Rockaway Film Festival 8

August 20–24, 2025

Arverne Cinema Inside & Outside

This is the year of the wood snake: a time of dynamic transformation. Undulating through patterns of creation, collapse, and renewal, this program is guided by endings that become beginnings.

Shell Pass

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Arverne Alley Installations

ROADSIDE MEMORIAL

by Jodie Mack. 2025, US, loop. On view August 20-24

LOG JAMS

by Lisa LaBracio. 2025, US, loop. On view Wednesday, August 20

DARK LIGHT

by Gloria Chung. 2025, US, 11 min loop. On view Thursday, August 21‍

ONE HUNDRED WHITE TRUCKS

by Brice Goldberg. 2024, US, 4 min loop. On view Friday, August 22

RFF8

Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

August 20, 2025

4:00 pm

by the Quay Brothers. 2025, UK/Poland/Germany, 76 min.

Paper Trails, Chain Reactions

August 20, 2025

7:00 pm

Shorts: Look into the Light

August 21, 2025

1:00 pm

Freight

August 21, 2025

4:00 pm

by Max Carlo Kohal. 2024, Switzerland, 80 min.

In the White City

August 21, 2025

7:00 pm

Shorts: Game Coast

August 22, 2025

4:00 pm

The Python Hunt

August 22, 2025

7:00 pm

Bionico’s Bachata

August 23, 2025

10:00 am

by Yoel Morales. 2024, Dominican Republic, 80 min.

Shorts: Dizzy Adolescence

August 23, 2025

1:00 pm

Shorts: Landlocked

August 23, 2025

4:00 pm

Atropia

August 23, 2025

7:00 pm

by Hailey Gates. 2025, US, 103 min.

Children’s Cinema: William Wegman

August 24, 2025

10:00 am

In Excess

August 24, 2025

12:30 pm

by Melissa Langer. 2025, US, 70 min.

New Kingston

August 24, 2025

3:00 pm

by Kevin Bewersdorf. 2025, US, 84 min.

Under Construction

August 24, 2025

6:00 pm

by James N. Kienitz Wilkins. 90 min, USA, 2025. Work in progress screening and panel discussion

Paul Clipson: Vibrations of Light

August 24, 2025

9:00 pm

Rockaway Film Festival would like to thank VBX™~Vernam Basin Terminal for generously hosting us at the Arverne and Annex Cinemas in addition to BBX™~Barbadoes Basin Terminal for contributing to such.

We are proud to be sponsored by Blundstone®, Istic Illic Pictures, and NYC Ferry. Rockaway Film Festival made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Rockaway Film Festival is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Art. We receive additional support from Queens Borough President Donovan Richards.