Starring: Robyn Nevin, Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote

A woman links her mother’s increasingly volatile behavior to an evil presence at their family’s decaying country home.

The annual Future of Film is Female’s Filmmaker Screening is the perfect opportunity to learn more about the work we do at The FOFIF to achieve gender equality in the film industry. Our fourth annual program celebrates seven filmmakers who have received support from The FOFIF’s Short Film Fund and will give insight into what we have planned for the future. The evening includes a Q&A with the filmmakers, a fundraising raffle, and afterparty!

PROGRAM
Introduction by Caryn Coleman (Founder, The FOFIF)

Jalena Keane-Lee – BARRIO CHINO HAVANA
LaTajh Weaver – BUDGET PARADISE
Chloë Levine – BLOOM
A.K. Espada – I COULD JUST DIE AND EVERYTHING WOULD BE ALL RIGHT
Giovanna Molina – QUAKER
Eren Gülfidan – DORION
Karina Dandashi – BABA I’M FINE

TICKET TIERS
Ticket tiers not only get you into the screening but each have additional benefits! We have program zines, private cocktail reception, reserved seating options and more – See which one is perfect for you:

SUNFISH | Friend Ticket – $25.00
MI VIDA LOCA | Community Ticket – $50.00
THE GRADUATES | Supporter Ticket – $100.00
HEDDA | Ultra Supporter – $250.00

Remember that ALL proceeds go towards The FOFIF Short Film Fund, Exhibition, and Distribution Programs. (And they’re tax deductible)! 

“One of the funniest shows in NYC” – BestNewYorkComedy.com

Comedian Kevin Maher returns to Nitehawk Williamsburg with an all-new holiday spectacular. Get into the Christmas spirit with a night of Yuletide surprises.

See why SyFy called Kevin “an insane genius” in the series DailyGrindhouse described as “TED Talks for Midnight Movies.”

Join us for a one-of-a-kind, one-night-only comedy-variety show celebrating the most wonderful time of the year.

With special guests: 

• Johnathan Appel (writer, Last Week Tonight, New Yorker, McSweeney’s)
• Bret Berg (Creative Director, The Museum of Home Video) 
• Becky D’Anna (co-host Director’s Take: A Sony Pictures Podcast)
• Amanda Lehr (writer, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s) 
• Jeff Lewonczyk (writer, editor, and co-founder of literary broadsheet slips slips)
• Johnny Pomato (co-host, “Authorized” podcast)
• Steve Young (comedy writer, The Simpsons, Letterman; Olive the Other Reindeer)

*Arrive at 6:30 for a custom Christmas pre-show/kickoff video by edited by Camila Jones.

Starring: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Jonathan Fuller, Jessica Dollarhide

An American family (Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Jessica Dollarhide) that has suffered tragedy inherits an Italian castle complete with bloodthirsty monster.

Stuart Gordon’s Castle Freak turns 30 this year, and we couldn’t let 2025 end without celebrating! Brooklyn Horror Society and the Puppet Masters/Castle Freaks podcast are proud to present this 1995 peak Full Moon feature in all of its gnarly, gory glory! Stuart Gordon, Dennis Paoli, Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton (the team behind 1985’s cult classic Re-Animator) reunited a decade later to bring you a truly quintessential piece of home video horror. Free event posters will be handed out to all attendees, and more surprises surrounding this event will be announced in the near future. We want to ensure everyone shows up to this very special screening of Castle Freak hideous, hungry and loose!

NoBudge is happy to present a program of eight short films from a group of emerging indie filmmakers mostly based in New York. The lineup explores a range of styles and tones, presenting narrative dramas with documentary portraits and a taste of animation. Each film is a NYC or Brooklyn premiere and all filmmakers will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A and Afterparty.

NoBudge is an online platform spotlighting the best in low-budget indie filmmaking. “One of the best places to sample what’s happening in low-budget cinema worldwide,” says Glenn Kenny of The New York Times. Its mission is to provide a supportive home for emerging indie filmmakers working with limited resources and without major industry connections, and to be a trusted discovery platform.

When I Get Home
Brooklyn Premiere
Director Nuala Sanchez present.
A young couple discusses being new parents and their own mortality.
(7 min)

Geza
NY Premiere
Director Zimam Alemenew present.
A young woman struggles to manage her grief while mourning the loss of her mother, attempting to gain a sense of her identity before she spirals further into isolation.
(11 min)

This is Nuts
NY Premiere
Director Zach Romeo present.
A young man seeks answers after he finds truck nuts affixed to his car.
(7 min)

The Waiting Room
NY Premiere
Director Jonas Bishop Hayes present.
A film about grief and trying to find a path to acceptance, no matter how knotty and uncertain that path may be.
(13 min)

Sweet
NY Premiere
Director Isabela de la Grana present.
Judy told a cowboy she loved him. He didn’t say anything. So she cut off her tongue.
(9 min)

The Superintendent
NY Premiere
Director Evan David Dominguez present.
Felix, a young building superintendent in Bensonhurst, struggles to keep his job while supporting his dying grandfather.
(18 min)

Mint Condition
NY Premiere
Director Sam Brodsky present.
A disaffected young graduate sells rare books on the black market, launching him into a madcap literary adventure across the city.
(17 min)

It Will Happen To Us Again
Brooklyn Premiere
Director Sarah Bloom present.
A struggling artist returns to her stifling hometown where she must come to terms with all that she left behind.
(15 min)

Starring: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut

Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) and Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) are employees at Matuschek and Company, a general store in Budapest. Klara and Alfred are constantly at odds with each other, butting heads and disagreeing on almost everything. Both are enamored of their respective pen pals, who serve as welcome distractions in their lives. Little do they know, they are each the other’s pen pal and, despite outward differences, have unwittingly fallen in love through their letters.

Starring: Jack Oakie, W.C. Fields, Ben Turpin, Lyda Roberti, George Barber, Andy Clyde, Hank Mann

W. C. Fields stars as an eccentric strongman leading his broke, fake country at the 1932 Olympic Games in Million Dollar Legs, a wild satire of politics, patriotism, and professional sports! Far off in the hinterlands, the humble nation of Klopstokia is short on dough – but rich with athletes! Thankfully, American salesman Migg Tweeny (Jack Oakie) hatches a scheme to repair the country’s coffers with Olympic gold medals – but only if he can whip those Klopstokian amateurs into shape!

Brimming with sight gags and nonsense dialogue, Million Dollar Legs deserves a gold medal for its well-deserved place among the pre-code era’s most surreal and anarchic screwball comedies.

Starring: Archie Madekwe, Théodore Pellerin, Sunny Suljic

Love and obsession are two sides of the same coin in this daring thriller from The Bear writer-producer Alex Russell, featuring rising stars Archie Madekwe and Théodore Pellerin. In a glitzy LA ruled by social currency, Lurker luxuriates in the suspense and the dark irony of celebrity worship.

Starring: Kathleen Chalfant, Carolyn Michelle, Andy McQueen, H. Jon Benjamin

Ruth (Kathleen Chalfant), a retired cook, prepares breakfast in her sunny and cozy kitchen — a dish she seems to have made many times before, although small and puzzling errors now punctuate her comfortable routine. When her son (H. Jon Benjamin) arrives to dine with her, she mistakes him for a suitor. Their “date” takes them to an assisted living facility, which Ruth does not remember that she had previously selected for herself. Among her fellow memory care residents, Ruth feels lost and adrift, certain she has found herself somewhere she does not belong. As she slowly begins to accept the warmth and support of care workers Vanessa (Carolyn Michelle) and Brian (Andy McQueen), she finds new ways to ground herself in her body, even as her mind embarks on a journey all its own. Writer-director Sarah Friedland’s coming-of-old-age feature compassionately follows the winding path of octogenarian Ruth’s shifting memories and desires while remaining rooted in her sage perspective.