Starring: Ana Serradilla, Juan Pablo Velasco, Ricardo Galina, Jesús Zavala, Paloma Woolrich, Armando Silva, José Sefami

Recently widowed, a single mother leaves her two pre-teen sons home alone so she can attend a work function. What starts off as a fun night for the boys begins spiraling out of control once an entity starts messing with them in increasingly malevolent ways, kicking their sibling rivalry into full gear via mistrust, paranoia, and abject terror. As playful as it is mean-spirited, Mexican filmmaker’s Emilio Portes’s return to horror after his well-received 2017 film BELZEBUTH plays like an early Amblin production from Hell in all the most delightfully nasty ways. —Matt Barone

Starring: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Deborah Richter, Vincent Klyn, Alex Daniels, Dayle Haddon

Step into a rusted-out, plague-ridden future where hope is scarce, denim is eternal, and only one man can roundhouse kick the world back into shape!

Jean-Claude Van Damme is Gibson Rickenbacker, a lone gunslinger with abs of steel and a heart full of vengeance in Albert Pyun’s Cyborg, the 1989 sci-fi martial arts fever dream that mashes up Mad Max, kung fu, and robot guts. There’s a killer synth score, slow-mo spin kicks, evil pirates, cybernetic secrets, and enough shirtless brooding to power a small generator.

Starring: Michelle Dockery, Joanne Froggatt, Elizabeth McGovern, Paul Giamatti, Dominic West, Hugh Bonneville, Joely Richardson, Laura Carmichael

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, the cinematic return of the global phenomenon, follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s. When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.

In partnership Nitehawk Cinema, The Gotham is proud to present its second annual Shorts-to-Features Showcase. Eighteen short films will be shown in their entirety for Film Lovers, Filmmakers and Industry. The slate includes work from actress Margaret Cho producing Seoul Switch, Emily McCann Lesser (How to Shoot a Ghost) presenting If I Die in America, Tory Lenosky (Resurrection) presenting In The Flesh (Project Market Title:V is for Victoria), and the 2024 Sundance winner The Masterpiece (Project Market Title: The Third Kind) by director Àlex Lora.

Each of the blocks will be followed by a brief Q&A with the filmmakers

Loser, Drama  – 11 mins
Loser follows 22 year-old Alice, who works at a frozen yogurt shop, on what turns out to be an unforgettable day of her life.

Places I’ve Called My Own, Family Drama – 29 mins
A portrait of a queer woman who returns home to Mumbai, from the US, for her father’s funeral.

The Other Side (Project Market Title: Lost Boys), Based on a True Story – 17 mins
Set against the Ethiopian abandoned children crisis, two orphan brothers are faced with the reality of never being adopted. Inspired by a true story.

In The Flesh (Project Market Title: V is for Victoria), Dramatic Thriller – 15 mins
The perfect housewife has a secret: She’s obsessed with expensive meat, and the local butcher who knows how to handle it. When her dream of a chance encounter with the butcher comes true, the cracks in her home life are exposed.

The Ballad of Tita and the Machines, Sci-Fi – 15 mins
When Tita, an elderly fieldworker, reluctantly hires an AI humanoid to fill in for her picking strawberries, she attracts the engineers’ attention because their humanoids cannot do her back-breaking work.

Rainbow Girls, Drama – 16 mins
As San Francisco’s tech boom gentrifies their city, three young black trans women decide to take matters into their own hands, staging an audacious heist targeting the city’s most exclusive luxury brands.

In partnership Nitehawk Cinema, The Gotham is proud to present its second annual Shorts-to-Features Showcase. Eighteen short films will be shown in their entirety for Film Lovers, Filmmakers and Industry. The slate includes work from actress Margaret Cho producing Seoul Switch, Emily McCann Lesser (How to Shoot a Ghost) presenting If I Die in America, Tory Lenosky (Resurrection) presenting In The Flesh (Project Market Title:V is for Victoria), and the 2024 Sundance winner The Masterpiece (Project Market Title: The Third Kind) by director Àlex Lora.

Each of the blocks will be followed by a brief Q&A with the filmmakers

Four Nights and a Fire (Project Market Title: Spiral), Horror – 12 mins
A young Ojibwe photographer stubbornly takes on the responsibility of keeping a sacred fire alive for four consecutive days and nights in mourning of his father. His father’s spirit tries to reach him from the other side.

Americanized, Coming of Age Drama – 17 mins
Amid Oakland’s hip hop scene, a Chinese American girl struggles to find a sense of belonging – on and off the court.

Corpse Fishing, Coming of Age – 16 mins
In search of closure, a desperate teenager strikes a deal to go fishing for corpses with a stranger.

Asia A, Character Driven Drama – 20 mins
A recent spinal cord injury patient struggles to reconcile his sense of self-worth with his new reality as a paraplegic.

Queerbait, Thriller – 10 mins
A precocious classics student is invited to dinner after he piques the interest of a tenured professor. But when his teacher’s mentorship starts to push boundaries, he’s forced to make a choice: protect his academic future, or preserve his dignity?

Work, LGBTQ – 13 mins
Unable to move on from a breakup, Gabi impulsively drops into an old job, where she unexpectedly runs into a friend from her past.