Bridge of Spies, Steven Spielberg’s cold war spy thriller and potential Oscar contender, will launch its awards campaign at the New York film festival (NYFF).  The event will host the world premiere of Bridge of Spies (which stars Tom Hanks), ahead of its US release on 16 October. Spielberg’s last film, Lincoln, also premiered at the event – albeit as a “secret screening”.  Bridge of Spies stars Hanks as a cold war American lawyer recruited by the CIA to defend a soviet spy (Mark Rylance) and arrange for his swap with a captured U-2 pilot in east Berlin.  NYFF previously announced that it would open with the world premiere of Robert Zemeckis’s 3D drama The Walk, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Philippe Petit, the man who crossed the Twin Towers on a high-wire in 1974; and it will close with the world premiere of Don Cheadle’s directorial debut, Miles Ahead, the biopic of jazz musician Miles Davis. There will also be a centerpiece screening of Steve Jobs, Danny Boyle’s biopic starring Michael Fassbender as the Apple innovator.  Laura Israel’s documentary Don’t Blink: Robert Frank, about the photographer and film-maker, is making its world premiere at the event. Other highlights include Todd Hayne’s lesbian period romance Carol, starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara; The Assassin, which won Hou Hsiao-hsien best director at Cannes; Dogtooth director Yorgos Lanthimos’ English-language debut, The Lobster; Rebecca Miller’s New York-set romantic comedy Maggie’s Plan, starring Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Bill Hader and Maya Rudolph; and Michael Moore’s latest expose, Where to Invade Next, which is having its world premiere in Toronto.  Related: Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs film to be 'centrepiece' at New York film fest  Opening night: The Walk, Director: Robert Zemeckis  Centerpiece: Steve Jobs, Director: Danny Boyle  Closing night: Miles Ahead, Director: Don Cheadle  Arabian Nights: Volume 1, 2, 3 The Restless One, Director: Miguel Gomes  The Assassin, Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien  Bridge of Spies, Director: Steven Spielberg  Cemetery of Splendour, Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul  Les Cowboys, Director: Thomas Bidegain  Don’t Blink: Robert Frank, Director: Laura Israel  The Forbidden Room, Directors: Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson  In the Shadow of Women / L’Ombre des femmes, Director: Philippe Garrel  Journey to the Shore / Kishibe no tabi, Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa  The Lobster, Director: Yorgos Lanthimos  Maggie’s Plan, Director: Rebecca Miller  The Measure of a Man / La Loi du marché, Director: Stéphane Brizé  Mia Madre, Director: Nanni Moretti  Microbe & Gasoline / Microbe et Gasoil, Director: Michel Gondry  Mountains May Depart, Director: Jia Zhangke  My Golden Days / Trois Souvenirs de ma jeunesse, Director: Arnaud Desplechin  No Home Movie, Director: Chantal Akerman  Right Now, Wrong Then, Director: Hong Sangsoo  The Treasure / Comoara, Director: Corneliu Porumboiu  Where To Invade Next, Director: Michael Moore
The spy thriller will have its world premiere alongside new films from Robert Zemeckis’s The Walk and Danny Boyle’s Steve Jobs biopic