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Drama Film
Star performer

Nickel Boys

At Brooklyn Academy of Music

Fort Greene

Based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
Historic BAM venue with ornate opera house architecture
Whitehead also wrote "The Underground Railroad"

RaMell Ross brings Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel to the screen with unflinching power. Follow two Black teenagers navigating a brutal Florida reformatory during the Jim Crow era: devastating, essential cinema.

What are you into?

  • Pulitzer adaptation
  • historical drama
  • social justice cinema
  • Jim Crow era
  • Brooklyn Academy of Music
  • Fort Greene

Coming up at Brooklyn Academy of Music

  • Hope

    Hope

    Thu Nov 12

    Korean creature feature

  • Brooklyn Interns for Arts and Culture

    Brooklyn Interns for Arts and Culture

    Thu Nov 12

    Post-high school prep program

  • Word. Sound. Power in the Classroom

    Word. Sound. Power in the Classroom

    Thu Nov 12

    Teen poetry intensive

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Upcoming nearby

  • And the Dogs Were Silent: A Convening by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

    And the Dogs Were Silent: A Convening by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

    Thu, Nov 12 · 6:00 PM

    Clinton Hill

    Film screening and conversation

  • Invisible Visible 未见之见 & Silenced Sunrise: Taiwan’s Music vs. the China Factor

    Invisible Visible 未见之见 & Silenced Sunrise: Taiwan’s Music vs. the China Factor

    Thu, Nov 12 · 6:00 PM

    Fort Greene

    Documentary film screening

  • Weeksville Watch Night: True North

    Weeksville Watch Night: True North

    Thu, Nov 12 · 6:00 PM

    Crown Heights

    Free film screening

  • A Deeper Love Screening with SQS

    A Deeper Love Screening with SQS

    Thu, Nov 12 · 6:30 PM

    Williamsburg

    Miss Peppermint leads an exclusive post-screening Q&A following a private showing of the groundbreaking film A Deeper Love with SQS, complete with two house drinks and popcorn included with admission at Nitehawk Cinema Williamsburg

  • Brooklyn | Премʼєра фільму "КІЛЛХАУС " | “KILLHOUSE”

    Brooklyn | Премʼєра фільму "КІЛЛХАУС " | “KILLHOUSE”

    Thu, Nov 12 · 7:00 PM

    Bay Ridge

    Drone‑assisted rescue film premiere

  • COLD JOURNEY

    COLD JOURNEY

    Thu, Nov 12 · 7:30 PM

    Williamsburg

    1975 Indigenous Canadian film

  • The Devonsville Terror (1983)

    The Devonsville Terror (1983)

    Thu, Nov 12 · 9:30 PM

    Williamsburg

    1983 horror film screening

  • FLIGHT TO HELL

    FLIGHT TO HELL

    Thu, Nov 12 · 10:00 PM

    Williamsburg

    Flying casino horror screening

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Eat & drink nearby

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  • Friday, November 13 - Chef John Ho

    Friday, November 13 - Chef John Ho

    748 m away

    Downtown Brooklyn

    One-night chef's table dinner

  • Brunch with Paradise of Replica

    Brunch with Paradise of Replica

    874 m away

    Gowanus

    Vinyl-curated brunch beats

  • Happy Hour at Wild

    Happy Hour at Wild

    922 m away

    Park Slope

    Gluten-free happy hour bites