Produced by The Midnight Archive, CATCHING THE GHOST follows photographer Shannon Taggart, a New York based photographer whose globe-spanning work focuses on spiritualism, mediumship and seances.  This film gives a brief history of the real-life Victorian phenomena of spirit photography.

Starring: Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc

Cold War is a passionate love story between a man and a woman who meet in the ruins of post-war Poland. With vastly different backgrounds and temperaments, they are fatefully mismatched and yet condemned to each other. Set against the background of the Cold War in 1950s Poland, Berlin, Yugoslavia and Paris, it’s the tale of a couple separated by politics, character flaws and unfortunate twists of fate – an impossible love story in impossible times.

Starring: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee

Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury, who defied stereotypes and shattered convention to become one of the most beloved entertainers on the planet. The film traces the meteoric rise of the band through their iconic songs and revolutionary sound, their near-implosion as Mercury’s lifestyle spirals out of control, and their triumphant reunion on the eve of Live Aid, where Mercury, facing a life-threatening illness, leads the band in one of the greatest performances in the history of rock music. In the process, cementing the legacy of a band that were always more like a family, and who continue to inspire outsiders, dreamers and music lovers to this day.

THE BUREAU OF CREATIVE WORKS is an invaluable, inspirational and international collection of short films by award-winning emerging filmmakers. This 100 minute, one night only event consists of a mix of never-before-seen short films as well as festival favorites from Sundance, Berlinale, AFI Docs and more.

The BUREAU presents: program series is a traveling short film program curated by THE BUREAU OF CREATIVE WORKS, with the goal of bringing exciting filmmakers to new audiences both in a theatrical setting, and later through a digital release in partnership with an online distribution platform.

Films

Note: controversial subject matter included

For the 14th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on February 8. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. The Academy Awards take place Sunday, Feb. 24^th.

Madre
Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Maria del Puy Alvarado, Spain, 19 minutes
A single mother receives a call from her seven-year-old son who is on vacation with his father in the French Basque Country. At first the call is a cause for joy, but soon it becomes a nightmare when the child tells her that he is alone, cannot find his father, and a stranger is approaching.

Fauve
Jeremy Comte and Maria Gracia Turgeon, Canada, 17 minutes
Set in a surface mine, two boys sink into a seemingly innocent power game with Mother Nature as the sole observer. Alone in the wild, the two boys play around. Complicity evolves into a confrontation where one wants power over the other. This game will not prove as harmless as they thought.

Marguerite
Marianne Farley and Marie-Helene Panisset, Canada, 19 minutes
An aging woman and her nurse develop a friendship that inspires her to unearth unacknowledged longing, and helps her make peace with her past.

Detainment
Vincent Lambe and Darren Mahon, Ireland, 30 minutes
Two ten year-old boys are detained by police under suspicion of abducting and murdering a toddler. A true story based on interview transcripts from the James Bulger case which shocked the world in 1993 and continues to incite public outrage across the UK today.

Skin
Guy Nattiv and Jaime Ray Newman, USA, 20 minutes
A small supermarket in a blue collar town, a black man smiles at a 10 year old white boy across the checkout aisle. This innocuous moment sends two gangs into a ruthless war that ends with a shocking backlash.

For the 14th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on February 8. This is your annual chance to predict the winners (and have the edge in your Oscar pool)! A perennial hit with audiences around the country and the world, don’t miss this year’s selection of shorts. The Academy Awards take place Sunday, Feb. 24^th.

Bao – Domee Shi and Becky Neimann-Cobb, USA, 8 minutes

Late Afternoon – Louise Bagnall and Nuria Gonzalez Blanco, Ireland, 10 minutes

Animal Behaviour – Alison Snowden and David Fine, Canada, 14 minutes

Weekends – Trevor Jimenez, USA, 16 minutes

One Small Step – Andrew Chesworth and Bobby Pontillas, USA, 8 minutes

PLUS A SELECTION OF ADDITIONAL ANIMATED SHORTS:

Wishing Box – 6 minutes

Tweet Tweet – 11 minutes

Starring: Brie Larson, Gemma Chan, Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch

Screening in 2D

Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy

In Before Sunrise, the romance of a generation sparks suddenly when a wayfaring wannabe writer from America (Ethan Hawke) convinces a fetching Parisian college student (Julie Delpy) to disembark with him for a whirlwind trip through Vienna. The pair amble through the city’s streets, hopping from one landmark to the next as they wax poetic about their expectations in love and life knowing full well that their blossoming romance comes with fast approaching expiration date.

Nitehawk is proud to present the premiere of NUKE YORK VOLUME ONE: EAT THE RICH ON LSD, a Punk Rock Mondo Movie about the police state, the real New York City and the disgusting habit of gentrification. Featuring live performances and music videos by the bands of Toxic State Records including Anasazi, GMK, L.O.T.I.O.N., Creeping Dose, Survival, Eyes of Hate, Hank Wood & The Hammerheads, La Misma, Dawn of Humans, Mommy, Sadist, Crazy Spirit and other lewd acts.