BAM Film 2024

An archeologist finds himself involved in a web of stolen historical artifacts in this adventurous, uproarious chimeric journey, written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher (The Wonders, Happy as Lazzaro).

In a near future when emotions have become a threat, a young woman opts to purify her DNA in a machine that will wash away strong feelings from her past lives—then meets a man she feels she’s known forever.

In this disturbingly plausible vision of a fractured, near-future America from director Alex Garland (Annihilation, Ex Machina), a group of journalists struggle to survive a second bloody Civil War.

This series examines the aesthetic choices of artists who started in the world of animation before moving into live action filmmaking, spanning classic Hollywood to millennial Japan and beyond.

Filmmakers rebel against traditional representations of Jamaica on film, forming their own sense of visual language in the process as they bring the island’s colliding past and present boldly to the screen.

Connecting the earliest history of Black filmmakers to the boom of the 60s, these rarely screened films from Pearl Bowser’s collection highlight Black filmmaking and creativity in Brooklyn.

A family of Sasquatches embark on an absurdist, epic, hilarious, and ultimately poignant journey in the misty forests of North America as they reckon with the ever-changing world around them.

In these restored films from pioneering Black filmmaker Debra J. Robinson, a young girl comes to terms with the death of her grandmother, and four Black women comedians in the 1980s go about their daily lives.

Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist star in Luca Guadagnino’s highly-anticipated, messy new film about a tennis-fueled love triangle.

An empathetic portrait of a Nigerian university film club where a derided young generation comes together to refine their political vision and develop a critical voice.

A teenage boy sets out to avenge his father’s murder in this quietly intense parable of revenge and forgiveness set in the wake of Chad’s decades-long civil war.

Join us for an advance screening of Jane Schoenbrun's new film I Saw the TV Glow followed by Tobe Hooper’s Poltergeist, featuring a Q&A with Schoenbrun between films!

A 30-something New Yorker navigates her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family in this blistering comedy from Joanna Arnow.

This revelatory program collects over two decades worth of vital, rarely-screened work in which filmmakers of African and Caribbean heritage in Britain and beyond created powerfully resonant images of Black people on screen.

A teenager’s view of reality begins to crack, and everything he thought he knew about sleepy suburban life starts to blur, in this visionary work of horror by director Jane Schoenbrun.

Widely regarded as the first Black British feature film, this absorbing portrait of a London teenager struggling to find his place in the world considers what it means to be an outsider in one’s own society.

This cinematic companion to DanceAfrica showcases the best new narrative, documentary, and short films from across Africa and the diaspora, with a focus on films from, and about, Cameroon.