NYC’s big film festivals include the Tribeca Film Festival, New York Film Festival and DOC NYC.
NYC’s main Latin film festivals include Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Film Festival, the New York Latino Film Festival, and the Havana Film Festival New York.
NYC Film Festival News
The Bushwick Film Festival is at Lot45 in Bushwick and Regal Cinemas in Downtown Brooklyn, Wed-Sun, Oct 20-24. bushwickfilmfestival.com
The Havana Film Festival New York is at Village East by Angelika in Manhattan’s East Village for one week, from Fri, Nov 5-13. hffny.com 🇨🇺
The 59th New York Film Festival 2021 is Back Live With Almodóvar’s “Parallel Mothers”
Fri, September 24 – October 10, 2021
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Americas Film Festival New York 2021 Screens the Latin World
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Monday-Friday, June 21-27, 2021
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The 20th Tribeca Film Festival 2021 is Citywide
LOCATIONS CITYWIDE
Wednesday, June 9 to June 20, 2021
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Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2021 is In-Theater and Virtual
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER
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Friday, May 28 to June 6, 2021
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Harlem International Film Festival 2021 Screens Black Voices
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OPENING NIGHT
AMC Magic Johnson Theatre
Harlem
Thursday, May 6, 2021
STREAMING IN NY
Fri-Sun, May 7-9, 2021
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New Directors/New Films 2021 Screens the Future
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April 28 – May 8, 2021
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African Diaspora International Film Festival Sees Contemporary Africa Through African Eyes
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Memorial Day Weekend
Friday, May 28 – 31, 2021
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The Neighboring Scenes 2021 Film Festival Puts Latin America on Your Screen
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SXSW 2021 Goes Virtual with SOB’s, Gotham Comedy Club & The Stand
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Tuesday-Saturday, March 16-20, 2021
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Rendez-vous with French Cinema 2021 Makes the Virtual Film Festival a Little Brighter
filmlinc.org 🇫🇷🎞🎪 Thursday, March 4 – 14, 2021
28th New York African Film Festival Presents Women’s Voices
filmlinc.org 🎞 Thursday, February 4-14, 2021 🎪 maysles.org February 18 – March 3, 2021
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Follow Your Own Light at the Art of the Real 2020 Documentary Film Festival
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The 58th New York Film Festival is Virtual and at the Brooklyn Drive-In & Queens Drive-In
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QUEENS DRIVE-IN | Thursday, September 17 – Oct 11, 2020 🇦🇷 🇨🇱 🇫🇷 🇮🇹 🇨🇮 🇲🇽 🇷🇴 🇪🇸 🇺🇸
Watch for Oscar Winners at the 2020 Venice Film Festival
Wednesday, September 2-12, 2020
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VENICE LIDO, Venice, Italy
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Neighboring Scenes: New Latin American Cinema 2020
Friday-Tuesday, February 14-18, 2020
FILM AT LINCOLN CENTER
Upper West Side, NYC
Cinema Tropical co-produces one of New York City’s most important Latin film festivals. This year’s films are Argentine, Bolivian, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Indigenous, LGBT, Mexican and Peruvian.
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Doc Fortnight 2020
February 5-19, 2020
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art
Midtown, NYC
MoMA Film’s documentary festival screens new African, Brazilian, Filipino, French, Ghanan, Italian and Lesothon films.
Puerto Rican Heritage Film Festival 2019
Wed-Sun, Nov 13-17, 2019
GREENWICH VILLAGE & LOWER EAST SIDE ~ Films by and of the Puerto Rican diaspora at Teatro Círculo, Cantor Film Center NYU, King Juan Carlos Center at NYU and Teatro SEA
DOC NYC 2019
November 6-15, 2019
WEST VILLAGE & CHELSEA, NYC ~ The biggest documentary film festival in the U.S. is at IFC Center, SVA Theatre and Cinépolis Chelsea
New York Latino Film Festival 2019
August 12-18, 2019
HELL’S KITCHEN, NYC ~ U.S., Argentine, Brazilian, Costa Rican, Dominican, Ecuadorian, Puerto Rican and Spanish films, a social media influencers conference and a tribute to John Singleton
Dominican Film Festival New York 2019
July 23-28, 2019
NEW YORK CITY
See the best new movies made in the Dominican Republic and by the Dominican diaspora, and network and party with Dominican filmmakers
May Sumak Film Festival 2019
June 14-16, 2019
Friday-Sunday
GREENWICH VILLAGE, NYC & CORONA, Queens ~ Annual film festival of movies in Indigenous Quechua languages of the central Andes, that screens in New York City and Quito, Ecuador
Havana Film Festival New York 2019
MANHATTAN, BRONX, QUEENS; PREFEST Apr 5-8, FEST Apr 9-16, 2019; Latin American film festival ~ Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Cuban, Dominican, Mexican, Peruvian & Spanish movies, red carpet & parties, plus Cuban ballet legend CARLOS ACOSTA
New Directors/New Films 2019
LINCOLN CENTER & MIDTOWN; daily, Mar 27 – April 7, 2019; Film festival ~ New Argentine, Brazilian, Colombian, French & Mexican filmmakers curated by NYC’s most respected film presenters
Queens World Film Festival 2019
ASTORIA, QUEENS; Mar 21-31, 2019; Film festival ~ Filipino, Jewish, Mexican, Romanian and many more movies.
Film Comment Selects 2019
LINCOLN CENTER, Wed-Sun, Feb 6-10, 2019, Film festival with Brazilian, Chilean, French & Spanish movies curated by Film Comment magazine editors.
Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the big North American film festivalr
Argentine, Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Costa Rican, Cuban, French, Israeli, Italian, Mexican, Filipino, Portuguese, Puerto Rican, Romanian, Spanish, Uruguayan and Venezuelan films.
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Toronto, Canada
September 6 – 16, 2018
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Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2018
Filipino, French, Spanish & Venezuelan films.
Film Society of Lincoln Center
June 14 – 21, 2018
Open Roads: New Italian Cinema 2018
Film Society of Lincoln Center
Walter Reade Theater
May 31 – June 6, 2018
ReelAbilities Film Festival NY 2018
MARLENE MEYERSON JCC MANHATTAN, UPPER WEST SIDE, Thu-Wed, March 8-14, 2018 ~ Inspiring movies about Brazilian, Colombian, Italian, & Catalan-Spanish people with different abilities
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Previously
The Kicking + Screening soccer film festival is at Scandinavia House in Murray Hill, Manhattan, Tue-Fri, Oct 12, 14, 15; and at Upper 90 in Astoria, Queens on Wed, Oct 13. $20. 🇧🇷🇲🇽
The Workers Unite Film Festival is at Cinema Village in Greenwich Village, Oct 8-14. workersunitefilmfestival.org
The 59th New York Film Festival is at Film at Lincoln Center, Fri, Sep 24 – Oct 10. filmlinc.org 🇦🇴🇧🇴🇧🇷🇨🇦🇨🇴🇫🇷🇮🇳🇮🇹🇲🇽🇵🇹🇷🇴🇪🇸🇺🇸
The Winter Film Awards International Film Festival is at Cinema Village in Greenwich Village, Thu, Sep 23 – Oct 2. $16.50 winterfilmawards.com 🇦🇷🇧🇷🇲🇽🇪🇸