BAM Film 2025

Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Licorice Pizza) is back with a big, splashy thriller starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Teyana Taylor, and Regina Hall.

In Luca Guadagnino’s latest, a professor (Julia Roberts) finds herself at a crossroads when a star student (Ayo Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Andrew Garfield).

In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, an unemployed family man and amateur art thief has an airtight plan for his first heist—or so he thinks—in filmmaker Kelly Reichardt’s latest Cannes triumph.

In honor of recently restored works by groundbreaking filmmakers Heiny Srour and Jocelyne Saab, we’ve put together a selection of films directed by Lebanese women during and after the Civil War.

Reel Sisters and BAM honor Brooklyn filmmaker Samantha Knowles for her distinguished career in documentary filmmaking with a retrospective of TV episodes and a short film, along with an onstage interview.

A unique one-night-only cinematic program curated by the multidisciplinary artist Osadolor showcases Blackqueer creatives utilizing Lo-Fi and D-I-Y aesthetics in films spanning genres and forms.

Discover the stylized, haunting films of Arturo Ripstein, a legendary figure of Mexican cinema, through our career-spanning survey of difficult-to-see work across genres, many in recent restorations.

Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap a high-powered company CEO, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth, in a black-comedy thriller reuniting Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone.

This selection of unusual, beautiful, and often haunting tales from across the globe features stories that have been passed down through generations—or at least feel as though they have.

In Olivier Assayas’s film of harsh beauty, a young woman oscillates between a father and his son, seeking independence and freedom, in a blue-gray Paris of late nights, squats, and petty crime.

Olivier Assayas crafts a tale of kinship, sex, money, and the fragility of emotions in the story of a young woman who looks for the father she’d never met, and finds a half-sister she never knew about.

Two psychological dramas by legend of Filipino cinema Mike de Leon act as covert allegories for Philippine martial law under the Marcos regime.

Media arts center Third World Newsreel (TWN) screens selections from a groundbreaking collection of 60 digitally preserved films documenting the social movements of the late 60s and early 70s.

Filmmakers turn their cameras toward the rot of capitalism and the culture that made icons of corporate raiders and shady deal makers in these classic white-collar thrillers.

Winner of Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize, this documentary follows poet-activist Nikki Giovanni, weaving her Afrofuturist vision, political audacity, and poetic verve into a bold cinematic portrait.

Junior, a nine-year-old boy living in a Caracas tenement with his widowed mother and brother, tries everything he can to straighten his naturally curly hair, raising his mother’s suspicions.