Rockaway Film Festival presents cinema and other arts at the coastal edge of New York City, joining artists and audiences for unique collective experiences.
Coming Up
Our eighth annual film festival takes place August 20–24. This is the year of the wood snake: a time of dynamic transformation. Undulating through patterns of creation, collapse, and renewal, this program is guided by endings that become beginnings.
A collection of tactile animated films created on paper, using the constraints, techniques, and tooth of the page. This year's annual animation program is guest curated by Lilli Carré.
Through personal lenses come private euphorias. These shorts delight in micro and macro visions of nature that widen our eyes and rekindle our senses of wonder.
Swiss master Alain Tanner's underseen César-winning gem is an ode to drifting dreamers and a revelatory roadmap across Lisbon. Live music performance by Erev.
Xander Robin’s debut documentary feature is an epic nocturnal quest following a crew of eccentric amateur snake hunters over ten days in the Everglades. Live music performance by Lael Neale.
Dominican filmmaker Yoel Morales’s hyperkinetic urban love story follows a hopeless romantic trying to make ends meet and kick his drug habit so he can marry the love of his life.
Making use of inherited archives and reclaimed footage, these personal portraits of distant homes interrogate how cinema and representation shape memory amid global politics.
Hailey Gates' bold Sundance-winning feature debut is an utterly original screwball comedy inspired by real U.S. military training camps. Live music performance by Cassandra Jenkins.
One city's trash is traced through its streets, waterways, and social infrastructures to reveal the hidden ecosystems of waste management and the inevitable ways that garbage resurfaces long after we’ve tossed it out of our minds.
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