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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Series
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.
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?
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.
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.
Billy Preston: That’s the Way God Planned It – June 29
BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Monday, June 29 at 7:00pm | The exhilarating story of the legendary Grammy-winning musician whose signature sound shaped the work of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Ray Charles, Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin, and countless others.