MMFF 2025
Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival
32nd Edition
The thirty-second year of the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival showcases a diverse and international array of new and recent documentary films. Our campuses today, like countries across the globe, are roiling in various forms of controversy. Political debates about gender identity, race/class/caste, immigration, and colonialism are increasingly mobilized to divide populations along partisan lines and fuel authoritarian movements. At the same time, misinformation and disinformation proliferate—a narrative-based pandemic, one for which no successful vaccine has yet been found. In such a climate, a crisis on so many levels, artists of every sort are rethinking their role, wondering what purpose their work might serve. In cinema, documentarians engage such issues directly, often with experimental and lyric creativity. The films and directors featured in this year’s MMFF document dissent: they tell their stories, center voices, and reclaim personal, social, and political experience in opposition to the status quo. Like W.E.B. Du Bois, we are proud to offer our diverse communities art that “tells the truth, exposes evil, and seeks, with beauty and for beauty, to set the world right".
-Guest Curator: Jim Hicks jhicks@complit.umass.edu
-Assistant Curator: Celia Sainz csainz@umass.edu