The Summitt will be participating as an official 2025 FLAHERTY GATHERING!!
We will be hosting a specially selected film series from The 70th Flaherty Film Seminar ONWARD! This is an opportunity to join some particularly curated screenings and discussions at The Summitt with fellow Film enthusiasts, thinkers and ‘Letterboxd’ers. ;)
A curated program and discussion of this year's screenings of the 2025 Seminar ONWARD will take place on Thursday evenings, from June 26th through Sunday July 17th.
STAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS!
The 70th Flaherty Film Seminar ONWARD!!
Asynchronous Film Series & Seminar Experience @ The Summitt, June 26th - July 17th 2025
Tentative Dates & Times:
Thursday, June 26; 6-9pm
Thursday, July 3; 6-9pm
Thursday, July 17; 6-9pm
Notes from the programmers:
ONWARD!
70th Flaherty Film Seminar
June 26–July 31st, 2025; Asynchronous Film Series & Seminar Experience!
Gatherings are an informal means to share the brilliant work of our 70th programmers and artists, accompanied by the Seminar’s longstanding tradition of deep discussion. We are excited for people to gather, watch, debate, make connections – and share their experience with us, so that we can continue to build on the de-centered, international, and accessible seminar model for years to come.
Offering an immersive program of screenings and carefully moderated conversations, the Seminar is an internationally recognized forum for field-building collective inquiry into the form and function of non-fiction cinema, encouraging the exchange of cinematic ideas across generations and cultures, and promoting the expansion of the limits of cinema itself.
Programs will be held in New York City, at select Global Pods, and online.
The Flaherty upholds a tradition of non-preconception. The film programs are not announced in advance, but the schedule and participation details are available below.
The 70th Flaherty Film Seminar
In an effort to lift the veil between the leadership of The Flaherty, our history, and our programs, The Flaherty is honoured to work over the next two years with curator, researcher and writer Jemma Desai. We are inspired by Desai’s long standing commitments to the underlying practices that drive curatorial and programming work and their position within the ecologies that cultural workers in film work in. Her engagement with our board, staff team, and the archives will culminate in her curation of the 70th seminar, tying our long history together with possible visions for the future. A question that she will hold during this time is What might happen if we used the phenomenology of yearning to appraise our cultural production infrastructure? Not yearning to belong to what we have, but yearning to be longing: to embody a desire for something else? How might both understanding more clearly our own desires as well as attending closely to the ways that reformism, managerial moderation and ‘professional practices’ contain the work that is possible lead us to more congruent and committed ways of working?