2025

Series

August 20–24, 2025
Rockaway Film Festival 8

Events

Paul Clipson: Vibrations of Light
August 24, 2025
9:00 pm
Two rarely screened works by the visionary San Francisco filmmaker and live music by his close collaborator Jefre Cantu-Ledesma.
Under Construction
August 24, 2025
6:00 pm
Advance screening for a soon-to-be-released feature satire by New York-based filmmaker and artist James N. Kienitz Wilkins
New Kingston
August 24, 2025
3:00 pm
The rhythms, relationships, and seasons of one man's work building and repairing houses in upstate New York.
In Excess
August 24, 2025
12:30 pm
The lifecycle of one city's trash is traced through its streets, waterways, and social infrastructures.
Children’s Cinema: William Wegman
August 24, 2025
10:00 am
A collection of William Wegman's brilliant short films staring his beloved Weimaraner dogs.
Atropia
August 23, 2025
7:00 pm
An utterly original screwball comedy inspired by real U.S. military training camps.
Shorts: Landlocked
August 23, 2025
4:00 pm
Making use of inherited archives and reclaimed footage, these personal portraits of distant homes interrogate how cinema and representation shape memory amid global politics.
Shorts: Dizzy Adolescence
August 23, 2025
1:00 pm
Insecurities spin into absurdities in these off-kilter new narrative shorts.
Bionico’s Bachata
August 23, 2025
10:00 am
ominican filmmaker Yoel Morales’s hyperkinetic urban love story follows a homeless romantic trying to make ends meet and kick his drug habit so he can marry the love of his life.
The Python Hunt
August 22, 2025
7:00 pm
An epic nocturnal quest through the snake-infested Everglades.
Shorts: Game Coast
August 22, 2025
4:00 pm
Erecting custom-built environments and synthetic realms, these boundary-pushing shorts envision the erosion and reconstruction of our changing world where science fictions become foundations of the future.
In the White City
August 21, 2025
7:00 pm
Swiss master Alain Tanner's underseen César-winning gem is an ode to drifting dreamers and a revelatory roadmap across Lisbon. Live music performance by Erev.
Freight
August 21, 2025
4:00 pm
An intimate glimpse at the teenaged sailors growing up in the vast and unseen world of transnational transport. 
Shorts: Look into the Light
August 21, 2025
1:00 pm
Through personal lenses come private euphorias. These shorts delight in micro and macro visions of nature that widen our eyes and rekindle our senses of wonder.
Paper Trails, Chain Reactions
August 20, 2025
7:00 pm
Annual animation program guest curated by Lilli Carré.
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass
August 20, 2025
4:00 pm
A young man boards a train that carries him into a world suspended in time, half awake and half asleep.
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