Winter Film Festival Is New York City. Like the city itself, the organization showcases the eclectic diversity and excitement of the independent arts world.
The 13th Annual Winter Film Festival runs February 19-23, 2025, in New York City and includes 87 outstanding films, a diverse mixture of animated films, documentaries, comedies, romances, dramas, horror films, music videos and web series of all lengths. Our five-day event is jam-packed with screenings and Q&A sessions at NYC's LOOK Cinemas, six Education sessions/workshops and a variety of filmmaker networking events all coming to a glittering close on February 23 with our red-carpet gala Awards Ceremony.
Winter Film Festival is dedicated to showcasing the amazing diversity of voices in indie film and our 2025 lineup is half made by women and half by people of color. Filmmakers come from 20 countries and 30% of our films were made in the New York City area.
SPOTLIGHT ON FILMS FROM IRAN
For our 2025 program, Winter Film Festival is honored to screen an incredible collection of five films from Iran! All screenings take place at LOOK Cinemas (657 West 57th Street).
ABOUT THE FILMS
Ultimate Citizens
2024 | United States | 53 mins | English | Documentary | Directed by Francine Strickwerda
Jamshid, an Iranian American public-school counselor, helps the children of immigrants and refugees in Seattle find belonging on their way to compete in the world's largest Ultimate Frisbee Tournament. A fiery, funny 65-year-old Iranian immigrant and ultra-athlete, Jamshid does his best work on the playing field with his students. With a Frisbee in hand, he shows that love wins — one kid, chicken, ultra-endurance race, and friend at a time. Today there are roughly 100 million forcibly displaced people around the world and more than at any time in modern history. The plight of these asylum seekers is increasingly met with anti-immigrant policies and violence. ULTIMATE CITIZENS is a vision of a more welcoming America.
Feb 22, 7:15 PM-9:20 PM: Saturday Documentary Feature & Shorts Program 2 + QA
Homunculus
2023 | Iran | 13 mins | Persian | Short | NYC Premiere | Directed By Golnoush Ansari
Living in seclusion and despair, a carpenter tries to escape his misery by fitting himself inside his handmade sofa in order to get himself out of his workshop and live vicariously in a hotel cafe but ends up in a famous writer’s house about whom he has been obsessing for a while.
Feb 20, 8:40 PM-11:15 PM: Thursday Evening Films from Asians + QA
Our Uniform
2023 | Iran | 7 mins | Persian | Animated | Directed By Yegane Moghaddam
An Iranian girl unfolds her school memories by going through the folds and fabrics of her old uniform. This film is a social satire about the clothing conventions imposed on young children.
Feb 21, 6:30 PM-9:00 PM: Friday Evening Shorts Program 2 + QA
Feb 21, 2:45 PM-5:05 PM: Animation + Music Video Matinee
The Splint
2024 | Iran | 5 mins | English | Animated | World Premiere | Directed by Mehdi Sedighi
A robotic truck driver, on a dirt road, is replacing old wooden power poles with new concrete ones when he hits two birds.
Feb 21, 7:40 PM-9:45 PM: Friday Evening Feature & Shorts Program 1+ QA
Feb 21, 2:45 PM-5:05 PM: Animation + Music Video Matinee
Vomiting On An Open Wound
2023 | Iran | 25 mins | Persian | Horror | NYC Premiere | Directed by Alireza Sharifi
Five young unmarried girls and boys travel to northern Iran, where due to restrictions on renting hotels or safe villas for singles, they are forced to rent a cabin from a motorcyclist who turns out to be a pervert.
Feb 22, 5:10 PM-8:20 PM: Bloody Saturday Night Horror Shorts Program + QA
Feb 20, 3:20 PM-5:40 PM: Horror Shorts Matinee
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