Segal Center Film Festival 2025
Fri, May 16
|New York
An annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance
Time & Location
May 16, 2025, 2:00 PM – 9:00 PM
New York, 365 5th Ave, New York, NY 10016, USA
Guests
About the event
Image: Still from Moi-Même by Mojo Lorwin & Lee Breuer (France, US, 1968/2024, 65 min, 16mm-to-DCP)
The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance (FTP) is an annual event showcasing films drawn from the world of theatre and performance. The 2025 festival is co-curated by Frank Hentschker and Tomek Smolarski.
The festival presents experimental, emerging, and established theatre artists and filmmakers from around the world to audiences and industry professionals. From its inaugural edition in 2015 to its present-day hybrid avatar, The Segal Film Festival for Theatre and Performance (FTP) has served as a platform for recorded works that span the length and breadth of the performing arts.
See The Full Schedule on the Festival Website.
DAY-BY-DAY SCHEDULE OF IN-PERSON SCREENINGS
All screenings at Segal Theatre Center unless noted.
Special screenings are hosted at Anthology Film Archives.
Thursday, May 15:
1:00 pm - Resilience by Juan David Padilla Vega (Canada, 2024, 70’) U.S. PREMIERE
2:20 pm - JJ by Pauline L. Boulba and Aminata Labor (France, 2024, 72’)
4:00 pm - This is Ballroom by Vita and Juru (Brazil, 2024, 92’)
5:50 pm - Transindigenous Assembly, by Joulia Strauss (Greece, 2024, 86’)
7:25 pm - Radical Move by Aniela Gabryel (Poland, 2023, 77’) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Friday, May 16
12:00 pm - Bila Burba by Duiren Wagua (Panama, 2023, 70’)
1:20 pm - Acting by Sophie Fiennes (UK, 2024, 145’) U.S. PREMIERE
3:55 pm - The Jacket by Mathijs Poppe (Belgium, Netherlands, France, Lebanon, 2024, 71’) U.S. PREMIERE
5:15 pm - Brink of Dreams by Nada Riyadh, Ayman El Amir (Egypt, France, Denmark, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, 2024, 102’)
Special section: Spotlight on Basinga
7:10 pm - Funambulism, Hanging by a Thread by Jean-Baptiste Mathieu (Germany, 2024, 52’) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
8:10 pm - Skywalk above Prague by Václav Flegl, Jakub Voves (Czech Republic, 2020, 51’) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE
Saturday, May 17
11:00 am - Short Films Program:
Benjamin de Oliveira’s Open Paths by Bruno Esperança (Brazil, 2024, 37’) U.S. PREMIERE; Peak Hour in the House by Blue Ka Wing (Honk Kong, 2024, 7’); Paci by Juliette Roudet (France, 2024, 33’) NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE; Jesus E O Mar by Ricarda Alvarenga (Brazil, 2024, 3’); Somber Tides by Chantal Caron (Canada, 2024, 12’) N.Y. PREMIERE; Theater of War by Oleh Halaidych (Ukraine, 2024, 40’) U.S. PREMIERE; Pidikwe by Caroline Monnet (Canada, 2024, 10’) U.S. PREMIERE
1:25pm - Grand Theft Hamlet by Pinny Grylls, Sam Crane (UK, 2024, 90’)
3:00 pm
SPECIAL FESTIVAL PRESENTATION AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003
Moi-Même by Mojo Lorwin & Lee Breuer (France, US, 1968/2024, 65 min, 16mm-to-DCP)
Q&A with Mojo Lorwin and Kevin Mathewson moderated by Frank Hentschker
Sunday, May 18
3:00 pm
SPECIAL FESTIVAL PRESENTATION AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
32 Second Avenue New York, NY 10003
Reas by Lola Arias (Argentina, Germany, Switzerland, 2024, 82’)
May 21-28
HIS HEAD WAS A SLEDGEHAMMER: RICHARD FOREMAN IN RETROSPECT AT ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
Guest-programmed by Andrew Lampert. The retrospective is co-presented by New York
University Special Collections, home to the Richard Foreman and Kate Manheim Papers, and
The Segal Center Film Festival on Theatre and Performance. For full schedule of the retrospective go to https://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/59384