BAMCinemaFest

NAME OF FESTIVAL: BAMCinemaFest

SINCE: 2009

WHERE: New York

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

BAMcinemaFest presents the most dynamic and entertaining new films from cinema's brightest up-and-coming talents, plus special repertory screenings, live music, outdoor screenings, filmmaker Q&As, and more. Launched in 2009 as a showcase for new independent films, the annual festival is an extension of the year-round BAMcinématek film program, collecting the most innovative new work from festivals in the US and around the world and bringing them to New York City audiences.

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100 Ways to Cross the Border by Amber Bemak

100 WAYS TO CROSS THE BORDER Amber Bemak’s Playful Documentary Premieres at BAMcinemaFest

100 Ways to Cross the Border, the debut feature documentary by Amber Bemak is set to have its world premiere at BAMcinemaFest.

Shawnee Benton Gibson and Bruce McIntyre in Aftershock by Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Kerwin Devonish.

BAMcinemaFest 2022 Announces Lineup, Opens with AFTERSHOCK Documentary

BAMcinemaFest 2022 opens with Aftershock, an award-winning powerful documentary spotlighting the Black women, and bereaved partners, who have been failed by the U.S. maternal health system.

Diana Peralta’s Dominican-set Family Drama, DE LO MIO, to World Premiere at BAMcinemaFest

New York filmmaker Diana Peralta’s vibrant feature film debut, DE LO MIO, will World Premiere as the Closing Night film of 2019 BAMcinemaFest.

Aaron Schimberg’s Oddball Comedy CHAINED FOR LIFE to World Premiere at BAMcinemaFest

The oddball comedy Chained for Life directed by Aaron Schimberg and starring Jess Weixler, Adam Pearson and Stephen Plunkett will World Premiere on Sunday, June 24th at BAMcinemaFest.

Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson appear in Sorry to Bother You by Boots Riley

BAMcinemaFest 2018 Announces Festival Lineup, Opens with Boots Riley’s SORRY TO BOTHER YOU

BAM unveiled the lineup for the tenth annual BAMcinemaFest taking place June 20 to July 18, 2018. Opening this year’s festival on Wednesday, June 20 is the head-spinningly surreal debut from musician-turned-filmmaker Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You.

Sundance Award-Winning Film MORRIS FROM AMERICA Gets A Summer Release

The Sundance Film Festival Award-winning film MORRIS FROM AMERICA will be available exclusively on DirecTV beginning July 7th. It will open theatrically in select cities on August 19th.

Manfred Kirchheimer’s Restored legendary NYC film “Stations Of The Elevated” to Premiere at BAMCinemaFest

APD’s Cinema Conservancy program announce the upcoming release of Stations of the Elevated (1981), a 45-minute independent documentary directed, produced and edited by Manfred Kirchheimer, in a new restoration. Shot over the course of 1977 on lush 16mm color reversal stock, the film weaves together vivid images of elevated subway trains crisscrossing New York City’s gritty urban landscape. With a complex soundtrack that combines the ambient sounds of the city with the music of Charles Mingus and Aretha Franklin, the film is an impressionistic portrait of and tribute to a New York that has long since disappeared.

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