American Independents
Films produced in the United States, outside of the Hollywood studio system.
Nothing But a Man
- Sat, May 3
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Michael Roemer Run Time: 95 min. Format: 35mm Release Year: 1964
Starring: Abbey Lincoln, Gloria Foster, Ivan Dixon, Julius Harris, Martin Priest
Nothing But a Man has the violence, passion, tenderness of a Negro man and a girl in a smoldering southern town!
The Spook Who Sat by the Door
- Sat, May 3
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Ivan Dixon Run Time: 102 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1973
Starring: J.A. Preston, Janet League, Lawrence Cook, Paula Kelly
Their first mistake was letting him in. Their biggest mistake was letting him out!
The Encampments
- Fri, May 9
- Sat, May 10
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Kei Pritsker, Michael T. Workman Run Time: 83 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Grant Miner, Jamal Joseph, Mahmoud Khalil, Maya Abdallah, Sueda Polat
Inside America's student uprising.
There Is Another Way
- Thu, May 15
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Stephen Apkon Run Time: 67 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Combatants for Peace, nominated for two Nobel Peace Prizes, is an extraordinary bi-national group of former enemy combatants—Israelis...
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
- Thu, May 15
- Sun, May 18
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Jim Jarmusch Run Time: 116 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1999
Starring: Cliff Gorman, Forest Whitaker, Frank Minucci, John Tormey, Richard Portnow
Live by the code. Die by the code.
Blue Sun Palace
- Fri, May 16
- Sun, May 18
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Constance Tsang Run Time: 117 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Lee Kang-sheng, Lisha Zheng, Min Han Hsieh, Wu Ke-Xi, Xu Haipeng
A sudden loss catalyzes an unlikely bond between two migrants in the Chinese community of Queens. Navigating lives...
Born in Flames
- Thu, Jun 5
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Lizzie Borden Run Time: 80 min. Format: 35mm Release Year: 1983
Starring: Adele Bertei, Becky Johnston, Florynce Kennedy, Honey, Jean Satterfield
In near-future New York, ten years after the “social-democratic war of liberation,” diverse groups of women organize a...
Vulcanizadora
- Fri, Jun 6
- Sat, Jun 7
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Joel Potrykus Run Time: 85 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Bill Vincent, Jaz Edwards, Joel Potrykus, Joshua Burge, Solo Potrykus
Two friends take a trip through a Michigan forest, intent on carrying out a disturbing pact.
Northern Lights
- Sun, Jun 8
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: John Hanson, Rob Nilsson Run Time: 95 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1978
Starring: Joe Spano, Marianna Åström-De Fina, Ray Ness, Robert Behling, Susan Lynch
"Times when we had the powers that be on the run."
Pavements
- Thu, Jun 12
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Alex Ross Perry Run Time: 128 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2025
Starring: Kathryn Gallagher, Mark Ibold, Michael Esper, Scott Kannberg, Stephen Malkmus
"You've been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequel to your life"
The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire
- Fri, Jun 13
- Sun, Jun 15
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich Run Time: 75 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2024
Starring: Josué Gutierrez, Melisa Lopez, Motell Gyn Foster, Reese Antoinette, Zita Hanrot
An actress, three months post-partum, reads through fragments of the archive of Suzanne Césaire as she prepares to...
Winter Soldier
- Sun, Jun 15
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Michaël Weill, Rusty Sachs Run Time: 96 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1972
Starring: Joe Bangert, Kenneth Campbell, Rusty Sachs, Scott Camil, Scott Shimabukuro
They Risked Everything To Tell The Truth.
Palindromes
- Thu, Jun 26
- Sun, Jun 29
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Todd Solondz Run Time: 100 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 2005
Starring: Ellen Barkin, Emani Sledge, Richard Masur, Sharon Wilkins, Stephen Adly Guirgis
Aviva is thirteen, awkward and sensitive. Her mother Joyce is warm and loving, as is her father, Steve,...