Programs
Film
Presenting classic films, premieres, festivals, and retrospectives, with appearances by filmmakers, actors, and critics.
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Oscar-winning writer-director Jordan Peele continues to elevate the art of socially conscious horror with his much-anticipated follow-up to Get Out, starring Lupita Nyong’o, Elisabeth Moss, and Winston Duke.
Claire Denis launches Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche into the farthest reaches of outer space for her dazzling English language debut, a shocking and mysterious exploration of the cosmic and corporeal.
Go to the movies just once a month and a BAM membership pays for itself.
Rapturous, joyous, awe-inspiring: the legendary, long-unseen concert film companion to Aretha Franklin’s iconic gospel album at last emerges.
Two fearlessly individualistic young women must fight to protect their love in the face of societal prejudice in this bold, empowering Kenyan coming-of-age saga.
We welcome prominent artistic or cultural figures to present the films that inspired their passion for cinema.
One of the most jarringly original independent films of the 1990s, Nina Menkes’ hallucinatory study of female alienation on the margins of Las Vegas reemerges in a gorgeous new restoration. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.
This monthly program challenges the cinema canon by presenting one iconic, highly regarded classic alongside a thematically or stylistically related—and equally brilliant—film traditionally excluded from that discussion.
In this stunning documentary, Assia Boundaoui uncovers a secret FBI operation to surveil the Arab-American community she grew up in outside of Chicago.
Revisit a transformative decade in black-authored cinema.
Laura Dern and Jack O'Connell star in this true-life story of the unlikely bond formed between an imprisoned death row inmate and a Houston mother of two.
This cinematic companion to the annual DanceAfrica celebration showcases the best new narrative, documentary, and short films from across Africa and the diaspora, with a special focus Rwanda.
Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz star in Yorgos Lanthimos’ darkly funny period drama.
Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) adapts James Baldwin’s fifth novel.
Christian Bale stars as Dick Cheney in Adam McKay’s subversively comedic new film.
A sumptuous, jazz-cool romance from the Oscar-winning director of Ida.
A powerful new film about one of the most important, yet least known, activists in US history.
A secret history of African-Americans in horror cinema plus a landmark cult classic.
A complete retrospective of this fearless artist who gave cinematic voice to gay black men.
A showcase of this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Animated Short Film.
A showcase of this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Live Action Short Film.
A wide-ranging look at this most fundamental yet complex of emotions in all its forms.
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others) directs this suspense-packed drama.
All-American nightmares from the father of politically charged horror.
Bruce Goldstein presents rare footage of this dynamic performing duo.
Franco Rosso’s incendiary 1980 film about a young dancehall DJ in South London.
A German refugee steals the identity of a dead writer and falls in love with his wife.
A cinematic event that takes us straight to the heart of NASA’s most celebrated mission.
Celebrating the richness, uniqueness, and viability of Caribbean cinema.
Julianne Moore is a free-spirited divorcée in Sebastián Lelio’s new romantic comedy.
A program of short films by a diverse network of emerging NYC-based filmmakers.
A cinematic exploration of the complex role that resentment plays in society and art.
The largest ever US retrospective of the singular cinematic mood-maker.
Mary Kay Place is a woman in search of redemption in Kent Jones’ narrative debut.
Claire Denis launches Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche into the depths of the cosmos.
A career-spanning tribute to the Czechoslovak New Wave legend whose films are calls to rebellion.
An iconic work by legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham is reborn.