SR Socially Relevant Film Festival Now In Its 13th Edition

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Published on Tuesday, 10 March 2026 11:31

Written by Brad Balfour

The 13th annual edition of SR Socially Relevant Film Festival opens in NYC on Wednesday, March 11. Running March 11 to the 15th, the festival features films from all over the world to raise social awareness. The festival opens at the iconic LenFest Center for the Arts at Columbia University, with the feature film The Last Wish by Rax Rinnekangas. 

The Armenian spotlight this year includes My Armenian Phantoms by Tamara Stepanyan, Armenia’s Official submission to the Oscars; Silence by Narek Shahverdyan; and Imagined Landscapes by Eleanor Ekserdjian. The festival themes range from BIPOC to Disability, Family and Home, Race, Religion and Exile, and Mental Health issues. Most screenings conclude with a Q&A with the filmmakers.

SRFF was founded by Actress/ Filmmaker Nora Armani in 2013 as a response to the proliferation of violence and violent forms of storytelling in media and entertainment. Following a family tragedy that cost the lives of two of her dearest and nearest, namely her cousin Vania and uncle Jack Exerjian, Armani founded the festival to commemorate them in a meaningful way. SRFF believes in the power of the film medium to raise awareness of social issues and promote positive social change. The Mission of the SR Film Festival is to shine a spotlight on filmmakers who tell compelling, socially relevant, human-interest stories across a broad range of social issues without resorting to violence or violent forms of storytelling.

To learn more, go to: https://www.ratedsrfilms.org/

SR Socially Relevant Film Festival
March 11 - 15, 2026

Cinema Village
22 East 12th Street
New York, NY 10003 

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