Arts, Briefly - Cannes Winner To Open New York Film Festival - Brief - NYTimes.com The 46th New York Film Festival will open with the North American premiere of "The Class" ("Entre les Murs"), the Film Society of Lincoln Center announced on Tuesday. The film, by Laurent Cantet, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year. Other highlights of the New York festival include "In the Realm of Oshima," a celebration of the life and career of the Japanese New Wave director Nagisa Oshima. The French writer, theorist and filmmaker Guy Debord's 1978 film, "In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni" (a palindrome that translates to "We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire"), will be featured as part of the annual Views From the Avant-Garde program. The festival will run from Sept. 26 to Oct. 12, with the Oshima and Debord films showing at the Walter Reade Theater. Other festival films will be at the Ziegfeld Theater while Alice Tully Hall, its regular home, undergoes renovations. Tickets go on sale Sept.