Inwood Film Festival

Attend the 2026 Inwood Film Festival from May 28-31. Featuring films made and by locals in the Inwood community.

Inwood Art Works presents

INWOOD FILM FESTIVAL

May 28-31, 2026

Campbell Sports Center

218th Street and Broadway

New York, NY 10034

$15 Single Ticket

$60 Festival Pass

$95 Benefit Ticket (Pre-sale thru 5/27), $135 (day-of on 5/28).

$135 Benefit Ticket & Festival Pass (On sale until Festival Passes sell out)

*Special discount for local students. Email info@inwoodartworks for promo code and attach proof of current valid ID.

IFF+ Online Festival: $3 Single Ticket / $20 Festival Pass (on sale May 21)

Thursday, May 28

Opening Night Benefit

Thursday, May 28 –7:00-10:00pm

Special presentation of acclaimed documentary short, Resonancia. Created by Grammy-winning composer (and Uptown resident) Ted Nash and Cathy Barbash. Post screening conversation with filmmakers and Inwood Art Works’s Founder and Executive Producer, Aaron Simms.

Plus, experience live music, delicious catered dinner, specialty cocktails, refreshing beer from Dyckman Beer Company, and birthday cake in celebration of ten years of Inwood Art Works.

$95 pre-purchase. $135 day-of, and at the door, if space allows.

Friday, May 29

FIVE4FIVE FILMS Student Film Showcase

FREE Tickets – Walk-up only. First-come, first-served as space allows. (75 minutes total screening time)
Featuring student films from NYC high school students.

Long Shorts: IFF Filmmaker Fund – Ladies First!

Feature Exhibition – Friday, May 29 at 7:05pm - 50 minutes - Plus special post-screening conversation with grantees and filmmakers.

Featuring: North Fork Women, Choice, Off Center, Ladylike

Long Shorts: IFF Filmmaker Fund – Tales of Significant Fate

<25 min. Shorts Exhibition – Friday, May 29 at 8:35pm - 54 minutes – Plus special post-screening filmmaker conversation and reception featuring Inwood Filmmaker Fund grantees.

Featuring Inwood Film Festival Filmmaker Fund Films: With Iron Teeth, Embodied, New Neighbors Association, An Act of Penance.

Saturday, May 30

Seminar: Post Production - The Final Draft of Your film

Saturday, May 30 at 12:35pm – Free. Appropriate for beginners and professionals.

Filmmaker Carlos Lample demystifies the editing process and offers insight to using the tools of the trade.

Long Shorts: A Purposeful Life

Saturday, May 30 at 2:15pm - 63 minutes - Plus special post-screening filmmaker conversation.

Featuring: Roots, Last Hope, Remember This, Impostor

Long Shorts: Documentary Portraits

<25 min. Shorts Exhibition – Saturday, May 30 at 6:35pm - 66 minutes - Plus special post-screening filmmaker conversation.

Featuring: For Those that Lived There, Dread Count, Serving on Sacred Ground: The Story of BRC's Inwood Site, Women Laughing

Vanishing: A Love Story

Feature Film – Saturday, May 30 at 8:35pm - 107 minutes - Post-screening conversation immediately following with filmmaker, Sandra Luckow.

Sunday, May 31

Navigating Indie Film Distribution

Sunday, May 31 at 12:05pm – Free. Open to all ages and experience levels.

Sanjay Singh, filmmaker and founder of Nukhu, shares insights on how distribution functions and the evolving distribution ecosystem for independent filmmaking.

Long Shorts: Hope on the Horizon

<25 min. Shorts Exhibition – Sunday, May 31 at 1:35pm - 46 minutes - Plus special post-screening conversation with filmmakers.

Featuring: Sometimes, 988, Tango in Room 1310, The Day Elvis Died

The Doctrine

Feature Exhibition – Sunday, May 31 at 3:35pm - 66 minutes - Plus special post-screening conversation with filmmaker, Gwendolen Cates.

The Doctrine is a feature-length documentary film about the Doctrine of Discovery that follows a group of Indigenous youth in Minneapolis/St.Paul who decide to request a meeting at the Vatican to explain how the 15th-century Doctrine has impacted Indigenous Peoples and advocate for its repudiation.

2026 Celebration and Awards for Excellence in Filmmaking

Sunday, May 31 at 5:00pm – FREE, all are welcome!

Join us in the Theater following the final screening on Sunday for the announcement of the Inwood Film Festival’s Awards for Excellence in Filmmaking! Following the awards, mix with fellow filmmakers, enjoy free cake and celebrate the closing of the festival!

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IFF+

Online only Festival Programming available May 28. Entire Festival on demand beginning Sunday, May 31 through Sunday, June 21. Tickets on sale beginning May 21 at www.inwoodartworks.nyc

Inwood Art Works is thrilled to launch IFF+ as the online extension of the Inwood Film Festival. Our goal for IFF+ is to provide an alternative digital platform that celebrates and enhances accessibility to the films of our fantastic local artists. Our hope is that these online festival screenings will attract large and enthusiastic new audiences for local independent filmmakers.

Exclusive IFF+ Only Films: Black Plastic, Either Way It’s Perfect, Honoring Erick Bentley: A Centennial Tribute, Light as Paper, The Wandering Man, What We Need to Learn.

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FESTIVAL EVENTS

OFFICIAL SELECTION & PROGRAMMING ANNOUNCEMENT PARTY

Wednesday, April 8. Inwood Farm at 7pm.

Join us for the big reveal of the official selection announcement for our 7th Annual Inwood Film Festival! Be the first to know the 2026 Inwood Film Festival selections and programming! FREE with RSVP to info@inwoodartworks.nyc

RED CARPET COMMUNITY ROOM

Friday May 28 through Sunday, May 31

The Red Carpet Community Room is a hip hub to connect filmmakers and audiences. It is for the exclusive use of all Inwood Film Festival ticketed patrons before and after each screening. Enjoy a glass of wine or a Dyckman Beer and come to connect with neighbors before the show, stay afterward to discuss the films, meet like-minded folk, and hob-nob with local movers n’ shakers.

POST SCREENING CONVERSATIONS

Hear first-hand from local filmmakers about how they made their films, followed by Q &A, after each screening.

END OF DAY CELEBRATIONS

Following the final screenings each night in the Red Carpet Community Room join filmmakers, film aficionados, and the Inwood Art Works team for complimentary cake and raise a glass to our Inwood community and its vibrant arts scene.

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This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.