Mead Film Festival: Friday

Friday, May 1, 2026

A seated audience in the orchestra and balcony of the LeFrak Theater watch the screen which shows a person walking along a winding road in the desert.
Alvaro Keding/© AMNH

This three-day celebration takes place from Friday, May 1–Sunday, May 3, 2026, and will present storytelling and documentary films from diverse voices near and far.

Time and Water

7 pm | LeFrak Theater

Árni Kjartansson sits on the edge of a cliff overlooking a glacier.
Icelandic Glaciological Society member, Árni Kjartansson, sits overlooking a glacier in Iceland.
Archival Materials Courtesy of Andri Snær Magnason 

Entrusted with writing a eulogy for Okjökull, the first Icelandic glacier lost to climate change, Andri Snær Magnason embarks on a profound exploration of environmental love and mourning. Academy Award nominee Sara Dosa crafts an intimate, transcendent meditation on loss, memory, and the deep time of the natural world, poetic, urgent, and powerfully human in its confrontation of the climate crisis. 

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Generous support for the Margaret Mead Film Festival has been provided by
The Mead Trust.

A portion of the Margaret Mead Film Festival is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.