A landmark of Black independent cinema preceded by a live music performance by Irwin Hall. Co-presented with Alfreda's Cinema in celebration of Juneteenth.
A group of women try to sneak into a men's-only World Cup qualifying match in Tehran in this sharp and subversive comedy by Iranian auteur Jafar Panahi.
In the 1990s, a group of high schoolers made a video project that ended up breaking real news. This inspirational documentary shows what happens when young people are trusted with cameras and told to look closely.
Music for clarinet and string quartet by Kinan Azmeh, Leilehua Lanzilotti, Gabriella Smith, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Ryan Francis.
A seven-year-old soccer prodigy is recruited to play for Sweden's national soccer team in this adorable and surreal 1974 comedy by Swedish filmmaker Bo Widerberg.
Shot entirely on an old Sony Ericsson phone, Georgian director Alexandre Koberidze's audacious new feature follows a father searching for his daughter who has mysteriously disappeared while shooting a series of soccer fields for a sports magazine.
A selection of cosmic films by avant-garde master Jordan Belson preceded by a sonic meditation by Lavender Suarez.
An evening of music for flute and strings by Marcos Balter, Elizabeth Brown, Philip Glass, Joseph Haydn, Augusta Reed Thomas, and Caroline Shaw.
Werner Herzog's blazing, otherworldly documentary surveys the ravaged oil fields of post-Gulf War Kuwait in "a requiem for a planet that we ourselves have destroyed."
This open-hearted 16mm documentary follows a new generation of Deadheads on a freewheeling journey across America. With a live music performance by Rainbow Spirals.
We present one of animation's great classics on its centennial with live, original musical accompaniment by Order of the Illusive.
Every move of the French-Algerian soccer superstar is captured in real time throughout a single match in this epic, breathtaking portrait by artists Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno.
Arverne Cinema Outside opens for the season with this lost gem of independent cinema. East coast premiere of new restoration. Co-presented by Hell Gate.
Join us for a free screening of one of Walt Disney's most beloved classics. A magical nanny descends from the sky and turns a rigid English household upside down.
A celebration of the voices and creativity of Rockaway youth, presented by Queens Community Justice Center
What happens when you turn the camera on itself? A guided tour of a body cam and police taser manufacturing facility becomes a mind-bending investigation into cameras, surveillance, and who controls the truth.
As a teenager, Bing Liu spent his free time making skate videos with his friends. With an intimate, unflinching camera, he ended up capturing poignant observations about modern masculinity in small town America in this coming-of-age journey of courageous vulnerability. Filmmaker in person.
Rockaway Film Festival joins the city-wide tribute to Ken and Flo Jacobs, two pioneers of experimental cinema.
Join us for a cleanup and collaborative printmaking at Dubos Point Wildlife Sanctuary.
A vibrant portrait of revolutionary public artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles, the first Artist in Residence at New York City’s Department of Sanitation. Post-screening conversation with director Toby Perl Freilich.
A love letter to NYC told through its trash. Join us for a work-in-progress screening and conversation with filmmaker sTo Len, recent Public Artist in Residence at the NYC Department of Sanitation.
Join us for a winter benefit at Crown Hill Theatre in Brooklyn, featuring MGMT, Angela Trimbur, Tall Juan, Alex Tatarsky & Taraka.
Celebrating new work by Rockaway-based filmmakers. Filmmakers in-person. Free!
Dale spends the majority of his time transporting various goods to people while attempting to carve out a social life in-between. Filmmakers in-person. Free!
After stealing a hat from the costume collection of famous communist playwright Bertolt Brecht, multimedia artist sister sylvester embarks on a forensic quest to trace the hat’s possible past wearers.
A revelatory indie comedy based on cartoonist Chester Brown's divisive graphic memoir, from the perspective of his ex-partner Sook-Yin Lee. New York premiere. Co-presented by PictoBeach.
A decade in the making, California-based artist Thomas Campbell's latest film is a stunning 16mm study of surfing that celebrates wave riding as a spiritual practice.
Over the course of one day, a location scout connects with a handful of NYC residents as she struggles to lock down shooting locations for a TV show. Filmmaker Paula González-Nasser in-person.
Two rarely screened works by the visionary San Francisco filmmaker and live music by his close collaborator Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.
Advance screening for a soon-to-be-released feature satire by New York-based filmmaker and artist James N. Kienitz Wilkins.
Artist and polymath Kevin Bewerstorf's filmmaking debut patiently documents the rhythms of his work building and repairing houses in upstate New York.
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.
A collection of the American artist's brilliant short films staring his beloved Weimaraner dogs. Free!
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.
Making use of inherited archives and reclaimed footage, these personal portraits of distant homes interrogate how cinema and representation shape memory amid global politics.
Insecurities spin into absurdities in these off-kilter new narrative shorts.
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.
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.
Erecting custom-built environments and synthetic realms, these boundary-pushing shorts envision the erosion and reconstruction of our changing world.
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.
An intimate glimpse at the teenaged sailors growing up in the vast and unseen world of transnational transport.
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.
A collection of tactile animated films created on paper, using the constraints and tooth of the page. Guest curated by Lilli Carré. Live music performance by Blk.wav feat. Frae-Frae & Shelley Nicole.
A young man boards a train that carries him into a world suspended in time in this bewitching animation by the legendary Quay Brothers.
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.
Delighting in the daily rhythms of life alongside the Coney Island boardwalk, this newly restored vérité documentary explores Brighton Beach during the early '80s
A bass and string quartet performing music by Giochino Rossini, Gabriella Smith, Ethel Smyth, and Shelley Washington.
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.
This coming-of-age classic follows three best friends who work at a pizzeria in the seaside town of Mystic, Connecticut.
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.
Sidney Lumet's razor-sharp satire-turned-prophesy of media and political culture. Co-presented by Hell Gate.
a brilliant and twisted mirage of the American West by visionary filmmaker Monte Hellman.
a provocative jewel of 1970s Brazilian cinema. Co-presented with Alfreda's Cinema in celebration of Juneteenth and Pride Month.
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.
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.
Buster Keaton is at the height of his slapstick mastery in this love letter to movie-making. Live scored by Order of the Illusive.
Azazel Jacobs' powerful family drama about three estranged sisters who come together to care for their ailing father during his final days.
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.
a love triangle between a repo man, his wanderlusting girlfriend and marijuana. Director Shaka King in person.
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.
an intimate and deeply moving chronicle of a teenager’s struggle to get an abortion. Director Eliza Hittman in person.
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.
a deadpan love story between two misfits from the Long Island suburbs. Guest presented by Eliza Hittman.
a sensory experience that navigates the cosmos through live music and liquid light.
