Margaret Mead Film Festival 2025: “We Are the Story”

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Published on Thursday, 01 May 2025 14:45

Written by Brad Balfour

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Showcasing voices from around the world, The Margaret Mead Film Festival returns to New York’s American Museum of Natural History May 2 to the 4th. The Mead festival is the longest running nonfiction film festival in the US, founded in 1976. This year’s installment features 16 films, including one U.S. premiere and 15 New York premieres. These documentaries reflect the theme “We Are the Story,” illuminating the diverse ways we connect with one another, our environments, and shared histories. The festival includes the New York premiere of Sundance award-winning documentary Seeds, in which black farmers confront Washington’s bureaucracy. This year’s festival also includes the New York premiere of Our Land, Our Freedom, directed by Zippy Kimundu and Meena Nanji, with executive producer Mira Nair in attendance, and the New York premiere of Viktor, directed by Oliver Sarbil and produced by Darren Aronofsky, both of whom will also be present for the screening and post-screening discussion.

Mead 2025 will present two awards to films making their New York Premiere at the Festival: The 2025 Margaret Mead Filmmaker Award as selected by the Mead Festival Jury, and the second annual Audience Award, voted upon by festival attendees. The Mead festival is named for renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead, a celebrated Museum curator whose research and practices endure in the field today.

To learn more, go to: https://www.amnh.org/explore/margaret-mead-festival

Margaret Mead Film Festival
May 2 - 4, 2025

American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024
(Entrance for all Margaret Mead Film Festival programs is on 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue.)