Dixieland
Director Hank Bedford’s buzzed-about debut feature, starring Riley Keough and Chris Zylka, follows a troubled young Mississippi couple who are hopelessly in love, but living on the wrong side of the law.

Grandma
Lily Tomlin steals the show in this smart, biting buddy pic about an action-packed day in the life of a young woman and her anything-but-conventional grandmother.

Live from New York
This documentary, which is opening the festival and boasts appearances from Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey, Chris Rock and Chevy Chase, charts the first 40 years in the history of Saturday Night Live.

Sleeping With Other People
This sophomore effort from Bachelorette’s Leslye Headland wonders whether friendship is every really enough as two grown ups (played here by Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis) who long ago lost their virginity to one another attempt to become friends.

The Diplomat
Filmmaker David Holbrooke uses this documentary to try to better understand his father, the late statesman Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. While the senior Holbooke’s career fond him brokering peace between Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia, and working for in the U.S. in Afghanistan and Pakistan, his home life might have been his most complicated mission of all.

The Adderall Diaries
James Franco stars in director Pamela Romanowsky’s big-screen adaptation of Stephen Elliott’s stark memoir, which centers on a drug-addicted writer who takes it upon himself to solve a murder.

Man Up
Sure, the romantic-comedy premise—in a charming mix-up, boy meets girl and finds what he’s been looking for all along—might sound somewhat familiar, but with Lake Bell and Simon Pegg in starring roles this movie’s bound to feel delightfully fresh.

Anesthesia
The mugging of an Ivy League university professor sets off a chain of events that rattles a wide array of characters—played by the likes of Sam Waterston, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, Glenn Close and Gretchen Mol—and examines what it is that really brings us all together.

Good Kill
Ethan Hawke is reunited with his Gattica director Andrew Niccol for this intense look at the world of a drone pilot who’s fighting a war without ever leaving his suburban enclave.

Maggie
Is Arnold Schwarzenegger going to save the world from a zombie apocalypse? You bet he is.

Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead
A group including John Goodman, Chevy Chase, Kevin Bacon, Beverly D’Angelo, Christopher Guest, Tim Matheson, Bill Murray and Richard Belzer gather to pay homage to America’s first humor magazine, the legendary National Lampoon.

Dirty Weekend
The latest from writer and director Neil LaBute follows two coworkers (played by Matthew Broderick and Alice Eve) as an unexpected layover leads them both to reveal more than they’d ever planned to one another.

The Overnight
When a young, married couple relocates from L.A. to Seattle, making friends isn’t as easy as they’d like. Still, when a dinner invite leads to a night that’s not quite what the expected, things get more than a little uncomfortable.