School of Film and Media Studies

Sean Weiner co-founder and co-director of UFO (Untitled Filmmaker Org) as well as SUNY Purchase Faculty Member, will present some of the films apart of UFO’s Short Film Lab, providing funding and resources to young filmmakers from intersectional backgrounds.

Talking About Trees (2019, Suhaib Gasmelbari) is a documentary film focused upon the Sudanese Film Group’s attempts to re-open an outdoor movie theater in the city of Omdurman and the restrictions they face in attempting to do so. 

Join the FMS Screening Series in their collaboration with Cinema Roll for a secret Halloween themed screening. Plus, Cinema Roll will present the release of their Fall 2026 Semester zine!

Join the FMS Screening Series for a screening of the action-packed Hong Kong New Wave classic, “The Mission” (1999, Johnnie To) featuring an introduction by Film Professor Mtume Gant and Cinema Studies Professor Nathan Holmes

Join us in CMFT 0065 for an introduction, screening, and Q&A with director (and Purchase faculty member) Jimmy Mehiel’s new documentary “Sex Robot Madness” (2025)!

In this documentary, Palestinian-French filmmaker Lina Soualem explores her family’s shared experience of exile and displacement.

West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty (1979) is an anti-colonial musical-drama film directed by influential African filmmaker and actor Med Hondo.

OFFSIDE, directed by Jafar Panahi, is an  Iranian political comedy-drama about a group of girls who try to watch a World Cup qualifying match but are forbidden by law because of their gender. Its screening is banned there.