In a bold project of reclamation, filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich burrows to the complex truths about 1930s feminist activist Suzanne Césaire, a woman, artist, and mother forgotten to history.
The New York Film Festival returns to BAM, bringing a selection of the festival’s lineup directly to Brooklyn audiences! Join us for exceptional new films from around the world, featuring celebrated filmmakers and fresh new talent.
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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
Sun, Oct 6, 2024
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
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J'ai faim, j'ai froid + La Musica
Sun, Oct 6, 2024
J'ai faim, j'ai froid + La Musica
Sun, Oct 6, 2024Marguerite Duras’s ghostly filmmaking debut, which captures a delicate and devastating dance among three characters in a small French town, screens alongside Chantal Akerman’s “musical comedy without singing.”
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No Other Land
Sun, Oct 6, 2024
No Other Land
Sun, Oct 6, 2024This eye-opening, vérité-style documentary provides a harrowing account of the systematic destruction experienced by Masafer Yatta, in the southern West Bank, at the hands of the Israeli military.
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Little Big and Far
Mon, Oct 7, 2024
Little Big and Far
Mon, Oct 7, 2024World PremiereIn a meditative and expansive new film from Jem Cohen (Museum Hours), an Austrian astronomer travels to a mountaintop on a Greek island in search of the darkest sky against which to view the cosmos.
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Pavements
Mon, Oct 7, 2024
Pavements
Mon, Oct 7, 2024North American PremiereShowing 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.
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Jimmy
Tue, Oct 8, 2024
Jimmy
Tue, Oct 8, 2024In his first feature, photographer-filmmaker Yashaddai Owens imagines James Baldwin’s first experiences in Paris in impressionistic fashion, shooting in black-and-white on 16mm film.
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Queer
Tue, Oct 8, 2024
Queer
Tue, Oct 8, 2024U.S. PremiereDaniel Craig pursues erotic desires among American expatriates in post-World War II Mexico in Luca Guadagnino’s ambitious adaptation of William S. Burroughs’s cornerstone of transgressive gay literature.
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Nickel Boys
Wed, Oct 9, 2024
Nickel Boys
Wed, Oct 9, 2024In RaMell Ross’s extraordinary realization of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, two Black teenagers who become wards of a barbaric juvenile reformatory in Jim Crow–era Florida.
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The Sealed Soil
Wed, Oct 9, 2024
The Sealed Soil
Wed, Oct 9, 2024The earliest surviving Iranian film directed by a woman, Marva Nabili’s astonishing debut conjures the everyday plight of the female subject under the stifling patriarchy of village life in southwestern Iran.
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My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow
Thu, Oct 10, 2024
My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow
Thu, Oct 10, 2024World PremiereSoviet Union-born American filmmaker Julia Loktev, who returned to Russia months before the country’s invasion of Ukraine, provides an extraordinary vérité document of a moment of immense change and anxiety.