Acclaimed writer/director Ferzan Özpetek's dazzling crowdpleaser DIAMONDS gathers 18 of his country’s greatest actresses for an absorbing, humorous, and touching tribute to the majesty of the movie costume.
Charlie and Erin escape to the desert to navigate an unexpected and challenging new phase of their relationship. A Duplass Brothers Production starring Daveed Diggs (Hamilton) and Katie Aselton (The League).
When useless trust fund baby Henry (Walter Matthau) learns he has outspent his inheritance, he decides to marry rich and sets his sights on Henrietta (Elaine May), a botanist heiress clueless enough to entertain his halfhearted romantic advances.
The visionary artist and musician Laurie Anderson sits down with author and editor Lori Carlson-Hijuelos for a discussion on friendship, artistic collaborations, creative unions, and faith, in honor of Carlson’s love letter to her late husband, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Oscar Hijuelos (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love).
A salaryman, his wife, and their young daughter win the lottery and move into a newly built suburban home, living the capitalist dream. But after the father embarks on an illicit encounter with a nightclub singer, his daughter is suddenly seized by violent fits and hallucinations as an unseen presence begins to take hold.
Before K-animation went cute, it went full tae kwon do. Two feral kids, Maruchi and Arachi, grow up in a mountain cave after their grandfather is murdered by the villainous Blue Skull 13, until a kindly master drags them off to Seoul and turns them into unstoppable kicking machines.
Enjoy a free outdoor screening of the classic film "The Princess Bride" under the stars.
New 35th Anniversary 4K Restoration! Ten years after surviving the events of The Terminator, Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) teams up with her old nemesis (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to protect her son (Edward Furlong) from sinister sentient AI entity Skynet and its latest design: the ultra-lethal, virtually indestructible T-1000 (an incredible Robert Patrick).
Part art film, part grindhouse nightmare, Kim Ki-young’s delirious riff on his own 1960 film The Housemaid is a cornerstone of 1970s Korean cinema, starring Youn Yuh-jung (2021 Oscar winner for Minari) in her screen debut.
Pampered Beverly Hills good soul Cher plays matchmaker to her fellow high schoolers in Heckerling’s snappy, finger-on-the-pulse sleeper hit, loosely based on Jane Austen’s Emma.
On the Amazon rainforest island of Marajó, 13-year-old Tielle lives in an isolated riverside enclave with her family. She idolizes her older sister, who escaped the area with “a good man” (according to her mother) on one of the commercial river barges. But as she matures and learns the true price her sister paid to leave, she fears for the safety of her younger sister, and resolves to challenge the normalized abuse of women and girls in her community.
Trailblazing journalist, author and advice columnist E. Jean Carroll broke barriers with her sharp wit and fearless voice. This intimate portrait of an indomitable woman shows it’s never too late to rewrite your story and change the world.
Curated by the African Film Festival, Inc., this cinematic companion series to DanceAfrica highlights the culture and artistry of Uganda, presenting a showcase of contemporary and classic Pan-African cinema.
In a Somali neighbourhood in Toronto, innocent teenagers Farah and Halima fall in love, but are warned to stay away from each other because they are from different tribes. Their romance rekindles in their 20s when they reunite in Toronto, until the same cultural barriers that once divided them resurface.
A novice gang on the run is elevated into a heroic epic of Arthurian dimensions, with sex as sorcery and the flick-knife as sword. Shooting entirely on NY locations at night, the city is transformed into a phantasmagoric labyrinth of weird tribes.
A haunted-island mystery where the ghost might be a person, a place, or an entire way of life. When a zealous hotel developer names his new Jeju resort after the mythical submerged rock Ieodo—said to appear only to the souls of drowned fishermen—he is accused of murder and drawn to an off‑the‑map island community ruled by women and guarded by shamanic ritual.
One of the decade’s great enigmas. A successful executive, plagued by strange visions and intimations of a buried past, leaves the city for the coast—only to be abducted and taken to a remote island, where a man insists she is his vanished wife.
The Fu-Ho Grand, a movie palace in Taipei, is closing its doors. Its valedictory screening: King Hu’s 1967 wuxia epic Dragon Inn, playing to a motley smattering of spectators, including two stars of Hu’s original opus, Miao Tien and Shih Chun, watching their younger selves with tears in their eyes.
By the early 1970s, Park No-sik had appeared in hundreds of films and become one of Korea’s go-to tough guys, headlining a whole mini-franchise built around his bumpkin-hero Yong-pal. In Why?, the actor-director goes all in: Yong-pal heads to Japan in the wake of a young woman searching for the father she’s never met, and both tumble into a Chongryon-linked gangster maze where Park also plays the cold-blooded Korean-Japanese boss running the show.
Screening of Conscious Light, an award winning documentary film about the Divine Life and Revelation of Avatar Adi Da Samraj. The film is hosted by Dr. Joseph Troncale, professor emeritus of Russian Literary and Visual Studies at the University of Richmond.
After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.
Night one of this two night installation Double Bills And Buster features The Great Flood, a film by Bill Morrison with music composed and performed live by Bill Frisell with Luke Bergman and Tim Angulo. The Great Flood is a film-music collaboration by Bill Morrison and Bill Frisell, based on and inspired by the catastrophic Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and the ensuing transformation of American society.
Enjoy a family-friendly movie screening under the stars at Pier 63. Popcorn and refreshments will be available.
Selected by the Short Films Branch, this event brings together several shorts created under Stephen King's 'Dollar Baby Program'. A post-screening Q&A with filmmakers Jon Mann, Jackie Perez, Selina Sondermann, Yonatan Weinstein, and Sara Werner will be held on Saturday, May 23.
Two philosophy students drift through campus life under the Yushin dictatorship: blind dates, drinking contests, long-hair crackdowns, a love that goes nowhere—and nowhere to go anyway. Ha Gil-jong trained at UCLA and co-founded Young Sang Shi Dae (The Era of the Image), the movement that pumped New Wave restlessness and American New Cinema energy into Korean commercial filmmaking.
A groundbreaking documentary featuring Dr. Gabor Maté, exploring the wisdom that trauma can offer and the interconnected epidemics of anxiety, substance abuse, and chronic illness afflicting Western society.
An assortment of new and recent short films made in Egypt, South Africa, Uganda, Cameroon, and the African diaspora explores the weight of choice and autonomy.
In 2017, Kenyan writer Shiro Koinange and publisher Angela Wachuka set out to reclaim Nairobi’s McMillan Memorial Library, a colonial-era institution that had once barred Black patrons and remained frozen in the image of the British Empire. Determined to transform the decaying monument into a vibrant public space, they secure a tenuous management contract, inherit a skeptical staff, and begin reimagining its collections, programming, and purpose.
Before K-animation went cute, it went full tae kwon do. Two feral kids, Maruchi and Arachi, grow up in a mountain cave after their grandfather is murdered by the villainous Blue Skull 13, until a kindly master drags them off to Seoul and turns them into unstoppable kicking machines.
Among Kim Ki-young’s most unclassifiable films, A Woman After a Killer Butterfly spirals from chance encounter to metaphysical odyssey, as a suicidal man becomes entangled with a mysterious woman and a professor obsessed with death, insects, and ancient tombs.
Straddling the end of the 1970s and the dawn of a new military regime, Lee Doo-yong’s The Last Witness turns a murder case into a full-scale excavation of Korea’s buried history. Detective Oh (Hah Myung-joong), tracking the killing of a brewery owner, hits the road across wintry landscapes and remote villages, uncovering a chain of Korean War–era atrocities, partisan guerrillas, betrayals, and cover-ups that bind the present to crimes long suppressed.
Filmmaker Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine explores a Ugandan photographer’s life, work, and enduring impact, documenting Kibaate Aloysius Ssalongo's photography and its profound effect on his community and Mwine's own life.
After his son is captured in the Great Barrier Reef and taken to Sydney, a timid clownfish sets out on a journey to bring him home.
Seven amazing black & white cartoons produced in the 1930s by the Fleischer Studios, featuring Popeye, Olive Oyl, Bluto, and Wimpy, plus the Technicolor “special” Popeye Meets Sindbad (1936), newly restored.
Continuing the two night installation, Double Bills And Buster, Roulette presents films by Bill Morrison and Buster Keaton with music composed and performed live by Bill Frisell with Luke Bergman and Tim Angulo.
A distant poor relative of the Duke D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.
Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.
Long marginalized and now reclaimed as a landmark of Korean queer cinema, Ha Gil-jong’s debut feature traps a powerful businessman, his mistress, and his young male secretary in a slow-burn game of seduction, domination, and betrayal.
A salaryman, his wife, and their young daughter win the lottery and move into a newly built suburban home, living the capitalist dream. But after the father embarks on an illicit encounter with a nightclub singer, his daughter is suddenly seized by violent fits and hallucinations as an unseen presence begins to take hold.
During the final years of the Japanese colonial era, Koreans were required to adopt Japanese names as part of an assimilation policy known as Sōshi-kaimei (창씨개명). Resistance to this erasure of Korean identity was widespread, prompting increasingly coercive and punitive measures from the colonial government to enforce compliance.
A man returns to his Seoul neighborhood after 14 years abroad and finds everything changed—real estate is booming, old friends have scrambled up the social ladder, the woman he loved is married to someone else. Im Kwon-taek later described it as his first attempt to put images and impressions into the frame rather than dialogue, a turning point in his understanding of the possibilities of cinema.
The film that broke Korean box office records and launched a generation. Lee Jang-ho’s debut arrived at the moment when youth culture, acoustic guitars, blue jeans, and draft beer were reshaping Korean urban life under the Yushin dictatorship.
Part art film, part grindhouse nightmare, Kim Ki-young’s delirious riff on his own 1960 film The Housemaid is a cornerstone of 1970s Korean cinema, starring Youn Yuh-jung (2021 Oscar winner for Minari) in her screen debut.
Twelve Afro-French women talk about their relationship with hair, beauty standards, men, and representation in the media. Preceded by Children of Diaspora, a film about the identity journey of diaspora children.
Framed by the political landscape of 1993 Lagos, a father and his two young sons journey together, quietly reckoning with their relationship while navigating a city on the precipice of democratic crisis.
A bank clerk—Yun Jeong-hee (Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry), with Shin Sung-il as her complacent lover—drifts through a life of accumulating restlessness: an affair that leaves her unsatisfied, late-night wandering, desires the world around her has no category for.
Raw, defiant, and visionary, these short films—one section of the fiercely collective and formally subversive work of Kaidu Club, the other the quietly personal and observational films of Kim Hong-joon and Hwang Ju-ho—represent crucial precursors to Korean independent cinema that opened alternative paths for filmmaking outside the mainstream.