Starring: Martha Brown, Morgan Campbell, Odinaka Malachi Ezeokoli, Aubin Wise, Nate Wise

In this bittersweet fairy tale about life at a crossroads, Brynn and her boyfriend Laika take an impromptu road trip in an effort to escape the general malaise and melancholy of their dead-end lives in the city. Arriving at her uncle’s cottage in the mountains, she and Laika settle in, enjoying the solitude in their new surroundings. Evening bonfires in the distance and inexplicable movements in the forest suggest they’re not as alone as they think, and soon their suspicions are confirmed when a mysterious masked character arrives at the cottage – Rue, a strange figure from Brynn’s childhood. Feeling an inexplicable pull towards Rue, she follows her friend deeper into the woods where she’s offered the kind of escape she’s been yearning for. But as her two worlds grow further and further apart, Brynn will have to decide whether to face reality and all its shortcomings or disappear into the darkness entirely.

Shot on a shoestring budget in the Blue Ridge Mountains, this debut feature from Peter Collins Campbell acts as a deconstruction of coming of age stories and a slow cinema take on magic realism.

Starring: Michael Boland, Helena Richards, Tony Spinelli, Bryan Wade

Direct from the tranquil suburbs of late 1980s New Jersey comes an obscure Shot-On-Video love story of teased hair, acid washed jeans and brutal slaughter. Stoic serial killer ‘Big Al’ has been racking up quite a resume lately, until he stumbles upon the gum-cracking Bunny, an equally cold-blooded copycat killer. It’s bloodlust at first sight as these two twisted monsters team up to embark on a perverse spree of slayings – but they will both learn the price of sadistic love on the seedy streets of the Garden State.

Hosted by Matt Desiderio of Horror Boobs with free giveaways of Blu-rays, DVDs and collectibles. Followed by an after party in Lo-Res where Desiderio will DJ an all-vinyl set.

Starring: Tang Wei, Park Hae-il, Go Kyung-Pyo

Park Chan-wook’s critically acclaimed Decision to Leave will return to cinemas for one night only, accompanied by a new pre-recorded conversation between Park Chan-wook and Academy Award-winner Bong Joon Ho (Parasite), exclusive to cinemas.

What happens when an object of suspicion becomes a case of obsession?

Winner of Cannes Best Director in 2022, Park Chan-wook (Oldboy, The Handmaiden) returns with a seductive romantic thriller that takes his renowned stylistic flair to dizzying new heights. When detective Hae-joon (Park Hae-il) arrives at a murder scene, he begins to suspect the dead man’s wife Seo-rae (Tang Wei) may know more than she initially lets on. But as he digs deeper into the investigation, Hae-joon finds himself trapped in a web of deception and desire, proving that the darkest mysteries lurk inside the human heart.

Starring: Sandra Drzymalska, Isabelle Huppert, Lorenzo Zurzolo

The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for a moment does he lose his innocence.

Starring: Sophie von Haselberg, Reshma Gajjar, Cricket Arrison, Shelley Long

The FOFIF presents a preview screening of Amanda Kramer’s sensational GIVE ME PITY! Includes a Q&A with star Sophie Von Haselberg. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

A Primetime Saturday Night Network Television Spectacular starring Sissy St. Claire! Sissy St. Claire graces the small screen for her first ever television special, an evening full of music and laughter, glamour and entertainment! But Sissy’s live event quickly begins to curdle into a psychedelic nightmare of vanity, insecurity and delusional ambition, provoked by the glowering presence of a mysterious masked man…

A Utopia x Aspect Ratio Release.

Starring: Beverly Washburn, Carol Ohmart, Lon Chaney Jr., Mary Mitchel, Quinn K. Redeker, Sid Haig, Mantan Moreland

Presented as part of The FOFIF double-feature celebrating the release of Robin Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris’ new book, The Black Guy Dies First: Black Horror Cinema from Fodder to Oscar. Recorded introduction by the authors.

“It’s the end of one era and the start of another: the literal death of the old Spook stereotype and the birth of the B.G.D.F. (Black Guy Dies First).”

In the first five minutes of Spider Baby, 1940s comic legend Mantan Moreland stars as the delivery man who quickly falls victim to the degenerated child of “Spider Baby” manor. It’s a memorable moment in a film that descends into the maddest story ever told. The Merrye family have a killer secret – something in their genes make them age backwards and become cannibals. Things are kept under control by their trusty butler until distant, greedy family relatives come to stake their claim on the property. Also starring horror legends Lon Chaney Jr, Carol Ohmart and Sid Haig, Jack Hill’s Spider Baby is the other black-and-white horror film (other: Night of the Living Dead) from 1968 that marks a significant shift with race in horror.

Want the book? Choose the book + ticket option and have it waiting at your seat! Books will also be available at the screening.

Also be sure to see the other film, Attack the Block, at Nitehawk Prospect Park on 2/28!

Pinegrove will be hosting a world premiere screening of Montclair on February 2 at 9.30pm – a concert film recorded the night of their hometown show at the Wellmont Theatre in October 2021, shot and directed by Brian Paccione.

There will also be a short Q&A with Brian and Evan Hall afterwards!

Starring: Natalia Solián, Alfonso Dosal, Mayra Batalla, Mercedes Hernández, Aída López, Martha Claudia Moreno

The Future of Film is Female presents a preview screening of Michelle Garza Cervera’s debut feature HUESERA. Q&A with Cervera after the screening. To make an additional $10 donation to The Future of Film is Female, select the “Event + Donation” ticket on the checkout screen.

Writer/Director Michelle Garza Cervera uniquely explores the complexities of first-time motherhood in her darkly affective debut feature, Huesera. Imbuing a sense of fear and loss of self that is inherent to becoming a parent, the film uses the supernatural curse of “La Huesera” to heighten Valeria (Natalia Solián) sense of anxiety.

Valeria’s joy at becoming pregnant with her first child is quickly taken away when she’s cursed by a sinister entity. As danger closes in and relationships with her family become fractured, she’s forced deeper into a chilling world of dark magic that threatens to consume her. A group of witches emerge that could be her only hope for safety and salvation, but not without grave risk.

Huesera had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival on 9 June 2022 and won the Best New Narrative Director and Nora Ephron awards.

Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Laura Poitras, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis.

Starring: Joan Crawford, Sterling Hayden, Mercedes McCambridge

On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna (Joan Crawford) owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin’ Kid (Scott Brady) and his gang. Another patron of Vienna’s establishment is Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden), a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man’s death, Emma Small (Mercedes McCambridge), Vienna’s rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna’s saloon — even without proof of her wrongdoing.