BAM Film 2024
Perfect Days
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Dune: Part Two
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The epic journey of Paul Atreides continues in part two of Denis Villeneuve’s visionary adaptation, starring Florence Pugh, Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, and Austin Butler.
2024 Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts
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2024 Oscar Nominated Animated Shorts
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Love Lies Bleeding
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A reclusive gym manager and an aspiring bodybuilder become suddenly entangled in a web of violence in this gritty, neon-hued romantic thriller from director Rose Glass (Saint Maude).
Two women are thrust into a web of violence in this gritty, neon-hued romantic thriller.
The Tuba Thieves
Mar 15—Mar 21, 2024
Prioritizing a d/Deaf/Hard of Hearing form of storytelling, this documentary explores the mysterious theft of tubas from high schools across California, examining the roles of sound, power, and language.
Tubas are stolen from high schools across California in this exploration of sound and power.
Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus
Opens Mar 22
Sakamoto mustered all of his energy to leave the world with one final performance: a concert film featuring just him, his piano, and 20 spectacular pieces from across his career.
A definitive, heartfelt swan song from one of the world’s greatest musicians.
Triple Canopy Presents: Standard Deviations
Mar 22—Mar 28, 2024
Through unexpected sabotage and unpredictable loopholes, these films provoke, play, question, and go off script to create subversive social critiques and razor-sharp satire.
Daring filmmakers exploit traditional forms to offer social critiques and razor-sharp satire.
Living Cartoons: Live Action Films by Animators
Mar 29—Apr 25, 2024
This series examines the aesthetic choices of artists who started in the world of animation before moving into live action filmmaking, spanning classic Hollywood to millennial Japan and beyond.
This series showcases live-action films by directors who started in the world of animation.
Hollywood Entertainment presents Clifford featuring Martin Short + Cast and Crew Live
Sat, Mar 30, 2024
The first-ever major New York tribute to the unlikely (and uncanny) 1994 cult-comedy, featuring a Q&A with Martin Short, Richard Kind, Paul Flaherty, Steven Kampmann, and others.
A special screening of the uncanny 1994 cult-comedy, featuring a Q&A with Martin Short!
La Chimera
Opens Apr 4
An archeologist finds himself involved in a web of stolen historical artifacts in this adventurous, uproarious chimeric journey, written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher (The Wonders, Happy as Lazzaro).
The latest film from Italian auteur Alice Rohrwacher is an uproarious, chimeric journey.
The Art of the Benshi
Apr 5—Apr 7, 2024
This program honors the captivating live narrators of Japan’s silent film era, featuring live benshi practitioners alongside classic, newly restored, and rarely seen silent films from Japan and the US.
This program honors the singularly captivating live narrators of Japan’s silent film era.
Fresh Kill
Tue, Apr 9, 2024
A new restoration of Shu Lea Cheang’s avant-anarcho eco-satire in which a lesbian couple living on Staten Island find themselves ensnared in a vast corporate conspiracy.
A bracing, queer feminist response to the patriarchal poison of corporate capitalism.
Queering the Canon: Besties
Apr 11—Apr 15, 2024
Celebrate the dynamic joys and complexities of queer-positive camaraderie in this retrospective series spotlighting BFFs as they road trip, rob banks, dispense dating advice, hustle, and more!
This retrospective series spotlights the joys and complexities of queer camaraderie.
The Beast
Opens Apr 12
In a near future when emotions have become a threat, a young woman opts to purify her DNA in a machine that will wash away strong feelings from her past lives—then meets a man she feels she’s known forever.
In a future when emotions are a threat, a woman opts to wash away her feelings in a machine.
Dead Lef: Visions of Contemporary Jamaica
Wed, Apr 17, 2024
Filmmakers rebel against traditional representations of Jamaica on film, forming their own sense of visual language in the process as they bring the island’s colliding past and present boldly to the screen.
This series of contemporary shorts brings Jamaica’s past and present boldly to the screen.
PAST EVENTS
This exhilarating dive into calypso music travels from New York to the streets of Carnival.
This exhilarating dive into calypso music travels from New York to the streets of Carnival.
Urgent documentaries and empowering fictions explore science and technology.
Urgent documentaries and empowering fictions explore science and technology.
Paranoid thrillers investigate the power structures at the heart of the American empire.
Paranoid thrillers investigate the power structures at the heart of the American empire.
Some of today’s boldest young Filipino filmmakers offer a bombastic explosion of form.
Some of today’s boldest young Filipino filmmakers offer a bombastic explosion of form.
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert are mismatched lovers on a madcap hitchhiking expedition.
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert are mismatched lovers on a madcap hitchhiking expedition.
Celebrate the actor’s exceptional career with works by Cord Jefferson, Ang Lee, and more.
Celebrate the actor’s exceptional career with works by Cord Jefferson, Ang Lee, and more.
Vibrant young filmmakers seek connection to family, homeland, and self across the diaspora.
Vibrant young filmmakers seek connection to family, homeland, and self across the diaspora.
A man is reunited with his dead parents in this profound examination of grief and love.
A man is reunited with his dead parents in this profound examination of grief and love.
A bold new take on the beloved story of sisterhood, with Halle Bailey and Taraji P. Henson.
A bold new take on the beloved story of sisterhood, with Halle Bailey and Taraji P. Henson.