Programs
Film 2019
Presenting classic films, premieres, festivals, and retrospectives, with appearances by filmmakers, actors, and critics.
“[A] vital arts center…dedicated to forgotten and overlooked…directors." —Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Leadership support for BAM Film programs
provided by The
Thompson Family Foundation
Major support for BAM Film provided by the Ford Foundation
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A powerful new film about one of the most important, yet least known, activists in US history.
A secret history of African-Americans in horror cinema plus a landmark cult classic.
A complete retrospective of this fearless artist who gave cinematic voice to gay black men.
A wide-ranging look at this most fundamental yet complex of emotions in all its forms.
All-American nightmares from the father of politically charged horror.
Bruce Goldstein presents rare footage of this dynamic performing duo.
Franco Rosso’s incendiary 1980 film about a young dancehall DJ in South London.
Celebrating the richness, uniqueness, and viability of Caribbean cinema.
A program of short films by a diverse network of emerging NYC-based filmmakers.
A cinematic exploration of the complex role that resentment plays in society and art.
The largest ever US retrospective of the singular cinematic mood-maker.
Claire Denis launches Robert Pattinson and Juliette Binoche into the depths of the cosmos.
A career-spanning tribute to the Czechoslovak New Wave legend whose films are calls to rebellion.
An iconic work by legendary choreographer Merce Cunningham is reborn.
Young love flowers in the face of prejudice in this empowering Kenyan coming-of-age saga.
Nina Menkes’ lost underground classic is a hallucinatory study of female alienation.
A stunning documentary about a secret operation to surveil an Arab-American community.
Revisit a transformative decade in black-authored cinema.
An advance screening of Mike Mills’ and The National’s short film collaboration.
Laura Dern and Jack O'Connell star in the true-life story of Cameron Todd Willingham.
The best new narrative, documentary, and short films from across Africa and the diaspora.
This series offers a selection of films, all made by women of color, that cover a range of contemporary topics.
A soccer star’s fall from grace sends him on a delirious odyssey.
A Spike Lee-produced time travel adventure.
A wistful odyssey about a rapidly changing San Francisco.
“The city’s best independent film showcase” (The New Yorker) celebrates its 11th year.
A rousing underdog tale from one of the leading lights of contemporary Jamaican cinema.
Spike Lee’s Brooklyn classic remains an essential touchstone for a changing borough.
Patrick Wang’s offbeat micro-epic about a small community arts center fighting to stay afloat.
Monumental masterpieces sprawling in scope and rich in human insight.
A genre-spanning snapshot of a complex generation finding its way in an uncertain world.
From Hollywood to the underground, these brilliant women defied the Reagan-era status quo.
A uniquely unflinching portrait of Whitney Houston, cultural icon and troubled soul.
Roots icon Jimmy Cliff stars in the “definitive postcolonial cult-movie musical.”
The rarely seen, long-lost follow-up to The Harder They Come.
Poetic, surreal, and intensely personal reflections on childhood, history, and relationships.
A beautifully observed exploration of faith, family, and black Muslim identity.
A salute to the trailblazer who brought black urban life to the screen with searing power.
Animation Block Party returns with a thrillingly diverse program of animated shorts and features.
A behind-the-scenes portrait as fearless, fascinating, and unfiltered as the icon herself.
A showcase celebrating the premier work of select student filmmakers.
Vital new works from the Middle East and North Africa’s most innovative filmmakers.
Peter Brook introduces his film adaptation and legendary staging of this explosive play.
Jennifer Lopez is luminous as the Tejano music icon.
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in a pinnacle of Dream Factory elegance.
A celebration of short films by the best women creators from the Vimeo Staff Picks channel.
Garrett Bradley’s stunning new short and a consideration of Blackness in American cinema.
Female friendship and male misbehavior in 1970s New York.
The Academy Award-winning new thriller from master director Bong Joon-ho.
An inspiring, thought-provoking philosophical journey about what it means to truly see.
Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson star in Robert Eggers’ (The Witch) latest.
The extraordinary tale of how Harriet Tubman became one of America’s greatest heroes.
BAM celebrates the witching season with a compendium of New York City terrors.
The inspiring story of one man’s lifelong mission to bring calypso music to the world.
Sidney Lumet’s masterful, morally complex study of power and corruption within the NYPD.
A young Jean-Michel Basquiat stars in this essential slice of 1980s downtown-scene cool.
Master of dark comic misery Todd Solondz at his most provocative and bitingly funny.
An exploration of how we live now—and might live later—in an era of climate catastrophe.
An urgent look into our apocalyptic future as seen from the perilous present.
The epic emotional journey of a family in South Florida by Trey Edward Shults.
Tom Hanks portrays iconic children’s TV host Fred Rogers.
A look back at the under-the-radar gems you may have missed the first time around.
Jane Campion’s subversive feminist thriller screens with Alan J. Pakula’s paranoid 1970s classic.
A fresh, modern-day murder mystery from writer-director Rian Johnson featuring an ensemble cast.
A consciousness-shifting film about the potential of the fungi kingdom to heal our planet.
Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, and Margot Robbie star in this explosive story of Fox News.
A historical drama based on real events from writer-director Terrence Malick (Tree of Life).
Saoirse Ronan, Timothée Chalamet, and Emma Watson star in Greta Gerwig’s take on a classic.
Alfre Woodard gives a devastating performance as a prison warden carrying out executions.
Sam Mendes directs this Best Picture Oscar nominee about two young British soldiers at the height of the First World War.
The tale of Walter McMillian, a wrongly convicted black man, based on Bryan Stevenson’s memoir.