BAM Film 2025

In RaMell Ross’s extraordinary realization of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, two Black teenagers become wards of a barbaric juvenile reformatory in Jim Crow–era Florida

Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, and Guy Pearce star in this monumental epic about a European architect and his wife who immigrate to Pennsylvania to escape World War II.

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.

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).

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.