Big Apple Film Festival 2025 Brings Stories From Around the World to NYC

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Published on Friday, 07 November 2025 19:28

Written by Brad Balfour

Wooden Hearts

Showcasing work from New York filmmakers and talent from around the world, the Big Apple Film Festival runs this November 10th to the 13th, 2025. Held at the LOOK Dine-In Cinemas W57, BAFF includes NYC feature film premieres, short film programs, series/episodic screenings, music videos, animation and student film programs. The opening film, Happy As Larry is about a woman struggling as she battles her self-destructive habits when her deepest vices take on human form, forcing her to confront the chaos they've brought into her life. In Wooden Hearts a puppeteer travels from town to town, sharing Czech folk stories and bringing his hand-carved marionettes to life, and the existence of his forlorn son. Evil InSight follows a detective who receives a letter with clues pointing to the body of a missing woman, but he finds a man who claims to have the ability to see supernatural events.

This is just a sampling of the films being shown at BAFF

To learn more, go to: https://www.bigapplefilmfestival.com/

Big Apple Film Festival
November 10 - 13, 2025

LOOK Dine-In Cinemas W57
657 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019

"American Woman: Reframing ’70s Cinema" at Museum of the Moving Image

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Published on Wednesday, 22 October 2025 14:47

Written by Brad Balfour

Jane Fonda in Klute.

The 1970s was an era of bold filmmakers and bolder actresses. The Museum of the Moving Image (36-01 35th Ave, Queens, NY) presents American Woman: Reframing ’70s Cinema, which runs from November 14, 2025 to January, 2026 featuring performances and films from women in America’s pivotal moment in cinema.

The series showcases women stars and filmmakers of the 1970s, including Diahann Carroll, Shelley Duvall, Pam Grier, Jane Fonda, Jo Heims, Diane Keaton, Barbara Kopple, Elaine May, Barbara Loden, Julia Reichert, Diana Ross, Gena Rowlands, Joan Micklin Silver, Sissy Spacek, Barbra Streisand, Claudia Weill, and more.

Films being screened include:

• A Woman Under the Influence 
• Klute
• The Way We Were
• 3 Women
• Claudine
• Paper Moon
• Harlan County U.S.A. (with Barbara Kopple in person at screening)
• An Unmarried Woman
• Wanda

And more.

The series will also include in-person guests and discussions including filmmakers Barbara Kopple and Claudia Weill, as well as critics and scholars, including a career conversation with Molly Haskell. 

“When one talks of the venerated American cinema of the 1970s, the same titles invariably come up: The Godfather, The French Connection, The Conversation, Chinatown... and that's just the tip of the uber-male iceberg. The American Woman series flips the script to explore American cinema during the cultural ascendance of second-wave feminism and the megastars and filmmakers who shaped the period,” notes Senior Curator of Film Michael Koresky, who organized the series with assistance from Emily Greenberg, Film and Public Programs Manager, and Sarah Luciano, Associate Director of Special Programs.

To learn more, go to: https://movingimage.org/series/american-woman/

American Woman: Reframing ’70s Cinema
Nov 14, 2025 — Jan 4, 2026

Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35th Avenue
Queens, NY 11106

Architecture & Design Film Festival: New York Features Docs About Building a Better World

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Published on Monday, 13 October 2025 13:50

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Featuring cinema centered around the world we live in and the people who design it, the Architecture & Design Film Festival: New York returns this October 14 to the 18th. Running at the Village East by Angelika, the festival includes documentaries, panel discussions, and even a Brutalist trivia contest with US, NY, and World Premieres.

Films include I Have A Name, which brings audiences face-to-face with the unhoused crisis through the eyes of artist and activist Jon Linton. What began as a 2007 photo project on the streets of Phoenix has evolved into a national movement, now captured in this powerful film. Through the simple act of asking unhoused individuals their names, Linton creates portraits that restore dignity and visibility to those too often overlooked. Following the film is a conversation with global design leaders Bisi Williams and Bruce Mau of Massive Change Network. 

The Space Architect introduces us to the trailblazing architect Constance Adams, whose groundbreaking work at NASA reimagined how humans might live in outer space. After earning degrees from Harvard and Yale, Adams left behind a career designing skyscrapers to focus on spacecraft and prototypes for lunar and Martian habitats. At age 53, knowing she was dying of cancer, Adams enlisted the help of filmmaker Rebecca Carpenter to preserve her story. Filmed just four days before her death, The Space Architect captures Adams reflecting on her extraordinary career and her final, passionate focus towards Earth—where she hoped to apply her knowledge to address the urgent challenges of the climate crisis. At once heart-wrenching and hopeful, the film offers a moving meditation on a life driven by purpose and curiosity. 

Changing Lanes tracks how after a beloved teacher is tragically killed in a hit-and-run accident in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, a grassroots movement emerges to transform a notoriously dangerous four-lane boulevard into a safer, two-lane street with protected bike lanes. While many applaud the proposed road diet, it also sparks a backlash—led in part by a powerful local business owner. As government support begins to waver, neighbors unite to challenge entrenched interests and fight for a safer Greenpoint.  Changing Lanes makes a compelling call to action for democracy at street level. 

To learn more, go to: https://adfilmfest.com/adff-ny/

Architecture & Design Film Festival New York
October 14 - 18, 2025

Village East by Angelika
181-189 2nd Ave
New York, NY 10003