After a Palestinian teen gets swept up into a West Bank protest, his mother recounts the family story of hope, courage and relentless struggle that led to this fateful moment.

Housewife Kyoko begins moonlighting at a mysterious sex club as a means of rebelling against her boring salaryman husband Akihito. The Bedroom isn’t like any normal club, though: the female hostesses all take the powerful sedative Halcion to sleep through their encounters with the male clientele.

Behind The Lens is a one-hour plus visual and musical feast of music photography and stories as told from one of the worlds iconic music photographers who documented those memorable times. Henry Diltz takes you on a visual and story-telling journey of some of the most famous album covers and musical artists ever documented. Featuring a rare look on film and in classic photographs, The Doors, Eagles, Crosby Stills & Nash, James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Jackson Browne, Woodstock and many more… and the stories! You will be taken far behind the scenes of what the Sixties and Seventies were really all about in this authentic, heart-warming and humorous ride that only Henry Diltz can provide. In the world of music photography, Henry Diltz occupied the upper strata of legendary photographers. His images of popular musicians of the Sixties and Seventies defined the musical landscape of that time, when you were part of the band and a photographer could create lasting friendships and document each artist’s beginning through their assent to greatness. After the show, Henry Diltz will be available to hand-sign and make available for purchase, his most famous photographic prints in a special after-show meet and greet.

Castration Movie is a labyrinthine post-modern epic about gender. A trans woman named Michaela “Traps” Sinclair (filmmaker Louise Weard) is a sex worker in Vancouver who splits her time between seeing clients and hanging out with her group of trans friends. As the weight of the world piles up on her she decides to reclaim some sense of control by seeking out a back-alley orchiectomy. Written and directed by Louise Weard (Computer Hearts), Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both World's cast includes Ivy Wolk (Anora), Lea Rose Sebastianis (The All Golden), Hesse Deni (Brain Death), Jack Haven (I Saw the TV Glow), Alexandra McVicker (The Serpent’s Skin), Betsey Brown (Actors), Theda Hammel (Stress Positions), and Peter Vack (www.RachelOrmont.com), amongst a mix of other emerging talent and weird and wonderful cameos. The second part of Castration Movie (running 300 minutes with an intermission) contains one chapter: In Chapter iii. Polygon!!! Heartmoder, Circle (Alex Walton) tries to leave a trans separatist cult in New York. Q&A with Louise Weard following both screenings.

When wannabe documentarian Sophie-Anne Emerson sees a viral video of a young trans woman named Cece claiming to be pregnant, she thinks she found the perfect subject for her next film. While the pregnancy turns out to be real, Cece proves to be a very different subject than Sophie-Anne anticipated, and as they spend the next several months together Cece struggles to balance her life as an LA party girl and her impending motherhood while Sophie-Anne struggles to maintain objectivity as a filmmaker.

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.

Chronicles the doomed affair between bar Titanik regular Karrer and the cruel cabaret singer he pines for while scheming to displace her brutish husband.

Das Erste Mal presents the very first video works by contemporary artists. With their experimental and at times eccentric character, these short films offer a glimpse into the creative beginnings that already hint at the artists’ later practices. What makes these early videos compelling is their directness and lack of pretense - a raw will to express, when intuition precedes style and curiosity overrides calculation. Each work carries a sense of urgency and discovery, revealing how the immediacy of the moving image allows for spontaneous experimentation, accidents, and unfiltered emotion - moments when the camera becomes a tool for thinking, trying, and failing in real time. The program was conceived and is curated by artist and curator Florian Meisenberg. Participating artists: Korakrit Arunanondchai, Joey Frank, Cayetano Ferrer, Henry Gunderson, John Henderson, Georg Herold, Riley Hooker, Gregory Kalliche, Anna K.E., Prem Krishnamurthy, Nathaniel de Large, Vijay Masharani, Florian Meisenberg, Monica Mirabile, Agnieszka Polska, Ben Rivers, Rachel Rossin, Jacolby Satterwhite, Jeremy Shaw, Marianna Simnett, John Smith, Viktor Timofeev and Lawrence Weiner. Das Erste Mal has been screened at the Shoreditch Arts Club in London, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Kunstmuseum Bonn and the Hotel Warszawa Art Fair.

When a 15th-century prince denounces God after the devastating loss of his wife, he inherits an eternal curse: he becomes Dracula. Condemned to wander the centuries, he defies fate and death itself, guided by a single hope - to be reunited with his lost love.

Step into the glitz and glam of the most sensational Oscars viewing party in NYC! Mark your calendars for Sunday, March 15th at 6:30 p.m. The Roxy Cinema New York (https://www.roxycinemanewyork.com/)(located at 2 Avenue of the Americas) is once again rolling out the red carpet for DRAG the Oscars, hosted by Jamie CD & Essa Noche Martini's, Mayhem, and Movie magic make witnessing the 98th Academy Awards at Roxy Cinema extra special. Get ready for jaw-dropping looks, Oscar-themed games, and expertly shady commentary as we celebrate Hollywood's grandest affair! But wait, there's more! This year there will be an exclusive Martini bar inside the theater, so you don't need to miss any of the action. You can sip on something dirty, something with a twist, or something with a caffeinated kick. Tickets are available for $25 which includes a welcome glass of bubbly. Trust us, this is one Eleganza Extravaganza you simply don't want to miss!

A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation

From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, HAMNET tells the powerful love story that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

With her feature debut I LIVE HERE NOW, Julie Pacino plunges us into a vibrant and nightmarish psychodrama that reverberate with echoes of David Lynch, Dario Argento, and the Coen brothers. Starring Lucy Fry (BRIGHT) as Rose, a woman haunted by trauma and trapped in a motel where reality unravels, the film blurs the lines between past and present, dream and waking life, captured in vivid 16mm. The film pulses with competing anxieties: the pursuit of perfection, the weight of generational trauma, and the invisible fist of capitalism tightening its grip around the necks of its characters. Featuring an all-star supporting cast including Madeline Brewer (CAM), Sheryl Lee (TWIN PEAKS), Cara Seymour (ADAPTATION.), and an exceptionally slimy Matt Rife, I LIVE HERE NOW marks the emergence of a bold new voice in genre cinema.

Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness.

In the near future, petty criminals are sentenced to act in art films in lieu of jail time. 10 years after that, groups of experimental theater students and clandestine filmmakers attempt to recreate an iconic “lost” film from this era, the mysterious, and possibly haunted, “Mid/Evil Times”… Shot with gear, locations and friends all borrowed and stolen, MID/EVIL TIMES is a broken kaleidoscope of SOV filmmaking, reflecting the horrors and joys of the creative act in a world overtly hostile towards free expression. Featuring a cast of familiar faces from the LA underground film scene, “Weener Kleener Soap”, and gratuitous Godard references, behold this evocation of the past and questionable conjuring of the future.

A pregnant woman, left alone in the wilderness near the Dominican border, tries to escape the massacre of Haitians in 1937.

As filmmaking grew into a popular and profitable medium, the ancient art of puppetry enjoyed a brand new resurgence. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, some animators created stop-motion films in which puppets came to life and magically moved on their own. Filmmakers also made more straightforward films featuring live marionettes and hand puppet performances. A bit later, when early television producers needed quick and affordable entertainment for child-oriented programming, show runners looked towards hand puppets and marionettes for an easy solution. Roxy Cinema hereby presents our 11th 'Peculiar Puppets' retrospective of forgotten vintage short films featuring hand puppets, ventriloquist dolls, marionettes, and stop motion creatures—all filmed in the 1930s through the 1970s. This peculiar potpourri of unnamed surprises is programmed by early animation archivist and historian Tommy José Stathes, and prints are hand-selected from his personal 16mm film archive. Warning: You may find some of the offerings to be rather unsettling, and possibly even creepy! 90-minute film presentation includes an intermission and will be followed by a live Q&A session with Stathes.

Bergman's modernist masterpiece explores the volatile relationship between an actress who refuses to speak and the nurse overseeing her convalescence. After a mischievous montage 'explaining' the film's origins, the narrative proper gets underway, charting the increasingly tense battle of wits between the chatty Alma (Andersson) and the mute Elisabet (Ullmann), who are isolated together in a cottage on the island of Fårö. With a rich, resonant mix of related themes - the vampiric nature of art, the complex fragility of personality, the difficulty of communication - the film is arguably Bergman's most audacious and formally innovative work, multi-levelled yet utterly lucid. Sven Nykvist's lustrous camerawork, the subtle sound design and matchless lead performances combine to create a mesmerisingly beautiful work of unforgettable, haunting mystery.

A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for redemption.

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star. Suddenly, the two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father — and deal with an American star dropped right in the middle of their complex family dynamics.

A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.

Brought up in an environment torn apart by violence and alcohol, Lidia Yuknavitch seemed destined for self-destruction and failure until words offered her unexpected freedom in the form of literature. The Chronology of Water, adapted from Yuknavitch’s autobiographical bestseller, follows Lidia’s journey to find her own voice in an exploration of how trauma can be transformed into art through re-possessing our own bloody histories, particularly those uniquely experienced by the bodies of women and girls.

New 4K restoration! Axel Freed is a literature professor. He has the gambling vice. When he has lost all of his money, he borrows from his girlfriend, then his mother, and finally some bad guys that chase him. Despite all of this, he cannot stop gambling.

Satire on the funeral business, in which a young British poet goes to work at a Hollywood cemetery. Introduced by Owen Kline and Shane Fleming.

A rising pop sensation (Charli XCX) navigates fame and industry pressures while preparing for her arena tour debut, revealing the transformation of underground culture into mainstream success.

1977. In a Brazil tormented by the military dictatorship, Marcelo, a man in his forties fleeing a troubled past, arrives in the city of Recife where he hopes to build a new life and reconnect with his family. That's without taking into account the death threats that lurk and hover over his head.

From award-winning writer-director Mona Fastvold (The World to Come, The Brutalist) comes the extraordinary true legend of Ann Lee, founder of the devotional sect known as the Shakers. Academy Award nominee Amanda Seyfried stars as the Shaker's irrepressible leader, who preached gender and social equality and was revered by her followers. The Testament of Ann Lee captures the ecstasy and agony of her quest to build a utopia, featuring more than a dozen traditional Shaker hymns reimagined as rapturous movements with choreography by Celia Rowlson-Hall (Vox Lux) and original songs & score by Academy Award winner Daniel Blumberg (The Brutalist).

A traumatized young woman (Kiyomi Itô) grows into a cynical and vengeful adult who unleashes her carnal—and often bloodthirsty—rage on the random men who court her. Meanwhile, a professional cameraman (Kôichi Imaizumi) working for an unknown shadowy outfit is tasked with shooting covert footage of sexual acts around the city. Introduced by Samm Deighan 2/26.

We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher — a 65-minute cinematic experiment exploring the continuing relevance of the late theorist’s ideas on capitalism, culture, and the future. Blending documentary, performance, and hauntological fiction, the film follows Parkins — a time-slipped character — through ghostly landscapes and digital spaces, tracing Fisher’s thought from the 1990s to our algorithmic present. Created collaboratively by over 70 artists through Instagram (@markfisherfilm), the film embodies Fisher’s call for collective imagination beyond capitalist realism.

Rachel doesn't realize she has grown up in captivity working for an advertising agency where her job is to assess Mommy 6.0, her favorite pop star in the whole entire world. Q&A with Peter Vack 5/16. Moderated by William Banks.