Programs

Paweł Pawlikowski’s follow-up to his Academy Award-winning Ida is a sumptuous, heart-bursting romance awash in the smoky glamour of the postwar European jazz scene.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Barry Jenkins (Moonlight) returns with an adaptation of James Baldwin’s fifth novel, set in early 1970s Harlem.

Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others) directs this suspense-packed drama and moving family story, inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history.

This showcase of short films features the nominees for this year’s Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.

This showcase of short films features the nominees for this year’s Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

This wide-ranging look at love in all its forms surveys how this most fundamental yet complex of emotions has been explored on-screen by some of cinema’s most perceptive chroniclers of the human condition.

George A. Romero’s all-American nightmares fuse visceral filmmaking with satiric and deadly serious commentaries on race, capitalism, militarism, and the dark side of human nature.

We welcome prominent artistic or cultural figures to present the films that inspired their passion for cinema.

Bruce Goldstein presents rare footage and interviews of this dynamic performing duo, self-taught African-American brothers who went on to become two of the 20th century’s greatest dancers.

You’ve seen The Harder They Come, maybe you’ve seen Rockers, but you’ve never seen anything like Franco Rosso’s incendiary 1980 film Babylon.

This series celebrates the richness, uniqueness, and viability of Caribbean cinema while reflecting the cultural beauty of Brooklyn -- home to the largest population of Caribbean nationals in the US.

A program of short films by a diverse network of emerging NYC-based filmmakers, from narrative and animation to documentary, hybrid, experimental, and dance.

Spotlighting daring works that wrestle with issues of class, race, gender, sexuality, and land, this series explores the ways in which cinema has served as a potent vehicle for expressing resentment.

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.