Paul Feig, Melanie Lynskey, Julie Delpy Anchor 2025 Miami Film Festival Honorees
variety.comAbigail Lee The 42nd edition of the Miami Film Festival returns in 2025 with a lineup that features a particularly robust showcase of local films and debut features, as well as a murderers’ row of high-profile honorees.
In total, 198 titles will play at the festival from April 3-13 across a mix of narrative, documentary, feature and short film categories.
The festival, held by Miami Dade College, opens with the comedy “Meet the Barbarians” by Julie Delpy (one of this year’s Impact Award recipients).
The closing night film is Daniel Minahan’s “On Swift Horses,” a 1950s drama starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi. The festival embraces an international slate — films from more than 45 countries are included — but there’s also a focus on bolstering local talent, whose work festival leadership say is especially prominent in this year’s programming. “I’m pretty positive, it’s a record number of local stories in the festival,” says James Woolley, Miami Film Festival’s executive director.
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