Programs

A reclusive English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter in this story directed by Darren Aronofsky and featuring Brendan Fraser in his first major role in almost a decade.

Rooney Mara, Claire Foy, and Frances McDormand lead an impressive ensemble in Sarah Polley’s rich drama about Mennonite women torn between faith, forgiveness, survival, and retribution.

This documentary explores the 50-year relationship between two legends, writer Robert Caro and his longtime editor Robert Gottlieb. At 86 and 91, respectively, their influential working relationship continues.

Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras (Citzenfour) highlights photographer Nan Goldin and her crusade to hold the Sackler family responsible for their part in the opioid epidemic.

Cate Blanchett gives arguably the greatest performance of her career as the celebrated composer Lydia Tár in this mesmerizing drama from Todd Field (Little Children).

New restorations of three rare portraits of the transformative writer and thinker abroad capture Baldwin’s thoughts about American society, Black identity, and queer sexuality in all his passion and brilliance.

Path-breaking documentarian Camille Billops crafts formally inventive and fearlessly personal explorations of race, sexuality, and more in this series celebrating her complete body of film work—newly restored!

TThis blistering, elaborately stylized parable from filmmaking titan Haile Gerima follows a self-absorbed African-American fashion model who is spiritually transported to the antebellum South. New restoration!

BAM’s annual series brings the richness, uniqueness, and diversity of Caribbean cinema to Brooklyn with a weekend festival of deeply personal works.

A nebbish Cary Grant, a scatterbrained Katherine Hepburn, and a runaway leopard (or two!) collide in this beloved screwball classic.

In collaboration with Triple Canopy, this series explores the recording of memories and experiences in cinema, taking into account recent shifts in how life is made, understood, represented, and reconfigured.

This poignant new film from Mia Hansen-Løve (Bergman Island) stars Leá Seydoux in a transcendent performance of a widowed young mother also caring for her sick father while falling for her married friend.

Discover the best in recent Polish cinema with this biannual festival showcasing innovative, boundary-pushing new works, including a trio of co-productions in Polish-Ukrainian solidarity.