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Rooftop Films announces initial 2015 lineup & opening events

Jason Schwartzman and Tunde Adebimpe in ‘7 Chinese Brothers’
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Rooftop Films have announced their initial slate of programming for their 2015 season, providing movies under the stars and live music all summer long. There will be 40 screenings in 19 different venues and it kicks off at the end of May with two events. The opening party happens May 29 at Industry City in Sunset Park with a program of short films including the Kickstarter-funded time travel martial arts action extravaganza Kung Fury, which you should definitely watch the trailer for, below.

Then on May 30 at the Old American Can Factory in Gowanus it’s comedy 7 Chinese Brothers (yes, named after the REM song) which stars Jason Schwartzman, Stephen Root and TV on the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe (watch a two clips below). Both screenings will feature free afterparties with beverages provided by New Amsterdam Vodka. Bands have not been announced yet but tickets for both events go on sale Tuesday morning (5/5) at 11 AM.

While the full Rooftops Films schedule has not been announced yet, either, you can check out a list of some of the films that will be showing with descriptions, below.

ROOFTOP FILMS – 2015 FEATURE FILMS

Bloomin’ Mud Shuffle (Frank V. Ross)
A charming drama about a housepainter in love from one of the Midwest’s finest indie auteurs.

The Chinese Mayor (Hao Zhou)
The fascinating life of a bureaucrat restoring ancient ruins at the expense of his own career.

Digging for Fire (Joe Swanberg)
Jake Johnson digs for answers in Joe Swanberg’s latest indie-star-studded drama. Courtesy of The Orchard.

Divine Location (Michael Loeken, Ulrike Franke)
A subtly delightful comic portrait of a small German town undergoing huge changes.

Field Niggas (Khalik Allah)
A visceral documentary captures the inhabitants and sultry streets of Harlem in mid-summer.

Finders Keepers (Bryan Carberry)
A man finds a dismembered foot in an auctioned meat smoker. Then things get strange. Courtesy of The Orchard.

Goodnight Mommy (Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz)
A bone-chilling Austrian thriller about two young boys and their mysteriously altered mother. Courtesy of RADiUS-TWC.

Kings of the Wind & Electric Queens (Cédric Dupire and Gaspard Kuentz)
A compelling and hypnotic glimpse into one of India’s wildest carnivals.

Krisha (Trey Shults)
Rooftop grantee Trey Shults’ daring, SXSW-winning drama about a family on the brink.

Men Go To Battle (Zachary Treitz)
A Civil War epic of intimate proportions, written & directed by Rooftop Film Fund Grantees.

Romeo is Bleeding (Jason Zeldes)
In downtrodden region of southern California, the youth of a city mount an urban adaptation of Romeo and Juliet.

Sam Klemke’s Time Machine (Matthew Bate)
A free-wheeling and non-fiction portrait of an extra-ordinary nobody, 35 years in the making.

Spartacus & Cassandra (Ioanis Nuguet)
An intimate cinematic portrait of two Roma children forced to become their parents’ parents.

Tangerine (Sean Baker)
Sean Baker’s riotous Christmas tale of a transgender prostitute searching for the pimp that broke her heart. Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.

Welcome to Leith (Michael Beach Nichols, Christopher K. Walker)
Aryan militants invade a small North Dakota town. The town fights back.

The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle)
The six Angulo brothers have spent their entire lives locked away from society in an apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. All they know of the outside world is gleaned from the films they watch obsessively and recreate meticulously. But after one of the brothers escapes the apartment, the power dynamics in the house are transformed, and all the boys begin to dream of venturing out. Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures.