Starring: Kim Sia, Kwak Minkyu

After her father’s death, young photographer Summer puts her camera away, unable to create art. But her passion is rekindled when she meets Yeonwoo, a charismatic soccer player who makes her shutter click. While navigating the thrills and tenderness of first love, Summer also discovers a collection of mysterious photos her father left behind–images that point to a hidden past. As she delves deeper into the life of the man she thought she knew, Summer unravels a truth that will forever change her understanding of romance, family, and the power of seeing the world–and each other–clearly.

Starring: Jayden Cheung, Erfan Shekarriz, Sebastian Mahito Soukup, Arm Anatphikorn, Zenni Corbin

In this formally assured slow-burn drama, a gay man in Hong Kong cycles through a series of lovers, each time impersonating the last man he slept with. It’s a strange but poignant way of loving: Only by pretending to be somebody else can he come close to being himself. The film unfolds in long, unbroken scenes where conversation, both awkward and intimate, takes center stage. Dialogue feels at once natural and deliberately stilted, capturing the dissonance of early encounters. Shot in gorgeous black and white, this is cinema at its most quietly daring: patient, uncomfortable, and rewarding. QUEERPANORAMA offers a haunting meditation on identity, desire, and the masks we wear to be seen.

“Sometimes when a film ends, emotions rush through one’s mind like a powerful waterfall. This is the case with Queerpanorama. In its simple premise and long unfolding scenes, it quietly hums along. Yet by the end the audacity of the storytelling becomes clear. This film announces an astute, perceptive writer and a major filmmaking voice in Jun Li.” – Murtada Elfadl, Senior Programmer

Break bread with us at our annual Brooklyn Brunch as we share stories of how food — messy or magical — shapes our lives. From unexpected dinner guests to home-cooked comfort, absurd family shenanigans, mysterious meal pals, and more, this nourishing, chaotic collection proves we are what we eat. And this time, we’re really cooking.

In The Flesh
Dir. Emily Frances Kaplan, 16 min, USA
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 Eating Of An Orange
Dir. May Kindred-Boothby, 7 min, UK
A juicy and surreal exploration of convention and sexuality told through slugs, rituals and the eating of an orange.

home
Dir. Donja R. Love, 14 min, USA
home follows T, a homeless queer teen, on the night he makes a life-changing decision in hopes of finding shelter.

Coney Island Baby
Dir. Fernando Lopez, 7 min, USA
A recently released, formerly incarcerated father tries to reconnect with his daughter & take her to Coney Island, fumbling to connect along the way—only to find Luna Park is closed.

Carrotica
Dir. Daniel Sterlin-Altman, 13 min, Germany
A teenage boy is writing an explicit gay erotica in secret in his bedroom and his mother is falling in love with a carrot. They’re doing okay… CW: Explicit sexual situations

Meal Pal
Dir. Chen Xie, 11 min, China/USA
In an empty motel after midnight, two lonely souls have a magical encounter.

Long Pork
Dir. Iris Dukatt, 14 min, USA
In a Post-Roe America where theocracy reigns, a renowned butcher meets the political predator responsible for the killing of her daughter and exacts bloody revenge, setting the stage for a revolution. CW: Transphobic language

Sunday Sauce
Dir. Matt Campanella, 14 min, USA
A repressed Italian-American father is thrust into his worst nightmare when his secret online crush shows up to his family’s Sunday dinner.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A

Starring: Sarah Nicholson, Helen Madigan, Erica Eaton, Eric Edwards, Wes Craven

Angela is haunted by guilt for the morbid bond with her brother Peter, who is destined to be a priest. In an attempt to free herself from this passion, she embarks on a descent into the infernal rounds of erotic love.

“What happens when a brother and a sister break the ultimate taboo?” And what was Wes Craven up to in the five-year gap between the release of his seminal THE LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT (1972) and THE HILLS HAVE EYES (1977)? Come find out in “Abe Snake’s” THE FIREWORKS WOMAN. Angela and Peter are siblings who’ve loved each other a little too much since they were kids. As Peter tries to move on with his life by studying to become a priest, Angela finds herself falling deeper and deeper into a life of unholy lust.

This XXX film is an important part of film history, and should be celebrated and viewed as such. Any inappropriate behavior during this screening will not be tolerated and will result in permanent banishment from Nitehawk Cinema. Forever. Thank you!

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Hong Kong vampires are nothing like western vampires. For starters, they’re not sexy creatures of the night who speak European and know which wines to order. They’re dirty corpses so stiff with rigor mortis they can’t bend their arms or legs, forced to hop after their prey, long fingernails extended in front of them, like blood-hungry pogo sticks that have to have the crap kicked out of them by a Taoist priest before they can be stuffed back into their stinky graves. Today’s movie is the greatest Hong Kong hopping vampire flick of all time, setpiece stacking up on top of setpiece as people are possessed, villagers turn into vampires, graves turn stinky, pretty lady ghosts switch sides, and a One-Eyebrowed Priest tries to keep this teetering Jenga tower of plot complications from toppling over into chaos. An all-time classic, delivering perfect Halloween vibes.