October 14 – 20, 2024
LitFilm – BPL’s popular film festival about writers – celebrates its sixth year this fall with seven nights of documentaries and films, highlighting some of the most influential and iconoclastic literary minds. Get an inside look at the private lives, artistic processes and political struggles of an array of literary luminaries. Past years have featured Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Gottlieb, Naguib Mahfouz, Joyce Carol Oates, Salman Rushdie, Audre Lorde, Dylan Thomas, Mahmoud Darwish, and more.
All screenings are free but require reservations. Times subject to change. Check back soon for more.
LitFilm: A BPL Film Festival About Writers is made possible with support from BPL's Fund for the Humanities. BPL Presents programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.