Internets original decrepit queen of mixtape menagerie, 1-800-HOT-DUCK, returns to NYC with her special friend FUGUE SPA, New York’s underground slide show party and video sensation with a show you absolutely can not miss called…. “THATS ENTERTAINMENT!”

An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result.

The improbable life of French poet Arthur Rimbaud unfolds with all the shock and playfulness of his poetry.

An ambitious young musician's life becomes entwined with that of his reclusive master in director Alain Corneau’s haunting portrait of composer Marin Marais and his teacher, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe. With a landmark score by Jordi Savall–whose viola da gamba recordings inspired novelist Pascal Quignard’s original story–Tous les Matins du Monde is a transporting meditation on artistic devotion, memory, and longing.

In the hope of a big score, two junkie couples team up to commit various drug robberies which go disastrously wrong, leading to dissent, violence, and murder.

Bird In Hand is a 2025 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Melody C. Roscher, in her directorial debut. It stars Alisha Wainwright, Christine Lahti, James Le Gros, Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Jeffrey Nordling and K. Todd Freeman. It had its world premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Festival on June 6, 2025.

Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment. Widely regarded as one of the greatest works in Arab and world cinema, Cairo Station premiered at the 1958 Berlin International Film Festival and remains a cornerstone of Egyptian neorealism. Restored in 4K by the Criterion Collection, this revival offers audiences a rare chance to experience Chahine’s masterpiece as it was meant to be seen—on the big screen, in all its emotional and visual intensity.

Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.

An armchair mystery in which the life of a reclusive academic collides with the story of a clandestine technology that can photograph the past.

In this kaleidoscopic portrait, a screenwriter, an actor, an urban shaman, and the director himself contend with the everyday annoyances that fill the life of an artist.

On the last day at the closing Royal Alamo Cinema, employees, outcasts and oddballs cross paths in interwoven stories of rejection, redemption, and fate.

After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife.

A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision -- she has made it already. We don't know whom she represents, what she believes in - we only know she believes it absolutely.

Pioneer Works and Roxy Cinema co-present a screening and conversation with Richard Linklater and Eric Schlosser. The program celebrates the new 25th Anniversary Edition of Schlosser’s landmark 2001 book, Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, and the 20th anniversary of Richard Linklater’s Fast Food Nation (2006) When a fast food chain experiences a meat contamination event, a marketing exec takes a journey to the dark side of American alimentation. Copies of the book will be available for purchase, followed by a signing with Schlosser.

Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy.

This film covers the early history of post World War II educational films, especially those involving traffic safety by the Highway Safety Foundation under direction of Richard Wayman. In the name of promoting safe driving in teenagers, these films became notorious for their gory depiction of accidents to shock their audiences to make their point. The film also covers the role of safety films of this era, their effect on North American teenage culture, the struggle between idealism and lurid exploitation and how they reflected the larger society concerns of the time that adults projected onto their youth.

In a remote village, Nawojka grapples with dark urges she believes stem from an ancestral curse. Her world shifts when Sandra moves in next door, offering a glimpse of freedom from her family's rigid control.

At a sexy, sizzling nightclub, pianist Percival lives life by the rules, while Rooster, the club's flashy lead performer, struts his stuff on the stage. But all changes when greed, fame and murder threaten to destroy them and the joint.

Smith's (Thomas Dekker) everyday life in the dorms - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella (Haley Bennett), hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London (Juno Temple), lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor (Chris Zylka) - all gets turned upside down after one fateful, terrifying night. Tripping on some hallucinogenic cookies he ate at a party, Smith is convinced he's witnessed the gruesome murder of an enigmatic Red Haired Girl who has been haunting his dreams. What he discovers as he tries to find out the truth leads him deeper and deeper into a mystery that will forever change not only the course of his young life but the destiny of the entire world. This anarchic comedy is a return to the camp style of Gregg Araki's early work and premiered at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

In the early 1930s, painter Leonora Carrington, a rebel against social expectations, joins the surrealist movement and its iconic figures like André Breton and Salvador Dalí in Paris. A whirlwind love affair with artist Max Ernst confronts her with her inner demons. During the war, Leonora flees to Mexico and finally empowers herself. Today Leonora Carrington is one of the highest selling female painters worldwide, next to Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keeffe.

Since 2006, Rick Prelinger has made 37 participatory urban history events that have played to large and vocal audiences in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oakland, Detroit and at festivals throughout the world. As films play, viewers are invited to comment, to ask questions and to interact with one another. This autumn the revised LOST LANDSCAPES project returns to New York for the first time since its premiere in 2017. LOST LANDSCAPES OF NEW YORK (2017-26, 83 min., HD video transferred from 35mm, 16mm and 8mm film) mixes home movies shot by New Yorkers, tourists and semi-professional cinematographers with outtakes from feature films and background "process plates" picturing granular details of New York's cityscape. The combination of intimate moments, neighborhood memories from many New York City communities and expansive perspectives forms a 21st-century city symphony whose soundtrack will be made by the audience. Spanning much of the 20th century (1920-1980), LOST LANDSCAPES recalls buried memories of daily life, work and celebration while asking audiences to reflect on possible futures for New York City. This screening adds newly found material to the original 2017 film.

San Francisco shines throughout this wide-ranging, unbounded panorama made from 128 years of San Francisco moving images with a soundtrack made fresh by the audience as the film plays. Celebrating the city as a center of creativity, style, resistance and freedom, LOST LANDSCAPES is drawn from some 300 newly-unearthed (and a few familiar) archival films plus "guest appearances" from San Francisco filmmakers. This 37th in a series of "urban history events" recreates the textures and activities of everyday life, labor and play, replaying known and unknown historical moments, daylighting lost and found infrastructures, revealing the scars of settlement and pointing to more hopeful futures. Highlights include transportation in the air, water and on the land; images of the City's rich and resilient communities; unfamiliar footage of familiar places; countercultures and counterdemonstrators; and unpredictable moments on the streets. As always, the audience makes the soundtrack. Please come prepared to raise your voices; identify places, people and events; and ask questions of others in the audience.

New York nightclub, The Matador, becomes the site of a high-profile murder that attracts the attention of an obsessive detective, a TV news reporter, and an elusive being living outside the realms of time and space. Their stories converge with that of a new-age cult operating at the command of an ultra-intelligent supercomputer named Bolero.

Nosferatu -- Live Score by the Andrew Alden Ensemble Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.

A Juilliard-trained violist navigates the New York City freelance classical musician scene, playing gigs that often draw her into the personal lives of strangers, all while living in her oddball family's NYC apartment.

The 50 year journey of women at Rikers Jail and a painting that leads the way out.

Inspired by Bibbe Hansen's experiences in a juvenile detention center. Directed by Andy Warhol.

Catherine Breillat’s behind-the-scenes account of shooting Fat Girl stars Anne Parillaud as Breillat surrogate Jeanne, a director intent on getting her film’s most intimate sequence just right—even if it means alternately coaxing and battling her fragile, needy young actors (Grégoire Colin and Roxane Mesquida, virtually recreating her role from Fat Girl). Once again exploring her signature obsessions, Breillat uses this metafictional format to investigate the ethical responsibilities of the artist, the messy logistics of running a set, and the slippery nature of realism, as applied to one of filmmaking’s most challenging ordeals: the simulated sex scene. Culminating in one actor’s ribald high jinks with a body prosthetic and another’s breakthrough into shattering emotional territory, Sex Is Comedy is Breillat’s heady, brilliant synthesis of the ridiculous and the sublime.

The story examines underground LA lesbian club, its performers, finances, desire, community dynamics. Explores utopic space before/after club's existence, ephemerality, alternative economies.

Three months after a painful breakup, a Los Angeles based photographer drifts through Silverlake’s creative chaos—dodging well-meaning friends, career pressures, and fleeting flings—until an unexpected connection forces him to confront what he truly wants from love, art, and himself.

The basis of Still Film is a fictional audio deposition of a “non-party witness” who testifies to the past forty years of cinematic exposure (a period aligned with my lifetime), with promises made and broken. The multi-generational characters include the witness, the lawyers, and the recordist. While no character is specifically me, all are performed in voiceover by me, addressing memories, biographical details, conspiracy theories, and ideas I’ve wrestled with for years. The script has been written as if an actual legal deposition. The visuals are 35mm publicity stills from Hollywood movie press kits: a “carousel” of 140 slides chosen from the hundreds I’ve collected since 2019 that hold some associative meaning, however arbitrary, in my memory. Publicity stills are distributed by film studios to promote upcoming releases. 35mm film transparency slides were the standard until the early 2000s, when digital press kits took over (a turning point that happens to align with my legal coming-of-age). As objects, each are unique photographic prints subject to the ravages of time and handling, now preserved through scanning into 4K digital cinema.

From writer-producer-director Todd Field comes TÁR, starring Cate Blanchett as Lydia Tár, the groundbreaking conductor of a major German Orchestra. We meet Tár at the height of her career, as she’s preparing both a book launch and a much-anticipated live performance of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony. Over the ensuing weeks, her life unravels in a singularly modern way. The result is a searing examination of power and its impact and durability in today’s society.

In Singapore, school dropout Choo (16) returns to her elite all-girls Chinese school to join the graduating class. Her little acts of rebellion towards her tyrannical teachers attract the admiration of three other misfits—Vanessa, Gina and Sofia. She’s drawn to them too and confides about the ghost in her room. The new friends’ idea: using Sofia’s camcorder to evidence the ghost. The four form an inseparable group, and meet an unlikely kindred spirit—Sofia’s family driver, Uncle Phoon (70). Inspired by his stories about the triad gangs that ruled the streets of colonial Singapore and defied the authorities openly, they decided to form a gang. But how do you form a gang in modern Singapore, where even chewing gum is illegal?

IN COLLABORATION WITH PAUL TSCHINKEL’S ART/NEW YORK: 3 DOWNTOWN ARTISTS - ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, AND NAN GOLDIN Screening followed by a conversation between director and producer Paul Tschinkel, art historian and curator Marc H. Miller, moderated by filmmaker and founder & director of The Downtown Festival Rebekah Sherman-Myntti Presented in collaboration with Paul Tschinkel’s pioneering video series ART/new york, this program brings together rare archival portraits of three artists who helped define the visual culture of downtown New York. Through interviews, exhibition footage, and intimate documentation, the program traces the work and lives of Robert Mapplethorpe, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Nan Goldin at pivotal moments in their careers. A 1982 studio interview captures a 21-year-old Basquiat on Crosby Street as he discusses his process, persona, and rapid ascent through the New York art world. Mapplethorpe is seen in a 1983 interview from his downtown loft, speaking candidly about the ideas, relationships, and charged subject matter behind a body of work that transformed contemporary photography. The program also revisits Goldin’s celebrated 1996 Whitney Museum retrospective, which brought together more than 25 years of photographs documenting her friends, lovers, and the alternative cultures of New York, Boston, Berlin, Tokyo, and beyond. Together, these films form an extraordinary record of three singular artists whose work emerged from, documented, and permanently altered the cultural landscape of downtown New York.

BEYOND THE THRESHOLD SELECTION OF SHORT FILMS Aja Monet: Live at the Blue Note, NYC, directed by All Rights Aint Reserved ©️, 7 min. The Following Day, directed by Conor Fay, 12 min. Derdim, directed by Ellis Kaan Özen, 5 min. Acid City, directed by Jack Wedge & Will Freudenheim, 12 min. Niceland, directed by Julián Gallese, 18 min. Echoes, directed by Kate Sterlin, 10 min. YUME, directed by Selma Cervantes, 10 min. JAMNI, directed by Tina Pasotra, 9 min. Proxima, directed by Wren Martin, 21 min.

BIG BREAK is the debut feature from comedy group Simple Town. The movie follows Caroline, Felipe, and Will as they visit their old comedy partner, Sam, who struck rich in Hollywood and left them behind. Staying at his isolated house in the woods, the trio has one goal: convince Sam to cast them in his next big movie. But when a dark secret slips out, old resentments turn to horror, and this washed-up comedy group learns what it really means to kill.

A fringe therapist takes the world by storm with a galaxy-brained new approach to self-help called the Jackman Method. Through immersive sessions, he transforms wayward young men into semi-employable outsider artists—all from the comfort of his posh home office in New York City. When an unhinged ex-patient returns to his care and is chosen to headline the practice’s first ever cabaret night, the fallout is immense. Diva behavior, grueling rehearsals, and public scandal threaten to destroy not only the show but the Jackman Method itself.

The film follows a group of religious harvesters in a forgotten mythological underworld hidden behind closed doors in contemporary New York City as they harvest a mind-altering fungus called "Shpongle" that links users to a fantastical world.

DWARF NEON MAYFIELD, a film by Leland Nally New York Premiere Screening followed by a conversation between director Leland Nally, moderated by SPECIAL GUEST Synopsis: A kaleidoscopic portrait of a place and its people, Dwarf Neon Mayfield travels the Kentucky countryside following a twin set of storms of historic intensity. Humans and animals alike traverse the new contours of their world while left to live amongst the wreckage. Elemental images of the living and the dying form an intimate panorama of collapse from America’s deepest interior; what of the old world remains?.

When we meet the Fellas, Nick has been dumped by his girlfriend and finds an apartment with Will in NYC's worst neighborhood. His one solace is a dumpster-dived, controversial DVD box set gifted by their friend Marty. After it disappears from their housewarming, Nick is convinced one of the guests (or his ex's new, college-aged boyfriend) is to blame and enlists the Fellas to get it back. Matt just goes on an app date.

What if you went on a holiday... and the apocalypse happened? GALICIA! is a found-footage, hybrid-documentary following a couple through home video footage as they visit their friends at a winery in rural Spain and inadvertently capture the end of days.

30th Anniversary Screening Presented by Nolly Babes Video Intro by Producer Ifeanyi Ikpoenyi Screening followed by a conversation between Nolly Babes’ Ebele and Tochi Anueyiagu and SPECIAL GUEST Karishika stands as a definitive milestone in African horror cinema. The film follows a young, astonishingly beautiful girl sent directly from the pit of hell on a demonic assignment to turn humanity away from God. Mandated by Satan himself, her primary target is the spiritual bedrock of society: men of God. Operating in the physical world, she uses the very things humans value more than their faith—limitless money, high fashion, luxury cars, mansions, and seduction—to cause absolute havoc and draw souls to hellfire. While she pushes society to the brink of spiritual collapse and almost succeeds, a powerful question remains: what divine intervention or human resistance will stop her from achieving total victory? About Nolly Babes: Nolly Babes is a living archive of Nollywood, curated by sisters Ebele and Tochi Anueyiagu. The duo works across film, art, and music.

L.I.E., a film by Michael Cuesta 25th Anniversary Screening Screening followed by a conversation between director Michael Cuesta, moderated by SPECIAL GUEST Synopsis: Following his mother's death and his father's abandonment, a grieving 15-year-old boy slides into a life of suburban delinquency, leading to an unlikely and dangerous friendship with an older, predatory ex-Marine.

In Tapoleng, a small forgotten and profoundly religious South African village tethered to three borders that form a kind of holy trinity, a new religion emerges. Once the church served as refuge during the old apartheid order, later giving way to communion in taverns. Now, this evolution culminates in the camera... A sacred spectacle that subtly supersedes the spiritual, where no other authority offers anything worth believing in but themselves.

Works by Andrew Norman Wilson and Jonah Freeman SENSING SYSTEMS explores perception, technology, information, and the ways sound and image shape how we understand the world around us. The selection of works by Andrew Norman Wilson and Jonah Freeman speak to one another through sound, vision, machine perception, and the relationship between human and technological systems.

Signals in the Distance is a selection of works that explore isolation, disconnection, life at the margins, and the search for belonging. The films interrogate what happens when people withdraw, are left alone, set adrift, or pulled away from the lives they knew. There are fragile, unexpected forms of connection and togetherness that can emerge through uncertainty, dependence, abandonment, and chance encounters.

Two small-time thieves come together as a bizarre comic duo in a quest to make their childhood dreams come true. This Cannes favorite finds the duo in a limousine stuffed with cash stolen from the mob as they take off for Miami, where they plan to fly to a safe haven in Costa Rica. The third film from American maverick Henry Jaglom returns to the big screen in a new 2K restoration.

Slauson Rec, a film by Leo Lewis O'Neil U.S. Premiere. Screening followed by a conversation between director Leo Lewis O'Neil, moderated by SPECIAL GUEST Slauson Rec examines the fine line between mentorship and manipulation in the pursuit of making art within an experimental theater collective. In 2018, Shia LaBeouf launched a free theater school at the Slauson Rec Center in South Central, Los Angeles. What started as an open, egalitarian workshop quickly evolved into intense daily rehearsals led by Shia, pushing participants to their limits. First-time filmmaker Leo Lewis O'Neil, a participant from day one, documents this complex journey of shifting power dynamics, and the lasting impact on the diverse group over three years.

Romane decides to adapt Clémentine Autain’s book about her mother for the screen. The project forces her to confront her past and her own mother, who abandoned her when she was nine months old.

The Basics of Philosophy, a film by Paul Schrader U.S. Premiere Screening followed by a conversation between director Paul Schrader, moderated by SPECIAL GUEST John Jorissen teaches philosophy in a small liberal arts school in the American Midwest, and is writing a book on Spinoza. His life revolves around teaching, writing and spending time with his partner Becca, a fellow professor, and her adolescent son Willie. Jorissen is smart, serious and distant. Something from the past torments him. When Jorrisen's estranged father passes away, an unexpected figure from that buried history reemerges—Miguel Vasque, the son of the family’s former gardener, who carries with him the weight of a long-ago incident. Their reunion forces Jorrisen to confront uncomfortable truths about guilt, obligation, and the fragile nature of the life he’s constructed.

The Joyless Economy a film by Marjorie Conrad New York Premiere Screening followed by a conversation between director Marjorie Conrad, moderated by SPECIAL GUEST A documentary that explores how a woman's movie collection triggers her infidelity. Created for one viewer—the woman whose confessions are revealed through hypnotic second-person narration. Director's statement: I photographed the subject's entire film collection, and, with few exceptions, preserved the order in the edit. She supplied the home movies. The words are hers, edited from months of interviews she recorded herself, answering my questions. Considering how specific she was in the way she chose to present herself, I knew this was as far as we could go. This documentary provides data. The elusiveness of the data is also data.

The Mayflower, a film by Nick Sandow World Premiere Screening followed by a conversation between director Nick Sandow, moderated by SPECIAL GUEST After a heart diagnosis, actor/director Nick Sandow sets out to make what may be his final film. Blending documentary and narrative, The Mayflower follows Nick as he investigates family secrets, confronts mortality, and searches for meaning, identity and his late father.

After a public scandal, an aging film star flees to a remote island with her devoted young lover where isolation blurs performance and reality.

THE WATER IS ALWAYS WARM follows the dissolution of a friendship after one friend becomes involved in a controversial religion. The haunted comedy unfolds through a series of dinners that take place over the course of several years, each date farther apart than the last, until finally there are no more.

TWO NEIGHBORS, a film by Ondine Viñao North American Premiere Screening followed by a conversation between director Ondine Viñao, cast members, moderated by SPECIAL GUEST Inspired by Aesop’s fable Avaricious and Envious and the viral 4chan meme archetypes of Stacy, Becky, Chad, and the Virgin. Becky, an ambitious but struggling writer, is overcome by envy and spite when she meets Stacy, a beautiful but insatiable socialite, at a lavish party hosted by Stacy’s father at their country estate. The evening descends slowly into chaos, and the girls’ lives are forever transformed after the unexpected arrival of a modern-day genie who promises to grant their deepest, darkest wishes.

Los Angeles on the cusp of the 2028 Summer Olympics: a series of devastating livestock viruses have wiped out meat and poultry production across the nation, leaving genetically-modified cockroaches the most viable alternative. Meanwhile, a cockroach infestation of biblical proportions overwhelms the city, triggering a rash of eminent domain abuses. Two young grifters dream up their next big score in a paranoid landscape perpetually reshaped by the collapse between legitimized and illegitimate forms of celebration and theft.

A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.

A failed filmmaker turned carpenter is hired by his estranged college buddy, now a successful sculptor renovating the vacation home of his dreams.

A young couple is shaken by a seemingly fraudulent yet unprovable act that strikes to the core of their cultural pretensions.

A perfect red-colored violin inspires passion, making its way through three centuries over several owners and countries, eventually ending up at an auction where it may find a new owner.

Wendy’s life is thrown into chaos when her boyfriend, Jack, who is older and divorced with children, insists they take space to evaluate the relationship. During their break, Wendy runs into her ex, Chuck, forcing them into a volatile triangle.

TITANE: A metal highly resistant to heat and corrosion, with high tensile strength alloys, often used in medical prostheses due to its pronounced biocompatibility.

A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the course of his life.

Vampyr -- Live Score by the Andrew Alden Ensemble With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer's brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery (The Passion of Joan of Arc and Day of Wrath) was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result—concerning an occult student assailed by various supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside Paris—is nearly unclassifiable, a host of stunning camera and editing tricks and densely layered sounds creating a mood of dreamlike terror. With its roiling fogs, ominous scythes, and foreboding echoes, Vampyr is one of cinema's great nightmares.

All musically gifted race-driver Lucky Jackson (Elvis Presley) wants in Las Vegas is to score enough money for a new car motor so he can win the Grand Prix. When he encounters sexy swimming instructor Rusty (Ann-Margret), he considers staying around longer. After Lucky loses his winnings in the hotel pool, he's forced to remain in Vegas long enough to win back his dough -- but now he also wants to win Rusty's heart. Unfortunately, so does his slick racing enemy, Elmo (Cesare Danova). Preceded by: Learning from Learning from Las Vegas (Sam Taffel & Gillian Waldo, 2025, 18 min.)

Caleb is a metal head loner who becomes obsessed with his new coworker, Krista. He begins invading every aspect of Krista's life. As his infatuation escalates from inappropriate to criminal, we're left asking who is really watching whom.

An angel tires of overseeing human activity and wishes to become human when he falls in love with a mortal.

Zola (Taylour Paige), a Detroit waitress, strikes up a new friendship with a customer, Stefani (Riley Keough), who seduces her to join a weekend of dancing and partying in Florida. What at first seems like a glamorous trip full of “hoeism” rapidly transforms into a 48-hour journey involving a nameless pimp, an idiot boyfriend, some Tampa gangsters and other unexpected adventures in this wild, see-it-to-believe-it tale.