The Untamed A film by Amat Escalante “A sci-fi sexual drama that will blow your mind.” —Birth, Movies, Death “Fascinating and outrageous” —The Telegraph (La región salvaje, Mexico/Denmark/France, 2016, 100 min. In Spanish with English subtitles) Winner of the Award for Best Director at the Venice
On Oct 6, 2018, from 5:20 pm – 7:30 pm, Reel Sisters is proud to announce a screening and conversation of Mr. Soul!, directed by Melissa Haizlip and Sam Pollard! Before Oprah – before Arsenio – there was Mr. SOUL! Ellis Haizlip made television broadcast history with “Soul!,” America’s first “black Tonight Show.” Join Reel Sisters
It is only 6 days away from the inaugural BAMcinematek presents: Film School Shorts 2018! This showcase, curated by Curtis Caesar John and BAMcinématek’s Natalie Erazo, celebrates new work by select student filmmakers from Brooklyn College, the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Pratt Institute, Syracuse
You’re invited to an Exclusive Film Premiere in NYC! Flix Premiere – the world’s first online cinema – invites you to its first ever US Theatrical Premiere of the film Bikini Moon – a distinct New York based film, directed by the highly acclaimed and Oscar Nominated director Milcho Manchevski, starring Condola Rashad (from
This week, make sure not to miss the U.S premiere of Ricardo Silva and Omar Guzmán‘s William, the New Judo Master this Thursday, September 20 at Anthology Film Archives. Screening as part of Cinema Tropical’s series of contemporary Latin American cinema, the “fascinating film essay” follows famed Swedish-American singer William Clauson as he whiles away
Winner Silver Beat for Best Screenplay 2018 Berlin International Film Festival “Fabulously entertaining. Irresistibly inventive. Hitchcock, Looney Tunes, Rififi…and Bresson…Ruizpalacios pulls it off with a joyful sureness.” -Jessica King, Variety “An endlessly entertaining, challenging investigation of history that confirms Ruizpalacios’ status as the next big thing in Mexican
Fall is fast approaching, and GAP is excited to announce their annual screening, Rising Together, Moving Forever, on October 5th, 2018 from 6-9pm at The New School (66 West 12th St). They will have several opportunities to engage at the event including: photo booths, food, performances, as well as
Help seed a national conversation around issues of race, education and equity. Real talk that leads to real action that leads to real change. Lang’s Civic Engagement and Social Justice Program has been offered a select amount of seats to the exclusive NYC screening of America
Doc Studies presents: Monday, September 17 at 1 PM Kellen Auditorium, Ground Floor, 66 Fifth Avenue CRIME + PUNISHMENT Directed by Stephen Maing 2018, 115 min. Screening and Q & A with filmmaker STEPHEN MAING “A triumph of documentary filmmaking” — Tim Wu, The New York
ZUZANA: MUSIC IS LIFE NYC PREMIERE A beautiful, award-winning film about legendary harpsichordist Zuzana Ruzickova, who recalls a life of love, tyranny, and the music that helped her survive and thrive through some of the 20th century’s darkest periods. The film was twice voted Best Documentary. Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theater at Symphony Space Thursday,
Upcoming in the next two weeks at Cinema Tropical: If you missed Jim McKay’s acclaimed En el Séptimo Día in its theatrical release at the beginning of summer, you still have one more chance to catch this heartfelt portrait of Brooklyn’s Mexican community at Museum of the
Gamar Markarian, who recently completed her Documentary Studies Certificate, will showcase her film Work at BAMcinématek. BAMcinématek will take place Wednesday, September 26, 2018 at 7pm. LOCATION: Peter Jay Sharp Building BAM Rose Cinemas RUN TIME: 85min FORMAT: DCP GENERAL ADMISSION: $15 MEMBERS: $7.50 (free for Level 4
Film Society of Lincoln Center is screening some Latin American horror films from Mexico, Chile, and Brazil as part of their annual film festival ‘Scary Movies.’ Be sure to check out these year’s selection. Also hitting screens this week is the New York Latino Film
Attend a special educational screening of A WHALE OF A TALE with female director Megumi Sasaki in attendance, opening at Quad Cinema on Friday, 8/17. RSVP here for a chance to get discounted tickets! A WHALE OF A TALE is about the sleepy fishing town of Taiji, Japan which
COCOTE A film by Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias (Dominican Republic/Argentina/Germany/Qatar, 2017, 106 min. In Spanish with English subtitles) A Grasshopper Film release Winner of the Best Film Award at the Locarno Film Festival’s Signs of Life competition—a recognition that marked a milestone for Dominican cinema—Cocote is a rapturous
Upcoming in the next two weeks: Cinema Tropical is presenting a special screening of the music documentary Badi on the acclaimed Brazilian guitarist Badi Assad as part of our Music+Film: Brazil series at Guild Hall in East Hampton. Check their website for more screenings and times. BADI ‘MUSIC+FILM: BRAZIL’ Wednesday, July 6, 4pm
ARABY A film by Affonso Uchôa and João Dumans (Arábia, Brazil, 2017, 98 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles) A Grasshopper Film release André, a teenager, lives in an industrial town in Brazil near an old aluminum factory. One day, a factory worker, Cristiano, suffers an accident. Asked to go
GABRIEL AND THE MOUNTAIN A film by Fellipe Barbosa (Gabriel e a Montanha, Brazil/France, 2017, 131 min. In Portuguese, English, and French with English subtitles) Based on the true story of a close friend of director Fellipe Barbosa, this beautifully photographed travelogue recreates the fateful journey of
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June on Filmatique: Best Undistributed Every year, the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Film Comment magazine publishes a list of critically-acclaimed films that have not received US distribution. Many of these films are avant-garde, experimental; others are stirring portraits from regions of the world either not considered
EN EL SÉPTIMO DÍA A film by Jim McKay (On the Seventh Day, USA, 2017, 92 min. In Spanish and English with English subtitles) En el Séptimo Día, a fiction feature from director Jim McKay (Girls Town, Our Song, Everyday People), follows a group of undocumented immigrants living in Sunset
A new documentary called HALF THE PICTURE (Sundance, SXSW) that celebrates the groundbreaking work of female film directors and investigates the systemic discrimination that has denied opportunities to far too many talented women in Hollywood. They interview directors such as Ava DuVernay (SELMA, A WRINKLE IN TIME), Jill Soloway (“TRANSPARENT”), Lena Dunham (“GIRLS”), Catherine
DARK MONEY, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana—a frontline in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide—to follow an intrepid
Within the realm of issue-driven documentary, a common visual language is often used to communicate empathy, urgency, and action around a cause. Happening this weekend, participants will learn how to work outside of that framework and make social issue films that emphasize and experiment with artistic
PANKE A film by Alejo Franzetti (Argentina/Germany, 46 min. In Bissa, German, French with English subtitles) New York Premiere! Q&A with director Alejo Franzetti “Panke is an ode to survival; a very careful meditation on the melancholy of immigrants, made with a tone at once convincing and detached. The
Be sure not to miss three politically-important films hitting New York screens this week: Running After by Jefferson De, Chicana by Sylvia Morales, and To the Dead by Mauricio Arango each take as their starting point an interrogation of race, femininity, and marginalized histories in Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia, respectively. Continuing this week is Anthology Film Archive‘s series ‘Sara
Filmatique’s C’est Cannes! Series continues with After Love, a chamber drama starring Bérénice Bejo that tackles the financial and emotional aftermath of a failed marriage. To watch our current releases click here. Membership required.
The Best Indie Films are Coming to NYC May 7 – 13 The 2018 NYC Independent Film Festival will present 250 indie films! We are excited to showcase our selection of romance films. In A Heartbeat, which took over the Internet last year, tells the sweet story of a
THE ABSENT STONE A film by Sandra Rozental & Jesse Lerner (La piedra ausente, Mexico/USA, 82 min. In Spanish with English subtitles) New York Premiere! Q&A with co-director Sandra Rozental In 1964, the largest carved stone of the Americas was moved from the town of San Miguel Coatlinchan
SCREENING: ACTIVATE AND CELEBRATE MAYDAY 2018 TUESDAY MAY 1, 2018 7:30PM in Brooklyn http://www.SpectacleTheater.com/MAYDAY-1971-RAW or on the web anytime www.vimeo.com/ondemand/MAYDAY1971RAW trailer: https://vimeo.com/266328873 https://www.facebook.com/events/360139651143473/
KK de La Vida, an online MA student in the Media Studies program, is excited to present “Liquid Plasticity: A Movement Prayer” at Yale Divinity School’s Graduate Conference on Religion and Ecology this Thursday, April 19, 2018. “Liquid Plasticity” is the second live iteration of “Reality