Christopher Makoto Yogi’s beautiful, contemplative I Was a Simple Man merges the past and present of both one character and his environment.
BAMcinemaFest
Ludi Captures How US Assimilationism Exhausts and Exploits
Set in Miami’s Little Haiti, Edson Jean’s feature debut follows a nurse on the verge of a breakdown.
What New Yorkers Are Too Afraid to Say About the Future and Climate Change
In the documentary The Hottest August, director Brett Story interviews sweaty bystanders about how the world is changing.
Exposing the Struggles of Artists on Strike Against Life
James N. Kienitz Wilkins’s experimental documentary Common Carrier finds artists balancing creative pursuits and the demands of life in New York City.
Debuts Distinguish BAMcinemaFest 2014
Opening tonight with the New York premiere of Boyhood, Richard Linklater’s highly anticipated coming-of-age tale, the sixth incarnation of BAMcinemaFest finds the festival itself approaching maturity.