Sat, Mar 13 at 12 pm $12 Adults, $9 Members

SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION: GIRLS' POINT OF VIEW - The best new film from around the world for ages 10 to adult. All audience members receive voting ballots to select the NYICFF 2010 winning films! Various, Various, 2010, 80 Min. Recommended Ages: 10 to Adult.

Sat, Mar 13 at 1:30 pm $12 Adults, $10 Members

A NY PREMIERE! This awe-inspiring nature film follows the personal story of a single loggerhead turtle, one of hundreds of adorable, vulnerable babies born in the sands of the Florida coast, as she grows into a strong-willed adult braving the six-thousand mile journey that has been the species' perilous ritual for millions of years. Critically acclaimed for visually resplendent nature footage on par with Planet Earth or March of the Penguins, Turtle features sweeping aerial shots and vast, majestic underwater seascapes that help underscore the epic scope of the journey with a survival adventure as tense as any Hollywood thriller. United Kingdom, Nick Stringer, 2009, 79 min. Recommended Ages: All Ages

Sat, Mar 13 at 2 pm $12 Adults, $9 Members

SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION: FLICKER LOUNGE - A selection of the best short film and animation from around the world, for ages 12 to adult. All audience members receive voting ballots to select the NYICFF 2010 winning films! Various, Various, 2010, 80 Min. Recommended Ages: 12 to Adult.

Please note some films contain strong language and subject matter that may not be appropriate for audiences under 12.

Sat, Mar 13 at 4:30 pm $12 Adults, $9 Members

THE ANIMAUTEURS - This psychedelic landmark in feature animation by René Laloux has become a cult classic, influencing decades of pop culture with its trippy sci-fi tale of humans enslaved by an alien race of super-intelligent blue giants and treated as dumb pets. France, Rene LaLaoux, 1973, 72 Min. Recommended Ages: 11 to Adult.

Please note this film features animated nudity (including non-explicit alien "nuptial rituals",) though it comes across more "art museum" than titillating. There is also some violence.

Sat, Mar 13 at 7 pm $12 Adults, $9 Members

SHORT FILMS IN COMPETITION: HEEBIE JEEBIES - A selection of strange and scary short films from around the world for ages 10 to adult. All audience members receive voting ballots to select the NYICFF 2010 winning films! Various, Various, 2010, 80 Min. Recommended Ages: 10 to Adult

Sat, Mar 13 at 8:45 pm $12 Adults, $9 Members

In this wonderfully tender, autobiographical coming-of-age story, a precocious young girl made wise beyond her years from a bohemian upbringing is forced to adjust when she enters a wealthy private school. France, Sylvie Verheyde, 2008, 102 Min. Recommended Ages: 14 to Adult.

Please note, this film includes strong language, some sexual suggestiveness, violence, and adults frequently drinking and smoking.

Sun, Mar 14 at 4 pm and 8 pm Sun, Mar 21 at 4 pm and 8 pm Sun, Mar 28 at 4 pm and 8 pm $11; Members $7; Seniors $9 Get two tickets per film, (not per screening), for an entire year for just $100 with a Thalia Film Pass!

Academy Award Nomination: Best Documentary!

In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a leading Vietnam War strategist, concludes the war is based on decades of lies.
He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to The New York Times, a daring act of conscience that leads directly to Watergate, President Nixon's resignation and the end of the Vietnam War.

Sun, Mar 14 at 6 pm Sun, Mar 21 at 6 pm Sun, Mar 28 at 6 pm $11; Members $7; Seniors $9 Get two tickets per film, (not per screening), for an entire year for just $100 with a Thalia Film Pass!

2010 Acadamy Award Nominee: Best Documentary!

This award-winning documentary shows a rare inside look into the 2007 uprising in Myanmar through the cameras of 30 anonymous and underground video journalists (VJs) who, risking torture and life imprisonment,  recorded these historic and dramatic events on handycams and smuggled the footage out of the country, where it was broadcast worldwide via satellite.

Sun, Mar 21 at 4 pm Sun, Jun 20 at 4 pm $21; Members $19; 5 or More $18; Members 5 or More $16

Siegfried is the third opera in Richard Wagner’s four-opera epic, Der Ring, or “The Ring Cycle,” as it is commonly called in the United States.  Siegfried is a strong-willed and strong-armed youth, and grandchild of Wotan (the king of the Gods). Siegfried slays Fafner, dragon who guards the Ring and whose blood bestows on Siegfried the ability to understand the language of birds.

Sun, Mar 28 at 3 pm Sun, May 30 at 7:30 pm $21; Members $19; 5 or More $18; Members 5 or More $16

Richard Strauss’ Salome is a one act opera about Salome, the young and beautiful Princess of Herods. The opera is famous (at the time of its premiere, infamous) for its Dance of the Seven Veils. It is now better known for the more shocking final scene (often a concert-piece for dramatic sopranos), where Salome declares her love to the severed head of John the Baptist.

Sun, Mar 28 at 7:30 pm Sun, May 9 at 4 pm $21; Members $19; 5 or More $18; Members 5 or More $16

Donizetti's Viva la Mamma, or Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali, is a mad-cap farce about opera singers behaving badly and stage mothers behaving even worse! Rehearsals are underway for the very serious opera Romolo ed Ersilia, but the unruly performers, and their even more unruly egos, prevent any actual rehearsal from taking place.

Sun, Apr 11 at 3 pm $21; Members $19; 5 or More $18; Members 5 or More $16

In 1872 Giuseppe Verdi presented his masterpiece, Aida, for the first time in Europe, at La Scala. Aida’s history begins with the debut in Milan, after the Cairo premiere in February 1872, in which the staging was entrusted to the composer himself, Giuseppe Verdi.

Sun, Apr 11 at 7:30 pm $21; Members $19; 5 or More $18; Members 5 or More $16

Don Carlo is possibly the most intense, deep, nuanced, rich, and masterful work of the “mature” Giuseppe Verdi, an extensive and monumental showcase of everything Verdi. It is also the Verdi opera that exists in the most number of versions.

Sat, Apr 17 at 11 am Adults $25, Day of Show $27, Members $20; Children $15, Day of Show $17, Members $10 Get the deepest discounts when you subscribe! Click the blue button to the right.

Created by singer/songwriter Morgan Taylor, minimally animated illustrations of Gustafer Yellowgold and his friends are accompanied by Taylor's catchy original story-songs for a truly remarkable and memorable multimedia experience.

"...a cross between ‘Yellow Submarine' and Dr. Seuss, filtered through the lens of the Lower East Side." -Time Out New York Kids

Tue, Apr 20 at 7:30 pm $21; Members $19; 5 or More $18; Members 5 or More $16

The most well-known and resilient ballet adaptation of Don Quixote is that of Russian choreographer, Marius Petipa, that first premiered in 1869. Alexander Gorsky revitalized the work in a 1902 performance including the famous Anna Pavlova, who danced the role of the street dancer and eventually was responsible for bringing the piece to the West in 1924. The ballet became a staple of the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet and Leningrad Kirov Ballet's repertoire and was regularly modified as it was restaged.

Thu, Apr 29 at 8 pm Sun, Jun 27 at 7:30 pm $26; Members $24; 5 or More $23; Members 5 or More $21

Verdi's Simon Boccanegra is a story about politics and love—a deadly combination. Simon Boccanegra is the Doge of Genoa, but twenty-five years earlier he fathered a child with Marie, the daughter of his then-political rival Fiesco. Marie died while still young, and their daughter disappeared.

Sun, May 9 at 8 pm $21; Members $19; 5 or More $18; Members 5 or More $16

Giacomo Puccini’s immortal opera in a high budget feature-film version directed by Academy Award nominee Robert Dornhelm, starring the opera world’s "dream team", soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Rolando Villazón.

Wed, May 26 at 2 pm $26; Members $24; 5 or More $23; Members 5 or More $21

LIVE from Teatro alla Scala, Milan

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Sun, May 30 at 3 pm $21; Members $19; 5 or More $18; Members 5 or More $16

The dynamic duo of leading ladies fires up the stage with heartbreaking performances, making this Norma from Teatro Comunale di Bologna one of the most talked about and must-see productions of Italy’s 2008 Operatic Season.

Sun, Jun 27 at 3 pm $21; Members $19; 5 or More $18; Members 5 or More $16

Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio, performed at the Gran Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona, 2010

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Thu, Jul 1 at 2 pm and 8 pm $26; Members $24; 5 or More $23; Members 5 or More $21

LIVE from Teatro del Liceu, Barcelona at 2pm

Delayed Satellite broadcast at 8pm

The tragic destiny of the male protagonist - a compulsive gambler whose passion drives him to sacrifice his love, to commit murder and ultimately to die - is underscored by Tchaikovsky´s masterly musical treatment of the major phantasmagorical elements so widespread in Russian literature and art.