Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a failed writer who has given up on life. Unemployed and living with family, he wanders the streets of Medellín in a drunken stupor, lamenting the state of literature in his home country, where he has succumbed to the cliché of the tortured artist. However, the opportunity to mentor a young student offers a chance at redemption, if he doesn’t screw it up first. In a performance marked by darkly comic pathos, first-time actor Ubeimar Rios stars in Simón Mesa Soto’s Un Certain Regard Jury Prize-winner A Poet, a raw and riotous farce about how good deeds are often met with the universe’s idea of cruel and unusually poetic punishment.

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.

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.

A brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong. Presented by Brain Dead Studios. Pop-up shop open 30 minutes prior to screening. Doors: 9:30PM Showtime: 10PM

Frederick Wiseman chronicles everything and everyone that appears in the world's most famed park.

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.

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.

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 scientist makes a last stand on Earth with the help of a ragtag team of soldiers against an invasion of alien phantoms.

Loosely based on the fable Little Red Riding Hood, this gritty thriller follows a savvy young lady as she leaves her dysfunctional family for peace in the trailer-home of her grandma. Pursued by an evil, child psychologist on her journey for redemption, she must use wit and cunning to survive.

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

In the surreal landscape of I LIVE HERE NOW, struggling actress Rose (Lucy Fry) finds her life upended by unexpected news. She’s suddenly forced to confront a future she never thought possible, just as a major career opportunity with top agent Cindy Abrams (Cara Seymour) comes into view. Things spiral further when her casual boyfriend, Travis (Matt Rife) brings his overbearing mother (Sheryl Lee) into the fold, pushing Rose to the brink. She flees to The Crown Inn, a crumbling motel at the edge of nowhere, where time fractures and reality bends. Haunted by sleep paralysis, splintered memories, and eerie motel dwellers, especially the enigmatic Lillian (Madeline Brewer), Rose begins to unravel. To move forward, she must confront the buried truth of her past that her body has never forgotten. Shot on vibrant 35mm with striking 16mm sequences, and directed by Julie Pacino in her feature debut, I LIVE HERE NOW is a haunting, dreamlike psychodrama about identity, trauma, and the fragile line between memory and madness.

An aspiring fashion designer’s dreams are put to the test when she lands a spot on a new competition reality show in this irreverent, heartwarming indie comedy.

Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse communities in the United States and the world. There are immigrants from every country in South America, Mexico, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and China. Some are citizens, some have green cards, some are without documents. The people who live in Jackson Heights, in their cultural, racial and ethnic diversity, are representative of the new wave of immigrants to America. 167 languages are spoken in Jackson Heights. Some of the issues the film raises-assimilation, integration, immigration and cultural and religious differences-are common to all the major cities of the Western world. The subject of the film is the daily life of the people in this community-their businesses, community centers, religions, and political, cultural and social lives-and the conflict between maintaining ties to traditions of the countries of origin and the need to learn and adapt to American ways and values...

A visionary neuroscientist explores the limits of consciousness through isolation tanks, communication with dolphins, and psychedelic experiments, transforming himself from researcher to mystical explorer.

A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.

After years spent abroad, Ena returns to Caracas where she finds her grandmother losing her memory and her father searching for rare Venezuelan books. She discovers a postcard in her father’s bookshop and sets off in search of a forgotten writer.

A portrayal of Ferdinand Magellan and Beatriz Barbosa's 1517 marriage in Seville, focusing on their brief time together before his departure on the Spanish crown's expedition.

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

A neurotic sex comedy follows Stella, a promiscuous love addict, who moves to New York City after a devastating breakup. A woman who should’ve already come of age, Stella explores the full spectrum of emotionally unavailable men the city has to offer, capturing the millennial female experience in all its cringe, comedy, and quiet longing. Through all the chaos and disappointing romantic dalliances, she ultimately yearns for connection, identity, and meaning. Q&A's with Alexi Wasser following all screenings.

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.

Amy Davis and James Duval play a pair of rival conceptual artists battling for fame and funding in the near-future dystopia of Shitville, Earth. As one ascends to the heights of neoliberal capitalist success, the other seeks inspiration and solace in the euphoric waves of a new cyber drug called Skullfuck. Ingenious production design and savvy location shooting evoke the urban sprawl and rural industrial collapse against which the filmmakers frame this scathing satire of art world pretension

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.

A timid man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive.

In a society where people stop dreaming to extend their lifespan, some dangerous individuals still dream, warping the fabric of time. We experience five dreams, for each of the senses, each chronologically representing a period of cinema.

A high school slacker commits a shocking act and proceeds to let his friends in on the secret. However, the friends' reaction is almost as ambiguous and perplexing as the crime itself.

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.

Anna, an artist, and Magnús, a fisherman, live with their three children and charismatic sheepdog in the quiet grandeur of the Icelandic countryside. As the fractures in their marriage come to the surface, the couple try to hold onto the afterimages of a life together and make sense of a deep and lingering devotion. Filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason (Godland) brings surprising humor and emotional weight to this gorgeous, intimate, and brilliantly expansive scenes from a marriage, amidst the majestic backdrop of the changing seasons.

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.

In this fourth chapter of the hit comedy franchise THE NAPA BOYS, Jack Jr. (Nick Corirossi), his reluctant co-captain Miles Jr. (Armen Weitzman), and the rest of the Napa Boys gang are back for one more wine-sloshed journey into the unknown. With a mission set forth by the mysterious "Sommelier,” they are joined this time by Puck, a bright young podcaster and the Napa Boys’ biggest fan, as the group embarks on the adventure of a lifetime.

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).

Kyle enters a contest to go to Mars only half seriously, since he’s getting married in a few days. He actually wins, then decides to ditch his wedding to escape to the red planet. This would all be great for him except the luxury accommodations are a facade, his shipmates are insane, and the crew gets stranded on Mars with no way home.

The colonel Daniel Blimp, of the secret British service, travels to Bangkok to investigate the murder of the British Ambassador.

With little time and even littler budget, a directing duo attempt to finish their indie movie - but at what cost? Two is a meta-fictitious film that was principally shot in two days, a dark comic satire of gender and power dynamics in the film industry created with an ensemble cast of some of the greatest up and coming comedic talent.

WELFARE shows the nature and complexity of the welfare system in sequences illustrating the staggering diversity of problems that constitute welfare: housing, unemployment, divorce, medical and psychiatric problems, abandoned and abused children, and the elderly. These issues are presented in a context where welfare workers as well as clients struggle to cope with and interpret the laws and regulations that govern their work and life.

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.