ONWARD! Opening Night

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Held on Thu, Jun 26, 2025, 7:00 p.m.

MoMA, Floor T1, Theater 1

The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 1

Agnès Varda leads a discussion at the 1976 Flaherty Film Seminar, programmed by Caroline Hennig. Courtesy the Flaherty Film Seminar

On the final night of this retrospective series, MoMA will host the opening night of ONWARD!, the 70th Flaherty Film Seminar, which is being held in New York City for the first time. The program will be curated collaboratively by past seminar programmers Janaína Oliveira (2021), Carlos Gutiérrez (2007), and Richard Herskowitz (1987, 1990, 1999, 2004) in conversation with programming contributors Christopher Harris, Zaina Bseiso, and Louis Massiah. The opening screening program will not be announced in advance, in keeping with the seminar’s tradition.

Public tickets to the June 26 opening night are valid for the MoMA screening only; for seminar registration and other details, please visit theflaherty.org.

This film accompanies The Flaherty Film Seminar at 70.

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