Rooftop Films, a New York Mainstay

The outdoor screening series includes “In the Heights,” in Queens, and a première of the post-apocalyptic drama “Biosphere,” at Brooklyn Grange, in Sunset Park.
Attendees at an outdoor screening from Rooftop Films.
Photograph by Justin Kaneps for The New Yorker

The outdoor screening series from Rooftop Films has been a New York mainstay since 1997. Upcoming programs, at venues throughout the city (such as Green-Wood Cemetery, pictured above), include “In the Heights,” at Hinton Park, in Queens, and a première of the post-apocalyptic drama “Biosphere,” at Brooklyn Grange, in Sunset Park. A Juneteenth-weekend presentation of a documentary about the great jazz drummer Max Roach—in Herbert Von King Park, in Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy—features a Q. & A. with the filmmakers and members of Roach’s family.