Landing a job at the Corner Parking Lot is no easy feat. Bossman Chris Farina empowers employees as de facto owners, creating a work environment that privileges...

Mark Hogancamp miraculously survives a senseless beating outside a bar only to emerge from a coma with memory loss and brain damage. Unable to afford therapy, he...

Incredible short documentaries from around the world, screened on a roof in Toronto as part of Hot Docs

Opening Night of Rooftop Films 14th Annual Summer Series features grand stories in little packages.

The feature debut from director Kevin Asch is an intense drama about Hasidic Jews who get caught up in a drug smuggling ring.

Romantic short films about the sacrifices and struggles we all endure for love. Includes a spectacular new short by Spike Jonze.

US Premiere! On the mean streets of the Philippines, teen gangs run wild trying to survive with the specter of government death squads chasing them. The masterful...

Tales of friendship, love, loss, and coming to terms with one's own mortality.

Sweet home movies about families and lost love, these range from melancholic to marshmallow sweet.

NY Premiere! A quirky slacker road movie comedy about a man and his hamster. Due to rain, this show was moved from May 27 to May 30. All advance tickets for the May...

Even in a cultural landscape dominated by semi-scripted "reality TV," sometimes the most insane adventures and outlandish characters are actually real.

A fun, frantic program of films about losing your grip on reality . . . and loving it.

One of the world's leading documentary festivals presents short films from this year's edition, including Cambodian karaoke with a social message, Taiwanese mountain...

NY Premiere! A documentary about Tulsa's best-known bicycle-riding, raccoon-feeding, scrapyard-dealing, screaming, motivational philosopher of life.

NY Sneak Preview! A smug designer in a one-of-a-kind Le Corbusier home has to deal with his crass neighbor's new construction project in this dark comedy about...

22-year-old Aura returns home to her artist mother's TriBeCa loft with the following: a useless film theory degree, 357 hits on her Youtube page, a boyfriend who's...

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New York Non-Fiction (short films) Scratches, beats, and elegies from New York City.

When love curdles, someone has to eat it. A savage comedy about deceit and sibling rivalry.

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A Sundance-winning satirical drama about a young man and his mentally-troubled mother, living on a kibbutz in 1974, presented in partnership with Consulate General...

An adorable yodeling animal animation, a legendary buck-dancer documentary, a splendid story of spirits in the tropics, plus more magnificent movies from pastoral...

New York Premiere! An organic, mostly vegetarian comedy.

When Leonard's wife Mary was diagnosed with cancer, he thought he could build their house into a healing machine. The magnificent debut feature from Rooftop alum...

Rooftop Films partners with The L Magazine and the Northside Festival to present a collection of new shorts by some of the most exciting up and coming NY...

In this striking program of short films, self-constructing buildings battle for fidelity, makers of mold-o-form plastic deer muddle their love, and Werner Herzog...

A collection of films from the Umami Festival whose goal is to use art to increase awareness of the power food has to influence and shape both diners and cooks. ...

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Live Music-Cinema Event! A ramshackle river raft journey in the midst of ongoing economic and ecological collapse, filmed during Swoon's Swimming Cites of the...

NY Premiere! Two films from the cold edges of the vast Russian frontier, from the hardscrabble life of nomadic reindeer herders to the dangerous life of arctic bear...

Rooftop Films joins forces with Kickstarter to present a selection of film, video and art projects supported on the new crowd-source funding website kickstarter.com.

Sneak Preview! A lyrical documentary about small town Mexican circus, balancing precariously on the brink of disappearance.

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A free screening of this Academy Award nominated animated feature film on the lawn at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, Queens.

Rooftop Films, indieWIRE and Snag Films are pleased to present this special sneak preview as a joint celebration of our birthdays. Three New York City organizations...

NY Premiere! In this stunning and engaging documentary about the avant-garde music scene in Japan, everyday objects are transformed into musical instruments and...

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Brooklyn Transformations (short films) Presented by Rooftop Films in cooperation with Brooklyn Arts Council's Scene: Brooklyn and ActNow Local filmmakers deal...

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Rooftop Films and The Swedish Film Institute present SWEDISH CINEMA Magicians skewer their assistants, bank robberies go awry, trains fall off their tracks and...

NY Premiere! A man awakens on the floor, covered in blood and apparently unaware of how he got there. He heads off to work, and we follow...

NY Premiere! With a mixture of playful precision, humour and melancholy Mikel Cee Karlsson captures the dreams, relationships and everyday life of the denizens of...

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A free screening of the Czech New Wave masterpiece on the lawn at Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, Queens.

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Crazy characters who make their own rules, as cake-addicted cranks, Rambo-revering detectives, and an actual filmmaking monkey. Plus a live performance by fabulist...

Some call it punk rock, some call it grass roots, but labels aside, NYC-based Animation Block Party is dedicated to exhibiting the world's best independent,...

NY Premiere! A documentary about cold wars and hot desires, about how the totalitarian Soviet regime in Estonia went head to head with J.R. Ewing and the heroes of...

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This acclaimed independent animated feature depicts the personal narrative of the filmmaker's marital breakup through a reinvention and modernization of the Indian...

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Spectacularly failing romances, including an alcoholic comedy, some stunning facts about the sexuality of one of the founding fathers, and a luscious documentary...

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Hori Smoku Sailor Jerry is a feature length documentary exploring the roots of American tattooing through the life of its most iconoclastic figure, Norman "Sailor...

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Set during a sweltering holiday weekend in Rome, this utterly charming comedy is about a middle-aged man living with his mother who suddenly finds himself caring for...

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Every New Year, 130 million people leave China's industrial cities to return to their rural homelands--the largest human migration in the world. This overwhelming...

Brazilian artist Vik Muniz has valuable pieces in museums worldwide (including El Museo del Barrio), but his most inspiring work might be made by garbage pickers who...

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A retired musician and his initially unwelcome teenage companion go on a journey across Northern Colombia to return a cursed accordion. Filled with heartfelt...

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The official Closing Night of Rooftop Films 2010 Summer Series includes short films all about endings. Films so sharp we call them shots, fired from the roof one...

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As part of Rooftop Films ongoing expansion to new cities, this stop on the Gasland tour rolls into Pittsburgh, PA, where mining upstate is already affecting the...

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Join us at the Piazza at Schmidt's for a special FREE screening of Josh Fox's extraordinary and impactful documentary Gasland. As part of Rooftop's ongoing expansion...

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As part of Rooftop Films' expansion to new cities, our ongoing Gasland tour offers a free screening in Callicoon, NY, a town potentially affected by natural gas...

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On this fourth stop on the tour, part of Rooftop's ongoing expansion to new cities, we bring Gasland to Harrisburg, PA. In Harrisburg, the effects of hydraulic...

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DUE TO RAIN, THIS SHOW HAS BEEN MOVED INSIDE TO THE JOYCE HERGENHAN AUDITORIUM IN THE S.I. NEWHOUSE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY, 215...

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When a natural gas mining company offered Josh Fox and his upstate New York neighbors $100,000 each for the right to drill for gas on their land, Fox decided to...

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James Franco stars as the young Allen Ginsberg--poet, counter-culture adventurer, and chronicler of the Beat Generation. Tonight's show is totally FULL. There will...

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The IFP Labs Showcase presents short scenes from each of the documentary and narrative feature works in progress participating in IFP's 2010 Independent Filmmaker...

World Premiere! Amid a rural landscape and disappearing communities, the residents of Allegany County, NY are living the working-class American story. This luscious...

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Rooftop Films is excited to announce that we are partnering with The Camden International Film Festival, one of the best documentary festivals in the Northeast. For...

A program of short films presented by Rooftop, The Film Desk and the new owners of the Basilica Hudson.

One of our favorite docs from the 2010 Summer Series is hitting theaters starting Friday, October 29, and there are a number of special screenings featuring...

For the second straight year, Rooftop Films is proud to partner with The Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival. The Mead showcases the best in non-narrative...

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For the second year in a row, Rooftop Films is pleased to collaborate with Councilmember Maria Del Carmen Arroyo and Uptown Film Locations to bring some of the best...

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Unfortunately we must announce that late this evening we received a phone call from Battalion Chief Martorana of the New York Fire Department telling us that they...

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Love is blind, especially when you are in an abandoned tunnel 10 feet underground. Join us on December 12th for an afternoon of tragic puppy love, ill-advised...

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Rooftop Films returns to the Bruckner Bar and Grill for a special FREE screening of short films from the inner-city. You'll meet princesses and ex-cons, follow a...

Please join BAM, A&E IndieFilms and Rooftop Films as we present one of the most critically acclaimed documentaries of the year, The Tillman Story. An exclusive...

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Rooftop Films heads to Chelsea for our first ever screening in Ace Hotel's Liberty Hall, and we kick off our monthly screenings there with Aaron Katz's intelligent...