Programs
Film
Presenting classic films, premieres, festivals, and retrospectives, with appearances by filmmakers, actors, and critics.
While we are eager to welcome audiences back to BAM Rose Cinemas, a reopening date has yet to be determined. We are working to make our cinemas as safe as possible for both audiences and staff. We look forward to sharing our reopening plans soon.
“[A] vital arts center…dedicated to forgotten and overlooked…directors." —Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Leadership support for BAM Film programs
provided by The
Thompson Family Foundation
Major support for BAM Film provided by the Ford Foundation
Part psychological horror, part realist drama, Shatara Michelle Ford’s social thriller follows an interracial couple grappling with the aftermath of rape in the face of institutional racism and sexism.
Over four years, this playful documentary follows a class of middle schoolers as they discuss their daily lives, elections, and immigration, and seek to answer a key question: what are we doing here together?
History and fiction entwine as a drama about a Philadelphia collective of Black artists and activists is interwoven with documentary accounts of the liberation group MOVE, who were bombed by the police in 1985.
Anthony Hopkins gives a tour-de-force performance in this striking psychological drama, which immerses viewers in one man’s unraveling mental state.
Set in an industrial Brazilian city surrounded by rainforest, this hypnotic, visually lush drama follows a middle-aged security guard whose tedious routine is disrupted when he comes down with a strange fever.
The late Mary Twala Mhlongo gives her final powerhouse performance as an octogenarian in Lesotho who becomes an unlikely political leader when her village is forced to relocate to make way for a nearby dam.
A Polish caretaker is hired to look after the stroke-ridden patriarch of a wealthy Swiss dynasty in Bettina Oberli’s biting satire of the haves and have-nots.
BAM brings together the best new works from Poland’s boundary-pushing filmmakers in this recurring series, including political thrillers, poignant family dramas, and four New York premieres.
A thrilling exposé of fraud and malfeasance after an explosive fire at a Bucharest nightclub.
This portrait of a transgender fundamentalist Baptist minister reveals our country's fixation on identity.
Take a socially distant tour across the city with these documentary films and local shorts.
A real-life political saga following the Christian mayor of the Palestinian city of Ramallah.
An intimate portrait of two working mothers and a caregiver at a 24-hour daycare center.
The improbable origin story of MASS MoCA and the changes it brought to North Adams.
An immersive cinematic exploration of neurodiversity, based on Naoki Higashida’s memoir.
This visually extravagant drama, a major influence on world cinema, is newly restored.
A new restoration of the striking, stylized work that made Wong Kar Wai an instant icon.
Wong Kar Wai’s emotionally raw portrait of a relationship in breakdown, newly restored.
A new restoration of William Greaves’(Symbiopsychotaxiplasm) long-lost documentary.
A young man is haunted by a prophecy that he will die at 20 in this auspicious debut.
A political activist is torn when his challenge of corrupt officials puts his family at risk.
This uniquely Black British sound was born amid riots, racial tension, and sound systems.
A Korean-American family moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in this tender and sweeping new drama.
A biting and ironic look at colonialism’s legacy by Senegalese trailblazer Ousmane Sembène.
Vital new works from the Middle East and North Africa’s most innovative filmmakers.