The 58th New York Film Festival took place from September 17 to October 11, 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was staged through outdoor and online screenings.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atarrabi and Mikelats | Atarrabi et Mikelats | Belgium, France | ||
| Beginning | Dasatskisi | Georgia | ||
| The Calming | Song Fang | China | ||
| City Hall | United States | |||
| Days | 日子 | Taiwan | ||
| The Disciple | India | |||
| French Exit | United Kingdom, Canada | |||
| Gunda | United States, Norway | |||
| I Carry You With Me | Te Llevo Conmigo | United States, Mexico | ||
| Isabella | Matías Piñeiro | Argentina | ||
| Lovers Rock | United Kingdom | |||
| Malmkrog | Romania | |||
| Mangrove | United Kingdom | |||
| MLK/FBI | Sam Pollard | United States | ||
| Night of the Kings | La Nuit des rois | France, Côte d'Ivoire, Canada, Senegal | ||
| Nomadland | United States | |||
| Notturno | Italy | |||
| Red, White & Blue | United Kingdom | |||
| The Salt of Tears | Le Sel des larmes | France | ||
| Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue | China | |||
| Time | United States | |||
| Tragic Jungle | Yulene Olaizola | Mexico | ||
| The Truffle Hunters | Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw | United States, Greece, Italy | ||
| Undine | Germany | |||
| The Woman Who Ran | 도망친 여자 | South Korea | ||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apparition | Ismaïl Bahri | Tunisia, France | ||
| Fauna | Flora y fauna | Mexico/Canada | ||
| Her Name Was Europa | Anja Dornieden, Juan David González Monroy | Germany | ||
| Her Socialist Smile | John Gianvito | United States | ||
| Hidden | France | |||
| The Inheritance | Ephraim Asili | United States | ||
| Its Distorting Mirror | Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento | Chile | ||
| King of Sanwi | Akosua Adoma Owusu | USA/Ghana | ||
| The Last City | Germany | |||
| The Lobby | Heinz Emigholz | Germany/Argentina | ||
| My Mexican Bretzel | Nuria Giménez | Spain | ||
| Ouvertures | The Living and the Dead Ensemble | United Kingdom/France | ||
| The Plastic House | Alison Chhorn | Australia | ||
| A Revolt Without Images | Pilar Monsell | Spain | ||
| Slow Machine | Joe DeNardo, Paul Felten | United States | ||
| The Tango of the Widower | Raúl Ruiz, Valeria Sarmiento | Chile | ||
| There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse | No existen treinta y seis maneras de mostrar cómo un hombre se sube a un caballo | Nicolás Zukerfeld | Argentina | |
| This Day Won't Last | Mouaad el Salem | Tunisia/Belgium | ||
| Untitled Sequence of Gaps | Vika Kirchenbauer | Germany | ||
| The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) | C.W. Winter, Anders Edström | United States, Sweden, Japan, United Kingdom | ||
| The Year of the Discovery | Luis López Carrasco | Spain | ||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liz Garbus, Lisa Cortés | United States | |||
| David Byrne's American Utopia | United States | |||
| Hopper/Welles | United States | |||
| The Human Voice | Spain | |||
| The Monopoly of Violence | David Dufresne | France | ||
| On the Rocks | United States | |||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Chess Game of the Wind | Shatranj-e-Baad | Iran | ||
| Climax | France, Belgium | |||
| Damnation | Kárhozat | Hungary | ||
| Flowers of Shanghai | 海上花 | Taiwan | ||
| The Hourglass Sanatorium | Sanatorium pod klepsydrą | Poland | ||
| In the Mood for Love | 花樣年華 | Hong Kong | ||
| Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris | Terence Dixon | United Kingdom, France | ||
| Muhammad Ali, the Greatest | France | |||
| Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom | Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma | Italy, France | ||
| Simone Barbes or Virtue | Simone Barbès ou la vertu | Marie-Claude Treilhou | France | |
| Smooth Talk | United States | |||
| The Spook Who Sat by the Door | United States | |||
| Xiao Wu (The Pickpocket) | 小武 | China | ||
| Zero for Conduct | Zéro de conduite | France | ||
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apiyemiyekî? | Ana Vaz | Brazil, France, Portugal, Netherlands | ||
| Aquí y allá | Melisa Liebenthal | Argentina, France | ||
| An Arrow Pointing to a Hole | United States, Canada | |||
| August 22, This Year | Canada | |||
| Autoficcion | Spain, United States, New Zealand | |||
| The Chicken | Neo Sora | United States | ||
| Claudette's Star | Ayo Akingbade | United Kingdom | ||
| Correspondence | Carla Simón, Dominga Sotomayor | Spain/Chile | ||
| Drills | Sarah Friedland | United States | ||
| Ekphrasis | Riccardo Giacconi | Italy | ||
| The End of Suffering (a proposal) | Jacqueline Lentzou | Greece | ||
| Episodes – Spring 2018 | Mathilde Girard | France | ||
| Extractions | Canada | |||
| Figure Minus Fact | Mary Helena Clark | United States | ||
| – force – | Simon Liu, Jennie MaryTai Liu | Hong Kong, United States | ||
| Glimpses from a Visit to Orkney in Summer 1995 | Ute Aurand | Germany | ||
| Hard, Cracked the Wind | United Kingdom | |||
| Humongous | Aya Kawazoe | Japan | ||
| In Sudden Darkness | Tayler Montague | United States | ||
| In the Air Tonight | United States | |||
| The Isolated | Jay Giampietro | United States | ||
| Labor of Love | Sylvia Schedelbauer | Germany | ||
| Letter From Your Far-Off Country | Suneil Sanzgiri | United States, India | ||
| Look Then Below | Ben Rivers | United Kingdom | ||
| Malembe | Luis Arnías | Venezuela, United States | ||
| A Night at the Opera | Sergei Loznitza | France | ||
| Notes, Imprints (On Love): Part I | Alexandra Cuesta | United States, Ecuador | ||
| Object Lessons, or: What Happened Whitsunday | Ricky D'Ambrose | United States | ||
| Once Removed | Lawrence Abu Hamdan | Lebanon | ||
| Point and Line to Plane | Canada | |||
| Sanfield | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | ||
| See You in My Dreams | Shun Ikezoe | Japan | ||
| Shots in the Dark with David Godlis | Noah Kloster, Lewie Kloster | United States | ||
| Single Copy | Hsu Che-Yu | Taiwan | ||
| Stump the Guesser | Canada | |||
| To the Harbour | Anonymous | Hong Kong | ||
| Trust Study #1 | Shobun Baile | United States | ||
| The Unseen River | Phạm Ngọc Lân | Vietnam, Laos | ||
| While Cursed by Specters | Burak Çevik | Turkey | ||
| Wild Bill Horsecock | Oliver Shahery | United States | ||