These 36 activities are worth leaving the house for.
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October 15 at 4pm +8
Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM · Fort Greene • $17
Nathan Fielder turns his lens on Elizabeth Holmes's final 34 days of freedom, and what starts as a portrait of an enigmatic felon spirals into a three-year odyssey. Nearly three hours of Fielder's signature cringe-meets-profound documentary style at BAM's gorgeous cinema.
October 15 at 5pm +2
Brooklyn Academy of Music · Fort Greene
On Tel Aviv rooftops at night, the people who built Israel's killing systems in Gaza confess on camera. From the filmmakers behind No Other Land, this is testimony you weren't meant to hear.
October 16 at 6pm +5
The Billie Holiday Theatre · Bedford-Stuyvesant • $20
BedStuy's homegrown film fest returns to the historic Billie Holiday Theatre for three days of indie features, shorts, and docs from diverse voices. Filmmaker panels and an opening night cocktail reception seal the deal.
October 17 at 8pm (This weekend)
Alpine Cinema · Bay Ridge • Free
Two Brooklyn filmmakers adopted a pregnant stray and discovered there's no system for saving NYC's street cats: you are the system. Their free documentary follows the rescuers and activists doing the work.
October 21 at 6:30pm
Residency Unlimited · Carroll Gardens
A film about the Cold War-era Poles who cosplayed as Native Americans, and the writer who claimed Indigenous blood. Xawery Deskur's "The Arrow" digs into cultural appropriation, then Deskur and author Ru Marshall unpack its strange parallels with Carlos Castaneda.
Browse Brooklyn neighborhood by neighborhood, get ideas just for you, or ask me anything.
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Wed, Oct 21 · 7:00 PM
Powerhouse Arts · Gowanus
Free
Wed, Oct 21 · 7:30 PM
Spectacle · Williamsburg
Thu, Oct 22 · 6:00 PM
Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club Boathouse · Gowanus
Thu, Nov 5 · 7:00 PM
Cobble Hill Cinemas · Carroll Gardens
$20
Fri, Nov 20 · 3:00 PM
Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM · Fort Greene
$17
Fri, Nov 20 · 3:00 PM
BAM Rose Cinemas · Fort Greene
Mon, Mar 22 · 2:00 PM
252 Green St #3 · Greenpoint
Brooklyn Academy of Music · Fort Greene
Nitehawk Cinema · Williamsburg
Msgr. McGolrick Park · Greenpoint
Emily Warren Roebling Plaza · Fulton Ferry District
Emily Warren Roebling Plaza · Fulton Ferry District
Brooklyn Academy of Music · Fort Greene
Light Industry · East Williamsburg
Nitehawk Cinema · Williamsburg
Brooklyn Academy of Music · Fort Greene
Emily Warren Roebling Plaza · Fulton Ferry District
Brooklyn Academy of Music · Fort Greene
Brooklyn Academy of Music · Fort Greene
$17
BAM Rose Cinemas · Fort Greene
$17
Emily Warren Roebling Plaza · Fulton Ferry District
Brooklyn Academy of Music · Fort Greene
Pioneer Works · Red Hook
Emily Warren Roebling Plaza · Fulton Ferry District
Brooklyn Academy of Music · Fort Greene
Emily Warren Roebling Plaza · Fulton Ferry District
Nitehawk Cinema · Park Slope
Brooklyn Academy of Music · Fort Greene
Emily Warren Roebling Plaza · Fulton Ferry District
Peter Jay Sharp Building - BAM · Fort Greene
$17
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