Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar will present his latest film, Amarga Navidad, in the United States this coming September as part of the New York Film Festival (NYFF), the organization announced on Wednesday.

Film at Lincoln Center, which is organizing the celebrated festival from September 25 to October 12, announced that the film will be part of the main slate, where other directors such as Paweł Pawlikowski and Andrey Zvyagintsev will also premiere new work.

This marks the U.S. debut of Amarga Navidad, which explores the fragile relationship between fiction and reality through Raúl, a filmmaker played by Argentine actor Leonardo Sbaraglia.

In his new screenplay, Raúl tells the story of Elsa (Bárbara Lennie), a renowned actress who suffers from debilitating migraines and who, like him, draws inspiration from the lives of her friends to write a film.

"Blending the irreverence of Almodóvar's early years with the somber melodrama of his later work, Amarga Navidad perceptively examines the vampiric nature of artistic creation and how we use fiction in an attempt to correct the mistakes of our lives," the statement notes.

The film's cast is rounded out by actors Patrick Criado, Milena Smit, Victoria Luengo, and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, with cameo appearances from other Spanish figures such as singer Amaia and actress Rossy de Palma.

Among the notable titles featured in the NYFF's main slate is also Fatherland, by Paweł Pawlikowski, which won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival this past May, a prize shared with Spaniards Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo.

Fatherland follows Nobel Prize–winning novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) on a fictional road trip through 1949, "across a Germany torn apart, reeling from the destruction of war and deep in denial of its wrongs and its guilt."

Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev will also present his latest film, Minotaur, winner of the prestigious Grand Prix at Cannes, about a middle-aged businessman tasked with selecting some of his employees to fight in the war in Ukraine.

Meanwhile, world premieres will include Behemoth!, from American director Tony Gilroy and starring Chilean actor Pedro Pascal; 14th, by Ava DuVernay; and the documentary I Deserve a Lover Whose Every Rise Sets Fiery Dooms Raging Across the Skies, by Mani Haghighi.

Other notable titles in this section are Paper Tiger, by James Gray; Everytime, by Sandra Wollner; A Man of His Time, by Emmanuel Marre; and Rose, by Markus Schleinzer, all of which premiered at the most recent Cannes Film Festival.