Trapped: Mind-Altering Shorts 2025

Reality bends, bodies break, and minds fracture in this delirious collection of shorts—stories of bodies in revolt, psyches in flux, and moments that slip between waking and dreaming.

In the Heights

Join us for a free screening of Jon M. Chu’s thrilling adaptation of the iconic Washington Heights-set musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda!

Mufasa: The Lion King

A chance meeting between Mufasa, a lost cub, and Taka, a lion the heir to a royal bloodline, sets in motion a journey in search of destiny.

Moana 2

After receiving an unexpected call from her wayfinding ancestors, Moana must go on an adventure unlike anything she’s ever faced.

Rooftop Shots: Closing Night 2025

Stay awhile and celebrate the culmination of our 29th season with a bittersweet collection of new short films.

Dark Toons 2025

From ghost towns to fever dreams, these animated tales stretch the imagination—and snap it back with a shiver. Uncanny, offbeat, and hauntingly tender, this is where dark humor and darker truths collide.

New York Non-Fiction 2025

In traffic’s hum and memory’s hush, the city reveals its hidden heart—where stories collide and belonging is endlessly remade.

Love is Strange: Romance Shorts 2025

Feel the warm embrace of our annual program of romantic short films about what it means to fall in love—or, at least, something like it.

Queerly Beloved: Pride Shorts in the Park 2025

Identity is questioned, performed, mourned, and remade in this kaleidoscopic tapestry of queer intimacy, absurdity, and becoming. Unfolding in dive bars, dressing rooms, roadside stops, and echoes of the past, this year’s shorts revel in the humor, heat, and beauty of life lived out loud.

Poetic Portraits 2025

Tender, intimate, and formally bold, these docu-portraits trace love, loss, and identity across continents and generations, lyrically exploring the lives we carry and the selves we leave behind.