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NO OTHER LAND
Official Selection of PFF33! For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with a journalist from the other side who joins his fight.
MICKEY 17
The unlikely hero, Mickey Barnes (Robert Pattinson) has found himself in the extraordinary circumstance of working for an employer who demands the ultimate commitment to the job… to die, for a living.
AUDREY'S CHILDREN
Official Selection of PFF33 and Winner of the PFF33 Audience Award for Best Local Film! Philadelphia. 1969. British physician, Dr. Audrey Evans, is newly recruited to a world-renowned children’s hospital and battles sexism, medical conventions, and the subterfuge of her peers to develop revolutionary treatments, purchase the first Ronald McDonald House for families of patients and, ultimately, impact the lives of millions of children around the world. Based on a true story.
THE ALTO KNIGHTS
Two of New York’s most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello (De Niro) and Vito Genovese (De Niro), vie for control of the city’s streets. Once the best of friends, petty jealousies and a series of betrayals place them on a deadly collision course that will reshape the Mafia (and America) forever.
DEATH OF A UNICORN
A father (Paul Rudd) and daughter (Jenna Ortega) accidentally hit and kill a unicorn while en route to a weekend retreat, where his billionaire boss (Richard E. Grant) seeks to exploit the creature’s miraculous curative properties.
THE PENGUIN LESSONS
Inspired by the true story of a disillusioned Englishman who went to work in a school in Argentina in 1976. Expecting an easy ride, Tom discovers a divided nation and a class of unteachable students. However, after he rescues a penguin from an oil-slicked beach, his life is turned upside-down.
BLACK BAG
From Director Steven Soderbergh, BLACK BAG is a gripping spy drama about legendary intelligence agents George Woodhouse and his beloved wife Kathryn. When she is suspected of betraying the nation, George faces the ultimate test – loyalty to his marriage or his country.
12 ANGRY MEN
The timeless and gripping Sidney Lumet drama explores a search for truth within the ethical dilemmas at play amongst the jury of a murder trial when one juror (Henry Fonda) resists the temptation to follow the majority and stand for his beliefs.
ONLY YESTERDAY
Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata follows up his devastating GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES with a contemplative, stylish meditation on the past that follows a woman’s journey to the countryside that sparks a flood of memories about a life once lived and loved.
ZODIAC
No matter who you think the Zodiac Killer is, David Fincher’s eerie and suspenseful masterpiece elevates the typical police procedural into a grand epic about paranoia, obsession, and creepy basements.
SCANNERS
David Cronenberg kicked off his incomparable ‘80s run of sci-fi and horror films with a battle between a rogue group of telepathic and telekinetic “scanners” and the paramilitary force out to control them that leaves exploding heads, literally, in its wake.
PRINCESS MONOKE 4K (Subtitled)
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Studio Ghibli, GKIDS presents Oscar-winning director Hayao Miyazaki’s epic fantasy masterpiece in a brand new 4K restoration.
Inflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady Eboshi, the proud people of Iron Town, and the enigmatic Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the humans from destroying her home and the forest spirits and animal gods who live there.
FREAKY TALES
Set in 1987 Oakland, FREAKY TALES is a multi-track mixtape of colorful characters — an NBA star, a corrupt cop, a female rap duo, teen punks, neo-Nazis, and a debt collector — on a collision course of showdowns and battles.
PRINCESS MONOKE 4K (Dubbed)
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Studio Ghibli, GKIDS presents Oscar-winning director Hayao Miyazaki’s epic fantasy masterpiece in a brand new 4K restoration.
Inflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady Eboshi, the proud people of Iron Town, and the enigmatic Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the humans from destroying her home and the forest spirits and animal gods who live there.
THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA
Based on a true story, THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA is set in May 1984, when an unemployed ice cream truck driver from Ohio (Paul Walter Hauser) steps onto the game show Press Your Luck harboring a big secret: the key to endless amounts of money. His winning streak is threatened when the bewildered executives in the control room start to uncover his real motivations.
THE FLY
Be afraid, very afraid of a never-better, or hotter, Jeff Goldblum and his eccentric ways as a determined scientist caught in an experiment gone wrong that leaves him slowly turning into a grotesque, yet still hot, man-fly in Cronenberg’s biggest hit.
EVENT HORIZON
With Laurence Fishburne at the helm, Paul W.S. Anderson’s outrageous bad trip into the void is a sci-fi nightmare about a ship on a critical mission to investigate the mysterious reappearance of the long-thought lost Event Horizon near Neptune and its sinister and hostile stowaways.
JASON X
We can thank the scientific discoveries of David Cronenberg’s Dr. Wimmer for blasting Jason Voorhees over 400 years into the future, where a group of horny camp counselors–we mean, scientists–right out of a CW show must survive the onslaught of the new and improved cybernetic monster.
SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS
Japan’s ‘80s pop idol Hiroko Yakushimaru must use her newly-discovered telekinetic powers to take on an invasion of extra-terrestrial fascists in Ôbayashi’s out of this world first entry into his seishun eiga (youth film) series of the decade.
THE WIZARD OF OZ
David Lynch famously said “There is not a day that goes by I don’t think of THE WIZARD OF OZ”. We can relate. Whether this is your first time traversing the yellow brick road or hundredth, Victor Fleming’s transportive masterpiece bears being seen again and again.
LAURA
Who killed Laura? The question that haunts Otto Preminger’s pitch-perfect noir about a dead socialite and an NYPD detective’s trail of clues into a world of wealth, subterfuge, and murder where anyone is a suspect.
SUNSHINE
Equally awe-inspiring and head-scratching, with a script co-written by Alex Garland, Danny Boyle’s unforgettable entry into sci-fi fare chronicles the visually intoxicating and dangerous mission forged by a group of scientists (including Cillian Murphy, Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh, and Rose Byrne) determined to reignite our dying sun with a bomb.
DARK CITY
THE CROW’s Alex Proyas directs a stunning Kafkaesque, sci-fi noir across a perpetually nocturnal metropolis centered on a group of mysterious strangers pursuing a man stricken with amnesia and the trail of dead bodies in his wake.
DEAD RINGERS
Beverly (Jeremy Irons) and Elliot (also Jeremy Irons) Mantle may be famous gynecologists who specialize in fertility issues, but it’s their knack for swapping identities in romantic encounters that make them infamous in David Cronenberg’s nerve-tingling thriller.
VENGEANCE IS MINE
Inspired by the true story of a notorious Japanese serial killer’s 78-day reign of terror, it’s not hard to imagine Bong Joon-ho taking a cue from Shohei Imamura’s perverse and darkly comedic tonal tightrope that exposes the violent tendencies within us all.
WALK HARD: THE DEWEY COX STORY
A traumatic past—including an accidental fratricide by machete and the loss of smell—doesn’t stop famed country star Dewey Cox from rising on the charts and our hearts in a quintessential music biopic about one man’s true grit and growing assortment of drug habits that leaves no bathroom sink untouched.
NIGHTBREED
Adapted from his own novella Cabal, Clive Barker’s ambitious follow-up to the phenomenal HELLRAISER centers on a group of outlandish outcasts that induct a new member accused of being a serial killer, much to the chagrin of the accused’s doctor aka David Cronenberg.
CLEANING IN THE HOUSE OF HEALING
Uncover the stories that connect us with CLEANING IN THE HOUSE OF HEALING. The Philadelphia Film Society is partnering with Theater of Witness, Ronald McDonald House Charities, and NAMI Philadelphia to host an immersive afternoon of powerful storytelling and resource sharing with a film screening, panel discussion, and collective mindfulness moment.
CITY OF GOD
Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund’s epic, decades-spanning crime saga traces the plight of two very different individuals within the crime-riddled favelas of Rio de Janeiro: an aspiring photographer determined to document his increasingly deteriorating home and a destined criminal looking to rule it.
VIRTUOSITY
Former-cop-now-inmate Denzel Washington must stop a sassy and ruthless artificial intelligence police training program (that looks a lot like Russell Crowe) infused with the personalities of history’s most notorious serial killers from taking over reality after its escape from the digital world in this cyberpunk ‘90s relic.
THE HOUSEMAID
Heralded as one of the greatest South Korean films of all time, Kim Ki-young’s THE HOUSEMAID is an explosive and sexually-charged tale of class warfare between the titular femme fatale and her targets for revenge: a bourgeois family existing within an illusion of safety.
FAAT KINÉ
Defiant in the face of oppressive structures, a boldly independent Senegalese woman carves her path to success, challenging the patriarchy at every turn in Ousmane Sembène’s first film of the century.
VIDEODROME
Transfixed by a mysterious late night program depicting increasingly morbid scenes of violent and sexual depravity, James Woods and Debbie Harry attempt to uncover the signal’s source, lest they too join the growing supporters of the “new flesh” in David Cronenberg’s first major studio film.
A MILLION MILES AWAY
In celebration of Mexican Week 2025, the annual community screening with the Philadelphia Film Society and Mexican Cultural Center (MCC) will celebrate the work of Alejandra Márquez Abella. A MILLION MILES AWAY—a biopic on Jose Hernandez—kicks off a week-long facilitation of events hosted by MCC in honor of the beauty and diversity that is Mexican culture.
THE WICKER MAN
A devout Christian cop is ordered to investigate the disappearance of a girl on a secluded island during May Day festivities in this unsettling folk horror favorite uniting the oddity of Pagan folk rituals and the innate creepiness of rural communities.
PEYTON PLACE
It’s not hard to trace the inspiration for one of David Lynch’s recurring motifs about the unseemly, violent underbelly of white-picket fence America in Mark Robson’s dreamy 1957 melodrama about the loss of innocence in a small New England town.
STRAIGHT TIME
Backed by an astounding gang of character actors including Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey, and M. Emmet Walsh, Dustin Hoffman gives a truly powderkeg performance about a career bank robber reinserting himself into society. Don’t miss it.
DEATH IN VENICE
An icy and ill German composer travels to Venice, Italy for a much needed rest, only to develop a fascination with a cherubic teen boy on vacation in Visconti’s painterly musing on aesthetics and form.
MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS
The life and work of conflicted Japanese writer Yukio Mishima is ingeniously intertwined with Phillip Glass’ rousing score in Paul Schrader’s brilliant masterpiece about the sacrifice we make for art.
SERIAL MOM
Leave it to the Pope of Trash, John Waters, to concoct a true cult classic about a suburban supermom (Kathleen Turner) that can do the impossible, like having a home cooked dinner ready for her loving family while still finding time for her most peculiar hobby: murder.
NOROI: THE CURSE
An unforgettable entry into the analog horror pantheon, NOROI: THE CURSE is an unsettling, paranormal documentary that attempts to uncover the mysterious disappearance of Masafumi Kobayashi during his groundbreaking research on ectoplasmic worms.
LOVE & POP
Neon Genesis Evangelion creator Hideaki Anno leaves the mechs and their depressed pilots behind for his unconventional live action debut. Utilizing handheld digital cameras in surprising ways, a teen’s burgeoning sugar baby business funds her desire for a prized topaz ring.
STRANGE DARLING
Starring Kyle Gallner and Willa Fitzgerald, JT Mollner’s sexy and devilish serial killer thriller finds a one-night stand disintegrating into a desperate fight for survival where nothing is what it seems. Gorgeously shot (and presented) on 35mm!Star Kyle Gallner is scheduled to attend for a post-screening Q&A!
MOMMIE DEAREST
The scandalous and contested memoir by Joan Crawford’s adopted daughter was the source material for this terrifying, psychological horror show about a controlling mother’s many uses for wire hangers.
THE LEOPARD
Led by Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon, the opulence and decadence of Italian aristocracy in the 19th century is upended by a growing middle class hungry for civil war in Visconti’s absolutely beautiful historical adaptation of the 1958 Tomasi novel.
ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERS
Visconti’s sprawling epic about loyalty and brotherhood chronicles a poor southern Italian family relocated to the north and stars Alain Delon as a son torn between new love and his oldest brother, a washed-up boxer and criminal.
THE DEFIANT ONES
The breakout film, and first Best Actor nom, for the great Sidney Poitier finds the esteemed actor literally shackled to a bigoted white man (Tony Curtis) after surviving their prison transport’s crash in the deep south.
ROLLING THUNDER
One the leanest and meanest thrillers ever made is a masterclass in action and suspense that finds a near-silent, disconnected POW celebrated for his return home after years in Vietnam only to find a family–and country–that has moved on.
DOWN BY LAW
Famed indie iconoclast Jim Jarmusch trades in his typical New York City digs for the bayou in a quirky and cool caper about three very different strangers (Tom Waits, John Lurie, and Roberto Benigni) shooting the shit behind bars.
CARRIE
The first and definitive Stephen King horror film adaptation about a shy high school girl, her religious zealot mother, and a bunch of big coiffed bullies is a telekinetic-fueled romp about coming of age and accepting your true self.
THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME
Ôbayashi captures the exuberance and poignancy of youth in his time-travelling sci-fi drama about a high school girl’s perplexing fading memories and her newfound abilities to manipulate time.
THE BROOD
Inspired by his own divorce and featuring the film debut of composer Howard Shore, David Cronenberg explores a disintegrating marriage through the lens of a troubled woman undergoing an unconventional therapy regime as murders increase across the countryside.
LADY IN A CAGE
A doting mother (Olivia de Havilland) with a broken hip finds herself suspended in a caged lift at home much to the delight of a nasty group of delinquents led by a ferocious James Caan in his first starring film role.
THE DAMNED
The moral and ethical decay of a wealthy, industrialist German family and their squabbles over the succession of power is depicted against the rise of the Nazi party in Visconti’s first installment of his German Trilogy.
CARLITO'S WAY
Featuring some of Brian de Palma’s most exciting set pieces, Al Pacino stars as a man given a second chance after being released from a long sentence on a technicality, but he can’t seem to shake his criminal past.
LUDWIG
Set against a lavishly decaying 19th century backdrop, the tragic life of King Ludwig II of Bavaria (Helmut Berger, THE DAMNED) is explored through his obsession with art, love, and power.
ANGST
Repeatedly cited as a major inspiration for cinematic extremists like Gaspar Noé, the grimy and lurid Austrian thriller makes the audience complicit in the murderous exploits of a recently released psychopath (Erwin Leder) as he searches for his next prey.
SPRING BREAKERS
Nothing says spring break like robbing a restaurant with your best friends to fund a vacation down to St. Petersburg, Florida, only to get busted, and then bailed out by an Alien in Harmony Korine’s electric, sensory-assaulting pop fever dream.
RRR
The most “we are so back” movie to ever grace the big screen.
LE NOTTI BIANCHE
Two wandering and lonely souls (Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell) meet upon a canal bridge and spark a tumultuous romance in Visconti’s exquisite adaptation of Dostoevsky's “White Nights” that captures the crushing possibilities of new love.
KARMEN GEÏ
A seductively provocative reimagining of Bizet’s Carmen, set in Senegal, where the charismatic Karmen schemes, seduces, and defies authority to revive her stake in the underground smuggling world.
GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: INNOCENCE
The sequel to one of the greatest animes of all time finds the returning cybernetic Section 9 operative Batou investigating a grisly trail of murders as the ghost of the Major hangs over the entire ordeal.
HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND
Retro-fitted with leather jackets, motorcycles, and a rebellious spirit, Ôbayashi’s endlessly swoon-worthy ode to young, forbidden love traces a young biker gang member’s newfound romance with the spirited sister of a rival.
EIGHT HOURS DON'T MAKE A DAY
An astonishing and sprawling early achievement for Fassbinder and his unique blending of melodrama and social realism depicts the little triumphs and obstacles that face a young factory worker and those around him in West Germany. Rare theatrical screening!
ONE-EYED JACKS
Marlon Brando’s sole director credit is a cinematic love letter to the grand mythos of the Wild West and the (dis)honor amongst thieves. After escaping prison, hotshot Rio (Brando) sets his sights on taking revenge on the man that put him there: his former bank robbing partner-now-Sheriff Longward.
THE ISLAND CLOSEST TO HEAVEN
A young girl’s grief over her father’s sudden death leads her on a nostalgic seaside trip overflowing with sentimentality to an island he once spoke of in Ôbayashi’s uniquely grounded and touching rumination on the past and loss.
TO DIE FOR
Nicole Kidman is Suzanne Stone in Gus Van Sant’s fourth-wall breaking, deliciously dark and twisted satire about the ambitious New Hampshire woman’s quest to achieve immortality as a local news anchor, no matter the cost.
BUT I'M A CHEERLEADER
In this bubble-gum bright cult classic, a spirited teenager grappling with her sexuality is sent to a conversion camp to cure her lesbianism, but the camp’s bizarre dynamics spark a rebellious journey of empowerment and love. (BYOB Night | 21+ Event /// MONDAY | JUNE 2 | 7:30PM)
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?
In this haunting portrait of sibling rivalry, a former child star and her sister, a once-famous Hollywood actress, confront their long-brewing jealousy and bitterness within the walls of their decaying mansion.
MANILA IN THE CLAWS OF LIGHT
One of the most celebrated Filipino films of all time, Lino Brocka’s MANILA IN THE CLAWS OF LIGHT is a poignant mystery about a young man arriving at the capital of the Philippines in search of his missing girlfriend while confronting the harsh realities of surviving on the streets.
BRIDE OF CHUCKY
It’s lust at first kill for star-crossed dolls Chucky and Tiffany (Jennifer Tilly) as they stand against a world unaccepting of two toys in love in this comedic, yet still bloody, reinvention of the classic CHILD’S PLAY series.
POLYESTER
Originally released with Odorama cards, John Waters’ scrumptious satirical take on suburban life unfolds through the eyes of Francine Fishpaw (the one and only Divine), a neglected housewife whose whirlwind romances sets off a domino effect of outrageous chaos.
QUERELLE
In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film, a Belgian sailor caught up in criminal dealings is swept into an erotically charged world of desire, betrayal, and murder, leading him on an unexpected journey of self-discovery.
IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s tragic odyssey of love, identity, and self-destruction traces the final days of Elvira, a transgender woman reeling from heartbreak after her lover abruptly deserts her.
XANADU
The inspiration behind the inaugural Golden Raspberries, Olivia Newton John stars as the talented Kira, the mysterious muse of a struggling artist looking for purpose in La La Land in this legendary Hollywood hallucination that features music by ELO and the last on-screen performance by Gene Kelly. (BYOB Night | 21+ Event /// MONDAY | JUNE 9 | 7:30PM)
EXPERIMENT IN TERROR
Like the best of Angelo Badalamenti’s eerie lullabies, composer Henry Mancini’s creepy title composition haunts director Blake Edwards’ psychological thriller about a woman coerced into abetting a mysterious and sadistic bank robber in San Francisco.
REDLINE
The most dangerous underground car race sets the stage for this visually explosive anime, where a daredevil battles fierce opponents willing to unleash all-out destruction to secure the winning title.
MOONLIGHT
The humid, hectic backdrop of Miami plunges us into the world of Chiron, a young Black man navigating his way through young love, interpersonal violence, and his fragile identity as he gradually ventures into adulthood and his true self. (Community Screening - FREE)
THE WARRIORS
A costume party at a Bronx city park ends in murder and Coney Island’s The Warriors are blamed. The perpetually shirtless street gang must make a harrowing trek back to their hideout through the city that never sleeps in Walter Hill’s kinetic ‘80s-tastic action romp.
CHINESE ROULETTE
Fassbinder crafts a tense psychological drama, in which an affluent family's pristine facade unravels as a seemingly innocent game evolves into a ruthless exposéof their darkest secrets.
FOX AND HIS FRIENDS
In his poignant class drama, Fassbinder impresses as both director and titular character, Fox, a working-class man whose unexpected lottery win elevates his social status and attracts opportunists eager to exploit his newfound fortune.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
A 200-year-old vampire (Brad Pitt) will open up to a reporter about his rocky relationship with Tom Cruise and their blood-thirsty daughter before going to therapy in this gothic horror camp classic.
TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR
After success at regionals, two drag queens (Swayze, Snipes) set off for nationals in Los Angeles, taking a newcomer (Leguizamo) under their wing on a heartwarming road trip across the country to reach their big competition in time.
MURIEL'S WEDDING
Toni Collette is all of us in this one-of-a-kind, darkly funny Aussie salute to the weirdos and socially inept about a complicated misfit woman, her passion for ABBA, and her fantasy to be at the center of a big, glamorous wedding, no matter the cost or second-hand embarrassment. (BYOB Night | 21+ Event /// MONDAY | JUNE 16 | 7:30PM)
HOUSE
The idiosyncratic Nobuhiko Ôbayashi created the ultimate cult film in this fantastic haunted house thrill ride about a school girl and her six badass friends’ encounter with a most peculiar cat at the world’s worst/best sleepover party of all time.
WORLD ON A WIRE
A monumental influence for the genre, this visionary sci-fi spectacle bursting with bold colors follows a cybernetics engineer as he uncovers a corporate conspiracy behind a simulated reality computer project.
CRIMES OF PASSION
The outrageous Ken Russell (THE DEVILS) concocts a delirious erotic thriller about a fashion designer (Kathleen Turner) moonlighting as a sex worker. She attracts the attention of an obsessive soapbox preacher (Anthony Perkins) hell-bent on cleansing her of her sins.
THE THIRD GENERATION
In this sharply satirical tale of political warfare and terrorism in West Germany, a group of underground anarchists plot to kidnap an industrialist in one of Fassbinder’s most outrageous films.
BARBARELLA
Move over Spock and Kirk! Jane Fonda dazzles as the otherworldly space adventurer Barbarella, an enchanting heroine on a surreal quest to save the universe from Earth’s maniacal nemesis Durand-Durand. (BYOB Night | 21+ Event /// MONDAY | JUNE 23 | 7:30PM)
BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR
Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo co-write and star as two quirky besties who desert their small town to vacation in Vista Del Mar, only to stumble into a villain’s diabolical plot to destroy it. It's absurd.
DAKAN
Celebrated as West Africa’s first queer film, Mohamed Camara’s groundbreaking feature debut captures the heartrending journey of two young men whose forbidden love resists the societal expectations that await them.
THE BAD SEED
Enlisting nearly the entire cast that made it a Broadway hit, this over-the-top, boundary pushing, playing to the rafters horror show examines the presence of pure evil in the most precious of little girls. A foundational must-watch for all aspiring camp scholars.
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