MUMBAI: The 46th New York Film Festival is set to open on 26 September in North America.

The festival, which ends on 12 October, will open with the screening of Laurent Cantet’s The Class, the winner of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year.

The French film is based on Francois Begaudeau’s autobiographical novel "Entre les Murs."

The other films to be screened at the festival include In the Realm of Oshima, a story that talks about the life and career of the Japanese director Nagisa Oshima, and Guy Debord’s 1978 film, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni(We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire).

The New York Film Festival aims to screen art-oriented and international films.