2025 Festival
Screenings & Events in Bayside Rooms A & B, 4th floor, Sheraton, New Orleans
* Q&A with filmmakers marked with an asterisk

3:00 p.m.
Opening Remarks

SVA President, Harjant Gill
SVA Film & Media Festival Co-Directors, Mariam Abazeri & Anna Neumann

3:15 – 7:00 p.m.
AMERICAN DREAMS?

Land of Dreams (40 min), Best Short - Winner
*The Dying Business (21 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (10 min)
*Magic Fingers 妙手回春 (14 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (10 min)
*Preview: American Refuge (83 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (15 min)

9:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
ANTHROPO-SCENES

1:00 – 3:30 p.m.
OUR HERITAGE, OUR FUTURE

Wind’s Heritage (30 min)
*Have You Seen My Gods? (62 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (15 min)
*Zuni: Connections through Time (17 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (10 min)

3:45 – 6:30 p.m.
BETWEEN LOVE AND LOSS

Gert’s Boys (20 min)
Lovely Duet (30 min)
*One More Cup of Coffee for Ambe’ (26 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (10 min)
*What Do Ghosts Think? (50 min), Best Student - Winner
Filmmaker Q&A (15 min)

9:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
IN THE SHADOW OF THE STATE

Stateless (64 min)
The Cavalry (17 min)
Live is Beautiful (97 min), Jean Rouch - Honorable Mention
*Inheritance (20 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (10 min)

1:00 - 6:45 p.m.
IN OR OUT: OF UN/FREEDOMS

Israelism (84 min)
Academic Freedom (12 min)
*The Fair (80 min)
Filmmaker Q&A (15 min)
The Memo (30 min)
*The Conspiracists (96 min), Best Feature - Honorable Mention
Filmmaker Q&A (15 min)

10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
RESURGENT ROOTS / RECLAIMING PLACE

From Ground Zero (113 min), Jean Rouch - Winner
Go On, Rituparna (31 min)
Farming the Revolution (105 min), Best Feature - Winner
*Women and Academia: Inequality and Violence in Chile (28 min), Best Short - Honorable Mention
Filmmaker Q&A (10 min)
The Waste Commons (60 min)