05/30/2026
What's Playing at the Inwood Film Festival!
Today - Saturday, May 30th
Get tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inwood-film-festival-tickets-1986447687507?aff=oddtdtcreator
Seminar: Post Production – The Final Draft of your film
Saturday, 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 | Short films under 25 minutes | 2:15pm
(63 minutes total screening time, plus post-screening conversation with filmmakers.)
Roots, directed by Adrian Miranda
A man battling cancer chooses between strength and rest, help and independence.
Last Hope, directed by Lena Kaminsky
After being fired as a volunteer from Last Hope Cat Shelter, Douglas, a well-meaning rulebreaker returns to drop off his keys. He is surprised by the arrival of Diane, the shelter manager and rule-enforcer. They have a heartfelt conversation about loss, redemption and whether or not cats like blue light. When an opportunity for redemption arises, we are left hoping that Douglas will get a second chance.
Remember This, directed by Andrew Serban
A young journalist wakes up in the middle of the night on a deserted New York City street with bruises on her face and body and realizes, to her horror, that she has lost her memory and doesn’t know who she is. When a stranger comes to her aid, she embarks on a disquieting journey to recover her identity and find out what happened to her.
Imposter, directed by Marc Masciandaro
A lonely office drone resorts to desperate measures for a date with the woman of his dreams.
Long Shorts – Documentary Portraits | Short films under 25 minutes | Saturday, 6:35pm
(66 minutes total screening time, plus post-screening conversation with filmmakers)
For Those that Lived There, directed by Shawn Antoine II
Amidst the gentrified remnants of Chicago’s Cabrini Green, For Those That Lived There captures the haunting displacement of Black legacies and the emergence of migrant narratives, offering an evocative exploration of a community in metamorphosis.
Dread Count, directed by Hannah Gonzalez
Dread Count follows a college student named Josh Phentin who believes he is a ghost. While stalking his campus draped in a blue sheet, he becomes obsessed with a girl named Lisa who develops romantic feelings for Josh.
Serving on Sacred Ground: The Story of BRC’s Inwood Site, directed by Clennon L. King
This short documentary highlights Bowery Residents’ Committee’s (BRC) response when they learned that the autobody site that they purchased in Inwood to build a homeless shelter was once a burial ground for enslaved Africans, as well as a Lenape Ceremonial site.
Women Laughing, directed by Kathleen Hughes & Liza Donnelly
In Women Laughing, longtime New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly sets out to explore her lifelong passion for women’s humor and cartooning by speaking, laughing, and drawing with a diverse group of remarkable women who create cartoons for the iconic magazine. Inspired by her acclaimed book Very Funny Ladies and Liza’s own biography, the film also looks back at the fascinating history and evolution of single panel cartoons- from the 1920s, to the present- and reveals how far women have come in a field historically dominated by men.
Vanishing: A Love Story | Documentary Feature | 8:35pm
(107 minutes, in English, plus a special post-screening conversation immediately following with filmmaker, Sandra Luckow)
Directed by Sandra Luckow
Vanishing: A Love Story is a documentary about award-winning novelist Cai Emmons and her loving, open-hearted journey towards death. In 2021, at the age of 70, Cai was diagnosed with ALS. Taking place in 2022, during the last six months Cai’s life, the film is, first and foremost, a story about the agency of expression — having a voice to create a legacy in the world.
