{"title": "Area Coded: American Regionalism in Film", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "BAM.org | BAM | Visit", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/58598", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/drama", "society"], "description": "\"Area Coded: American Regionalism in Film\" is a film series that travels through American cinema as a collection of distinct regions, each producing its own ways of living and seeing the world. It is programmed by Jessica Green as part of BAM Film 2026. The series explores how the Gulf Coast, West Texas, the Deep South, the Rocky Mountains, New England, the Rust Belt, and the Pacific Northwest have created the moving-image mythology of the United States over roughly 120 of its 250 years. Its films look beneath that mythology at the communities, contradictions, and local cultures that have become recognized around the world as American.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/area-coded-american-regionalism-in-film-51157/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/87a71a926f95f9215817d5e5c072cf5f46a0c9329ab6e9d16e490fda080e7539-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-29T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "BAM.org | BAM | Visit", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Film Series | Filmclub Populaire", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Swiss Institute", "address": "Saint Marks Place 38, 10003", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://swissinstitute.net/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "A film screening evening held as part of a weekly series running during Rafał Skoczek's offsite solo exhibition Kino Drift. 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Afterward, the two filmmakers discuss collaborative storytelling, art and environmental activism, and collective memory in the face of ecological change.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/a-radical-thread-57168/", "official_url": "https://uniondocs.org/event/a-radical-thread-2026-11-05/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1f1334d0b6b4ddc016b9b2e1d13371190520e9ee84632cd22a7b59f10d99b8a1-600.webp"}, {"title": "With an Acre — An Afternoon with the CCA", "start": "2026-11-07T15:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "e-flux", "address": "172 Classon Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11205, USA", "price": "General $12, Student $10", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": "12.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.com/e/with-an-acre-an-afternoon-with-the-cca-tickets-2003930941390?aff=oddtdtcreator", "category": "film", "tags": ["art/architecture", "film/documentary"], "description": "An afternoon of film and conversation hosted by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, returning to the e-flux Screening Room. 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It is hosted by KAFFNY Infinite Cinema and celebrates groundbreaking Korean and global diaspora cinema. The day brings historic classics, avant-garde video art, and modern documentaries, exploring the cultural intersections of New York City and global third-culture cinema. Screenings of short films with Q&A sessions run across three blocks, closing with a toast to 20 years.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/kaffny-infinite-cinema-20th-annual-56266/", "official_url": "https://kaffny.org/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ccda3b07be65338d2082811e1941a556407a9953608786a08f02f8ab235d763c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Brooklyn Against Empire: Film and Fundraiser", "start": "2026-11-03T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-03T20:00:00-05:00", "place": "Starr Bar", "address": "Starr Street 214, 11237 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "history"], "description": "An evening of film at the bar Starr Bar in Brooklyn. Brooklyn Against Empire hosts a movie night and fundraiser whose proceeds pay the tuition of medical students in Gaza, where the group has already fully funded three students; this event supports the sisters Ola and Sama, who attend the medical school at Al Azhar University of Gaza. The film is a documentary rated 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes about the 1876 seizure of the Black Hills and the indigenous Lakota people's fight to reclaim control of them.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/brooklyn-against-empire-film-and-fundraiser-56039/", "official_url": "https://www.starrbar.com/events/bae", "image": "https://noky.io/images/61adb9d444843957941ca675c1d8757360c9ad443d25dee27a9f49732af5516d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "THE 2026 NEW YORK BALTIC FILM FESTIVAL", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Scandinavia House", "address": "Park Avenue 58, 10016", "price": "In-Person Passes $105/$75 ASF Members (regular $125/$95); VIP Passes $405 (regular $425)", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/shop/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film", "history"], "description": "The 2026 New York Baltic Film Festival is the leading festival of new films from the Baltic region in the United States. It is presented by Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America, where in-person screenings, filmmaker Q&As and receptions are held. This year's lineup, curated by ASF Program Manager Kyle Reinhart, brings Baltic stories about attaining dreams and enacting change in the face of great challenges. The films explore personal subjects such as family life and coming of age, as well as political history from the Soviet occupation to the present, putting a deeply human perspective on perseverance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-2026-new-york-baltic-film-festival-55690/", "official_url": "https://www.scandinaviahouse.org/event/nybff-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a5088c74ac0a88c2a22510d21151e9f24da0271a45f84016b7e6cb1cc6f5e3e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Marching with the Kasama", "start": "2026-11-11T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Swiss Institute", "address": "Saint Marks Place 38, 10003", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://swissinstitute.net/shop", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/activism"], "description": "SI presents a screening of the documentary Marching with the Kasama, which offers a glimpse into the Philippine revolutionary struggle. Through voices of peasants, workers and guerrilla fighters, the film portrays a movement fighting for land, liberation and people's power. The footage is shown not as a finished film but as an outline, part of an ongoing process in which the filmmakers apply the method of the mass line to filmmaking. It is part of a weekly series held during Rafał Skoczek's offsite exhibition Kino Drift, inspired by Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino's 1969 manifesto \"Towards a Third Cinema.\"", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/marching-with-the-kasama-56278/", "official_url": "https://swissinstitute.net/programs/film-series-marching-with-the-kasama", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a05a0051a124932fc3a64a354a0395d9e010b68d5cfec38f66628e5ea7383e84-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Changing Lanes & Anti-car films", "start": "2026-11-08T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Interference Archive", "address": "7th Street 314, 11215 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/documentary", "society/activism"], "description": "A screening of four documentaries about social movements that challenged the policing and commodification of urban mobility and embraced freedom of movement beyond the automobile. The films include Still We Ride, The Wreck of the New York Subway, Marathon de Triporteurs, and Changing Lanes, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers of Changing Lanes. 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It is presented by BAM together with filmmaker Spike Lee and Clara Wu Tsai, owner of the New York Liberty and the Brooklyn Nets, and created by filmmaker and producer Nicholas Ma with special guest curators. The inaugural festival includes screenings of repertory films, pop-up activations, a free street fair, and more.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/playback-the-brooklyn-watch-party-51156/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/film/2026/playback", "image": "https://noky.io/images/658b4fd5ef2bcc0fe539b7dab910188bb8677c1c8d9c1b35b4ef646fa16d9c1a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Screening and Talk with Tith Kanitha", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Iris Cantor Theatre", "address": "West Houston Street 38, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "A screening of the 2014 short film Boding followed by a talk with artist and filmmaker Tith Kanitha, who will also discuss her forthcoming film Crab and contemporary Cambodian cinema's engagement with community, city, and site in Phnom Penh. She works in sculpture, installation, performance, video, and works on paper, and plays a central role in Cambodian independent cinema with the collective Anti-Archive. She will be in conversation with Jeannine Tang, Assistant Professor at NYU Performance Studies. The event is co-sponsored by the Asian Film & Media Initiative and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and is held in conjunction with Tith's fall 2026 Great Hall Exhibition at NYU's Institute of Fine Arts.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/screening-and-talk-with-tith-kanitha-53246/", "official_url": "https://tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studies/events/fall-2026/screening-tith-kanitha", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4c41df893ac1d67702b03395101f25cd6b614e4f02309bc525f3b979201d0b0d-600.webp"}, {"title": "12th Reel China Biennial 2026", "start": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Iris Cantor Theatre", "address": "West Houston Street 38, 10012 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film"], "description": "The 12th Reel China Biennial is a film event running October 30 to November 1, 2026, in New York City. It is organized by the Asian Film & Media Initiative of NYU's Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies and the Center for Religion and Media, co-organized by Professor Zhen Zhang, Professor Angela Zito, and Cristina Cajulis. The program brings bold works by veteran filmmakers from the PRC alongside diaspora and emerging Sinophone voices, including young filmmakers from Japan, Canada, and China. Friday's screenings open with Chinatown Cha-Cha, a tale of an elderly women's dance troupe in San Francisco's Chinatown, and include Three Castrated Goats, with post-screening discussions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/12th-reel-china-biennial-2026-53237/", "official_url": "https://tisch.nyu.edu/cinema-studies/events/fall-2026/reel-china-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ac22a3d15da8e36e8b75f0bf96ef5f66cf67ec4ead97fbbcd62d6bc24a96d62a-1200.webp"}]}