First Look 2025

First Look, MoMI’s annual festival showcasing adventurous new cinema, returns for its 14th edition, offering a diverse slate of major New York premieres, work-in-progress screenings and sessions, and fresh perspectives on the art and process of filmmaking. This year’s festival introduces New York audiences to works from around the world, encompassing feature and short films; fiction and nonfiction; performances and experiments. The guiding ethos of First Look is openness, curiosity, discovery, aiming to expose audiences to new art, artists to new audiences, and everyone to different methods, perspectives, interrogations, and encounters. For five consecutive days the festival takes over MoMI’s two theaters—with in-person appearances and dialogue integral to the experience. Each night concludes with one of five selected Showcase Screenings in MoMI’s Sumner Redstone Theater. 

Pictured: Diciannove

All-Access Festival Pass: $130
Saturday Pass: $35 / Sunday Pass: $35

Opening Night and Closing Night tickets: $25 / 25% off for members
Showcase screenings: $17.50 / $7 MoMI members
All other screenings: $17.50 / free for members