ART OF BROOKLYN Film Festival Features 55 Independent Films for 16th Season

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The festival opens with the East Coast premiere of dark comedy DEAD OR DYING at Film Noir Cinema in Greenpoint.

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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.

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"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:

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

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

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_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/brooklyn/article/ART-OF-BROOKLYN-Film-Festival-Will-Present-55-Independent-Films-20260512)._