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Bernie Melendez
On display Mar. 25 to April 27.
Opening reception: April 26 at 2pm
Project Hail Mary
OPENS FRIDAY, MAR. 20 | Based on the blockbuster bestselling novel by Andy Weir. Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there.
The Drama
OPENS FRIDAY, APRIL 3 | Zendaya and Robert Pattinson star as a happily engaged couple who are put to the test when an unexpected turn sends their wedding week off the rails.
Fantasy Life
OPENS APRIL 10 | An anxious law school dropout (Matthew Shear) stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist’s three granddaughters and falls for the girls’ mother (Amanda Peet), an actress in a rocky marriage.
Sound of Falling – Apr. 16
An event taking place at The Little. | Ticketing not run by The Little, so Little discounts / member benefits do not apply to this event.
The Christophers
OPENS FRIDAY, APRIL 17 | From Steven Soderbergh. The estranged children of a once-famous artist hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be “discovered” and sold after his death.
Lorne
OPENS FRIDAY, APRIL 17 | From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Morgan Neville comes Lorne, an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes glimpse at Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels, the man who built the inimitable empire of comedy, shaping television and culture for generations.
Celluloid Underground – Apr. 17
SPECIAL SCREENING | Friday, April 17 at 6:30pm | Ehsan Khoshbakht’s riveting autobiographical documentary is an immersive portrait of postrevolutionary Iran and a stirring testament to the power of cinema to resist tyranny.
Debbie Kendrick Project :: Friday, April 17
Blues, jazz, gospel, folk and soul
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.
Laura Dubin & Antonio Guerrero :: Saturday, April 18
Jazz with piano and drums
Muppets From Space – Apr. 19
FOAM, FELT & FROGS | Sunday, April 19 at 3:00pm | Gonzo is contacted by his alien family through his breakfast cereal. But when the men in black kidnap him, it’s up to Kermit and the gang to rescue Gonzo and help him reunite with his long-lost family.
Poetry Night with the Just Poets :: Sunday, April 19
With featured guests Jonathan Everitt (pictured) and more! Readings begin at 6:30pm
WTO/99 – Apr. 8-19
LIMITED RUN | April 8, 11, 19 | An immersive archival documentary that reanimates the clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the more than 40,000 people who took to the streets of Seattle to protest the WTO’s impact on human rights, labor, and the environment.
Opera Guild of Rochester Bravo Nights :: Monday, April 20
With talented singers from the Eastman School, directed by Wilson Southerland
River Lynch :: Wednesday, April 22
Bluesy rock and roll
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.
Ignatius (Thursday Residency) :: April 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
Guitarist & frontman Iggy Marino from Public Water Supply is joined by a variety of guests
Aaron DeRuyter : Friday, April 24
Slinging hooky acoustic originals since the ’90s
Mother Mary
OPENS FRIDAY, APRIL 24 | Writer/director David Lowery (A Ghost Story, The Green Knight) returns with this thriller/drama starring Anne Hathaway. The plot follows an iconic pop star—the titular Mother Mary—who reunites with her estranged best friend.
Mile End Kicks
OPENS APRIL 24 | “I Like Movies” director Chandler Levack’s “Mile End Kicks” is a bright romantic comedy starring Barbie Ferreira as Grace, a young music critic who moves to Montreal to figure out life and love, who gets romantically involved with members of the indie rock band she’s covering.
Michael
OPENS APRIL 24 | The story of pop superstar Michael Jackson — from his extraordinary early days in the Jackson 5 to the visionary artist whose creative ambition fuels a relentless pursuit to become the biggest entertainer in the world.
Ryan Sutherland :: Saturday, April 25
Singer-songwriter one-man band
World Nyckelharpa Day, with Alyssa Rodriguez : Sunday, April 26
Master of stringed instruments Alyssa Rodriguez (The Fiddle Witch) shows you what the Swedish nyckelharpa can do!
Alien (1979) – Apr. 26
SPECIAL SCREENING | Sunday, April 26 at 7:30pm | After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform. Celebrate ALIEN DAY on 4/26 as a nod to moon LV-426.
The Last Meal – Apr. 27
BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Monday, April 27 at 7:00pm | Reynold is dying of cancer. He uses his last meals to share them with his daughter. As the meal progresses, a ritual begins to take hold, the dishes acting as reminders of the past, and Vanessa discovers who her father really is.
Danny Soto & Bolan Graham : Monday, April 27
Singer-songwriter Soto accompanied by Graham on guitar and vocals.
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?
Spring Chickens : Wednesday, April 29
Three guitarist-storytellers with both original tunes and covers
Trolley Park: Great Lakes – Apr. 29
An event taking place at The Little. | Ticketing not run by The Little, so Little discounts / member benefits do not apply to this event.
The Princess Diaries – Apr. 30 & May 3
LITTLE CRAFT NIGHT: Thursday, April 30 | TRADITIONAL SCREENING: Sunday, May 3 | Mia Thermopolis has just found out that she is the heir apparent to the throne of Genovia. With her friends Lilly and Michael Moscovitz in tow, she tries to navigate through the rest of her fifteenth year.
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.
Hokum
OPENS MAY 1 | When novelist Ohm Bauman (Adam Scott) retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents’ ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite.
Palestine ’36
OPENS MAY 1 | A Witness Palestine 2025 selection returns to The Little. In 1936, as the British Empire tightens its grip on Palestine, Yusuf is caught between his village home and his work in Jerusalem.
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.
Allegro Non Troppo – May 3
WORLD OF ANIMATION | Sunday, May 3 at 7:30pm | An enterprising producer believes he has hit upon a winning concept: a program of original animated shorts set to classical music. Undeterred by warnings that this has already been done by an American named ‘Prisney,’ he rallies an orchestra. What could go wrong?
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story – May 4
MAY THE FOURTH | Monday, May 4 at 7:00pm | In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. The story connecting “Andor” to “A New Hope.”
Blue Heron
OPENS MAY 8 | In the late 1990s, a family of six settles into their new home on Vancouver Island, as internal dynamics are slowly revealed through the experiences of the youngest child, Sasha. Their fresh start is interrupted by the increasingly dangerous behavior of Jeremy, the family’s oldest child. From writer/director Sophy Romvari.
Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Light – May 10
SPECIAL SCREENING | Sunday, May 10 at 3:30pm | A new documentary exploring the life and art of one of the most important female artists of the 20th century. O’Keeffe became famous for her paintings of flowers, bones and emerged as an iconic role model for women, worldwide.
Aliens (1986) – May 10
MOTHER’S DAY | Sunday, May 10 at 7:00pm | Decades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.
Poetic Justice – May 11
BLACK CINEMA SERIES | Monday. May 11 at 7:00pm | Grieving hairdresser Justice goes on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland on a mail truck alongside her friend and an obnoxious postal worker. Starring Janet Jackson, Tupac Shakur, and Regina King. Written and Directed by John Singleton.
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.
I Love Boosters
OPENS MAY 22 | The new Boots Riley film! A crew of professional shoplifters takes aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. Starring Keke Palmer and Naomi Ackie.
The Injured Body: A Film About Racism in America – May 30
Premiere & Post-Screening Discussion | Saturday, May 30th at 11:00AM | Shot and post-produced in Rochester, it weaves together the voices of 16 women rooted in local communities and the work of 10 dance artists and choreographers to create a powerful human story. | Little discounts / member benefits do not apply to this event.
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
The Muppets (2011) – June 2
FOAM, FELT & FROGS | Tuesday, June 2 at 7:00pm | A Muppet fanatic with some help from his 2 human compatriots must regroup the Muppet gang to stop an avaricious oil mogul from taking down one of their precious life-longing treasures.
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.
The Wages of Fear – June 5
BLEAK WEEK | Friday, June 5 at 7:00pm | In a squalid South American oil town, four desperate men sign on for a suicide mission to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin over a treacherous mountain route. One of the greatest thrillers ever committed to celluloid, from 1953.
The Mist (Black & White) – June 6
BLEAK WEEK | Saturday, June 6 at 7:30pm | An eerie, unwavering fog descends upon a small town, causing locals to seek refuge in a grocery store from the monstrous creatures roaming the countryside and killing everyone they encounter. Based on the story by Stephen King, and written and directed by Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Walking Dead).
The Plague Dogs – June 7
BLEAK WEEK x WORLD OF ANIMATION | Sunday, June 7 at 7:00pm | Two dogs escape from a laboratory and are hunted as possible carriers of the bubonic plague, in Richard Adams and Martin Rosen’s adult-animation follow-up to Watership Down.
Werckmeister Harmonies – June 8
BLEAK WEEK | Monday, June 8 at 7:00pm | A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction in this modern art-house mesmeric parable of societal collapse by Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky.
Mysterious Skin – June 9
BLEAK WEEK | Tuesday, June 9 at 7:30pm | Two young boys both experience a traumatic event which affects their lives in different ways: one becomes a sexually adventurous hustler, while the other retreats into an alien abductions obsession. A new 4K restoration of Gregg Araki’s unconventional, provocative classic.
The Vanishing – June 10
BLEAK WEEK | Wednesday, June 10 at 7:30pm | Rex and Saskia, a young couple in love, are on vacation. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia disappears. After three years and no signs, Rex begins receiving letters from Saskia’s abductor.
Killer of Sheep – June 11
BLEAK WEEK | Thursday, June 11 at 7:30pm | Set in the Watts area of Los Angeles, a slaughterhouse worker must suspend his emotions to continue working at a job he finds repugnant, and then he finds he has little sensitivity for the family he works so hard to support.
Disclosure Day
OPENS JUNE 12 | The new Steven Spielberg sci-fi alien film. The aura is mysterious and intriguing! Starring Josh O’Connor, Emily Blunt, and Colman Domingo.
Rochester International Jazz Festival – June 19-27, 2026
An event taking place at The Little. | Ticketing not run by The Little, so Little discounts / member benefits do not apply to this event.
Alien 3 (35mm) – June 28
SPECIAL SCREENING | 35MM FILM | Sunday, June 28 at 7:30pm | Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor.
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.
Seven (35mm) – July 7
SPECIAL SCREENING | 35MM FILM | Seven on 7/7 at 7 | Two detectives, a rookie and a veteran, hunt a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as his motives in David Fincher’s “feel-bad” classic.
The Odyssey
OPENS THURSDAY, JULY 16 | Christopher Nolan’s next film, The Odyssey, is a mythic action epic starring Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Lupita Nyong’o, Zendaya, and Charlize Theron.
CatVideoFest 2026 – Aug. 7-9
SPECIAL SCREENINGS | Friday, August 7 – Sunday, August 9 | A Little summer favorite returns! CatVideoFest is a glorious compilation of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses.