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“The city’s best independent film showcase”
—The New Yorker
“Among New York’s highest-quality, best-curated film festivals, period”
—Brooklyn Magazine
“BAMcinemaFest’s yearly program is a degree of prestige that can pluck the gifted from obscurity”
—Village Voice
“The annual BAMcinemaFest is a chance to catch the best and brightest of forthcoming indie cinema”
—Metro
Lola Kirke and Zoë Kravitz star in indie auteur Aaron Katz’s stylish LA-set murder mystery.
Jenny Slate stars in Gillian Robespierre’s (Obvious Child) irreverent 90s-set comedy.
Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara star in David Lowery’s hypnotic drift through time and eternity.
Wunderkind director Alex Ross Perry returns with another biting comedy of unease.
A startling, all-access look inside the scandal-plagued Oakland Police Department.
A tender look at falling in love from the perspective of a queer Muslim woman.
A psychological mystery about two men who go on the run through a desolate rural landscape.
A teenage girl tests the waters of the real world during a languorous Chicago summer.
A teenage girl tests the waters of the real world during a languorous Chicago summer.
A quietly dazzling saga of love and architecture from a director to watch.
Michelle Pfeiffer stars in this shattering portrait of a woman driven to extremes.
A suburban family goes to the dogs—literally—in this savage feminist satire.
This truly one-of-a-kind love story won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen star in this existential murder mystery.
Documentarian Nanfu Wang’s poignant portrait of American individualism and a young man lost.
Dear Renzo and All Good Things, and the world premieres of Men and Educators.
An electrifying, on-the-ground dispatch from the frontlines of the Ferguson protests.
Rising art star James N. Kienitz Wilkins’ documentary about being an artist in New York.
A harrowing wilderness survival tale told with uncommon realism and emotional depth.
Silicon Valley’s Kumail Nanjiani stars in this romantic comedy based on his own life.
An undocumented immigrant is drawn into NYC’s hellish underbelly in this gritty thriller.
Jon Hamm, Geena Davis, and Lois Smith star in this provocative sci-fi drama.
Aubrey Plaza wants to be your #BFF in this disturbingly funny Insta-satire.
Janicza Bravo’s unnerving, brilliantly absurdist portrait of a neurotic LA actor.
This SXSW prize-winning documentary captures a group therapy session at Folsom State Prison.
Michael Almereyda and Wes Anderson's retro-fantastic tour of Hampton Fancher's career.
The Daily Show’s Jessica Williams shines in this Brooklyn-set romantic charmer.
Director Jim McKay’s affecting look at life in Brooklyn as an undocumented Mexican immigrant.
A blissfully bonkers spectacle from dance-comedy trio Cocoon Central Dance Team.
Kerry Washington stars in Jim McKay’s nuanced depiction of female friendship.