ART OF BROOKLYN Film Festival Will Present 55 Independent Films

The ART OF BROOKLYN Film Festival is back for its 16th season, screening 55 new independent films from local, national, and international filmmakers over 10 days. Feature films and shorts in every genre will screen in venues across Brooklyn, and stream online for audiences anywhere in the US. The 2026 AoBFF runs June 1-10.

"The borough's signature independent film festival" (BK Reader) opens with the East Coast premiere of the dark comedy feature "Dead Or Dying", which follows a diverse collection of Los Angelenos as they struggle to cope with a city where people have been dying off in droves. Co-directed by Dublin-based filmmakers John Purcell and Malin von Euler-Hogan, who met while living in New York and performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Chelsea and the East Village. The film will screen at Greenpoint's beloved indie venue Film Noir Cinema, Tuesday June 2 at 7PM.

AoBFF's 2026 venues are Film Noir Cinema and 100 Sutton in Greenpoint, the Tom Kane Theatre in Industry City, and the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Other new feature films include:

• The US Premiere of the new action film from Japan "Traverse 2" screening June 2 at the Tom Kane Theatre in Industry City, steps from Japan Village.
• "The Flesh People" (Horror, Comedy): Two roommates, desperate to feel successful in the milieu of New York City, turn to macabre money-making schemes by performing underground surgeries and serving human meat to unsuspecting customers.
• The East Coast Premiere of "Growing Up Slowly": Play is the number one enabler of children's social, mental, physical, and emotional health. This new documentary aims to remind anyone who touches children's lives of the importance of play in classrooms, in communities, and in our daily lives.
• "Berman's March" (Comedy/Drama): A working-class drifter takes a road trip to reunite with his old friends at a cabin, encountering other souls populating the highways of a changing America. Will his friends be the same people he remembers?

AoBFF closes Wed. June 10 at Greenpoint's 100 Sutton with the World Premiere of the Feature comedy/mystery "Regulars". On Halloween in a Dominican-owned dive bar facing NYC gentrification, misfit regulars get locked inside and find a dead body. The night erupts into an absurd, culture-soaked whodunnit where everyone has secrets...and everyone's a suspect.

Short film blocks have been expertly curated around themes like family ties, friendships old and new, comedy, magical realism. drama. thrillers, documentary profiles of artists, experimental film, and more.

Interactive film guide, full schedule, tickets at:
https://aobff26.eventive.org/welcome

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