Bronx World Film, Inc.

10/11/2026

Today is the day! 🍎 Join us this Saturday, October 10, at the Episcopal Actors' Guild Hall, where from 3 PM (NYC time) we'll be enjoying screenings of Croatian films, including my film "Svijet pjeva Labinu" ("The World Sings to Labin"). Afterwards, from 5:30 PM, I'll be performing live. ✨ I'm looking forward to this evening of film and music, and to a perfect Saturday!

📍 Exact location:
2nd Floor, Little Church Around the Corner
1 East 29th Street (btw. Fifth and Madison Avenues)
Bronx World Film, Inc.

10/10/2026

Elis Lovric

09/15/2026

09/06/2026

FINAL SCREENING TONIGHT ON CITY ISLAND, THE BRONX’S “NAUTICAL VILLAGE,” CLOSES BRONX WORLD FILM CYCLE, SUMMER 26

Last night we welcomed neighbors of all ages and persuasions at picturesque Loreto Playground in Morris Park, including local community leaders, all of whom praised the quality of the films and the presentation. We thank Dr. Camelia and Morris Park Business Improvement District for invaluable collaboration that made it possible for us to hold a memorable outdoor screening event despite the challenges on the way there.
Tonight we take the roving cinémathèque to Ambrosini Field on City Island for the final screening of Bronx World Film Cycle. Put City Island on your map if it isn’t there already. Step into a time capsule just off the coasts of The Bronx and soak in the nautical culture that makes it one of the most distinctive places in the borough. Nearby you have Orchard Beach and its newly restored pavilion, which promises to light up with concerts as it did yesteryear. This whole area is exciting ground for exploration on a mountain bike, so suit up and pedal out before the cold weather hits.
For full information on the films screening tomorrow evening, visit our Marquee page. We look forward to welcoming you.
“The arts are neither a luxury nor an afterthought. They are the markers of any civilized society.”
Arthouse Film for Integral Human Development

09/04/2026

AN EVENING OF ART HOUSE OUTDOORS AT LORETO PLAYGROUND, IN ONE OF THE BRONX’S MOST PICTURESQUE “WALKABLE” NEIGHBORHOODS

May we entice you to join us tomorrow evening in one of The Bronx’s most picturesque walkable neighborhoods, at Loreto Playground in Morris Park, for what promises to be a beautiful night of film outdoors?
We’ll be playing music from early evening in the southwest quadrant of the park, just up from the bocce court that speaks to the days when this neighborhood spoke Italian, Calabrese, Sicilian and later, Albanian (both branches). Nowadays you’re likely to hear Arabic, Bangla and Spanish thrown in the mix, and the experience is a heady one as you realize this is the pulse of the biggest change to come over this area in several generations.
When the sun sets, we’ll screen a light-hearted 60-minute programme, so by around 9 pm you’ll be free to chat with friends on a bench or make yourself at home at any of the restaurants and small shops that line Morris Park Avenue where you’ll find an unusual assortment of world cuisine.
If you’re one of the bold ones who took our advice and rode up from Manhattan on the BxM 10, you can take that same bus home on the north side up until 11 pm.
We look forward to welcoming you. For full information on the films screening tomorrow evening, visit our Marquee page link below.

https://www.bronxworldfilm.org/marquebwfcycle
"The arts are neither a luxury nor an afterthought. They are the markers of any civilized society."
Arthouse Film for Integral Human Development

09/04/2026

FINAL PERMITS APPROVED FOR BRONX WORLD FILM CYCLE, SUMMER ’26

We are happy to announce that after almost two weeks of back-and-forth communications and negotiations with Bronx staff of the Department of Parks & Recreation and the attendant setbacks in programming and promotion, we finally secured permit approval for the two dates and park venues above.
These last two screenings bring Bronx World Film Cycle, Summer ’26 to a close. We have a lot of work ahead still to garner the respect from local leadership that our work merits, yet for now we will raise a glass, toast to continuity and to greeting those of you who can join us this weekend.
For the adventurous who wish to see another side of The Bronx, make a day trip to either destination, Loreto Playground in the Morris Park district or Ambrosini Field on City Island. Both can be reached easily on the BxM interborough express buses, which depart from Madison Avenue between 23rd - 25th streets in Manhattan and take a bit over an hour to reach The Bronx. Both offer distinctive character, stunning vistas, wonderful dining options and a great outing. For a fuller picture of the venues and their location check our Summer Venues page:

https://www.bronxworldfilm.org/summervenues
Bronx World Film wishes to thank the Morris Park BID and Dr. Camelia Tepelus for the invaluable support and partnership in this process, along with staff from the Department of Parks & Recreation in The Bronx who, attentive to our protestations over the outlandish regulations and fees, still worked with us to move programming ahead.
We approached the offices of City Council Member Shirley Aldebol and Assembly Member John Zaccaro, Jr., our local elected officials, for assistance with the many problems in this process, and regrettably did not see any action of consequence on our behalf. We look to them for a much more proactive stance in support of our initiative in the future.
The arts are neither a luxury nor an afterthought. They are the markers of any civilized society.
Arthouse Film for Integral Human Development

09/02/2026

UPDATE ON BRONX WORLD FILM CYCLE, SUMMER '26.

To our communities, colleagues and supporters:

Thank you for your continued support and patience. We are fully engaged in solving the short-term problem of ensuring that the screenings scheduled for this weekend, Saturday and Sunday September 5 and 6, do in fact take place, and to that end are speaking to local elected officials. We seek a quick, streamlined solution and will keep you informed of developments.
Rest assured that once Bronx World Film Cycle, Summer '26 has finished, we will take on and challenge the profound systemic injustices that our experience this year has revealed operating here in The Bronx, specifically in the Department of Parks and Recreation's new permitting system. As promised, we will publish a detailed report on this matter for the benefit of all of those who serve their communities despite the many adversities placed in their way by a system that meets our efforts with apathy and indolence. We look forward to joining forces with others in our sector to ensure an end to this paradigm.
The arts are neither a luxury nor an afterthought. They are the markers of any civilized society.
Arthouse Film for Integral Human Development

08/28/2026

BREAKING NEWS: BRONX WORLD FILM CYCLE, SUMMER ’26

A Second Cancellation, Brought About by A Bureaucracy Hostile to Small Arts Organizations, Threatens Ninth Summer of The Bronx’s Pioneering Art House Cinémathèque

Bronx World Film regrets to inform Bronx communities that the screening scheduled for tomorrow Saturday August 29th at Williamsbridge Oval as part of Bronx World Film Cycle, Summer '26 has been canceled due to a series of unwieldy new bureaucratic processes, regulations and fees that have made it impossible for a small, volunteer-run organization like ours to bring our world-class programmes to the many culturally underserved communities of the Bronx on this occasion.
The situation now also threatens our two remaining screenings scheduled for Saturday September 5th at Loreto Playground in Morris Park and Sunday September 6th at Ambrosini Field on City Island. Bronx World Film Cycle is the product of months and months of work and expenditure of personal resources, including travel to film festivals and maintaining personal contact with our network of world-class, award-winning film artists, many of whom have entrusted this Bronx-based organization with their New York or US premieres when they could perfectly well place their works in festivals that would give them greater mileage. The bungling of this bureaucracy threatens this organization’s hard-earned reputation for seriousness and integrity, the fruit of a decade and a half of labor.
In coming days we will report in greater detail on systems and processes put in place recently by the Department of Parks & Recreation that throttle and exclude small organizations from participating actively in the city’s cultural life, even when large, well-funded organizations often cannot match the outsize contributions that small organizations make. This information should concern the entire independent creative sector, particularly in the borough of The Bronx with its extreme vulnerability.
We will continue to build our model of arthouse film for integral human development and look forward to a fruitful struggle.

08/22/2026

BACKSTORY OF THE POSTER FOR BRONX WORLD FILM CYCLE, SUMMER ’26

THE BRONX’S ORIGINAL “ROVING CINÉMATHÈQUE”

August 26 – September 6th

Here at long last is the poster for Bronx World Film Cycle, Summer ’26, the original, trailblazing, bona fide “roving cinémathèque” started by in 2017 and which as of next week crisscrosses the borough again with cutting-edge art house, screening in five parks over two weeks. Follow for ongoing reports.
That artwork, though? It’s Julie C. Ortiz, ally through thick and thin since the Summer Cycle launch, a South Bronx Boricua actress, dancer, visual artist and entrepreneur who went from exhibiting at one of our Manhattan events to Associate Director. We create together. My role? To spark a conversation around where the organization stands, the current landscape, where and when an event takes place and such.
She produces a first image. A stream of back-and-forths and refinements ensues. We’re trained actors. We talk and listen. We’re also visual artists, although I only dare call myself that now AFTER reviewing decades of cell phone imagery and AFTER organizing my first-ever exhibit recently. We’re technicians, we’re intuitive and that chemistry informs our process.
We lavish attention on posters because artists on the periphery don’t get a second chance to make a good first impression. Polish theater posters in particular inspire me as an art form unto itself that rises above the merely technical function. We strive for a central image that signals ingenuity, efficiency, heart, good taste and respect for the art form, like the art house we screen. Its luster does not fade.
In this image, summer lightness rises from a gritty urban landscape. We’ve been in the shadows for fifteen years and I pledged that in 2026 we’d break out. We’re there now, “coming soon to a neighborhood near you.” Join us at a park screening. Feel moved? Make a donation and help us keep the work going to bring art house culture to communities in great need.

Full information at www.bronxworldfilm.org.

01/18/2026

ABOUT TODAY’S VENUE:
Sankofa Haus


2422 Third Ave
Bronx, NY 10454

Bronx World Film Cycle closes this evening with screenings at another extraordinary Bronx venue in a most unusual location.

is in the South Bronx, specifically Mott Haven district and even more cartographically acccurate still, in the Port Morris section.

This is where the few tattered remnants of The Bronx's old industrial waterfront meet the new Bronx with its gleaming residential spires, a little island of newcomers whose presence will surely change the character of the borough in the coming years.

The institution is the brainchild of Michael Eagen, a DJ who has lived and traveled all over the world and now offers the residents of the area a world-class multiuse venue that has to be experienced from the inside.

Thank you Michael for granting us the venue today. We look forward to greeting you all there!

4p Programme 14 TRT 87 min.

• Kumaran (SCR/DIR KJ Rajesh, INDIA, 16 min. Drama)

• Surprise Screening (USA, 2025, 8 min. Sports drama.)

• Sounds Like a Fairy Tale (SCR/DIR, Eva Kübar, ESTONIA, 26 min. Documentary)

• Spray Can Stories (SCR/DIR Emmitt Thrower, USA, 2025, documentary, 37’33)

6:15p Programme 15 TRT 60’

• The Stream XIV (SCR/DIR Hiroya Sakurai, JAPAN, 8 min. Experimental)

• Dream Diary (SCR/DIR Alana Gill. USA, 2025, 3 min. Micrométrage)

• Kabuki (SCR/DIR Tiago Minamisawa, BRAZIL, 2025. 12:49 min. Animation)

• Dreams Cut Short (SCR/DIR Bee Harwell. USA, 2025, 2 min. 51 sec. Micrométrage)

• Come and Find Me (Dir. Carmine Carpenito, SWITZERLAND. 20 minutes. Horror)

Q & A with Carmine Carpenito

7:30p Programme 16 TRT 38’

• Spray Can Stories (DIR/SCR Emmitt Thrower, USA, 2025, 37’33. Documentary)
FULL PROGRAMME AND TICKETS
https://www.bronxworldfilm.org/marquebwfcycle