Forest Hills Film Festival Returns For Its Eighth Year In August

FOREST HILLS, QUEENS — More than 100 films will be featured in a festival set to take place in a theater on Queens Boulevard in August, celebrating its eighth year of production.

Festival of Cinema NYC will begin on Aug. 4 and will run for the following 10 days through Aug. 10 at the Regal Regal UA Midway locate at 108-22 Queens Boulevard.

Movies from countries around the world, including Turkey, Spain, and The Philippines, will be featured at the festival, along with many of the filmmakers set to make an appearance.

The festival will screen movies, documentaries, short films and animations. Several world premieres are among the dozens of independent films that will be shown at the decades-old movie theater, located at 108-22 Queens Blvd.

The event will also host a series of seminars, panels, special guest speakers, and Q&A sessions at the Queens Library at Forest Hills at 108-19 71st Ave. All of the sessions at the library will be free for the public.

A batch of world premieres will be screened at the festival, including a drama titled “Isaac Dell’s Boys at Twenty,” which features two young adults trying to restore their childhood friendship.

For the first time since the film festival launched eight years ago, subtitles to some movies will be available for the deaf and hard-of-hearing community, an initiative started by the Forest Hills-based nonprofit called the Theaters Unsilenced Initiative.

Tickets to the Festival of Cinema cost $18 for a block of daily screenings. Opening and closing nights are $35, which includes entry into the after-parties following the screenings.

Tickets to the Closing Awards Dinner are $75.

Tickets can be purchased here.