Gala Screenings
Dazzling and highly-anticipated, our Galas bring the biggest and brightest names to the silver screen. The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) headlines this year’s selection – the uncompromising, urgent winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Other must-sees include Richard Linklater’s fond look at the making of Jean Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960), Jodie Foster as a psychiatrist investigating a client’s death, Rose Byrne’s award‐winning performance depicting anxious motherhood, and an enchanting adaptation of a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale in The Ice Tower (2025).
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Using real call recordings, this urgent and devastating film restages the final moments of a child trapped in Gaza, capturing the human cost of conflict with clarity, compassion and power.
Is This Thing On?
As their marriage dissolves, Alex and Tess face midlife, parenthood and second chances in this tender, funny love story set against the backdrop of New York’s vibrant comedy scene.
The History of Sound
From Kentucky to coastal Maine, two young men fall in love while preserving fading folk songs. A hauntingly beautiful tale of music, memory and longing in the shadow of war.
Alpha
When a teen returns home with a mysterious tattoo, her mother’s fears deepen as a strange virus begins turning bodies to marble. A haunting, visceral tale from the queen of French body horror.
Nouvelle Vague
Linklater recreates the wild making of Breathless in this stylish, sharp-edged homage to Godard and the French New Wave—a chaotic, captivating dive into cinematic rebellion and restless genius.
The Ice Tower
When runaway Jeanne hides in a 1970s film studio, she meets a star who might be the Snow Queen herself. A visually stunning, dreamlike tribute to cinema’s power to enchant and transform.
A Private Life
When a patient dies under suspicious circumstances, a Paris-based analyst dives into a tangled mystery. Jodie Foster leads this twisty, darkly funny whodunnit with style and sharp intelligence.
Peter Hujar's Day
In 1974 New York, photographer Peter Hujar recounts a single day in a candid, intimate conversation with writer Linda Rosenkrantz. A quiet, riveting portrait of art, friendship and everyday life.
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Rose Byrne shines in this tense, tender portrait of a mother pushed to the brink. A gripping psychological thriller that explores the quiet terror of holding everything together.