Coming Up

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.

Paper Trails, Chain Reactions
August 20, 2025
7:00 pm

Annual animation program guest curated by Lilli Carré.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

The Python Hunt
August 22, 2025
7:00 pm

An epic nocturnal quest through the snake-infested Everglades.

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.

Shorts: Dizzy Adolescence
August 23, 2025
1:00 pm

Insecurities spin into absurdities in these off-kilter new narrative shorts.

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.

Atropia
August 23, 2025
7:00 pm

An utterly original screwball comedy inspired by real U.S. military training camps.

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.

In Excess
August 24, 2025
12:30 pm

The lifecycle of one city's trash is traced through its streets, waterways, and social infrastructures.

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.

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

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.

Past

Series

Saturday, July 26
PIZZA MOVIES
June 7, 2025
BOSOZOKU BEACH
ANNEX CINEMA
Flicker Points
August 17-25, 2024
Rockaway Film Festival #7
June 16, July 14, August 25
Rockaway Chamber Music 2024
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