Bushwick Film Festival celebrates its 12th year with stories through space and time. The five day event will begin on October 2 and feature over 100 films screened at eight different venues throughout northern Brooklyn.

This year’s Space theme was introduced by the festival’s new creative director, Rah Crawford, as a nod to NASA’s 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing. While this genre certainly brings to mind galactic travel and sci-fi flicks, the theme will also give artists an opportunity to explore what space means to Earth. This means films included are animated shorts, features on gentrification and even a documentary on a brewery. Artists are encouraged to push their limits in expressing what Space means to their stories.

Founded in 2007 by Kweighbaye Kotee, Bushwick Film Festival had modest beginnings, featuring a handful of local films. Since then the festival has grown to more than 1500 submissions from 60 different countries. The team says this has given them the opportunity to share a wider array of stories.