FINAL 24 HOURS! Help us reach our 30th Anniversary @kickstarter.com goal by tomorrow (Monday, May 11th) at 5 PM EST—or every dollar disappears. After three decades of building a home for independent film in New York City, we cannot let that happen. 🩷 tinyurl.com/Rooftop30Kickstarter

Help us reach our 30th Anniversary @kickstarter.com goal by Monday, May 11th—or we lose it all! Head to tinyurl.com/Rooftop30Kickstarter now to discover all the extraordinary donor rewards still available, starting at just $30.

Just added to our @kickstarter.com: celebrate Rooftop alum David Lowery and three of his most evocative worlds with a special fan pack from our friends at A24! There’s only one of these sets available, so head to tinyurl.com/RooftopXLowery and snatch it up now, before somebody else does...

Make your friends stay jealous, babe, and own an iconic print of ANORA—a 13 x 19” Silver stock poster with holographic tinsel—signed by Academy Award-winners Sean Baker & Mikey Madison! There’s only one available, so head to tinyurl.com/RooftopXAnora and get it now, before somebody else does!

Now presenting a true collector’s piece for our 30th anniversary: we’ve teamed up with extraordinary animation artist (and Rooftop alum) Zhen Li on a limited-edition tee, up for pre-order now exclusively on @kickstarter.com! 🩷 tinyurl.com/RooftopXZhen

30 years. One unforgettable Opening Night. THIS IS WHAT WE MEAN BY SHORT FILMS 2026 returns to Green-Wood on 5/15, and tickets are on sale now! Celebrate the start of our landmark 30th season with an evening of new short films under the stars, three decades in the making. 🎟️ tinyurl.com/43v7xkd2

Head to our @kickstarter.com now if you haven’t already, and take advantage of our best-ever, lowest-possible-price, 2-for-$30 Opening Night ticket deal before it vanishes after this weekend—and prices go up to $25 each! Your future-self will thank you. 🩷 tinyurl.com/3y62az53

From DIY beginnings to a beloved New York film institution, join us in launching our 30th anniversary season and building the future of Rooftop on @kickstarter.com! Head to tinyurl.com/mvnpnzmj to help us reach our fundraising goal and bring the next thirty years to life:

Missed Katarina Zhu's divine debut feature when we screened it last June? Made our presentation, but loved the film so much you've been desperate to see it again? Either way, you're in luck: BUNNYLOVR is now playing at the Quad, w/ special Q&As happening through this week! 🐰 bunnylovr.utopia.film

Here's to our dear alums and friends Ira Sachs (THE MAN I LOVE), Jane Schoenbrun (TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA), & Quentin Dupieux (FULL PHIL), whose latest features are premiering at Festival de Cannes 2026 in the Compétition, Un Certain Regard, and Séances de Minuit sections, respectively!

On Thursday, April 30th, join us at The Old American Can Factory for the New York premiere of THERE THERE, a multichannel video installation from renowned independent filmmaker Andrew Bujalski (SUPPORT THE GIRLS, FUNNY HA HA)! 🎟️ tinyurl.com/mpbkpw7b

Spring has officially arrived—and summer isn’t far behind. For a very limited time, all membership levels are 15% off through this Monday, March 23rd. Join us for our landmark 30th season and help keep independent cinema thriving! 🌷 rooftopfilms.com/support

Here's to our alum and friend Sam A. Davis, whose incredible short THE SINGERS took home an Academy Award last night in a rare tie—the seventh in Oscar history—for Best Live Action Short Film!

To celebrate the first-ever Cinema Week—running from 3/20-26—our friends at the NYC Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment are funding 5k free movie tickets at independent theaters across the city in partnership with Art House New York! See participating theaters and learn more at arthouseny.org.

✨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!