Margaret Mead Film Festival Announces 2025 Program: Sundance Winner ‘Seeds,’ ‘Viktor,’ ‘The Shepherd And The Bear’ And More

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EXCLUSIVE: The Margaret Mead Film Festival – the longest-running documentary showcase in the U.S. – has announced its 2025 lineup, a slate that includes Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Seeds.

Director Brittany Shyne is expected to be on hand as the festival kicks off Friday, May 2 with Seeds, which has earned rave reviews beginning in Park City. “It’s a work of political activism through sheer lyricism,” Rolling Stone’s David Fear wrote, “and exactly the kind of discovery you come to Sundance to see.” The festival, running May 2 to Sunday, May 4 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, will present 17 feature documentaries, among them one U.S.

premiere and 15 New York premieres. This year’s theme, “We Are the Story,” illuminates “the diverse ways we connect with one another, our environments, and shared histories,” according to a release.

Scroll for the full schedule. Additional highlights from the program: “We’re so excited to welcome audiences to the 2025 Margaret Mead Film Festival, a celebration of storytelling that connects us across cultures, borders, and experiences,” commented Jacqueline Handy, Mead Festival director and director of public programs at the American Museum of Natural History. “A longstanding Museum tradition, the Mead is a space for curiosity and conversation, a place to witness resilience, community, creativity, and the many ways we shape—and are shaped by—the world around us.