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 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.

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.

An unassuming mechanic is suddenly reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor, in a deeply felt moral thriller by Jafar Panâhi.

Jennifer Lawrence delivers “one of her most fearless performances” (AV Club) as a writer locked in the grip of post-partum depression in the latest black-comedy psychological thriller from Lynne Ramsay.

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.

Joachim Trier follows The Worst Person in the World (2021) with a deeply felt comedy-drama about legacy, art, and the performances that bind—and divide—families.

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.

This series spotlights an actress who personifies the beauty and strength of Black women everywhere.

Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley star in Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of a novel about William Shakespeare, his free-spirited wife Agnes, and the tragedy that led to the creation of one of his greatest plays.