community and co-existence, family histories, the lives of artists, global political issues, and the complexities of youth and coming of age. A number of works experiment with hybrid forms, blurring the lines between fiction and documentary. In this geographically diverse lineup, works by emerging filmmakers from 22 countries are represented, many of which premiered at, and in many cases received awards and prizes from, prestigious international film festivals such as Cannes, Venice, Locarno, CPH:DOX, Sundance, Rotterdam, and Berlin.