Starry Nights Cinema 2026!
Join us under the stars for free popcorn and delightful films. Grab your friends and family, chairs and blankets, and enjoy some summer movie magic!
Our family-friendly screenings are FREE. Check here and IG for weather related updates.
UPCOMING:
“HAIRSPRAY”
Friday, June 5, at sunset
Food Truck Friday!
Roger Williams Park Boathouse Lawn
It’s the 1960s in Baltimore when dance-loving teen Tracy Turnblad auditions for a spot on “The Corny Collins Show” and wins! She becomes an overnight celebrity, a trendsetter in dance, fun and fashion. Perhaps her new status as a teen sensation is enough to topple Corny’s reigning dance queen and bring racial integration to the show. This star studded cast includes John Travolta, Christopher Walken, Zac Efron, Queen Latifah, Michelle Pfeiffer, Alison Janney, Brittany Snow, James Marsden and Nikki Blonsky as Tracy.
Get ready to dance!
2007, Directed by Adam Shankman, Running time 116 minutes, Rated PG
“SING”
Friday, July 3, at sunset
Food Truck Friday!
Roger Williams Park Boathouse Lawn
Set in a world entirely inhabited by animals, SING stars Buster Moon (Academy Award-winner Matthew McConaughey), a Koala who presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. Buster is an eternal optimist and sets out to save his theater with a singing competition. Five lead contestants emerge: A mouse who croons as smoothly as he cons (Seth MacFarlane), a timid teenage elephant (Tori Kelly) with an enormous case of stage fright, an exhausted mother (Academy Award-winner Reese Witherspoon) run ragged tending a litter of 25 piglets, a young gangster gorilla (Taron Egerton) looking to break free of his family’s felonies, and a punk-rock porcupine (Scarlett Johansson).
Get ready to SING along with all of the hit songs!
2016, Directed by Garth Jennings and Christophe Lourdelet, Running time 108 minutes, Rated PG
“Let’s Get Animated!”
Thursday, July 9, at sunset
On Waterfire Night!
Bally’s Event Lawn at 195 District Park
The night is going to be hopping with PCFF’s most requested shorts reel, “Let’s Get Animated!” A veritable delight of cinematic treasures to enjoy with the family, featuring 2026 Festival award winners. Whether animated digitally or painstakingly created using stop motion, animation IS magic. Giving inanimate objects the illusion of being alive can be extraordinary. A felted wool hamster, hand painted owls and a tooth brush are just a few of the unusual materials “brought to life” this year on this truly multi-national reel.
CHECK OUT THE FILMS
2023-2025, Running Time 75 minutes, Ages 8+, Multi-national
“Be Strong, Be Kind”
Thursday, July 23, at sunset
Bally’s Event Lawn at 195 District Park
One of the Festival’s most beloved shorts reels, “Be Strong, Be Kind” promises a sweet mix of international animations that prioritize being kind and brave. Sometimes being kind IS brave. Empathy is the common theme in this reel with stories that help us understand and share the feelings of others despite our differences. A small fish finally gets his day, a bear cub experiences an act of true friendship, and a dog completely misunderstands a hedgehog’s advances!
CHECK OUT THE FILMS
2024-2025, Running Time 70 minutes, All ages, Multi-national
“The Lion King”
Friday, August 7, at sunset
Food Truck Friday!
Roger Williams Park Boathouse Lawn
This epic story follows Simba, a young lion prince, as he is exiled from his kingdom after his father is murdered by his uncle Scar in an effort to seize the throne. Cast out, Simba must rely on the generosity and care of others to survive. As he matures, he realizes he must return home to confront Scar and reclaim his place as king. A musical KING among musicals!
2019, Directed by Jon Favreau, 118 minutes
“Solving & Evolving”
Thursday, August 13, at sunset
Bally’s Event Lawn at 195 District Park
Life is full of surprises and things don’t always go as planned. Everyone encounters an obstacle now and then! This reel is filled with stories of overcoming and evolving from obstacles, many hilarious, some thoughtful. Challenges are part of growing up no matter where you live – come experience how kids in Norway, Russia, Iran, the USA and beyond, thrive.
Featuring 2026 Audience Choice Award for Best Short Animated Film, PROUT. Obsolete household appliances and waste of all kinds are sent to the planet Prout, Earth’s dumping ground. Bean and Spaghet, two little emergency workers from this strange planet, go on an emergency mission to save one of their friends who has been crushed by debris falling from the sky.
CHECK OUT THE FILMS
2025, Running Time 70 minutes, Ages 10+, multinational
“First Impressions”
Thursday, August 27, at sunset
Bally’s Event Lawn at 195 District Park
This shorts reel is designed for our youngest audience members and first time outdoor film screening attendees. Some of the cutest critters can be found here in our sweet one hour program.
Featuring the 2026 Audience Choice Award for Best Short Live Action film, ONE MORE CUP. As toddler Leona is about to host her very first tea party with her stuffed animals it unexplainably turns into a worldwide spectacle. News stations, helicopters and White House briefings ensue! When she finally gets to sit down for tea everything falls back into perspective. Enjoy this and other favorites under the stars!
CHECK OUT THE FILMS
2025, Running Time 62 minutes, All ages, multinational
“Happy Feet”
Friday, September 4, at sunset
Food Truck Friday!
Roger Williams Park Boathouse Lawn
Watch out! This film may cause toe-tapping! Spend the last night of August under the stars with us with the cutest pretend penguin on the planet! Mumble, an Emperor Penguin born without the ability to sing a “heartsong” to attract a mate, learns to express himself through tap dancing. Cast out by his colony for being different and blamed for a local fish famine, Mumble sets out to find the real culprits.
2006, Directed by Warren Coleman and Judy Morris, Running Time 108 minutes, Rated PG
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PAST SCREENINGS
“The Greatest Showman”
Friday, May 8, at sunset
Food Truck Friday AND Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus!
Roger Williams Park Boathouse Lawn
Join us for the first outdoor screening and first Food Truck Friday of the season! Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus will be giving us a teaser of their upcoming circus performances! Don’t miss their thrilling acrobatics during a very special pre-film performance!
The Greatest Showman, starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Michelle Williams, Rebecca Ferguson and Zendaya, celebrates the birth of show business and tells of a visionary who rose from nothing to create a spectacle that became a worldwide sensation. Growing up in the early 1800s, P.T. Barnum displays a natural talent for publicity and promotion, and turns to show business to indulge his limitless imagination, rising from nothing to create the Barnum & Bailey circus. With musical numbers, exotic performers and daring acrobatic feats, Barnum’s mesmerizing spectacle soon takes the world by storm to become the greatest show on Earth.
2017, Running time 105 minutes, Rated PG
Directed by Michael Gracey
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