SUNDANCE SUNSET: REMEMBERING ROBERT REDFORD | Friday, April 10 at 7:30pm | Paul Newman and Robert Redford star as two grifters team up to pull off the ultimate con. Winner of 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
The Sting – Apr. 10
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Chime and Serpent’s Path – Apr. 11 & 15
SPECIAL SCREENINGS | Saturday, April 11 and Wednesday, April 15 | Two masterworks from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, bring released theatrically for the first time in the US: 2024’s dread-filled, violent horror-thriller “Chime” and 1998’s dark thriller “Serpent’s Path.”
Passing (w/ discussion) – Apr. 11
SCREENING & DISCUSSION | Saturday, April 11 at 3:30pm | In 1920s New York City, a black woman finds her world up-ended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who’s passing as white. | Co-presented with the Rochester Speakers Series
Photo City (w/ discussion) – Apr. 12
SCREENING & DISCUSSION & WALK | Sunday, April 12 at 12pm | Home to the Kodak company for over 125 years, Rochester, New York is a city uniquely defined by photography. ‘Photo City’ focuses on the lives of the city’s photographic and creative community.
La Bamba (w/ presentation) – Apr. 13
SCIENCE ON SCREEN | Monday, April 13 at 7:00pm | Los Angeles teenager Ritchie Valens becomes an overnight rock ‘n’ roll success in 1958. But as his star rises, Valens has conflicts with his jealous brother and becomes haunted by a recurring nightmare of a plane crash just as he begins his first national tour alongside Buddy Holly. | With a presentation: “From La Bamba to ‘The Day the Music Died’: How Trauma-Driven Phobias Shape Our Lives” by Kristyn Storey, M.D., Assistant Professor in Psychiatry, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Rochester Medical Center
Four Rational People – Apr. 18
WXXI CLASSICAL PRESENTS | Saturday, April 18 at 3:00pm | The Emerson String Quartet embarks on its final season, after 9 Grammy Awards and thousands of concerts across nearly 50 years of making music together.
You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine – Apr. 18 & 19
SPECIAL SCREENINGS | Saturday, April 18 and Sunday, April 19 | 70+ artists joined family and fans at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium in Oct 2022 for two nights, celebrating John Prine’s life and music.
ImageOut First Cut LGBTQ+ Spring Film Festival 2026 – Apr. 23-27
An event taking place at The Little. | Ticketing not run by The Little, so Little discounts / member benefits do not apply to this event.
Steal This Story, Please! – Apr. 29
ONE TAKE DOC SERIES | Wednesday, April 29 at 7:00pm | A gripping portrait of the trailblazing journalist Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! As she takes on soldiers, politicians, and corporate media in a fearless pursuit of truth. Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin call us to action and celebrate resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power?
American Dream – May 1
SPECIAL SCREENING | MAY DAY | Friday, May 1 at 7:30pm | A new 4k restoration of the acclaimed Academy Award-winning documentary, recounting the mid-1980s workers’ strike against the Hormel Foods meatpacking plant in Minnesota after its employees’ wages and benefits are cut. When the national branch of the union doesn’t endorse a strike, unexpected consequences arise for organized labor in the United States.
Flower Drum Song – May 2
WXXI CLASSICAL PRESENTS | Saturday, May 2 at 3:00pm | A young woman arrives in San Francisco’s Chinatown from Hong Kong with the intention of marrying a rakish nightclub owner, unaware he is involved with one of his singers. This adaptation of the 1958 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway musical was the first major Hollywood feature to have a majority Asian-American cast in a contemporary Asian-American story.
The Muppet Movie – May 15 & 17
FOAM, FELT & FROGS | Friday, May 15 and Sunday, May 17 | In the Muppets’ big-screen debut film, Kermit and his newfound friends trek across America to find success in Hollywood, but a frog legs merchant is after Kermit.
Nights of Cabiria – May. 18
STAFF PICKS | Monday, May 18 at 7:30pm | A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak in this Federico Fellini classic.
Pokemon: Detective Pikachu (w/ presentation) – May 31
SCIENCE ON SCREEN | Sunday, May 31 at 3:30pm | In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be a detective, and they join forces to unravel a tangled mystery. | With a presentation: “Animal Detectives: Problem Solving in Orangutans and Otters” by Caroline DeLong, PhD, Professor of Psychology at the Rochester Institute of Technology
Bleak Week – June 5-11, 2026
SAVE THE DATES: June 5-11 at The Little | Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.