The Outwaters
Tuesday, July 21 at 7:20: Q&A with director Robbie Banfitch after the screening
WE ALL DIE IN THE DARK
Let chaos take you to a place beyond the hills, where thunder echoes off the canyons and choirs of coyotes pierce the midnight sky.
Deep in the heart of the Mojave Desert, under a scorching blood-red sun, four travelers prepare their campsite. They’ve come to create art and commune with nature. They’ve come to laugh and sing and love. They’ve come….to vanish!
One fateful night, Michelle, Robbie, Scott and Ange are thrust into a feverish whirlwind of flayed flesh and mind-boggling monstrosities, the likes of which mere human minds simply cannot fathom! On a remote stretch of land once covered by shallow, Paleozoic seas, what horrors might surface?
An owl’s cry… The rattlesnake’s hiss… A wail in the darkness…
This is no mirage. This is really happening…
From Presence to Power Book Launch: Rashad Robinson in conversation with Jane Fonda
Monday, July 27 at 7:00: A conversation, Q&A, and book signing with social justice leader and author Rashad Robinson, joined by actor and activist Jane Fonda, celebrating the release of his new book, From Presence to Power: How to Take On the Fights That Matter—and Win (One World | Penguin Random House).
Ticket includes one copy of From Presence to Power, to be picked up at IFC Center on the night of the event.
What does it take to win social change, especially now?
From Presence to Power is a uniquely practical, strategic and deeply informed roadmap for understanding how power actually works in today’s world—and for gaining power and using it for good. The book answers the questions so many people have been asking: Why are we losing so much? What do we need to change about the ways we fight back, in order to win the big changes we want to see? When we do win something, how can we make sure it lasts?
Drawing on two decades on the frontlines of social change, Robinson takes readers behind the scenes of campaigns that took on Mark Zuckerberg and Big Tech, Hollywood, and the political establishment, and helped launch the progressive prosecutor movement—revealing why some fights for change stall while others succeed. It’s a guide for everyone: from politicos and social justice advocates, to community members organizing locally, to influencers building momentum for change, to everyday people figuring out where to focus their energy and donations.
“Rashad doesn’t just offer a diagnosis of the problems with how power works in this country; he offers clear, actionable ideas for how regular people can do something about it,” says Jane Fonda. “This is a must-read for anyone who wants things to change.”
Join Rashad and Jane in celebrating the book launch on July 27th.
A Q&A and book signing will follow the conversation.
Learn more about the book at www.FromPresenceToPower.com
Crows are White
For over a thousand years, a secretive Buddhist sect has lived atop Mount Hiei in Japan, where monks perform punishing rituals in pursuit of enlightenment.
A filmmaker arrives, hoping to capture their hidden world. Instead, he’s rejected. With his access suddenly revoked, he turns to the only monk willing to speak with him: a low-ranking misfit who prefers Slayer and ice cream to meditation.
When the two men form an unlikely friendship, the filmmaker is pushed to confront a secret he’s kept for nearly a decade. CROWS ARE WHITE is a darkly funny, deeply human story about faith, truth, and the contradictions we all carry.
The Big Cheese
A scrappy team of eccentric American cheesemongers defies tradition to take on the world’s top cheese masters at the Mondial du Fromage, battling cultural clashes, personal struggles, and melting cheese in pursuit of respect, redemption, and a historic victory.
Official Selection: DOC NYC
Michael Mann’s Manhunter: The Final Cut
New 40th Anniversary 4K Restoration!
Mann’s genre-defining serial-killer thriller returns in a stunning new restoration overseen by the filmmaker himself. A retired criminal profiler (William Petersen) reluctantly returns to the FBI to help track down a murderer and is forced to consult an expert—the imprisoned Dr. Hannibal Lecktor (Brian Cox in a subtly chilling performance). Adapted from the first of Thomas Harris’s Lecktor novels, MANHUNTER’s supporting cast includes Tom Noonan as the hunted killer, and three-time Oscar nominee Joan Allen.
“Here, in only his third feature, [Mann] is at his very best.” – Empire Magazine
Lost Chapters
After years spent abroad, Ena returns to Caracas where she finds her grandmother losing her memory and her father searching for rare Venezuelan books. She discovers a postcard in her father’s bookshop and sets off in search of a forgotten writer.
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
Monday, July 20 at 6:30: Sneak Preview + Q&A with director Hirokazu Kore-eda after the screening
Thursday, July 23 at 6:30: Sneak Preview + Q&A with director Hirokazu Kore-eda after the screening
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.