May 25, 2025
Inwood Art Works proudly announces the programming for its tenth year of the Inwood Film Festival, to be held at Columbia University’s Campbell Sports Center in Inwood from May 29th-June 1, 2025. The festival will be presenting a record 37 films, including 14 world premieres, along with seminars, post-show conversations with filmmakers, and plenty of special events.
Details of the screenings and all the films are listed at this link:
Festival Program
The festival includes an Opening Night Benefit on Thursday, May 29th, at 7pm, featuring a presentation of locally made acclaimed short documentary films, One Man’s Trash (Directed by Kelly Adams), Aquí y Allá (Directed by Isabella Bretón), and David Again (Directed by Adam Elliott) with post screening interview with post screening conversation with filmmakers with Inwood Art Works’ Founder and Executive Producer, Aaron Simms. Plus, experience live jazz music, delicious catered food, specialty cocktails, refreshing beer from Dyckman Beer Company, and birthday cake in celebration of ten years of the Inwood Film Festival!
Before and after the festival screenings, ticket holders can mingle in The Red-Carpet Community Room, a hip hub to connect filmmakers and audiences that is for the exclusive use of all Inwood Film Festival ticketed patrons before and after each screening. Enjoy a glass of wine or a Dyckman Beer and come to connect with neighbors before the show, stay afterward to discuss the films, meet like-minded folk, and hob-nob with local movers n’ shakers!
After the last screenings on each day there will be conversation with some of the day’s filmmakers. Following the final post-screening discussion, at approximately 7pm on Sunday, join us in the theater for the announcement of the Inwood Film Festival’s Annual Awards for Excellence in Filmmaking.
At the end of each evening, you can join filmmakers, film aficionados, and the Inwood Art Works team in enjoying some cake and raising a glass to our Inwood community and its vibrant arts scene in the Red Carpet Community Room.
Once again, we’ll also be hosting IFF+ as the online extension of the Inwood Film Festival June 1 through Sunday, June 22. Our goal for IFF+ is to provide an alternative digital platform that celebrates, showcases, and enhances accessibility to the films of our fantastic local artists. Our hope is that these online festival screenings attract large and enthusiastic new audiences for local independent filmmakers.
The Inwood Film Festival is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. Inwood Film Festival is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. This program is funded in part by The Medical Center Neighborhood Fund.
Thanks to these organizations and to all our local sponsors.
