CineVet Showcase

Tickets are free to the public and will be available at the IFC Center box office starting at noon on Tuesday, July 7, while supplies last.

Join us as we celebrate veteran voices on July 7 for a special edition of the CineVet Veteran Film Showcase, co-presented by The New School’s Center for Military Affiliated Students, AMC Global Media’s Future of Film initiative, and IFC Center.  This gathering celebrates veteran filmmakers and the powerful stories they’re bringing to the screen.

Screening in honor of Fleet Week and the International Naval Review, the showcase will feature seven veteran-made short films:

THE SMALL HOURS (dir. Andrew Coughlin, U.S. Army Veteran)
REALM OF UNKNOWNS (dir. Sean Ryan, U.S. Army Veteran and panelist)
I AM THE WARRIOR (dir. Kevin Resnick, U.S. Air Force Veteran and panelist)
DULCE ET DECORUM EST (dir. Walter Haussner, U.S. Air Force Veteran)
SOLEDAD (dir. Jon Navarro, U.S. Army Veteran)
LOVELY LOLA JEAN (dir. Andrew Wiscombe, U.S. Army Veteran and panelist)
HONOR SONG (dir. Ryan Begay, U.S. Air Force Veteran and panelist)

Filmmakers will take part in a panel discussion following the screening moderated by CineVet director Curtis J. Dorval, U.S. Air Force Veteran

Bully

Screening on 35mm!

The true story of a group of Florida teenagers who conspired to kill an abusive classmate who used psychological, physical and sexual violence against them.

Staff Pick by Chris Hickey, usher

Screening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026

The Departed

Martin Scorsese directs an all-star cast in this action-packed thriller set in Boston, where a long-simmering hostility between the police department and an Irish-American gang led by Costello (Jack Nicholson) is primed to explode. The fuse is lit when a gangster (Matt Damon) is chosen to infiltrate the police force–and a young cop (Leonardo DiCaprio) goes undercover within the gang. Now, when the two moles uncover each other’s identity, the battle begins.?

Screening as part of Late Night Favorites: Summer 2026

Sheep in the Box

Two years after losing their son Kakeru, Otone and her husband Kensuke take into their lives a humanoid from a company that rents humanoids to bereaved families as replacements for lost loved ones. The robot looks and behaves exactly like Kakeru, with Otone embracing its arrival as Kensuke struggles to accept it. Living with “him” seems to restore the flow of time within the family, yet gradually exposes the unspoken wounds and lingering regrets each parent carries after the loss. All the while, he begins to slip away to meet other humanoid children, unnoticed by the parents.

The Samurai and the Prisoner

Friday, July 31 at 6:05: Q&A with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa after the screening

Friday, July 31 at 9:25: Extended introduction by director Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Sunday, August 2 at 2:40: Q&A with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa after the screening

Monday, August 3 at 6:05: Q&A with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa after the screening

When Lord Murashige Araki (Masahiro Motoki) rises up against the tyrannical Nobunaga Oda (Masaki Suda), he finds himself besieged within the walls of his own castle. Isolated, he is confronted with a series of mysterious crimes that shatter the fragile order of his court, plunging the fortress into fear and suspicion. With Oda’s army closing in and a traitor hiding among his ranks, Murashige is forced into an uneasy alliance with Kanbei Kuroda (Masaki Suda), a brilliant yet dangerous strategist held prisoner in the dungeon. Helped by his wife Chiyoho (Yuriko Yoshitaka) and his most loyal generals, Murashige must uncover the truth before the castle falls.

The Producers

Celebrate Mel Brooks’ 100th birthday on Sunday, June 28 with his Oscar-winning film THE PRODUCERS (1967), starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilde and screening in arthouses all across the continent in tribute to this comedy legend.

Born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, Mel Brooks (borrowing his mother’s maiden name, Brookman) worked the Catskills resorts, wrote for Sid Caesar’s programs, and created The 2000 Year-Old Man, The Critic, and Get Smart before launching his all-timer film career with THE PRODUCERS in 1968.

Once the King of The Great White Way, Max Bialystock (Zero Mostel) is reduced to romancing old ladies to finance his next flop show. But when nervous accountant Leopold Bloom (Gene Wilder) surmises that more money could be made from a flop than a hit, the next step is to produce the Busby Berkeley-esque musical Springtime for Hitler and to cast stoned-out Flower Child “LSD” (Dick Shawn) in the lead. A surefire flop—or is it? Writer/director Brooks nabbed an Oscar® for Best Original Screenplay in 1968, while his movie skyrocketed from controversial cult comedy to Classic, now on the National Film Registry and umpteen lists of the funniest movies ever made, with Mostel and Wilder considered the greatest comedy team since Laurel & Hardy and The Marx Brothers.

Unforgiven

Retired Old West gunslinger Will Munny reluctantly takes on one last job to avenge an injustice with the help of his old partner and a young would-be gunman calling himself “The Schofield Kid”.

Staff Pick by Zak Koerner, usher

Screening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026

The Panic in Needle Park

New York City, circa 1970. Bobby and Helen meet and fall in love. He’s a native New Yorker; she’s from Indiana. He’s a streetwise, small-time criminal who has done jail time and dabbled in “hard” drugs. But she’s not an innocent either.

Staff Pick by Eder Cortes, usher

Screening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026

SLC Punk

It’s 1985 and Stevo is that rare animal, a punk rocker in the Mormon stronghold of Salt Lake City, Utah. He just graduated from college with honors and now his life is a nutty roller coaster ride of rock shows, stealing cars, beating up rednecks and non-stop partying with his buddy, Heroin Bob, and his girlfriend. But with the scene getting lame and Stevo going nowhere fast, he has to put his punk ideals to the test. With a choice between “No Future” and Harvard Law School, what’s a guy with blue hair supposed to do?

Staff Pick by Miles Contreras, usher

Screening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026

Elephant

A variety of adolescents at a suburban high school drift through a seemingly uneventful day, until two students arrive with violent intentions.

Staff Pick by Lee Emmerich, projectionist

Screening as part of our series Staff Picks 2026