2025

Series

August 20–24, 2025
Rockaway Film Festival 8
June 15 & July 13, 2025
Rockaway Chamber Music 2025
Saturday, July 26
PIZZA MOVIES
June 7, 2025
BOSOZOKU BEACH
ANNEX CINEMA
Flicker Points

Events

Little, Big, and Far
July 19, 2025
8:30 pm
Reevaluating his life and work, an Austrian astronomer ascends a Greek mountaintop in search of a sky dark enough to reconnect with the stars. Filmmaker Jem Cohen in person.
Brighton Beach
July 13, 2025
8:30 pm
Delighting in the daily rhythms of life alongside the Coney Island boardwalk, this newly restored vérité documentary explores Brighton Beach during the early '80s
Rockaway Chamber Music
July 13, 2025
7:00 pm
A bass and string quartet performing music by Giochino Rossini, Gabriella Smith, Ethel Smyth, and Shelley Washington.
FAMILY BUSINESS
July 26, 2025
5:30 pm
As much a sweet slice of 1970s America as it is a look into the freedoms and hazards of keeping a small business in the family.
MYSTIC PIZZA
July 26, 2025
2:30 pm
This coming-of-age classic follows three best friends who work at a pizzeria in the seaside town of Mystic, Connecticut.
UNTITLED PIZZA MOVIE
July 26, 2025
8:30 pm
In the early '90s, two friends set out on a quest to find New York City’s perfect slice of pizza. Co-presented by Filmmaker Magazine.
NETWORK
June 28, 2025
8:30 pm
Sidney Lumet's razor-sharp satire-turned-prophesy of media and political culture. Co-presented by Hell Gate.
THE SHOOTING
June 15, 2025
8:30 pm
a brilliant and twisted mirage of the American West by visionary filmmaker Monte Hellman.
Rockaway Chamber Music
June 15, 2025
7:00 pm
an evening of bassoon and strings.
THE DEVIL QUEEN
June 21, 2025
8:30 pm
a provocative jewel of 1970s Brazilian cinema. Co-presented with Alfreda's Cinema in celebration of Juneteenth and Pride Month.
His Motorbike, Her Island
June 7, 2025
8:30 pm
by Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1986, 90 min.
Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss
June 7, 2025
6:30 pm
by Yasuharu Hasebe, 1970, 80 min.
God Speed You! Black Emperor
June 7, 2025
4:30 pm
by Mitsuo Yanagimachi, 1976, 91 min.
WILDWOOD, NJ
June 1, 2025
7:00 pm
a time capsule of the South Jersey shore in the ‘90s, this dreamy Super 8 documentary captures the rush of summer freedom on the boardwalk.
THE DELLS
June 1, 2025
8:30 pm
a beautiful and bizarre snapshot of the international students working summer jobs in Wisconsin Dells, “The Waterpark Capital of the World.” Director Nellie Kluz in person.
THE CAMERAMAN
May 17, 2025
7:00 pm
Buster Keaton is at the height of his slapstick mastery in this love letter to movie-making. Live scored by Order of the Illusive.
HIS THREE DAUGHTERS
June 13, 2025
8:00 pm
Azazel Jacobs' powerful family drama about three estranged sisters who come together to care for their ailing father during his final days.
THE CHOCOLATE WAR
June 13, 2025
5:00 pm
a moody, anti-authoritarian coming-of-age story and a cautionary tale about the abuses committed by those in power. Guest selected by Azazel Jacobs.
NEWLYWEEDS
May 9, 2025
8:00 pm
a love triangle between a repo man, his wanderlusting girlfriend and marijuana. Director Shaka King in person.
FRIDAY
May 9, 2025
5:00 pm
two friends in L.A. have one day to pay the local bully the money he’s owed, or they’re in trouble. This iconic comedy is guest presented by Shaka King in person.
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
April 25, 2025
8:00 pm
an intimate and deeply moving chronicle of a teenager’s struggle to get an abortion. Director Eliza Hittman in person.
Earth Day Celebration: LAST THINGS
April 19, 2025
7:00 pm
a shoreline cleanup, cyanotype workshop & free screening of Deborah Stratman's LAST THINGS, a glittering view of life on Earth from the perspective of rocks.
TRUST
April 25, 2025
5:00 pm
a deadpan love story between two misfits from the Long Island suburbs. Guest presented by Eliza Hittman.
Geologist + Sleepy Doug Shaw
March 22, 2025
8:00 pm
performing two back-to-back solo sets.
Observation Center of the Universe
March 1, 2025
7:00 pm
a sensory experience that navigates the cosmos through live music and liquid light.
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