Screening

New Directors/New Films Screening: Next Life

April 13 – April 14, 2026
From April 8–19, Film at Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art presents the 55th edition of New Directors/New Films —A yearly festival that champions filmmakers from all over the world with distinctive visions and bold new ideas that push the art form into new terrain. Tenzin Phuntsog’s Next Life follows a Tibetan American family making preparations for the death of its patriarch in a spare and moving meditation on exile and spirituality that draws inspiration from The Tibetan Book of the Dead. Q&A w. Tenzin Phuntsog on April 13 at 8:15pm and April 14 at 6:00pm