Hot screenings to pre-order (Top 20)

This program will broadcast live on December 17, 2025 at 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm EST. You will not be able to pause or rewind. You cannot access the show once the broadcast ends. Log into your AARP.org account or create one to register for this Movies for Grownups screening.

This program will broadcast live one December 2, 2025 at 8:00 pm to 10:15 pm EST. You will not be able to pause or rewind. You cannot access the show once the broadcast ends. Log into your AARP.org account or create one to register for this AARP Theater.

This program will broadcast live on December 11, 2025 at 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm EST. You will not be able to pause or rewind. You cannot access the show once the broadcast ends. Log into your AARP.org account or create one to register for this Movies for Grownups screening

This program will broadcast live on January 12, 2026 at 8:00 pm to 9:45 pm EST. You will not be able to pause or rewind. You cannot access the show once the broadcast ends. Log into your AARP.org account or create one to register for this Movies for Grownups screening.

This program will broadcast live on December 14, 2025 at 4:00 pm to 6:45 pm EDT. You will not be able to pause or rewind. You cannot access the show once the broadcast ends. Log into your AARP.org account or create one to register for this AARP Theater.

AARP Members Only - 24 Hour On Demand Access on December 18, 2025

(77 mins) Our first Shorts Block of the festival contains these films: The Outsider, Undertone, Where the Shadows Feast, Five Star, The King in Yellow, Stargazer

(90 mins) Eerie & unsettling to brain bending nightmares: Face to Face, The Wreckers, After the Fall, There is no Antimemetics Division, Nothing but Wind, The Night Within

(110 mins) Fungi from Yuggoth, Pandora, Inc., The Last I Heard from Samuel, Reciprocity Failure, The Model, The Red Hourglass, SHRINE OF ABOMINATIONS

We get it - you're itching to do something positive for the world around you but you're tired after a long day of work, school or managing the home. This bucket is a place to start: because the good fight begins in the mind first. In this bucket of films, we nudge you to think about what activism means to you, and to give you some inspiration: here's what it looks like for people all over the world!

Yes, we're going through collapse, but joy is ever-palpable, alive-ness to be found everywhere around us. Follow your curiosity, revel in the symbolic, find meaning when you scratch below the surface.

Take a closer look at what's around you: do you see beauty and value in what was once vilified or ignored? This bucket nudges us towards rediscovering empathy and questioning systems while acknowledging the realities of native species, peoples and geographies.

The Butterfly Man follows Isaac Kehimkar, a passionate naturalist who has spent his life protecting India's butterflies. Born in Mumbai, one of the world's most crowded cities, Isaac creates butterfly gardens and teaches children. His story unfolds with the butterfly's metamorphosis, a transformation both remarkable and rarely seen up close.

When a couple's phones begin recording on their own during a camping trip, what they capture isn't just darkness. It's something that wants to be seen.

B. F. Skinner Plays Himself revisits the life and works of B. F. Skinner through never-before-seen footage recovered from a failed educational film project.

Starring Camille Cottin (Call My Agent!), this moving comedy-drama tells the story of Toni, a single mother raising five children.