Middle-aged and erratic, Oscar is a failed writer who has given up on life. Unemployed and living with family, he wanders the streets of Medellín in a drunken stupor, lamenting the state of literature in his home country, where he has succumbed to the cliché of the tortured artist. However, the opportunity to mentor a young student offers a chance at redemption, if he doesn’t screw it up first. In a performance marked by darkly comic pathos, first-time actor Ubeimar Rios stars in Simón Mesa Soto’s Un Certain Regard Jury Prize-winner A Poet, a raw and riotous farce about how good deeds are often met with the universe’s idea of cruel and unusually poetic punishment.

The voices of tomorrow present their once and future ideas of what film can be: a showcase of 10 short films, ranging from the absurd to the beautiful, from 16mm to Iphone, animation to documentary. Free. Organized by Bard B.U.G.

Billy Preston was 5 years old when he backed gospel legend Mahalia Jackson. Over the following six-decade career, Billy contributed his signature sound to the greatest artists of his time, including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Sly Stone, Ray Charles, Rufus, Eric Clapton, and others, while establishing himself as a GRAMMY-winning solo artist. Despite his success, Billy struggled to reconcile his deep relationship with the Black church with his sexuality, setting off a lifelong quest to find love and acceptance.

Business is bad at Mushnick’s Flower shop. Shy Seymour and brave Audrey will soon be unemployed. That is until Seymour pricks his finger and a sickly little exotic plant gets its first taste of human blood. The plant spurts ten feet tall. As horticultural interest in “Audrey II” sprouts, Mushnick’s business takes off. But fresh blood must be found—and people start disappearing. Love and business bloom at a hilarious yet bloody cost. Fans will not want to miss Little Shop of Horrors: The Director’s Cut, which features the rarely-seen original ending and an exclusive introduction from Frank Oz.

Hamid joins a secret group tracking Syrian regime leaders on the run. His mission takes him to France, pursuing his former torturer for a fateful confrontation.

During WWII, 10,000 children were sent to London via a rescue mission called the Kindertransport — but only children, the vast majority of them Jewish. Families were forced to make brutal choices, whether to send their unaccompanied children to another country, and, in some cases, which child to send. One family had a single ticket and chose their 14-year-old daughter, Lisa Jura, a pianist and a prodigy. Directed by Academy Award-nominated Josh Aronson, this documentary tells the story of this child’s survival and gift, and features Mona Golabek, a Grammy-nominated concert pianist and daughter of Lisa Jura. Using rare archival footage from wartime in Vienna and London, and music, this story is an elegy of humanity and the brute force music. (dir. Josh Aronson, U.S., 2025, 78 min.) Winner of the recent Torchbearer Jury Prize at the Miami Jewish Film Festival.

The New York City Sanitation Department has an artist-in-residence, Mierle Laderman Ukeles. For nearly 50 years, she's put labor on the pedestal of fine art. From garbage truck ballets to permanent installations in the most celebrated museums, Ukeles turns maintenance into art. "I am an artist. I am a woman. I am a wife. I am a mother. (Random order)… Now, I will simply do these maintenance everyday things, and flush them up to consciousness, exhibit them as Art." (dir. Toby Perl Freilich, US, 2025, 90 min.) "Forty-six years after she embedded with the Sanitation Department, Ms. Ukeles’s populist convictions, her belief in the dignity of labor, her wariness of feminist art committed narrowly to liberating women from the male gaze speak with a power to the tensions between class and gender politics roiling the country right now.” —The New York Times

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Blah blah blah blah blah.

Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his memory returns, he begins to uncover his mission: solve the riddle of the mysterious substance causing the sun to die out. He must call on his scientific knowledge and unorthodox ideas to save everything on Earth from extinction… but an unexpected friendship means he may not have to do it alone.

Queen Kelly opens in the imaginary European country of Cobourg-Nassau, sometime before the first World War, where the vain and cruel Queen Regina V (Seena Owen) obsesses over her feckless fiancé (Walter Byron), Prince “Wild” Wolfram. When the dissolute prince encounters an innocent but flirtatious convent girl, Patricia Kelly (Gloria Swanson), he falls in love. Desperate to see her before his upcoming wedding to the Queen, he kidnaps Kelly and brings her to his rooms in the palace. When the Queen discovers the lovers, she whips the nightgowned girl and throws her out into the night. After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, Kelly returns to the convent, where she receives a telegram, summoning her to the bedside of her dying aunt (Florence Gibson) in Dar-es-Salaam, German East Africa. There, the innocent young girl is shocked to find herself in a seedy bordello. On her deathbed, Kelly’s aunt begs her niece to wed the syphilitic brothel owner, Jan (Tully Marshall).

A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.

Post-screening Q&A with prod. Joseph Patel & exec. prod. Shelby Stone. The latest dazzler from Questlove (Summer of Soul) confronts the inspiring and knotty legacy of Sly Stone.  Starting in the late ’60s, Stone became the rock star of his moment, smashing through boundaries of sound and image, scaling the peak of a new kind of fame, to the point that he had nowhere to go but down. (dir. Questlove, U.S., 2025, 112 min.)

In Mascha Schilinski’s transcendent SOUND OF FALLING, fragments from a hundred years in one farmhouse coalesce into a cinematic flood of memory. Germany’s shortlisted Best International Feature Film entry to the 98th Academy Awards® tracks the lives of four adolescent girls (Alma, Erika, Angelika, Lenka) across the last century – their desires and distress, their secrets and truths, their encounters with another’s gaze and defiant gaze in return. Though separated by time, far-reaching resonances emerge as echoes of experience linger. Sensual and sensory, this awe-inducing Cannes prizewinner invites audiences to witness an eternal summer, a constant now, and ask: what is looking back at us from the past – or perhaps even from the future?

Cantankerous, charismatic and passionately committed, this river keeper — John Lipscomb — reflects on his 25 years patrolling the Hudson, traveling more than 80,000 miles, by wooden boat, helping defend America’s First River. (dir. Jon Bowermaster, U.S.) Jon Bowermaster is an oceans expert, journalist, writer, filmmaker, adventurer and six-time grantee of the National Geographic Expeditions Council. One of the Society's 'Ocean Heroes,' his first assignment for National Geographic Magazine was documenting a 3,741 mile crossing of Antarctica by dogsled. He is the founder of Oceans 8 Films and the One Ocean Media Foundation, making films about climate at home in the Hudson Valley and around the world. His podcast, "The Green Radio Hour with Jon Bowermaster” on Radio Kingston has recorded over 150 episodes with environmental activists, community leaders and friends from his vast rolodex of travels.

Everyone in Land of Point is pointy — pointy ears, heads, pets, even the king. Except for Oblio (Ringo Starr). Because of his pointlessness, he's exiled. It's a hug in the form of a movie (with an anti-capitalist "point"). This psychedelic cult classic animation features the equally beloved soundtrack by Harry Nilsson (known for being The Beatles' favorite American musician), who wrote the story, as well as voices of Alan Barzman, Dustin Hoffman and Alan Thicke. (dir. Fred Wolf, US, 1971, 74 min.) "Cuddly rock men, absent triangular fathers, and Ringo Starr are here to soothe your inner child in ‘The Point’" —IndieWire