Director Mike Mills’ “20th Century Women,” starring Annette Bening as a single mother raising a teenage son in Southern California in 1979, will make its world premiere as the centerpiece gala of the 54th New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced on Wednesday.
The comedy will screen on Saturday, Oct. 8 at the NYFF, which kicks off on Sept. 30 with Ava DuVernay‘s documentary “The 13th” and ends on Oct. 16.
Mills, whose last film was the Oscar-winning “Beginners,” wrote and directed “20th Century Women,” which also stars Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning and newcomer Lucas Jade Zumann as the Bening character’s son.