November 10 – 16, 2025
LitFilm – BPL’s popular film festival about writers – celebrates its seventh year with seven nights of films, highlighting some of the most influential and iconoclastic literary minds: Art Spiegelman, George Orwell, Anne Waldman, Hannah Arendt, Mario Vargas Llosa, W.S. Merwin, Edna O’Brien, and Sonia Sanchez, featuring a keynote talk by Raoul Peck, and talkbacks/readings by Anne Waldman, Molly Crabapple, and more. Get an inside look at the private lives, artistic processes and political struggles of an array of literary luminaries.
All screenings are free but require reservations. Times subject to change. Empty reserved seats are given away fifteen minutes before start time. Check back for updates. LitFilm is co-curated with Charles Shafaieh.
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.