Brooklyn Academy of Music

Filmed in pre-pandemic Dallas, this five-part documentary series captures the pulse of a city within a state and a country in crisis, following the lives of public representatives and varied constituents.

“The Black Worker” presents cinematic negotiations with race, class, and gender in films made between the 60s and 2020s, bringing together episodes and histories of rebellion, riot, and resistance.

Charles Burnett’s long-lost 1999 feature, unreleased until 2024 and screening at BAM in a new 4K restoration from Milestone Films, is hilarious, heartfelt, and timely.

Political and cultural challenges, technical quirks, and matters of extreme injustice are among the subjects of these powerful Academy Award-nominated short films from the US, Europe, Asia, and Africa.

A new series celebrates the people from around the world who break the mold of the society they’ve always known to explore and create a new community, risking their own safety, comfort, and security.

Our biannual series showcases diverse original cinema by the brightest Caribbean filmmakers, including features based in Jamaica and Guadeloupe.

Cinema Tropical honors the resurgence of Latin American cinema with special screenings of three landmark films.

Family bonds, faith, joy, and pride are mixed with painful truths in an evening of Oscar-qualifying shorts made by women of color, curated by Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival & Lecture Series.

This special collection explores the library on-screen as a distinct realm of learning and restless opportunity, featuring 20th-century masterpieces and a contemporary feature directed by Audrey Lam.

Academy Award winner Bong Joon-ho (Parasite) is back with a grim-tastic, bloody work of sci-fi comedy starring Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, and Mark Ruffalo.

Estranged twin brothers are forced to reunite when a mysterious wind-up monkey linked to a gruesome killing spree reappears 25 years later, in a comically gory feature by Osgood Perkins (Longlegs).