Are you ready for the New Bedford Film Festival 2025? 

April 10-13, 2025, we will celebrate bold and diverse cinematic stories and storytellers in the whaling city of New Bedford, Massachusetts!

Film lovers and makers, save these dates to experience the New Bedford Film Festival for your first or second time!

We look forward to having you!

Schedule:

April 11, 2025

Filmmakers Breakfast

9:30-11:00am - New Bedford Art Museum-608 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, Ma

Panels & Workshops

Harbor Hotel-222 Union Street, New Bedord, Ma

12:00pm - color Grading Crash Course With Dan Goldsmith 2:00pm-funding for Your Film Led by Vincente Disanti

4:00pm - Sag-aftra Contracts for Indie Films With Katie Riccio + Benjamin Shallop

Screenings

Gallery X-169 William St

Peace Seekers (Documentary Features)

9:30am-12:30pm

Uncomfortable

Pivden 23

A Fragile Peace: Brexit and Northern Ireland

Love Where You Live

1:00pm-4:00pm

For the Ones We Love - My Friend Laird

I Am Kanka

Bankie Bank King of the Dune

Lgbtq+ Identity

4:00pm-6:30pm

Il Tempo Di Un Ricordo

The Paradise Road

Kuch Sapney Apne

Steeple Playhouse - 159 William St

Beyond the Grave

11:00am-1:30pm

Til Death Do Us Part

Soul Family: a Day in the Lives

Southcoast Stories (Part 1)

4:00pm - 5:30pm

Mr. Glow

Frankenskin

Riders to the Sea -better Than I Was

Made (W)hole

Right Above There: Artist Autumn Liv Cyr

All About Love (Shorts)

5:30pm - 7:30pm

Moby Dick 4 Dummies

The Overlook

Trumpet Gumbo

Bailando

A Beautiful Day

Low Power Mode -hearts of Stone

New Bedford Art Museum 608 Pleasant St

Shorts in the Art Museum

11:00am-12:30pm

Hell is Empty

The Snowy Owls of Logan Airport

Waves

Ball Lightning

Sit Down

And the Hills Can Walk in the Midst

Networking Night

Harbor Hotel-222 Union Street

Honoring the Music of Film 7:30pm-9:30pm

Award Presentations for:

Best Original Score, Best Song, Best Song of a Music Video, Best Music Video, Best Editing of a Music Video

Buy Tickets

Date: April 10- 13, 2025