UPCOMING EVENTS
Rochester Fringe Festival 2025 – Sept. 9-20
As part of Fringe, RIT presents FREE performances and events at The Little, created by faculty, staff, and students. | Ticketing not run by The Little. Little discounts and member benefits do not apply to this event.
Love, Brooklyn – Sept. 21
BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Sunday, September 21 | Three longtime Brooklynites navigate careers, love, loss, and friendship against the rapidly changing landscape of their beloved city.
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The 46ers – Sept. 24 [SOLD OUT]
SPECIAL SCREENING | Wednesday, September 24 at 7:30pm | In New York’s Adirondack State Park, 46 mountains rise over 4,000 feet in elevation-these are known as the “High Peaks.” The men and women who successfully reach the summits of all 46 peaks are known as the “46ers.”
Inland Empire – Sept. 26
A LYTTLE LYNCH | Friday, September 26 at 7:30pm | As an actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal. Starring Laura Dern.
A Little Prayer – Sept. 26-28
SEPT. 26-28 | LIMITED RUN | A loving father grapples with how to protect his daughter-in-law when he discovers that his son is having an affair in a sensitive and searching portrait of a Southern family.
A Late Quartet – Sept. 27
WXXI CLASSICAL PRESENTS | Saturday, September 27 | Four members of a world-renowned string quartet struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust.
Video Daze – Sept. 27
VIDEO DAZE – Skateboard Film Festival | Saturday, September 27, 2025 | Featuring new independent short skateboard films from New York State.
Don Hertzfeldt presents: Animation Mixtape – Sept. 28
WORLD OF ANIMATION | Sunday, September 28 at 7:30pm | Flying cows, mysterious gods and lyrical pandemonium: Don Hertzfeldt has made Animation Mixtape just for you. The dazzling 85-minute program features exciting, animated shorts from up-and-coming filmmakers, Academy Award nominees and classic pieces that originally inspired Don to start making his own iconic work. Including a new animated introduction from Don and never before seen work from famed underground animator Bruce Bickford.
The Garden of Eden – Sept. 29
SILENT MOVIE DAY | Monday, September 29 at 5:00pm and 7:30pm | A talented opera singer finds herself in a Budapest cabaret, where she becomes the ward of a Monte Carlo nightclub baroness in disguise. Filled with lavish production design, and a cracking script, this brand-new 2025 restoration of the 1928 silent film is sharp, witty, and sexy.
Mistress Dispeller – Oct. 2 & 4
ONE TAKE DOCS | Thursday, Oct. 2 at 7pm and Saturday, Oct 4 at 3pm | In China, a new industry has emerged devoted to helping couples stay married in the face of infidelity. Wang Zhenxi is part of this growing profession and is hired to go undercover and break up affairs by any means necessary; a “mistress dispeller.”
Return to Oz (35mm) – Oct. 3
SPOOKY SEASON | 35mm screening | Friday, Oct. 3 at 7:30pm | Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.
Halloween – Oct. 4
SPOOKY SEASON x SATURDAY NIGHT REWIND | Saturday, Oct. 4 at 8pm | Cue the iconic John Carpenter score, HALLOWEEN (1978), a Saturday Night Rewind staple featuring the ultimate final girl, Jamie Lee Curtis, is back!
Mad Monster Party – Oct. 5
SPOOKY SEASON x WORLD OF ANIMATION x FAMILY FLICKS | Sunday, Oct. 5 at 12pm | When Dr Frankenstein decides to retire from the monster-making business, he calls an international roster of monsters to a creepy convention to elect his successor in this 1967 stop-motion animated film.
Thirst – Oct. 5
SPOOKY SEASON | Sunday, Oct. 5 at 7pm | Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways, in this 2009 horror picture from the masterful Park Chan-wook.
Cronos – Oct. 6
SPOOKY SEASON | Monday, Oct. 6 at 7:30pm | A mysterious device designed to provide its owner with eternal life resurfaces after four hundred years, leaving a trail of destruction in its path in this 1992 film from Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro.
SNR Double Feature: Silver Bullet and The Howling – Oct. 11
SPOOKY SEASON x SATURDAY NIGHT REWIND | Saturday, Oct. 11 | Silver Bullet at 6:30pm and The Howling at 9pm. It’s a night for the werewolves!
Re-Animator (40th Anniversary) – Oct. 18
SPOOKY SEASON | 40TH ANNIVERSARY | Saturday, Oct. 18 at 8pm | Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a new student at Miskatonic University. He also moonlights as a mad scientist, intent on perfecting a serum that “re-animates” corpses. Soon, everyone wants a piece of the action, including an evil professor and his army of neon-slimed deadites.
Scream 2 – Oct. 23 & 27
SPOOKY SEASON x CRAFT NIGHT | Thursday, Oct. 23 Craft Night show + Monday, Oct. 27 traditional screening | Final girl Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) once again is terrorized by Ghostface in this first sequel to the 1996 classic meta whodunnit slasher.
Army of Darkness – Oct. 24
SPOOKY SEASON x UNCLE BOB’S MAGIC CABINET | Friday, Oct. 24 at 7:30pm | Uncle Bob’s Magic Cabinet podcast joins us for a live recording and ARMY OF DARKNESS screening. When Ash Williams is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., he must retrieve the Necronomicon and battle an army of the dead in order to return home.
Sinners – Oct. 25 & 26
SPOOKY SEASON x STAFF PICKS x BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Saturday, Oct. 25 at 8pm + Sunday, Oct. 26 at 3pm | One of THE defining movies of 2025 makes its Little debut! Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Michael B. Jordan and Michael B. Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back, in Ryan Coogler’s instant classic/probable Oscar flick.
Eyes Without A Face – Oct. 26
SPOOKY SEASON | Sunday, Oct. 26 at 7pm | A surgeon causes a car accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face in this 1960 French horror-thriller.
Revenge – Oct. 29
SPOOKY SEASON x HIGH FALLS WOMEN IN FILM | Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 7pm | Coralie Fargeat’s first film (before THE SUBSTANCE) turns a subgenre upside down. A cheater takes his mistress on an annual guys’ getaway — things turn … violent.
The Ring – Oct. 31
SPOOKY SEASON | Halloween Night Screening, Friday, Oct. 31 at 8pm | Free for Members | Rachel Keller is a journalist investigating a videotape that may have killed four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video… and watches it. Spooky horror ensues!