Filmmaker Jafar Panahi recalls the cinephilia of his youth from the surreal remove of the 2025 New York Film Festival. This is the first film in an annual initiative titled NYFF Encounters, a commissioning program that invites one filmmaker with a film in the New York Film Festival to create an original short during the course of the festival. Selected by the festival’s Artistic Director and programming team, the participating filmmaker will produce a short film shot at least in part at NYFF.

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6.8/10

Being James Bond
2021
7.8/10

Cameraperson
2016
6.7/10

Elstree 1976
2015
6.2/10

180° South
2010
7.2/10

Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience
2016
6.9/10

Very Nice, Very Nice
1961
6.0/10

Spider-Man: All Roads Lead to No Way Home
2022
6.8/10

9/11
2002
7.9/10

Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
2026
8.4/10

Justin Bieber's Believe
2013
6.9/10

Western Stars
2019
7.0/10

The Irishman: In Conversation
2019
7.5/10

Who Are You, Charlie Brown?
2021
6.9/10

Amazing Grace
2018
7.1/10

Adele One Night Only
2021
7.7/10

LCD Soundsystem: Shut Up and Play the Hits
2012
6.9/10

The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story
2019
7.3/10

Heart of a Dog
2015
6.5/10

Audrey
2020
7.1/10
I Was Only 14
2016
0/10