Ms. 45
45th Anniversary!
Eerie and unforgettable, MS. 45 is an essential snapshot of New York City in the early 1980s from Abel Ferrara (Driller Killer, The Addiction)—one of the greatest and most unique living filmmakers on the planet. Thana (Zoë Tamerlis) is a garment worker who’s had the ultimate bad day, as she’s assaulted twice in visceral fashion. Shocked to her core, Thana’s nights become consumed by vengeful prowls through the city, which result in men winding up on the wrong end of a bullet. Knocking the DEATH WISH rip-off subgenre into a new stratosphere, MS. 45 showcases a haunting performance from Tamerlis and Ferrara’s knack for transforming limited resources into genre revolutions.
Screening as part of Late Night Favorites: Winter 2025-2026
Omaha (Open Captioning)
Please note that there are additional showtimes of OMAHA that screen without open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here.
A young girl and her brother are awoken by their father and loaded into the car on an early morning in 2008. As they road trip across the American West, she discovers the truth about their seemingly spontaneous journey. A poignant, coming-of-age drama starring John Magaro (Past Lives, September 5), Molly Belle Wright, and Wyatt Solis.
Official selection: Sundance Film Festival
Honey Bunch
Monday, February 2 at 7:00: Co-presented by The Future of Film is Female and followed by a talk back with Caryn Coleman and journalist Katie Rife
Diana’s husband is taking her to an experimental trauma facility deep in the wilderness, but she can’t remember why…. As her memories begin to creep back in, so do some unwelcome and sinister truths about her marriage.
This special screening of HONEY BUNCH is the latest installment in “Shudder Showcase,” our monthly series that serves up special advance screenings of some of Shudder’s most exciting and provocative upcoming titles. The program offers sneak previews of some of the most talked-about genre films of the year in optimal conditions—on the big screen, in the company of fans. Each screening has free popcorn for Shudder subscribers
Omaha
Please note that there are additional showtimes of OMAHA that screen with open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For those showtimes, click here.
A young girl and her brother are awoken by their father and loaded into the car on an early morning in 2008. As they road trip across the American West, she discovers the truth about their seemingly spontaneous journey. A poignant, coming-of-age drama starring John Magaro (Past Lives, September 5), Molly Belle Wright, and Wyatt Solis.
Official selection: Sundance Film Festival
The Piano Teacher
Academy Award–winning Austrian director Michael Haneke shifted his focus from the social to the psychological for this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control, an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek. Haneke finds his match in Isabelle Huppert, who delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother, in a claustrophobically codependent relationship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masochistic urges only voyeuristically until she meets Walter (Benoît Magimel), a young student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life. A critical breakthrough for Haneke, The Piano Teacher—which won the Grand Prix as well as dual acting awards for its stars at Cannes—is a formalist masterwork that remains a shocking sensation.
Screening as part of Late Night Favorites: Winter 2025-2026
Unless Something Goes Terribly Wrong
NYC PREMIERE
Tuesday, February 10 at 7:00: Q&A with co-director and cinematographer Alex Wolf Lewis and producer Justin Levy
Winner of the Audience award at the 2025 Camden Film Festival, Unless Something Goes Terribly Wrong is a buddy comedy about American safeguards and the thankless pursuit of making a better world. As often decades-old policies and procedures face dismantling, it’s worth asking – what (or who) keeps us safe? Filmmakers Kaitlyn Schwalje and Alex Wolf Lewis take us inside one wastewater facility and the funny, close-knit, and inventive individuals working to keep it all running. The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with co-director and cinematographer Alexis Lewis and producer Justin Levy.
Screening as part of DOC NYC Selects Winter 2026
Blue Velvet Revisited
Tuesday, February 17 at 7:00: The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation
In 1985, German filmmaker Peter Braatz was invited to Wilmington, North Carolina, to document the filming of David Lynch’s Blue Velvet on Super 8, in photographs and through audio recordings, with the full participation of Lynch and actors Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern and Jack Nance. Three decades later, Braatz has assembled this treasure trove of never-before-seen material into a wildly unconventional, yet still accessible, meditation on the cult classic film.
Screening as part of DOC NYC Selects Winter 2026
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
NYC PREMIERE
Tuesday, February 3 at 7:00: Q&A with director David Alvarado, producer Lauren DeFilippo, and subject Lou Diamond Phillips after the screening
Against political resistance and industry skepticism, Luis Valdez pushes Chicano storytelling from the fields to the film screen with Zoot Suit and La Bamba, creating iconic works that challenge, celebrate, and expand America’s story. The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with director David Alvarado, producer Lauren DeFilippo, and film subject Lou Diamond Phillips.
Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival
Screening as part of DOC NYC Selects Winter 2026
A Life Illuminated
NYC PREMIERE
Tuesday, March 3 at 7:00: The screening will be followed by an on-stage conversation with director/producer Tasha Van Zandt and producer Sebastian Zeck.
A LIFE ILLUMINATED follows trailblazing marine biologist Dr. Edie Widder – one of the first women in her field and one of the first humans to explore the ocean’s twilight zone – as she descends 3,300 feet into the ocean’s darkest depths. From capturing the first-ever footage of the elusive giant squid to unveiling the glowing mysteries of deep-sea bioluminescence, Edie embarks on her most daring quest yet: to document a bioluminescent phenomenon that could forever change how we understand life on Earth.
Screening as part of DOC NYC Selects Winter 2026
Left-Handed Girl
A single mother and her two daughters return to Taipei after several years of living in the countryside to open a stand at a buzzing night market. Each in their way will have to adapt to this new environment to make ends meet and maintain the family unity. But when their traditional grandfather forbids his youngest left-handed granddaughter from using her “devil hand,” generations of family secrets begin to unravel.
Official Selection: Cannes Film Festival
Offical submission for Taiwan, Academy Awards