External Events
Margaret Mead Film Festival
The American Museum of Natural History’s Margaret Mead Film Festival showcases documentary films that ask crucial questions and explore perspectives from around the world.
Friday-Sunday, May 2-4, 2025
Central Park West & 79th St, New York, NY 10024
Inspired by the groundbreaking use of film and photography by Museum Curator Margaret Mead and her fellow anthropologists in the 1930s, the Mead is the preeminent international showcase for contemporary cultural storytelling. It celebrates visual anthropology’s evolution and emerging technologies, working to create empathy and understanding through documentary, experimental films, animation, hybrid works, and more.
Film Screening at BAM
The legendary films of Lebanese filmmaker Heiny Srour, a body of searing feminist revolutionary works depicting the Middle East in the 70s and 80s, come to BAM in new restorations.
Multiple Dates
Peter Jay Sharp Building, BAM Rose Cinemas, 30 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217
Combining fictional drama, archival footage, and fantasy sequences, Leila and the Wolves follows a young Lebanese woman in modern London as she time-travels through the 20th century, observing the place of Arab women in social struggles and anti-colonial movements in Lebanon and Palestine. To make The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived, Srour and her team crossed 500 miles of desert and mountains by foot, under bombardment by the British Royal Air Force, to capture a rare record of a now mostly forgotten war.