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MARCH 2011 TOP
Join us at the Ace Hotel for the New York premiere of DIY director Joe Swanberg's latest film, starring Kent Osborne as a cartoonist spending a sexually charged...
APRIL 2011 TOP
A special sneak preview of Benjamin Heisenberg's taut thriller about a champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between fixes (and...
MAY 2011 TOP
Before there was Jackass...before there was Tom Green...there was Ralph Zavadil. Rooftop's Partnership with the Hot Docs festival continues!
Rooftop's Partnership with the Hot Docs festival continues with award-winning director Whitney Dow's humane and truly exceptional rendering of Haiti’s pride,...
Rooftop's partnership with Hot Docs continues with a film that is part Spinal Tap parody, part earnest portrait of Swedish glam rock frontman Ola Svenson.
Rooftop opens our 15th festival with a flash of creativity, a splatter of inspiration, and short epic stories that could save your life.
A special World Premiere of the new black comedy from New York based filmmaker Zachary Raines.
A clever and maniacally entertaining Swedish comedy about a group of “musical terrorists” who break into hospitals, banks, and other public places to play...
These fun and frantic short films—comedy, animation, music videos—tell the twisted tales of terrified souls trapped inside the machine.
Short romantic films about chasing love, by bicycle and bottle, on the internet and in the air.
A nuanced, visually inventive vista of young life in Albuquerque, Bad Posture follows Flo as he seeks to make amends—and make a connection—with Marisa, a...
JUNE 2011 TOP
Indie starlet Greta Gerwig and newcomer Olly Alexander put on alternately fierce and delicate performances in this enchantingly offbeat romance about an alienated...
A group of people in Rooftop’s beloved Brooklyn come together to fight the Atlantic Yards Project—a massive real estate development that threatens to destroy...
The story of Nick and Joey, two best friends living in the crumbling landscape of rural Florida, whose lives and friendship are changed by the journey to find Joey's...
For thousands of years, the night sky was a crucial part of human experience, but due to light pollution, the stars are disappearing from our vision and...
A group of people in Rooftop’s beloved Brooklyn come together to fight the Atlantic Yards Project—a massive real estate development that threatens to destroy...
Rooftop kicks off our shows in Philly in partnership with The Awesome Fest with Ian Cheney's Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund Edgeworx Post-Production Grant winning film....
A collection of New York shorts about people and places, time and forgetting, plus a special presentation of Welcome To Pine Point, an interactive video scrapbook...
Looking for companionship, animated foxes, Queens con artists, and drunken babies all wind up in comically awkward and poignantly tragic circumstances.
Rohal’s madcap story about Father William Smoortser, who drops his bible into a toilet at a rest stop just before embarking on a day-long canoe trip, breaking...
Jose Gonzalez will perform live on the roof prior to the New York premiere of this lovely, lyrical, thoughtful look at the day to day life and creative processes of...
Premiering on Gay Pride weekend, this playful send-up of 1950's sci-fi follows a group of lesbian extraterrestrials banished to Earth because their feelings of love...
Joshua Milton Blahyi is a Liberian warlord turned evangelical minister in this stirring verité documentary about the nature of justice and absolution.
Luridly fascinating and darkly comic, Family Instinct is unlike any film you have seen before: a verite pseudo-documentary comedy about an isolated town in rural...
A special collection of short films that let us peek into the lives of strangers, plus a special sneak preview of Commercial Kings, a new series on IFC.
JULY 2011 TOP
A special outdoor screening of Echotone, winner of the first annual Northside Film Fest DIY Competition. This lyrical documentary provides a telescopic view into the...
On July 4th weekend, Rooftop presents a journey from a snowy small town in Northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan and back, following childhood friends...
A collection of extraordinary new short films, all selected from the 2011 Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, the premier short film festival in the world.
Neurotypical looks at autism from within, as its own culture to be accepted and appreciated, and ultimately broadens the concept of what it means to be human.
The 2nd Annual Kickstarter Film Festival will be held the evening of Saturday, July 9th at 7PM in Brooklyn, New York. Advance tickets for this event are completely...
Rooftop Films, indieWIRE, and SnagFilms celebrate the 15 year anniversaries of Rooftop and indieWIRE with a special sneak preview of this apocalyptic love story for...
Artists fashion a madcap dance between nature and machine, between past and future, between the living and the dead, featuring robo-animal sculpture installations by...
Lonely romantics lost in limbo, in a program of comedies, dramas, documentaries and more about the brilliant anguish of new love and the bittersweet taste of love...
Love will find you when you least expect it.
An omnibus of short films about our solar system, commissioned and created by Cinemad and Rooftop Films.
An omnibus of short films about our solar system, commissioned and created by Cinemad and Rooftop Films.
A dynamic documentary about indie wrestling and a live demo of the daring escapades.
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,...
Rooftop again treks down to our sister city in Philadelphia for another outdoor screening with our partners at the Awesome Fest. This special sneak preview of Robert...
Rooftop Films and Kill Screen present a night of short films, new videogames, and special presentations that showcase the impact that videogames have on our culture...
Rooftop's free outdoor screenings in Philadelphia continue with the Awesome Fest. We reprise our successful screening of Jarred Alterman's documentary "Convento,"...
AUGUST 2011 TOP
Female Mexican professional wrestlers! Canadians assaulting rock stars in 7-Eleven! Moped gang wars in Virginia! It is time for some Dangerous Docs, PLUS a special...
Nothing is as it seems in a world of dreams, deception, and resurrection. Sometimes breathing comes more easily underwater.
Enzo returns from prison to reunite with his faithful Mary, but all is not as it seems in this one of a kind love story of two outsiders in the underworld of Genoa.
A program of enchanting animations, magical music videos, delirious documentaries and fantastical fictions, co-presented as the Closing Night of the Rural Route Film...
The natural world writes our origin myths and spells out our destruction in a fertile program about the decline of the rural life, co-presented as the Closing Night...
Bizarre rituals help soldiers develop powerful bonds amidst the tense existence of one of the Russian army's last existing frozen outposts.
An intricate exploration of the emotions that fill the places we inhabit.
Rooftop Films brings the power of poetry to the streets of New York with this documentary about lives and language on the edge: three teens from the Bronx tell their...
Rooftop Films brings the power of poetry to the streets of New York with this documentary about lives and language on the edge: three teens from the Bronx tell their...
World Premiere! Miles hasn't seen Matt since their father passed away. Now, they're going to blast him into space. Once they steal his ashes. And figure out how to...
Closing Night! Short films fired from the roof one last time, with fiction, documentary, comedy and animations so sharp we call them shots.
SEPTEMBER 2011 TOP
Rooftop Films brings the power of poetry to the streets of New York with this documentary about lives and language on the edge: three teens from the Bronx tell their...
ROOFTOP FILMS AND IFP PRESENT: In celebration of IFP's Independent Film Week, Rooftop and IFP present a special sneak preview of Alrick Brown’s Kinyarwanda....
Discover tomorrow’s next great independent films today! Exclusive excerpts from the 21 projects participating in IFP’s 2011 Documentary and Narrative...
A special FREE advance screening of Roadside Attractions' upcoming documentary THUNDER SOUL! Houston's legendary Kashmere Stage Band reunites in this funky,...
OCTOBER 2011 TOP
A special FREE, closing night, outdoor screening of Jarred Alterman's magical documentary at the exquisitely beautiful Cellardoor Winery. There will be a reception...
Rooftop Films, New York Magazine and the Andaz Salon Series present an exclusive FREE screening of Joshua Gross' debut Feature, World's Best Dad. Enjoy complimentary...
NOVEMBER 2011 TOP
Rooftop Films partners with the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival to bring you Jarred Alterman's magical CONVENTO.
Rooftop Films partners with the Margaret Mead Film Festival to bring you a selection of shorts that will take you across the globe.
Love will find you when you least expect it. Rooftop Films presents our first screening in L.A.!
DECEMBER 2011 TOP
Before Occupy Wall Street, a group of climate activists in the UK organized themselves and engaged in direct action campaigns using the same methods that OWS took on...
In 2003 filmmaker Michael Galinsky read a NYTimes article about a New Jersey Nets stadium coming to Brooklyn. Eight years and three lawsuits later, the Forest City...
A special FREE screening of by international award-winning documentary that examines the causes and aftermath of the greatest financial crisis since the Wall Street...
Brooklyn documentary collective UnionDocs is opening its doors to a series of short films and multimedia projects from activists and filmmakers who documented the...
Rooftop Films and AT&T honor the Rooftop Filmmakers’ Fund grantees in an intimate benefit, and light the spark for Rooftop’s 2012 Summer Series, our 16th year of...
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