Critics Blake Williams, Vadim Rizov, Matilda Hague, Phil Coldiron, Vikram Murthi, and Edo Choi discuss a range of short and feature-length films in the Currents section at the 2025 New York Film Festival, including:

- James Benning’s little boy

- Sharon Lockhart’s Windward

- Radu Jude’s Dracula

- Tsai Ming-liang’s Back Home

- Heinz Emigholz’s Ecce Mole

- Victor Van Rossem’s toward a fundamental theory of physics

- Jodie Mack’s Lover, Lovers, Loving, Love

- New Red Order’s Give it Back: Crimes Against Realty