✨MARK YOUR CALENDARS ✨ Next Tuesday, February 24th, our friend and alum Elizabeth Lo's spellbinding documentary MISTRESS DISPELLER—recipient of the 2023 Rooftop Films x Irving Harvey Color Correction Grant—will make its streaming debut on The Criterion Channel!

Beyond thrilled to celebrate our friend Stephanie Ahn, whose BEDFORD PARK just took home the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Debut Feature at @sundance.org 2026! Needless to say, watching Rooftop alumni reach this kind of major milestone never, ever gets old.

Massive congrats to our friends and grantee alums Stephen P. Neary and Don Hertzfeldt—their films LIVING WITH A VISIONARY (recipient of the '23 Rooftop x Kayla Thomas Grant) and PAPER TRAIL each took home Short Film Jury Awards at @sundance.org 2026 for Animation and Creative Vision, respectively!

Outrageously exciting, as ever, to see Rooftop alums and grantees land all-too-well-deserved Oscar nominations! This year, we couldn’t be prouder of or happier for Alison, Geeta, Josh, and Sam—and we’ll be loudly cheering the four of them on from our couches come March! 🥳

With our winter fundraising officially closing at 11:59 PM, tonight is your last chance to help us head into our landmark 30th season with real momentum, fueling ambitious programming, daring voices, and unforgettable nights under the stars! 🩷 rooftopfilms.com/support 📷 @mettieostrowski.bsky.social

With winter fundraising officially closing on New Year’s Eve at 11:59 PM EST, now is your moment to help us head into the final day with real momentum—and our 30th season stronger than ever. 🩷 rooftopfilms.com/support 📷 @mettieostrowski.bsky.social

Before our winter fundraising officially closes on 12/31, your membership or donation matters more than ever. It helps us lock in the bold programming, singular locations, and unforgettable nights that turn ordinary evenings into something shared, cinematic, and alive. 🩷 rooftopfilms.com/support

Between Christmas and New Year’s, things can feel quiet. But for us? These next four days matter more than ever. ❄️ rooftopfilms.com/support

Celebrating the extraordinary Rooftop alumni and grantee filmmakers premiering their latest works at the @sundance.org Film Festival next year! 🎉

There’s only a few days left to give something that doesn’t end up in a drawer: gifted or kept for yourself, it’s a present that directly helps sustain nearly three decades of open-air storytelling and collective experience! 🎁 rooftopfilms.com/support 📷 @mettieostrowski.bsky.social

Some gifts are things. This one is a whole season. A Rooftop Films membership is time together, plans already made: sunset screenings, shared blankets, inside jokes whispered during opening credits, and nights that turn into stories told for years... 🎁 rooftopfilms.com/support 📷 Mettie Ostrowski

This Giving Tuesday, help us keep the magic alive. Head to rooftopfilms.com/support to make a donation, become a member, or give the gift of a membership while they’re still 30% off—our best offer ever, available only until midnight! 🎥 Tom Rotenberg 🎶 Sea of Daisies

We’re extending our gratitude—and our Black Friday deal. In honor of Rooftop Films’ upcoming 30th season, we’re keeping our biggest sale ever (30% off all memberships) live through Cyber Monday, December 1st! rooftopfilms.com/support 📷 Sean DiSerio

Rooftop Films is gearing up for a landmark 30th season in 2026, and we’re kicking off the celebration early with an extra special Black Friday offer: every membership tier is 30% off, now through November 28th! Head to rooftopfilms.com/support to take advantage of the offer today.

Next Friday, November 14th, join us for one more one-night-only revival of the Queens Drive-In* with Francisco Moya & @nysci.bsky.social—don't miss an extra special presentation of MEN IN BLACK, Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1997 genre-bending classic! 👽🕴️ 🎟️ tinyurl.com/5d6m4zzf

We’re so excited to welcome you to the spectacular rooftop park at Pier 57 for THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS—but, unfortunately, due to the decidedly inclement weather being forecast for the original date, the screening has been moved forward one week, to Thursday, 11/6. 🎟️ tinyurl.com/a4whd84k

Next Thursday, October 30th, join us on Pier 57's incredible rooftop park for an extra special silent* (and free!) Halloweentime screening of Henry Selick’s 1993 stop-motion musical masterpiece, THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS! 🎃💀🎄 🎟️ tinyurl.com/a4whd84k

I would like…if I may…to thank everyone who braved the October chill to celebrate the 50th anniversary of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW with us on Gansevoort Plaza last night—a truly perfect audience for a truly timeless classic! 🫦

Monday, October 20th, do the Time Warp with us on the cobblestones as we celebrate 50 years of Richard O’Brien’s legendary cult classic musical on the big screen! @ebottcher.bsky.social 🎟️ tinyurl.com/5ew8f6jf

Thirty summers. Thousands of films. Countless unforgettable nights. In 2026, Rooftop Films will celebrate its 30th Summer Series—a landmark season marking three decades of daring new cinema under the New York City sky—and submissions are officially open!

Due to the arrival of Hurricane Erin tomorrow, our presentation of MISTRESS DISPELLER has officially been postponed to next Wednesday, August 27th. All currently-held tickets will automatically transfer to the new date. Thank you for understanding, and stay dry!

Don’t miss your chance to be part of the inner circle: tonight (Monday, August 18th), join us on the roof of New Design High School in the L.E.S. for LURKER, presented in partnership with our friends at MUBI! Secure your seats while you still can... tinyurl.com/6aw7tp29

This Saturday, August 16th, Eleanor Mortimer’s HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE—recipient of the 2022 Rooftop Films Water Tower Feature Film Grant—screens (for free!) at Brooklyn Army Terminal! Secure your RSVPs now, via tinyurl.com/wsdxprs3.

Due to the inclement weather forecasted for this evening, our screening of Emily Mkrtichian’s THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT at Brooklyn Commons has been postponed to Friday, September 19th. All currently-held RSVPs will automatically transfer to the new date. Thank you for understanding, and stay dry!

This Saturday, August 9th, meet us in Industry City for the premiere of Rooftop's newest shorts program, URL IRL: TALES FROM THE TIMELINE! From brainrot to belonging, these shorts dive into how the virtual shapes our IRL identities, connections, delusions, and discoveries... 🎟️ tinyurl.com/4s5z6fy7

August at Rooftop is packed with standout documentaries, star-studded indie features, international discoveries, and 2 stellar shorts programs: our legendary Closing Night celebration in Green-Wood, and a brand-new showcase premiering at Industry City! 🎟️ rooftopfilms.com/calendar

Due to the extreme heat advisory and evening thunderstorms forecasted for tomorrow, NEW YORK NON-FICTION 2025 has officially been postponed to this coming Monday, July 28th. 🎟️ tinyurl.com/c76bz3n3

Tomorrow (Wednesday, July 23rd), meet us in Brooklyn Commons for the return of TRAPPED! 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... 🎟️ tinyurl.com/32asjb5v

New #DisabilityPrideMonth event... ReelAbilities and @rooftopfilms.bsky.social present the NYC premiere of THE TALLEST DWARF! Join us at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan on July 31 at 6 PM for a rooftop reception, followed by an indoor intro, screening, and Q&A at 7:15 PM. TICKETS 🎟️ zurl.co/NT1F5

An absolutely extraordinary turn-out for our annual presentation of LOVE IS STRANGE: ROMANCE SHORTS, last night on the Gansevoort cobbles with the Meatpacking District!

This Wednesday (6/25), don't miss our 3rd annual QUEERLY BELOVED—co-presented by the Fort Greene Park Conservancy & NewFest! Unfolding in 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. 🎟️ tinyurl.com/55c5tc5p

Scenes from last Saturday’s New York premiere of BUNNYLOVR, the dreamy, daring, and deeply felt feature debut from writer/director/star Katarina Zhu! 🐇 📷 @mettieostrowski.bsky.social

Good morning! Despite the fact that rain is forecasted throughout the day, please note that—thanks to the indoor rain space on-site—tonight's New York premiere presentation of BUNNYLOVR will continue on as planned, regardless of whether we ultimately can screen it on the venue's rooftop or not.

Tomorrow (Saturday, June 14th), meet us in the Lower East Side for the New York premiere of Katarina Zhu's BUNNYLOVR! 🐇 Featuring a special post-show Q&A with the writer/director/star and fellow actor Perry Yung, secure your 🎟️ now, before they're all gone: tinyurl.com/4y5t5jrh

Ascend to the Can Factory rooftop for the moonlit revival of POETIC PORTRAITS! Tender, intimate, and formally bold, there short docu-portraits trace love, loss & identity across continents and generations, lyrically exploring the lives we carry & the selves we leave behind. 🎟️ tinyurl.com/bdepavvf

We’re excited to share that Rooftop’s own Adnaan Wasey and Saidah Russell will be speaking at this year’s Tribeca Storytelling Summit! Get your passes now, via tribecafilm.com/storytellingsummit!

Life ends. Love lingers. CEMETERY SHORTS—one of our most beloved annual programs—returns to historic Green-Wood this Saturday, June 7th! Join us for a deeply heartfelt mix of documentary, animation, and fiction that spans the globe and slips beyond the veil... 🎟️ tinyurl.com/y6cxvhh4

Sink your teeth into scenes from last night’s US premiere presentation of Sean Byrne’s DANGEROUS ANIMALS! 🦈 📷 Sean DiSerio

Tomorrow (Tuesday, June 3rd), join us at @culturelablic.bsky.social for the US premiere of @ifcfilms.bsky.social & @shudder.com’s DANGEROUS ANIMALS, featuring an in-person Q&A with star Jai Courtney! 🦈 Limited RSVPs remain via tinyurl.com/yhvfexz6. Secure yours now, before it’s too late!

Unfortunately, due to unsafe weather conditions on-site, tonight's drive-in/walk-up hybrid presentation of THE WILD ROBOT at the New York Hall of Science has officially been postponed. (1/2)

In the mood for more unforgettable outdoor screenings like last night’s, in Fort Greene Park? Head to rooftopfilms.com to explore all the incredible events we’ve got on deck this summer—and secure your tickets, while you still can!

June is absolutely stacked with Rooftop magic: bold new indie features, boundary-pushing shorts programs, and beloved community rep screenings, under the stars and all across the greatest city in the world! Tickets and RSVPs are flying, so lock yours in now, while you can: rooftopfilms.com/calendar

Next Thursday, June 5th, join us on the roof of Brooklyn Grange Sunset Park for the latest addition to our celebrated short film programming: FARM-TO-SCREEN SHORTS! 🎟️ tinyurl.com/37xj8t7w

Join us for our third annual presentation of VIDAS VIBRANTES: SHORTS EN ESPAÑOL on 6/4! Rhythms born of heartbreak and hope pulse through this bold collection of Spanish-language shorts—stories of resilience, longing & reinvention, told across Mexico, the Caribbean & beyond. 🎟 tinyurl.com/4388d474

The Date With Dad program sponsors dances for young Black girls and their fathers—including the incarcerated ones. Daughters looks at one such event, a dance that reunites four girls with the dads they love. ❤️ Daughters is a #PeabodyWinner peabodyawards.com/award-profil... @rooftopfilms.bsky.social

It's almost showtime (again)... 🎟️ tinyurl.com/38xz9wek

New York City-based Gold Casio harnesses irresistible indie-dance melodies and high-energy performances to seduce listeners into obeying the dark forces of alien disco—and they’re taking the stage tonight as part of our 2025 Opening Night celebration in Green-Wood Cemetery! 🪩 🎟️ tinyurl.com/38xz9wek

Due to tomorrow's forecast, our screening of IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE in Fort Greene Park has been postponed to 5/29! All other details are unchanged. Thank you for understanding, stay dry, and we'll see you on the new date! Haven't had a chance to RSVP yet? Secure yours now: tinyurl.com/mwn46pks

The day’s finally here! Head to @indiewire.com for the exclusive scoop on the lineup for our 29th Summer Series, and stay tuned—there’s even more incredible programming on the way. Trust us: you won’t want to miss a thing. 🥳 www.indiewire.com/news/breakin...