Brooklyn Academy of Music

Celebrating the 15th anniversary of the daring Brooklyn distributor Factory 25, BAM welcomes Nathan Silver (Between the Temples) back for a screening of his pitch-black 2015 comedy, Stinking Heaven.

From sweet as apple pie to rotten to the core, the features, documentaries, experimental films, and shorts in Big Apple's Littlest Bites in one way or another celebrate growing up and coming of age in New York City.

Decades before cancel culture and trigger warnings, directors like Gregg Araki, Harmony Korine, and Todd Haynes pushed back against censorship with work exploring taboo subjects and deploying graphic imagery.

When Shelley Duvall passed away earlier this year, the world mourned one of the most unique presences in film history. This program provides further evidence of her onscreen effervescence and remarkable range.

Mismatched cousins reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, but their adventure veers off course when old tensions start to resurface.

Shot in secret, Mohammad Rasoulof’s award-winning thriller centers on a family thrust into the public eye when a newly appointed investigating judge in Tehran grows paranoid and distrustful.