The New York Film Festival has announced the 32-film main slate for its 64th edition, anchored by four world premieres: centerpiece selection “Behemoth!” from writer and director Tony Gilroy; closing night selection “14th,” the new documentary feature from Ava DuVernay; “I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies” from Iranian filmmaker Mani Haghighi, and recently announced monster epic “Godzilla Minus Zero” from Takashi Yamazaki.

The lineup leans heavily on Cannes titles, drawing breakouts including Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s French-language drama “All of a Sudden,” Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri’s “Mrs. Dalloway” reimagining “Clarissa,” Paweł Pawlikowski’s monochrome postwar drama “Fatherland” and the Grand Prix winner “Minotaur” from Andrey Zvyagintsev.

Also among the buzzy movies screening in the Big Apple are Andrew Haigh’s 1950s drama “A Long Winter,” Chris Rock’s Hollywood drama “Misty Green,” which marks his return behind the camera, Mike Leigh’s likely final movie “Tender Loving Care,” Lee Chang-dong’s South Korean drama “Possible Love,” Pedro Almodóvar’s meta-cinematic “Bitter Christmas” and Ira Sachs’ 1980s New York story “The Man I Love” with Rami Malek.

Sandra Wollner’s “Everytime” won the Un Certain Regard prize at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and is one of several prizewinners from the Croisette landing in the main slate. The others include “Minotaur” (Grand Prix), “Fatherland” (best director), “A Man of His Time” (best screenplay), “The Dreamed Adventure” (Jury Prize) and “All of a Sudden,” which earned a shared best actress prize for Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto. Marine Atlan’s “La Gradiva” won the Critics’ Week Grand Prize.

Seventeen directors are showing features in the main slate for the first time, among them Atlan (“La Gradiva”), Gilroy (“Behemoth!”), David Greaves (“Once Upon a Time in Harlem”), Haghighi (“I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies”), Emmanuel Marre (“A Man of His Time”), Rock (“Misty Green”), Sompot Chidgasornpongse (“9 Temples to Heaven”), Isabelle Stever (“I Rarely Wake Up Dreaming”) and Zvyagintsev (“Minotaur”).

Hong Sangsoo is the only filmmaker with two titles in the main selection, bringing both his 34th feature, “The Day She Returns,” and his 35th, “Nowhere To Lay My Eyes,” which stars Kim Min-hee.

The festival, which was founded in 1963, kicks off on Sept. 25 with James Gray’s period thriller “Paper Tiger,” starring Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller, screening as a North American premiere.

Films screen in theaters at Lincoln Center and at four other venues across the city — BAM (Brooklyn Academy of Music), the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on Staten Island and AMC Bay Plaza Cinema in the Bronx.

“It’s hard to recall a prior Main Slate program in which the state of the world has been as urgently reflected in so many creative ways,” says Dennis Lim, artistic director of the New York Film Festival. “You could take any cross section of this lineup and come away with a vivid picture of what our present looks, sounds, and feels like. I’m deeply encouraged to be able to introduce New York audiences to works by so many fearless, imaginative directors whose artistry has been inspired by the shared realities of our world.”

The main slate selection committee is chaired by Lim and includes Florence Almozini, Justin Chang and Rachel Rosen. The New York Film Festival runs Sept. 25 through Oct. 12.