Event Info
Brooklyn Film Festival Opening Night Screening & Party
May 29 at 7PM
A Mosquito In The Ear by Niccola Rinciari
Andrew and Daniela, eager to form a family, travel to Goa to bring home their newly adopted child, who is not willing to leave India and the orphanage where she lives to become their daughter.
1001 Frames by Mehrnoush Alia
Jun. 1 at 4PM
In the studio of a well-known director, female actors audition for the role of Scheherazade in “A Thousand and One Nights”. But the women gradually realize that the director has more in mind than just casting the leading role.
Rocket Girl by Agnes Swiercz
Jun. 1 at 6PM
Rocket Girl is an intimate portrait of a young girl, Eleni, as she navigates adolescence while pursuing her passion of building rockets. The film weaves together an honest depiction of the awkward and timeless coming of age story, with a peek into the competitive, male dominated and intense community of Rocketry. It’s the story of a girl who marches to the beat of her own drum, against the grain of society’s expectations about what she should be or do—a girl who believes that even the sky isn’t the limit.
Tony Odyssey by Thales Banzai
Jun. 1 at 8PM
Tony and his best friend, Ivy, plan to rob the bar where he’s trapped in servitude, stealing a reality-altering drug that launches them into a psychedelic odyssey. As they navigate surreal visions and shattered memories, Tony searches for answers and the power to rewrite his fate—facing his past and confronting God himself.
Mechanics of Borders by Hubert Caron-Guay
Jun. 2 at 4PM
Mathieu, 19, is a reserved young man with no real close friends who works at a slaughterhouse in rural Québec. His daily routine is upended with an unexpected call from his free-spirited older sister Heidi, who left for the United States three years earlier, who asks him to drive down to Arizona and bring her back home.
Your Attention Please by Sara Robin
Jun. 2 at 6PM
A new generation of parents, teens, and reformers are fighting back against Big Tech’s agenda to define the future of human connection.
Doc Shorts Presented by VICE Sports
Jun. 2 at 8PM
Valentina by Tatti Ribiero
Jun. 5 at 4PM
A hybrid film — part narrative-comedy and part documentary – pressed against the backdrop of the busiest border crossing in the United States. Keyla Monterroso Mejia — the only actor in the film — stars as Valentina. All other people, locations, laws, conversations, cops, priests, and city electeds are real.
NARRATIVE SHORTS | PROcreative
Jun. 5 at 6PM
Lunar Sway by Nick Butler
Jun. 5 at 8PM
Cliff is a young man looking for love in all the wrong places in a small desert town. When his birth mother, Marg, arrives unexpectedly they start to connect. But her secrets soon catch up with them.
NARRATIVE SHORTS | SOULmeet
Jun. 6 at 2PM
Blood & Guts by Karlye Ruben, Katie Green
Jun. 6 at 4PM
The lines between real life and reel life are muddied in the story of the Adams, an unconventional family who makes independent horror films. While they may vomit blood onto one another, lack boundaries and make frequent use of the f-word, they also face what every family must: change.
NARRATIVE SHORTS | BODYology
Jun. 6 at 6PM
If I Go Will They Miss Me by Walter Thompson Hernandez
Jun. 6 at 8PM
Twelve-year-old Lil’ Ant transforms his working-class neighborhood beneath the LAX flight path into a living mythology, where family members become gods and the sky is crowded with endless departures. As he searches for connection with his god-like yet conflicted father, he finds support in his close-knit community that helps him reconcile myth and reality.