BAM Film

09/07/2026

A Pure Person: The Sonic Landscape of Lim Giong 🔊 Few artists have shaped the sound of contemporary cinema as quietly, or as profoundly, as Lim Giong. His soundscapes breathe, drift, pulse, and haunt the films they inhabit. Tracing a remarkable three-decade evolution from Taiwanese rock icon to one of Chinese-language cinema’s most essential composers, this retrospective follows Lim’s sonic journey from Taipei to the mainland and the borderlands beyond. Highlighting defining collaborations with auteurs like Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jia Zhang-ke, and Bi Gan, and featuring his personal artistic inspirations (Pink Floyd’s The Wall), this series celebrates a towering cultural force who maps modern history through rhythm, texture, and memory.

Programmed by Frank Yan and co-presented by CineCina.

🗓️ Sep 18—24
🎟️ Link in bio
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Dust of Angels
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Hometown Boy
The Assassin
The World
Caught by the Tides
Millennium Mambo
Jinpa
City of Jade
Kaili Blues

09/04/2026

Powwow People is a vérité-style documentary grounded in the rhythms, relationships, and lived experience of a contemporary Native gathering. Rather than entering as outside observers, the filmmakers organized the powwow itself, inviting dancers, singers, vendors, and community members to participate in the making of this film. Structured around the arc of a single day, the film follows four central figures: Gina Bluebird, who frames the powwow’s shape and guides its setup; Ruben Littlehead, the MC whose presence anchors the present moment; Jamie John, a non-binary dancer imagining the future of these traditions; and Freddie Cozad, a singer and drummer considering the past. The film culminates in a 30-minute unbroken shot of a Northern Traditional dance special, drawing the viewer into the textures, movement, and collective presence of the powwow. It is both a reflection of a beloved community and a gesture toward the continuities of Native life.

Q&A with director Sky Hopinka following the 7PM screenings on Fri, Sep 11 and Sat, Sep 12.

Tickets available now at the link in bio.

09/03/2026

Garod Collective Presents: Posthumous Traces

Garod Collective presents five short films by Armenian women spanning three decades, exploring themes of family, parenthood, and identity through the lens of loss.

These filmmakers depict loss in many forms: from the surreal experience of postpartum depression, to a daughter watching her mother slowly slip away, to a cemetery groundskeeper grieving his own past. Using experimental and conventional narratives, the filmmakers present mythical images of a homeland constantly out of reach, and imagine the lives of fathers they have never known. An exercise in remembering, these works trace intimate threads of connection in danger of fading away.

Founded by Cynthia Nahhas and Nanor Vosgueritchian, Garod Collective hosts Armenian cultural events in New York City, acting as a space to introduce, build, or revitalize connections to Armenian culture, language, and tradition.

Followed by a Q&A with Anahid Yahjian, director of Domestic Demon.

🗓️ Wed, Sep 16 at 7PM
🎟️ https://www.bam.org/film/2026/garod-collective

09/02/2026

This September at BAM Rose Cinemas. Which series is your favorite?

09/01/2026

Fantastical Felines 🐈 Despite their unassuming stature and feigned innocence, any cat-owner knows that felines possess a surprisingly potent power. For the cats in this film series, these powers are rendered literal. Whether its the mystical mousers of Kiki’s Delivery Service and Bell Book and Candle, the alien alley cats in The Cat and The Cat from Outerspace, the transcendent tabbies of Hausu and The Cassandra Cat, or the alleged killer kitties of The Black Cat and The Cat Creeps, these charmed cats are truly otherworldly.

Programmed by Yasmina Tawil.

🗓️ Sep 11—17
🎟️ Link in bio
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Kuroneko
The Cat Creeps
Cat People
The Cat from Outer Space
The Cat
Hausu
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Bell, Book and Candle
The Black Cat

08/31/2026

Red Card + Sunrise/Sunset. Korean American filmmaker Ougie Pak conjures atmospheric films of emotional heft and quietly beautiful imagery, reflections of an infatuation with the identities of both American coasts. Sunrise/Sunset, Pak’s debut and a BAMcinemaFest selection, is an outsider’s portrait of New York City, reveling in the thrill and dizziness of a Korean man’s tumultuous arrival. In his latest work Red Card, Pak crosses the country, depicting a gang member love story nestled in California’s San Gabriel Valley.

🗓️ Wed, Sep 9 at 7PM
🎟️ https://www.bam.org/film/2026/ougie-pak

08/26/2026

SWEAT! 2: THE DAMPENING | Sep 4—10

Back by popular demand, SWEAT! is a limited series that celebrates the stinking, visceral, undeniably human sight of perspiration on-screen. Films that sweat dive below the surface, deep into our pores, to betray characters’ most unspeakable desires. Whether motivated by bloodlust or liberation, the taboo or transcendent, the audacity to defy the gods or the power to touch the divine, sweat illuminates both the tragic cost and exquisite ecstasy of being alive. Where Hollywood insists on presenting the powdered face of perfection, these films revel in the moments that leave us wrung out and dripping wet.

Programmed by Farihah Zaman.
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Atlantics
Body Double
Wild Things
Bacurau
Onibaba
Mississippi Masala
Babylon
Amazing Grace
Tongues Untied
Starstruck
Island of Lost Souls + The Island of Dr. Moreau

08/21/2026

"Godard’s Alphaville (1965) is a scrappily inventive amalgam of film noir and science fiction that...'refined a lexicon for subsequent big-budgeted, high-concept offspring.'
..On Friday, Alphaville will open Arthouse Sci-Fi, a weeklong series [at BAM]."

BAM presents visions of a few possible utopias—and plenty of dystopias.

08/18/2026

Kino Canines | Aug 28—Sep 3

In 1909, Jean, a tri-colored Scotch Collie, made her on-screen debut in a silent film produced by Vitagraph Studios right here in Brooklyn. She is often credited as the very first canine actor, and became a star in her own right, known fondly as “Jean, the Vitagraph Dog.” While most of her work has since been lost, the prognostic pup paved the way for over a century of movie dogs, now appearing on BAM screens in her honor.

A proper ode to kino canines naturally includes The Wizard of Oz (with Terry the Terrier as Dorothy’s iconic sidekick Toto), Lassie (starring Howard the Collie as the titular companion), and The Thin Man (with Skippy the Wire Fox Terrier as Asta). Modern iterations of four-legged friends on screen include contemporary art house films like Kelly Reichardt’s Wendy and Lucy (starring Lucy as herself), Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves (with Alma the dog as Chaplin in a small but heart melting role), and, fresh from Egypt, Khaled Mansour’s debut Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo (featuring the incredibly cute and talented Mr. Rambo as himself).

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The Thin Man
Lassie + Jean Rescues
Umberto D.
Best in Show + Every Dog Has His Day: Ilak’s Birthday
Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo
Nostalghia
The Wizard of Oz
Wendy and Lucy
Space Dogs
Silence of the Lambs + Dog Factory
Fallen Leaves + Jean the Matchmaker

08/13/2026

Arthouse Sci-fi | Aug 21—27

In the overwhelming heat of August, what’s better than going to a chilly theater and watching a big sci-fi movie? We’re doing summer theater escapism BAM style, with arthouse spins on the space saga, time travel, technology run amok, and visitors from another world. Featuring films by Jean-Luc Godard, Andrei Tarkovsky, Chris Marker, John Akomfrah, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Wong Kar-wai, David Cronenberg, Andrzej Żuławski, and more—come beat the heat with some high-art genre flicks.

Alphaville
Space is the Place
Solaris
La Jetée + The Last Angel of History
Memoria
Stalker
2046
eXistenZ
On the Silver Globe
Born in Flames
Tetsuo: The Iron Man