32nd Annual Edition: “Documenting Dissent”

The Festival opens on February 19th, 2025.

The Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is pleased to present the thirty-second season of the Massachusetts Multicultural Film Festival, on the theme of “Documenting Dissent,” showcasing 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. In cinema, documentarians engage such issues directly, 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.”

Weekly screenings will be shown on Wednesdays at 6:30 at UMass Amherst Isenberg School of Management Room 137 (unless otherwise stated)

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