Programs
Film
Presenting classic films, premieres, festivals, and retrospectives, with appearances by filmmakers, actors, and critics.
Due to the evolving COVID-19 situation, and out of consideration for the health of our audiences, staff, and artists, BAM Rose Cinemas is closed until further notice.
“[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
A self-taught proletarian with artistic aspirations hopes to rise above his station and marry a wealthy young student in this Italy—set bildungsroman loosely adapted from a Jack London novel.
Drummer, avant-garde jazz visionary, inventor, heart researcher, martial arts renegade, and next-level gardener Milford Graves receives a documentary portrait as thrillingly unique and free-form as he is.
A teenage girl has a life-altering encounter with a disturbing stranger in this dark, Sundance prize-winning drama starring Laura Dern, based on a classic story by Joyce Carol Oates.
Crazy Rich Asians’ Henry Golding stars as a Vietnamese-born, British-raised gay man on a personal journey of cultural dislocation, friendship, love, and happiness in a country that’s no longer familiar to him.
Romanian documentarian Alexander Nanau’s fast-paced thriller exposes fraud and criminal malfeasance after an explosive fire claims the lives of 27 people at a Bucharest nightclub.
Using over a decade of vérité footage and interviews, director Matt Kliegman highlights the struggles of fundamentalist Baptist minister Mark Wenzel, who comes out at age 46 as a transgender woman named Markie.
In this virtual program of gentle, colorful animated films, curious animals and adventurous kids alike sing, grow up, fly high, and celebrate the magic of life, in all its lovely rainbow colors.
Take a socially distant tour across the city with these documentary films about the activists, artists, outsiders, oddballs, and caregivers who call New York home, plus a shorts program by local filmmakers.
Richly detailed and surprisingly humorous, this real-life political saga follows the Christian mayor of the Palestinian city of Ramallah to offer a portrait of dignity amidst the madness of occupation.
The Academy Award-winning new thriller from master director Bong Joon-ho.
A fresh, modern-day murder mystery from writer-director Rian Johnson featuring an ensemble cast.
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie star in this explosive story of Fox News.
A historical drama based on real events from writer-director Terrence Malick (Tree of Life).
Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, and Emma Watson star in Greta Gerwig’s take on a classic.
Alfre Woodard gives a devastating performance as a prison warden carrying out executions.
Sam Mendes directs this Best Picture Oscar nominee about two young British soldiers at the height of the First World War.
The tale of Walter McMillian, a wrongly convicted black man, based on Bryan Stevenson’s memoir.
The legendary, long-unseen concert film companion to Aretha Franklin’s iconic album.
The year’s best live action shorts tell stories of Tunisia, Belgium, Guatemala, and New York.
The Oscar nominees for Best Animated Short Film range from heartfelt to surreal.
Horace Jenkins’ long-lost gem of Black independent cinema set in rural Louisiana.
The Academy Award-winningnew thriller from master director Bong Joon-ho.
Love blooms between a painter and her subject in 18th-century France in Céline Sciamma’s latest.
All the passion, pain, and bittersweet yearning your heart can handle.
A festival celebrating the life and legacy of Toni Morrison.
A poetic tribute to Merce Cunningham, one of the world’s greatest modern dance artists.
This monthly series challenges the white, male bias of the traditional auteurist canon.
Artists and cultural figures present the films that inspired their passion for cinema.
Young Russian newcomer Kantemir Balagov’s harrowing portrait of two women in postwar Leningrad.
Filmmaker Kelly Reichardt curates a series of films that inspired her latest, First Cow.
A new film about a tumultuous but enduring relationship between two men across many years.
Will Forte and Maeve Higgins star in this Irish comedy about a woman with supernatural abilities.
Kelly Reichardt trains her perceptive eye on the Pacific Northwest in the early 19th century.
An all-new slate of journeys through alternate realities that center the Black experience.
An elegant and absorbing new documentary tour of New York’s rare book world.
An artist creates an ambitious theater project when he learns his father is dying.
An rousing survey of revolutionary cinema from across the globe.
Illuminating films that explore the rich experience of being alone with oneself.
A new restoration of the 1976 international hit, a sexy comedy starring Sônia Braga.
Diao Yinan’s spellbinding neo-noir about a small-time mob leader who accidentally kills a cop.
Luchino Visconti’s final masterpiece about an aristocrat in late 19th-century Italy.
In this Romanian neo-noir thriller from acclaimed auteur Corneliu Porumboiu, a police inspector embarks on a high-stakes heist with a beautiful femme fatale.
This new documentary about one of popular music’s most enduring groups and its inimitable leader blends rare footage and interviews with Martin Scorsese, Bruce Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, and others.
A visually sublime meditation on grief and memory from master auteur Pedro Costa.
Director Andrew Ahn talks with BAM's Natalie Erazo following a virtual screening of his film.
An ex-con becomes a local priest in this incisive drama from Polish filmmaker Jan Komasa.
BAM and Grasshopper Film present a virtual theatrical engagement of Brett Story’s BAMcinemaFest hit, a funny and thoughtful study of New Yorkers—alone and together—that’s extra poignant in our current moment.
Bertrand Bonello’s twist on the zombie film is a critique of France’s colonial history in Haiti.
Director Matt Wolf is joined in conversation with BAM’s Ashley Clark following a screening of his 2019 documentary Recorder, a moving and revelatory portrait of unconventional archivist Marion Stokes
A moving portrait of the iconic New York street photographer, narrated by Sarah Jessica Parker.
Experience Ken Loach’s critically acclaimed new film as a virtual theatrical experience.
BAM and Oscilloscope Films present this long-lost gem of Black independent cinema.
BAM’s Ashley Clark hosts a Netflix Party screening of the Safdie brothers’ thriller.
Director Eliza Hittman talks with BAM’s Jesse Trussell following a screening of her film.
A new restoration of the 1981 Oscar-winning film about a struggling actor during the Nazi era.
An elegant and absorbing new documentary tour of New York's rare book world.
A dazzling, course-correcting documentary about the visionary abstract painter Hillma af Klint.
An elegiac black-and-white film about a 20-something who visits his girlfriend in New York.
BAM’s Ashley Clark hosts a Netflix Party screening of Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 epic.
Nancy Kelly’s underrated gem of 90s indie filmmaking is a feminist take on the Western.
Jean Dujardin (The Artist) and Adèle Haenel (Portrait of a Lady on Fire) star in this black comedy.
Underground auteur Joel Potrykus’ gonzo transmission from America’s heartland.
Andrew Ahn (Spa Night) returns with this drama about a boy who forms an unlikely friendship.
Klaus Maria Brandauer is an officer in the Austro-Hungarian empire in Istvan Szabo’s classic.
The true tale of a group that spent two years quarantined inside a replica of Earth’s ecosystem.
Dan Sallitt’s (The Unspeakable Act) subtly poignant depiction of female friendship.
This underseen 1990 gem features a riveting performance by Björk in her feature film debut.
A selection of modern African classics presented online by BAM and African Film Festival, Inc.
Elisabeth Moss stars in Josephine Decker’s psychological drama about writer Shirley Jackson.
Hong Sang-soo’s latest is a comic mystery of mistaken identity and excessive drinking.
Former Texas beauty queen Turquoise Jones is determined in her quest for the American dream.
A coming of age story about a boy who goes to live with his birth mother in inner-city London.
An evocative new documentary tracing the extraordinary journey of the First Lady of Song.
A timely portrait of the legendary civil rights activist and Georgia congressman.
Bill and Turner Ross’ elegiac portrait of the final days of a beloved Las Vegas dive bar.
A luminous, bracingly intimate snapshot of contemporary queer Brooklyn.
The incredible story of undocumented activists who infiltrated an ICE detention center.
A digital festival of the world’s best independent animation.
A sparkling new 4K restoration of the classic film shot at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.
A quiet, profound meditation on the “modern fugitivism” of the undocumented experience.
Denis’ hypnotically languorous take on Billy Budd is an erotic ballet of jealousy and obsession.
An artist creates an ambitious theater project when he learns his father is dying.
A documentary about the influential public television variety show SOUL!
A new restoration of Chantal Akerman’s cinematographic elegy without dialogue or commentary.
A new, complete restoration of Richard Wright’s bombshell 1940 novel brought to the screen.
The 2018 doc charting the iconic US Supreme Court Justice’s exceptional life and career.
This explosive tale of unrest on the margins of Paris celebrates 25 years with a new restoration.
Malian director Abderrahmane Sissako’s portrait of corrupt global forces and its effects.
A new restoration of William Greaves’(Symbiopsychotaxiplasm) long-lost documentary.
A heart-racing, one-of-a-kind essay on human connection and its aching absence.