16th Annual Art Of Brooklyn Film Fest Returns June 1-10 with 55 New Indies

NEW YORK - Rezul -- ART OF BROOKLYN, "The borough's signature independent film festival" (BK Reader), returns June 1-10 for its 16th season. AoBFF opens with the East Coast premiere of Dead Or Dying, a dark comedy about a collection of Los Angelenos struggling 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 performing at NYC's Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. The film will screen at Greenpoint's Film Noir Cinema, Tuesday June 2 at 7PM.

New feature films include:

• US Premiere of Japanese action film "Traverse 2" screening June 3 in Industry City.
• "The Flesh People" (Horror, Comedy): Two broke and desperate NYC roommates turn to performing underground surgeries and serving human meat to unsuspecting customers.
• East Coast Premiere of "Growing Up Slowly": This documentary aims to highlight the importance of play in children's emotional, physical, and social development.
• "Berman's March" (Comedy/Drama): A working-class drifter takes a road trip to reunite with old friends, encountering other souls populating the highways of a changing America. Will his friends be the same people he remembers?

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.

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"This year's film program underscores how important independent art is, made by humans telling human stories from diverse points of view. The talent is so impressive," said AoBFF co-founder Anthony DeVito. "We're looking forward to screening at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema and Tom Kane Theatre for the first time, and returning to Film Noir Cinema and 100 Sutton. All are wonderful spaces to experience indie film."

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.

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Discounted passes are available for in-person screenings, as well as online encore presentations which can be streamed throughout the US.

Interactive film guide, full schedule, tickets at:

https://aobff26.eventive.org/welcome