Programs
Film
Presenting classic films, premieres, festivals, and retrospectives, with appearances by filmmakers, actors, and critics.
“[A] vital arts center…dedicated to forgotten and overlooked…directors." —Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Rapturous, joyous, awe-inspiring: the legendary, long-unseen concert film companion to Aretha Franklin’s iconic gospel album at last emerges.
Go to the movies just once a month and a BAM membership pays for itself.
A wry, slyly seductive tale of sex, lies, and literature from acclaimed director Olivier Assayas.
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 on Rwanda.
Olivia Wilde’s directorial debut is a coming of age comedy about two high school overachievers (Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein) who decide to cram four years of missed fun into one night.
Honor Swinton Byrne gives a profoundly layered breakout performance as a shy but ambitious film student whose turbulent courtship with a charismatic man threatens to destroy her dreams.
We welcome prominent artistic or cultural figures to present the films that inspired their passion for cinema.
A soccer star’s fall from grace sends him on a delirious odyssey. Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes Critics’ Week.
Back to the Future meets Groundhog Day meets Black Lives Matter in this Brooklyn time travel adventure produced by Spike Lee.
New York Premiere
Jimmie Fails plays a version of himself in this funny and poignant odyssey about a rapidly changing San Francisco. Presented with The Racial Imaginary Institue
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.
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.
Jordan Peele's much-anticipated follow-up to Get Out, starring Lupita Nyong’o.
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.
Claire Denis launches Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche into the depths of the cosmos.
Nicholas Hoult stars in this chronicle of the Lord of the Rings author’s formative years.
An iconic work by legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham is reborn.
Young love flowers in the face of prejudice in this empowering Kenyan coming-of-age saga.
A chronicle of the extraordinary rise of the Satanic Temple.
Nina Menkes’ lost underground classic is a hallucinatory study of female alienation.
A stunning documentary about a secret operation to surveil an Arab-American community.
Revisit a transformative decade in black-authored cinema.
An advance screening of Mike Mills’ and The National’s short film collaboration.
Laura Dern and Jack O'Connell star in the true-life story of Cameron Todd Willingham.
Willem Dafoe stars as Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in Abel Ferrara’s latest.