BAM Film 2025

When middle-class Karli sees a way out of her dead-end life in suburban Sydney, she and her friends have a night on the town that none of them will forget in an underseen landmark of Australian cinema.

Tim Robinson, Paul Rudd, and Kate Mara star in this hilariously demented anti-buddy comedy about the (literal) perils of guy friendship.

Michael B. Jordan stars as twin brothers in the Jim Crow-era South trying to leave their troubled lives behind, only to find evil waiting in their hometown, in this Ryan Coogler-helmed supernatural thriller.

Showing little patience for hagiography, Alex Ross Perry’s sorta-documentary about beloved indie-rock band Pavement takes a nonlinear, absurdist approach while evincing a deep love for its subject.

To mark his centennial, Alfreda’s Cinema presents a film festival honoring Malcolm X’s enduring love for his people and belief in cinema as a tool for political education and global connection.

A rich exploration of childhood curiosity centering on two bored teenagers left alone by their parents, Fernando Eimbcke’s award-winning film creates a timeless portrait of enduring friendship.

FilmAfrica presents over 30 contemporary and classic films, honoring veteran creators who first trained an activist lens on Africa and young filmmakers using cinematic storytelling to emphasize potential.

A 4K restoration of Marva Nabili’s long-underseen masterpiece, and the earliest complete surviving feature film directed by an Iranian woman, screens at BAM for one week only.

Cinema Tropical honors the resurgence of Latin American cinema with special screenings of three landmark films.

Wes Anderson assembles an arresting ensemble cast for a wooly espionage caper concerning one of the richest men in Europe and his daughter, a nun, targeted by tycoons, terrorists, and would-be assassins.

MUBI Notebook presents a special screening of Sophie Calle and Greg Shephard’s deeply personal road movie turned romantic tragicomedy, featuring a guest intro by filmmaker Kit Zauhar.

An actress is haunted by voices as she attempts to inhabit the role of surrealist writer Suzanne Césaire in this “gorgeously allusive” (Variety) debut feature from Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich.

Jessie Maple made this 1981 portrait of heroin addiction and recovery, one of the first independent film ever to be directed by a Black woman.

English director Peter Brook’s artful three-hour distillation of The Mahabharata, famously mounted as a nine-hour stage drama at BAM in 1987, comes to the Steinberg Screen in a stunning new 8K restoration.

Reggae icon and activist Linton Kwesi Johnson recites his poetry in his first US theatrical appearance in close to two decades, preceded by a potent 1979 documentary in a new restoration.

Curated by Hanif Abdurraqib, a constellation of artists, writers, and performers activate BAM’s spaces, illuminating the truths of our moment via poetic imagination.