2025

Series

August 20–24, 2025
Rockaway Film Festival 8
June 15 & July 13, 2025
Rockaway Chamber Music 2025
Saturday, July 26
PIZZA MOVIES
June 7, 2025
BOSOZOKU BEACH
ANNEX CINEMA
Flicker Points

Events

Paying For It
September 20, 2025
8:00 pm
A revelatory indie comedy based on cartoonist Chester Brown's divisive graphic memoir, from the perspective of his ex-partner Sook-Yin Lee. New York premiere. Co-presented by PictoBeach.
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Yi-Wo
September 14, 2025
7:30 pm
A decade in the making, California-based artist Thomas Campbell's latest film is a stunning 16mm study of surfing that celebrates wave riding as a spiritual practice.
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The Scout
September 28, 2025
7:00 pm
Over the course of one day, a location scout connects with a handful of NYC residents as she struggles to lock down shooting locations for a TV show. Filmmaker Paula González-Nasser in-person.
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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
Artist and polymath Kevin Bewerstorf's filmmaking debut patiently documents the rhythms of his work building and repairing houses in upstate New York.
In Excess
August 24, 2025
12:30 pm
One city's trash is traced through its streets, waterways, and social infrastructures to reveal the hidden ecosystems of waste management and the inevitable ways that garbage resurfaces long after we’ve tossed it out of our minds.
Children’s Cinema: William Wegman
August 24, 2025
10:00 am
A collection of the American artist's brilliant short films staring his beloved Weimaraner dogs. Free!
Atropia
August 23, 2025
7:00 pm
Hailey Gates' bold Sundance-winning feature debut is an utterly original screwball comedy inspired by real U.S. military training camps. Live music performance by Cassandra Jenkins.
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
Dominican filmmaker Yoel Morales’s hyperkinetic urban love story follows a hopeless 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
Xander Robin’s debut documentary feature is an epic nocturnal quest following a crew of eccentric amateur snake hunters over ten days in the Everglades. Live music performance by Lael Neale.
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.
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
A collection of tactile animated films created on paper, using the constraints and tooth of the page. Guest curated by Lilli Carré. Live music performance by Blk.wav feat. Frae-Frae & Shelley Nicole.
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 in this bewitching animation by the legendary Quay Brothers.
Little, Big, and Far
July 19, 2025
8:30 pm
Reevaluating his life and work, an Austrian astronomer ascends a Greek mountaintop in search of a sky dark enough to reconnect with the stars. Filmmaker Jem Cohen in person.
Brighton Beach
July 13, 2025
8:30 pm
Delighting in the daily rhythms of life alongside the Coney Island boardwalk, this newly restored vérité documentary explores Brighton Beach during the early '80s
Rockaway Chamber Music
July 13, 2025
7:00 pm
A bass and string quartet performing music by Giochino Rossini, Gabriella Smith, Ethel Smyth, and Shelley Washington.
FAMILY BUSINESS
July 26, 2025
5:30 pm
As much a sweet slice of 1970s America as it is a look into the freedoms and hazards of keeping a small business in the family.
MYSTIC PIZZA
July 26, 2025
2:30 pm
This coming-of-age classic follows three best friends who work at a pizzeria in the seaside town of Mystic, Connecticut.
UNTITLED PIZZA MOVIE
July 26, 2025
8:30 pm
In the early '90s, two friends set out on a quest to find New York City’s perfect slice of pizza. Co-presented by Filmmaker Magazine.
NETWORK
June 28, 2025
8:30 pm
Sidney Lumet's razor-sharp satire-turned-prophesy of media and political culture. Co-presented by Hell Gate.
THE SHOOTING
June 15, 2025
8:30 pm
a brilliant and twisted mirage of the American West by visionary filmmaker Monte Hellman.
Rockaway Chamber Music
June 15, 2025
7:00 pm
an evening of bassoon and strings.
THE DEVIL QUEEN
June 21, 2025
8:30 pm
a provocative jewel of 1970s Brazilian cinema. Co-presented with Alfreda's Cinema in celebration of Juneteenth and Pride Month.
His Motorbike, Her Island
June 7, 2025
8:30 pm
by Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1986, 90 min.
Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss
June 7, 2025
6:30 pm
by Yasuharu Hasebe, 1970, 80 min.
God Speed You! Black Emperor
June 7, 2025
4:30 pm
by Mitsuo Yanagimachi, 1976, 91 min.
WILDWOOD, NJ
June 1, 2025
7:00 pm
a time capsule of the South Jersey shore in the ‘90s, this dreamy Super 8 documentary captures the rush of summer freedom on the boardwalk.
THE DELLS
June 1, 2025
8:30 pm
a beautiful and bizarre snapshot of the international students working summer jobs in Wisconsin Dells, “The Waterpark Capital of the World.” Director Nellie Kluz in person.
THE CAMERAMAN
May 17, 2025
7:00 pm
Buster Keaton is at the height of his slapstick mastery in this love letter to movie-making. Live scored by Order of the Illusive.
HIS THREE DAUGHTERS
June 13, 2025
8:00 pm
Azazel Jacobs' powerful family drama about three estranged sisters who come together to care for their ailing father during his final days.
THE CHOCOLATE WAR
June 13, 2025
5:00 pm
a moody, anti-authoritarian coming-of-age story and a cautionary tale about the abuses committed by those in power. Guest selected by Azazel Jacobs.
NEWLYWEEDS
May 9, 2025
8:00 pm
a love triangle between a repo man, his wanderlusting girlfriend and marijuana. Director Shaka King in person.
FRIDAY
May 9, 2025
5:00 pm
two friends in L.A. have one day to pay the local bully the money he’s owed, or they’re in trouble. This iconic comedy is guest presented by Shaka King in person.
NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
April 25, 2025
8:00 pm
an intimate and deeply moving chronicle of a teenager’s struggle to get an abortion. Director Eliza Hittman in person.
Earth Day Celebration: LAST THINGS
April 19, 2025
7:00 pm
a shoreline cleanup, cyanotype workshop & free screening of Deborah Stratman's LAST THINGS, a glittering view of life on Earth from the perspective of rocks.
TRUST
April 25, 2025
5:00 pm
a deadpan love story between two misfits from the Long Island suburbs. Guest presented by Eliza Hittman.
Geologist + Sleepy Doug Shaw
March 22, 2025
8:00 pm
performing two back-to-back solo sets.
Observation Center of the Universe
March 1, 2025
7:00 pm
a sensory experience that navigates the cosmos through live music and liquid light.
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