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NYC Film is film presenters, film festivals, film museums and movie theaters. We are a cinema city. New York City stars in many great films.

Major New York film festivals include the New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, Neighboring Scenes Latin American film festival, DOC NYC, and more.

Something unique in NYC is the film presenters such as Film at Lincoln Center and MoMA Film who host film festivals all year long and screen films daily.

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) holds one of the world’s great film collections. The Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) is in the historic Astoria Studios in Queens.

Great independent cinemas include IFC Center and Film Forum. There are outdoor film screenings in parks, and even some drive-ins. Many general festivals also have film sections.

NYC Film Presenters

NYC Independent Cinemas

NYC Film Festivals

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NYC Film News

DOC NYC 2022

Wednesday, November 9-17, 2022
IFC CENTER, SVA THEATRE, CINÉPOLIS CHELSEA
West Village, Chelsea, Manhattan
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Dominican Film Festival New York 2022

Tuesday-Wednesday, November 1-9, 2022
UNITED PALACE
ALIANZA DOMINICANA CULTURAL CENTER
CINÉPOLIS CHELSEA
COPACABANA
Washington Heights, Chelsea, & Hell’s Kitchen Manhattan
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Havana Film Festival New York 2022

Thursday, November 3-10, 2022
VILLAGE EAST CINEMA
East Village, Manhattan
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NYC Film Archive

February 2023

The 11th Winter Film Awards, emerging filmmaker film festival, is February 16-25, 2023. winterfilmawards.com

November 2022

The 12th Queens World Film Festival 2022 brings 157 films from 27 countries to the Queens Theatre, Flushing Town Hall, Museum of the Moving Image, Kaufman Astoria Studios and The Local, in Queens, Tuesday-Sunday, November 1-6, 2022. From $15. 🇦🇷 🇧🇷 🇨🇺 🇩🇴 🇲🇽 🇵🇷 🇪🇸

The 11th Dominican Film Festival New York 2022 is at the United Palace and Alianza Dominicana Cultural Center in Washington Heights, Cinépolis Chelsea, and the Copacabana in Hell’s Kitchen, for one week Tuesday-Wednesday, November 1-9, 2022. 🇩🇴

“Nanny” is a 2022 Sundance Dramatic Grand Jury Prize winner by Atlanta Sierra Leonean director Nikyatu Jusu. It’s the story of Aisha, a Senegalese immigrant working as a nanny for a wealthy Tribeca couple to make money to bring her own young son from Africa. The couple’s intense fighting traps her in a nightmare and Aisha becomes troubled by the supernatural in her West African context. Screens at Film at Lincoln Center, Wednesday, November 23 – December 1, 2022. $15. 🇸🇱🇸🇳

September 2022

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The 47th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), America’s biggest film festival, is in Toronto, Canada, Sep 8-18. tiff.net 🇨🇦

The New York Latino Film Festival is at multiple venues, September 12-18, 2022. nylatinofilmfestival.com

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The San Sebastían International Film Festival, Spain’s most prestigious film festival, is Sep 16-24. sansebastianfestival.com 🇪🇸

The Dominican Film Festival New York is Sep 21-26, 2022. dominicanfilmfestival.com 🇩🇴

The 60th New York Film Festival is at Film at Lincoln Center, Sep 30 – Nov 16. filmlinc.org

August 2022

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The Venice International Film Festival, known for picking Oscar winners, is at the Lido di Venezia in Venice, Italy, Aug 31 – Sep 10. labiennale.org 🇮🇹

June 2022

The 25th Brooklyn Film Festival 2022, “Unthinkable,” is at Windmill Studios in Greenpoint, and Union Docs in Williamsburg, and online Fri, Jun 3-12, 2022. From $10. Full Pass $35. 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇱🇫🇷🇬🇫🇮🇳🇮🇱🇮🇹🇲🇽🇵🇭🇵🇷🇪🇸

The Tribeca Film Festival 2022 is at the Beacon Theatre in the Upper West Side and all over Manhattan, Wed, June 8-19, 2022. 🇦🇷🇧🇴🇧🇷🇨🇴🇩🇴🇲🇽🇵🇷🇪🇸🇧🇴🇺🇸

The Open Roads: New Italian Cinema film festival is at Film at Lincoln Center Jun 9-15. filmlinc.org 🇮🇹

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The Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexico’s most prestigious, is Jun 10-18. ficg.mx 🇲🇽

The Americas Film Festival New York is at Instituto Cervantes, City College Downtown, Argentine Consulate, Colombian Consulate and the National Museum of the American Indian on various dates Jun 17-24 at taffny.com

The 8th International New York Film Festival is at the Producer’s Club in Hell’s Kitchen, Jun 24-25 and online Jun 24 – Jul 4, 2022. inyfilmfest.com

May 2022

The 17th Harlem International Film Festival, “From Harlem to Hong Kong,” is May 5-8, 2022. harlemfilmfestival.org

The New York African Film Festival 2022 is at Film at Lincoln Center, Thu-Tue, May 12-17, 2022.

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The 2022 Cannes Film Festival is in Cannes, France, May 17-28, 2022. festival-cannes.com 🇫🇷

The Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2022 is at Film at Lincoln Center, Fri-Thu, May 20-26, 2022.

April 2022

Memoria, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s tale of a Scottish woman who starts hallucinating in the Colombian jungle, returns for one week to IFC Center in the West Village Fri, Apr 1-7. $13. ifccenter.com 🇨🇴

Mixtape premieres with a concert by Yonkers Freestyle rapper Jadakiss at the United Palace in Washington Heights, Thu, Apr 7. tribecafilm.com

The ReelAbilities New York disability film festival is at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan in the Upper West Side, Apr 7-13. reelabilities.org

New Directors / New Films 2022 film festival is at MoMA, the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Mon, Apr 25 – May 1. 🇲🇽

The 9th Colombian Film Festival New York is at Cinépolis in Chelsea, Apr 21-24. colfilmny.com 🇨🇴

March 2022

The Rendez-Vous with French Cinema film festival is at Film at Lincoln Center, Mar 3-13. $15. 🇫🇷

The New York International Children’s Film Festival 2022 (NYICFF) screens Oscar-qualifying children’s films for a variety of ages at the SVA Theatre in Chelsea, Manhattan, Fri-Sun, Mar 4-19, 2022. From $17. 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇦🇫🇷🇮🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸🇺🇬🇺🇸

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The SXSW festival is in Austin, Texas, Wed, Mar 11-20. sxsw.com

Intregalde, by Radu Muntean, a tale of humanitarians stuck in the mountains, relying on a grizzled local for help, or maybe something else, opens at Film Forum in Hudson Square, Fri Mar 18. $11. 🇷🇴

Atlantide, Italian filmmaker Yuri Ancarani’s Venetion coming of age movie, is at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in Midtown, Mon-Wed, Mar 21-23. moma.org 🇨🇮

The 94th Oscars Academy Awards are live on ABC-7 from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, California, Sun, Mar 27 at 8pm. abc.com

The Art of the Real documentary film festival is at Film at Lincoln Center, Mar 31 – Apr 7. $15 (All-access $79, Students $25).

February 2022

Lingui, The Sacred Bonds, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s story of a Chadian mother’s determination to help her daughter end a pregnancy against all odds, was at Film Forum in Hudson Square, Feb 4 – Mar 3. 🇹🇩

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The 72nd Berlin Film Festival is Feb 10-20, 2022. berlinale.de 🇩🇪

Marry Me, the hilarious new romantic comedy starring Jennifer Lopez Maluma and Owen Wilson, opened Valentines Weekend, Fri, Feb 11. 🇵🇷🇨🇴

The 50th Dance on Camera film festival is at Film at Lincoln Center, Fri-Mon, Feb 11-14. $15.

The 28th New York African Film Festival was at Film at Lincoln Center Feb 4-14 and Maysles Cinema in Harlem Feb 18 – Mar 3, 2021. 🇺🇸 [Not in 2022]

Tributo a Bebo Valdés, the world premiere screening of Ricardo Bacallao’s documentary of the 2019 tribute concert by grandson Emilio Valdés, is streaming at the Cuban Cultural Center on Sat, Feb 19 at 7pm. Free. 🇨🇺

Doc Fortnight 2022, MoMA’s documentary film festival, is online to members and in-person at the Museum of Modern Art in Midtown, Wed, Feb 23 – Mar 10. 🇧🇷🇫🇷🇲🇽🇵🇭🇪🇸

The 7th Neighboring Scenes Latin American film festival is in person at Film at Lincoln Center, Feb 24-28. $15 per film or $80 All-Access Pass ($20 students). 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇨🇱🇨🇴🇨🇷🇲🇽🇵🇪🇺🇾🇻🇪

Cyrano, Joe Wright’s take on the Cyrano de Bergerac love triangle, opened in NYC on Fri, Feb 25. 🇫🇷

January 2022

The 31st New York Jewish Film Festival was hybrid at the Walter Reade Theater at Film at Lincoln Center Wed, Jan 12-25. $15. ✡️

The 12th Cinema Tropical Awards for Latin American cinema were announced Tue, Jan 18. cinematropical.com

In The Contenders 2021, MoMA Film screens this year’s Oscar contenders at MoMA in Midtown through Jan 22. moma.org 🇪🇹🇵🇷🇪🇸

December 2021

The Lost Daughter, Maggie Gyllenhall’s directorial debut based on Elena Ferrante’s Italian novel, opened in NYC on Fri, Dec 17. 🇮🇹

West Side Story Spielberg’s remake with Executive Producer Rita Moreno, opened Dec 10. 🇵🇷

France, Bruno Dumont’s tragicomedy about a journalist whose life is upended by driving into a delivery man on the street, opened at Film at Lincoln Center on Fri, Dec 10. $15. 🇫🇷

“Passing” by Rebecca Hall, a thoughtful film about passing as White, is at IFC Center in the West Village to Thu, Dec 4.

Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodóvar’s story of two women who meet in a maternity ward and find themselves linked by a historical secret opened at Film at Lincoln Center on Dec 24. 🇪🇸

Benedetta, Paul Verhoeven’s story of a nun’s forbidden passion, ran in NYC from Dec 3, 2021 – Feb 24, 2022. 🇫🇷

The Hand of God, Paulo Sorrentino’s (The Great Beauty) 1980s Neapolitan coming of age story that involves Maradona, opened at IFC Center in the West Village on Fri Dec 3. $13. 🇮🇹

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The 42nd Habana Film Festival was in Havana, Cuba, Dec 3-12, 2021. habanafilmfestival.com 🇨🇺

November 2021

Spencer, Pablo Larrain’s Princess Diana story, opened Nov 5. 🇨🇱

The 21st Havana Film Festival New York was Nov 5-11, 2021. 🇨🇺

The 12th International Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival is Nov 9-13. iprhff.org 🇵🇷

DOC NYC, America’s biggest documentary film festival is Nov 9-17. docnyc.net

Tick, Tick…Boom!, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s directorial debut about the creator of Broadway’s “Rent,” opened Nov 12. 🇵🇷

12th Queens World Film Festival 2022 is Tue-Sun, Nov 15-20, 2022. queensworldfilmfestival.org

Cannes Palme d’Or winner Titane by Julia Ducournau at IFC Center in the West Village keeps getting extended to Tue, Nov 16. 🇫🇷

Encanto, Disney’s Colombian musical comedy with music by Lin-Manuel Miranda, opened Nov 17. 🇨🇴🇵🇷

The Art of the Real documentary film festival was at Film at Lincoln Center, Nov 19-21, 2021.

Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (Berlin Golden Bear), Rada Jude’s comedy about a teacher whose husband accidentally puts their personal sex tape online, opens at Film at Lincoln Center on Fri, Nov 19. $15. 🇷🇴

29th African Diaspora International Film Festival was live and online Nov 26 – Dec 12, 2021. nyadiff.org

October 2021

Titane, by Julia Ducournau (Cannes Palme d’Or winner), opened at IFC Center in the West Village Oct 1. $13. 🇫🇷

The Cortocircuito Latino short film festival was Oct 2-10, 2021. cortocircuito.us

Veinte por veinte (20 for 20), MoMA Film’s tribute to Cinema Tropical, the leading Latin American film presenter in the U.S., is streaming for MoMA members to Oct 5. moma.org
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The SoHo International Film Festival is Oct 6-13. sohofilmfest.org

The Workers Unite Film Festival is Oct 7-21. workersunitefilmfestival.org

GoodFellas (1990), the Scorsese masterpiece, is at Film Forum in Hudson Square to Thu, Oct 7. 🇮🇹

Arrebato (1979) by Iván Zulueta, Pedro Almodóvar’s favorite horror film, is at IFC Center in the West Village Fri-Sat, Oct 8-9. $17. 🇪🇸

The Kicking and Screening Soccer Film Festival was Oct 12-15, 2021. kickingandscreening.com

The Kicking and Screening soccer film festival screens Big-Time Soccer: The Remarkable Rise & Fall of the NASL (featuring Pelé at the NY Cosmos) at Upper 90 in Astoria, Queens on Wed, Oct 13 at 7pm. $20. 🇧🇷

The Kicking and Screening soccer film festival screens Rayados 75, Fernando Kalife’s film about 2019 Mexican champions CF Monterrey at Scandinavia House in Murray Hill, Manhattan on Thu, Oct 14 at 7pm. $20. 🇲🇽

Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless is at Film Forum in Hudson Square to Oct 14. 🇫🇷

The May Sumak Quichwa film showcase was Oct 16/23/30, 2020. maysumak.com

The 15th Bushwick Film Festival is Oct 19-23. bushwickfilmfestival.com

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It is streaming on American Masters on PBS Thirteen to Wed, Oct 20. FREE 🇵🇷

El Planeta by Amalia Ulman is at IFC Center in the West Village to Thu, Oct 21. $13 🇪🇸

Illustrious Corpses (1976), by Francesco Rosi, screens at Film Forum in Hudson Square to Oct 21. $15 🇮🇹

Son of Monarchs by Alexis Gambis is at Cinema Village and Cobble Hill Cinemas to Thu, Oct 21. sonofmonarchs.com 🇲🇽

Dune, by French Canadian director Denis Villeneuve, opened citywide on Fri, Oct 22. 🇨🇦

BRONX RISING!
Edwin Pagán’s Bronx horror movie Wolfen (1980) screens with live music by Bobby Sanabria & Project X and director Q&As at the Bronx Music Heritage Center Laboratory in Foxhurst, The Bronx on Fri, Oct 29 at 7pm. $10 with reservation to (917) 557-2354. Facebook @bxmusic 🇵🇷

September 2021

Little Girl (2020) by Sébastien Lifshitz, a gentle story of how a 3-year old boy deals with the world after declaring herself a girl, is at Film Forum in Hudson Square to Sep 30. 🇫🇷🏳️‍🌈

Annette by Leos Carax, starring Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver at IFC Center in the West Village to Sep 30. 🇫🇷

Tango Shalom is a cute Jewish Argentine tango movie. ✡️🇦🇷

Azor (2021) by Andreas Fontana, a Swiss film about Argentine finance in the 1970s, at Lincoln Center ends Thu, Sep 23. 🇦🇷

Faya Dayi by Jessica Beshir, a dreamy Ethiopian film at Lincoln Center, ends Thu, Sep 23. filmlinc.org 🇪🇹

Annette by Leos Carax, starring Marion Cotillard and Adam Driver at Lincoln Center ends Sun, Sep 19. 🇫🇷

Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), by Questlove, is about the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969, the Black Woodstock. Ends Sep 16 at cinemavillage.com 🇺🇸

The Lost Leonardo by Andreas Koefoed (2021), is about the world record $450 million “Salvator Mundi” painting. Includes Jerry Saltz. Ended Sep 16, 2021 at filmforum.org 🇫🇷

La Piscine by Jacques Deray (1969), is a sleeper romantic hit in NYC. It ended Sep 16, 2021 at filmforum.org 🇫🇷

New York is a Film City

The first cinema was founded in Paris, France in 1895. 🇫🇷

American cinema began in NYC in 1896. Some of the very first American films were New York City street scenes. There was no radio, television or internet, so this was something very novel and new.

The film industry moved to Fort Lee, New Jersey. Movie studios used to make westerns up on the Palisades rock formations that line the Hudson River. The industry then jumped to Hollywood for California sunshine. New York remains America’s second film city because it is the world media capital.

NYC’s film industry used to be in the Upper West Side, but has moved to Tribeca and Brooklyn now.

The New York Film Festival is the mother of New York film festivals. The Tribeca Film Festival is the popular, young upstart. It was founded in 2002 to bring people back downtown after 9/11. Downtown was a ghost town, but Tribeca helped bring it back and make Tribeca a film industry center.

There has been a lot of change in the industry. The Paris Theater (1948) was the last of NYC’s single-screen movie houses. It closed in 2019, but in a sign of the times, Netflix reopened it as a screen for Netflix movies. Walking into the Paris Theater feels like walking back in time to the 1940s.

New York is a film city. It’s been the subject of many great movies. Most of the great movie palaces of the 1920s-30s have been repurposed as theaters. They are a beautiful legacy of once upon a time in New York City.

The Types of Films a Country Makes Reveal the State of the Nation

Hollywood wastes its creativity on shoot-em-ups and superheroes. Independent filmmakers produce much more interesting work. The Latin world is more diverse and more connected to family and community, so Latin films reflect that.

The Colonial Period and then Cold War communist-hunting unleashed mayhem on Latin America that led to instability and civil wars from which we are still recovering.

As filmmaking gear has gotten better and cheaper, filmmakers across the Latin world have been energized.

The types of films a country makes, say a lot about that country. Countries that are very violent make Hollywood style shoot-em-up films. Countries that have been taken over by narcotics traffickers make drug films. Countries that have gone through civil war, make war movies.

But when countries begin to heal, they begin to make films about reconciliation, diversity and love. That is the great beauty of Latin film. It’s not Hollywood, it’s real life.

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