Bronx World Film Cycle, Summer 2025: Pioneering Arthouse Film Programme Returns to Bronx Communities with a Marquée of Local and International Works
DATE & TIME: (Aug. 27-Sept. 1)
VENUES: Bronx Council on the Arts, Andrew Freedman Home
Bronx, New York. July 20, 2025. – As summer draws to a close Bronx communities can enjoy a marqueé of contemporary arthouse films by filmmakers of color, women and youth both local and international when Bronx World Film Cycle, Summer 2025, the borough’s pioneer “roving cinémathéque,” comes to various venues from August 27th through Labor Day, September 1st.
Modeled on the organization’s flagship Winter Cycle held in Manhattan since its founding in 2011, the Summer Cycle launched in The Bronx in 2017, and has made it a signature of its programming to bring culturally relevant films to the borough’s diverse enclaves, filling a critical void in cultural services and arts venues for almost 1.5 million Bronxites.
Bronx World Film Cycle, Summer 2025 offers a programme of 18 films by 15 directors from 12 countries, and looks forward to welcoming audiences from throughout the borough and beyond.
Admission to Bronx World Film Cycle, Summer 2025 is free. Donations accepted.
WED. AUGUST 27, 2025
Bronx Council on the Arts
5:30p: Special Programme (off-site)
6p: Networking Reception
6:30p Opening BCA PGM 1
TRT 47:32
• SoulTron the Traveler (DIR/SCR Pierre Guillet. Black and white. USA. 2025. Experimental sci/fi. 6:43)
• Deli (SCR/DIR Max García, USA, Unreleased, 14:02. Comedy/drama.)
• Machine for Life (SCR/DIR Ruth Somalo, USA, 2012, color, 4:32. Comedy, fiction.)
• Improvisa (SCR/DIR Maria Alves Tobias, BRAZIL, 2024, 19:00. Drama).
Q & A with Directors
7:30p BCA PGM 2 TRT 37’
• White Sun (SCR/DIR Layan Aljambi, USA, 2025. Dance fantasy film. 6:43).
• A Serious Comedy (DIR/SCR Lander Camarero, SPAIN, 2025, fiction, 30’).
Q & A with Lander Camarero
THURS. AUGUST 28, 2025
Bronx Council on the Arts
5:30p: Special Programme (off-site)
6p: Networking Reception
6:30p BCA PGM 3 TRT 41:35
• Re-rooted (SCR/DIR Christian Spurling/Delphine Coudray, IRELAND, 2025, 6:31. Animation/Satire.)
• Hotel Diary - Staircase (SCR/DIR Nataša Prosenc Stearns, USA, 2018, 2:13. experimental, art film.)
• Beach Birds: The Shaman, The Guardian, The Journey (SCR/DIR Ivana Larrosa, USA/SPAIN, 2024, 15:00. Drama).
• We Are Small (SCR/DIR Fernanda Galindo, MEXICO, 2025, 10:00. Drama).
• The Anjiro - Sic Fiat Lux Nam Homines per Deo Damnati Ego Illis Novi Promethei Huius Mundi (SCR/DIR Andriaminosoa Hary Joel Rakotovelo, MADAGASCAR, 2024, 7:37. Animation Satire).
7:30p BCA PGM 4 TRT 41’
• UNTITLED/TORSO (SCR/DIR Nataša Prosenc Stearn, SLOVENIA/USA, 2017, color, 3:35. Experimental art film.)
• Hand of God (DIR/SCR Nathaniel Sullivan. Avant garde. 2025. 6:47)
• Baba (SCR/DIR Amath Ndiaye, SENEGAL, 2025, 30:00. Animation).
Q & A with Directors Present
SUN. AUGUST 31, 2025
Andrew Freedman Home
1:00p: Art Fair
2:30p: Live Broadcast (on-site)
3:00p Opening, AFH PGM 1 TRT 56:34
• Soultron the Traveler (DIR/SCR Pierre Guillet. Black and white. USA. 2025. Experimental sci/fi. 6:43)
• Deli (SCR/DIR Max García, USA, Unreleased, 14:02. Comedy.)
• Some Sci-Fi Film (DIR/SCR Matej Žitkovic. CROATIA. 2025. Lo-budget sci/fi. 11:43)
• Machine for Life (SCR/DIR Ruth Somalo, USA, 2012, color, 4:32. Comedy, fiction.)
• Improvisa (SCR/DIR Maria Alves Tobias, BRAZIL, 2024, 19:00. Drama).
Q & A (Guillet, García and Somalo)
4:15p AFH PGM 2 TRT 60’
• Triassic Cuddle (SCR/DIR Iulia Teodora Turicianu, ROMANIA, 2024, 5:28. Animation.)
• Re-rooted (SCR/DIR Christian Spurling/Delphine Coudray, IRELAND, 2025, 6:31. Animation/Satire.)
• White Sun (DIR/SCR Layan Aljambi, USA, 2025. Dance fantasy film. 6:43)
• Muntjac (DIR/SCR Finn Darrell. UK, 2025, experimental, 24’56”).
• Gentle Wind (SCR/DIR Marta Arjona/Maite Blasco, SPAIN, 2023, color, 8:00. Dance film).
• The Anjiro - Sic Fiat Lux Nam Homines per Deo Damnati Ego Illis Novi Promethei Huius Mundi (SCR/DIR Andriaminosoa Hary Joel Rakotovelo, MADAGASCAR, 2024, 7:37. Animation Satire).
Q & A via Remote (if possible)
SUN. AUGUST 31, 2025
Andrew Freedman Home
5:30p AFH PGM 3 TRT 30’
• Hotel Diary - Staircase (SCR/DIR Nataša Prosenc Stearns, USA, 2018, 2:13. Experimental, art film.)
• We Are Small (SCR/DIR Fernanda Galindo, MEXICO, 2025, 10:00. Drama).
• UNTITLED/TORSO (SCR/DIR Nataša Prosenc Stearn, SLOVENIA/USA, 2017, color, 3:35. Experimental art film.)
• Beach Birds: The Shaman, The Guardian, The Journey (SCR/DIR Ivana Larrosa, USA/SPAIN, 2024, 15:00. Experimental, drama).
Q & A (Ivana Larrrosa)
6:30p AFH PGM 4TRT 30’
• What is Enough (SCR/DIR Nataša Prosenc Stearn, USA, 2021, color, 26:26. Documentary, experimental.)
7:00p AFH PGM 5 TRT 76’
• Hand of God (DIR/SCR Nathaniel Sullivan. Avant garde. 2025. 6:47)
• A Serious Comedy (SCR/DIR Lander Camarero, IRAQ/SPAIN 2014, 29:59. Fiction)
• 17 O’Clock(SCR/DIR Flaka Kokolli, NORTH MACEDONIA, 2024, 9:00. Animation).
• Baba (SCR/DIR Amath Ndiaye, SENEGAL, 2025, 30:00. Animation).
Q & A Lander Camarero
