Mambar Pierrette
The feature narrative debut of Cameroonian filmmaker Mbakam is a rapturous, elegantly observed quotidian portrait of a seamstress working to support her young children and mother in the city of Douala.
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Chisholm ’72: Unbought and Unbossed
This documentary about New York's Shirley Chisholm, the first African American to seek a major party’s presidential nomination, screens on MLK Day, 1/20.
The Ascent
Against the harsh, snow-choked, wind-swept backdrop of Nazi-occupied Belorussia, a pair of Soviet partisans find themselves separated from their troop and thrust into a fight for survival. Screens 1/19 and 1/24.
Skate Video Essentials: Classic Skate Stories
This screening program, presented in conjunction with MoMI’s exhibition Recording the Ride: The Rise of Street-Style Skate Videos, features three early classics that helped define the skate video genre.
Queens Tech and Career Expo
On 1/25, at the Museum, explore a world of opportunities with more than 50 career and technology vendors, thrilling gaming battles for cash prizes, and engaging fireside chats and tech panels led by industry leaders.
The Witches: 35th Anniversary Screening
A singular collaboration between vanguard filmmaker Nicolas Roeg and visionary artist Jim Henson, The Witches adapts one of Roald Dahl’s most frightful books for children with phantasmagoric gusto. With Craig Shemin, President of the Jim Henson Legacy, in person!
The Gold Rush
Charlie Chaplin’s sublimely funny and exquisitely made comedy is one of the unparalleled triumphs of silent cinema, an avalanche of groundbreaking effects, astonishing stunts, and humor made poetic. Screens 1/10 and 1/11.
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
Radu Jude's anarchic satire is a wild and unforgettable ride through the vulgar indignities of the 21st century.
The Shining
Stanley Kubrick’s psychological horror masterpiece in which writer Jack Torrance is driven mad while working as the caretaker of a cavernous Colorado hotel over the course of one isolated winter, screens 1/25 and 1/26.
The Witches: 35th Anniversary Screening
A singular collaboration between vanguard filmmaker Nicolas Roeg and visionary artist Jim Henson, The Witches adapts one of Roald Dahl’s most frightful books for children with phantasmagoric gusto. With Craig Shemin, President of the Jim Henson Legacy, in person!
Green Border
This wrenching drama from the great Polish director Agnieszka Holland is among the most astonishingly urgent films of the decade, a vivid, multifaceted perspective on the global humanitarian crisis that takes both a macro political view and an intimate, personal accounting.
Marvels of Media: Filmmaking Workshop
As part of Museum of the Moving Image’s Marvels of Media, this media workshop invites autistic visitors and media-makers to learn how to create a silent short film scene.