At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in Embrace of the Serpent, the third feature by Ciro Guerra and a 2016 Academy Award-nominee. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, Embrace of the Serpent centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the real-life journals kept by Theodor Koch-Grunberg (portrayed by Jan Bijvoet) and Richard Evans Schultes (Brionne Davis), who traveled through the Colombian Amazon in search of the sacred and difficult-to-find psychedelic Yakruna plant.

Night Flight takes you for an exclusive look inside "Joe Coleman’s Carnival," the artist’s curated exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch Projects in New York City. Filmed on-site in June 2025, this special hour-long presentation follows Coleman as he personally guides Night Flight through the gallery, revealing works that directly connect him to the carnival world, including his portrait of Tod Browning (Freaks) and a world-renowned collection from sideshow legend Johnny Eck, all culminating in his magnum opus: a life-size biographical portrait of his wife and muse, Whitney Ward. “I believe that the carnival is a kind of profane, holy place,” Coleman says, “where the private desires, fantasies, and fears of a society are given uninhibited free expression.”

Director Damiano Damiani (A Bullet for the General) wields expert tension in this gripping espionage thriller, twisting and turning its tight plot to its sensational finale. Featuring a supporting cast including Claudia Cardinale (Fitzcarraldo) and John Steiner (Tenebrae), Goodbye & Amen is one of the great 1970s Italian action thrill rides set to a haunting score by Guido and Maurizio De Angelis. John Dannahay, a CIA agent stationed in Rome, is planning to overthrow an African government. But his plan goes wrong when a corrupt colleague starts shooting people from the roof of a hotel, taking an innocent couple hostage.

Cas, an academic assistant and amateur musician, moves into her aunt’s old home. In the bedroom closet, she finds a cache of mysteriously labeled microcassette tapes, containing cryptic recordings of sounds ranging from everyday objects to abstract soundscapes. Cas’s curiosity to discover the origin of these tapes leads her on a meditative journey through unknown verdant Californian landscapes, encountering experimental music performances, eccentric shop owners, and early music treasures along the way. As her adventure progresses, the mystery unravels in equally enigmatic and enlightening ways, reflecting Cas’s own evolving relation with time and sound.

Night Flight Plus and Mute present a special Night Flight Video Profile dedicated to the "revered countercultural musician" (The Guardian) and enduringly influential artist, Mark Stewart. Across an illustrious career that began with post-punk icons The Pop Group and evolved into a prolific solo output, Stewart produced a seminal body of work that frequently stood at the bleeding edge of genre innovation and social upheaval, while inspiring the likes of Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails, and more. Stewart's ninth solo album, The Fateful Symmetry, was released by Mute in July 2025. Completed shortly before his passing in 2023, the record captures "the fearless creative energy that defined his entire career," the label says. For this special episode, the Night Flight team worked closely with Mute to highlight a collection of crucial materials from Stewart's nearly five-decade career, including a never-before-seen live performance from Mark in 2022.

New York Ninja is a truly one-of-a-kind cinematic experience. Witness the painstaking reconstruction of a lost '80s martial arts treasure from Night Flight's cult label partner, Vinegar Syndrome! Originally directed by and starring martial arts actor John Liu in his only American production, New York Ninja was filmed entirely on 35mm in 1984. The project was completely abandoned during production, resulting in all original sound materials being lost. Thirty-five years later, VS acquired the original unedited camera negative and painstakingly reconstructed and completed the film while enlisting the voice talents of genre favorites including Linnea Quigley (Night of the Demons), Michael Berryman (Impact Video Magazine), and many more.

From iconoclastic French writer/director Paul Vecchiali comes the wickedly perverse thriller that subverts the conventions of film noir by slyly flipping its traditional gender roles: When a prominent politician receives a Illicit film starring her son, she hires a hard-boiled private detective (Myriam Mézières) to track down the blackmailer. But as bodies strip down, corpses pile up and suspects are never what they seem, will this case climax with the most shocking bang of all?

Dream Team is a postmodern, soft-core fever dream from directors Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn, and produced by Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow). "Think Baywatch Nights directed by Maya Deren," says the film's label Yellow Veil.  In this absurdist homage to 90’s basic cable TV thrillers, two Interpol agents investigate a coral smuggler's mysterious death. The investigation leads the agents down a rabbit hole, revealing a surreal international conspiracy involving utopian basketball leagues, sensual scientists, and a psychic network of coral reefs.