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Highlights
remembering our 2025 edition
The SRFF 2025 Filmmakers with Honor Awardee Karren Karagulian (back row right) and Festival Director Nora Armani (center) - Photo by Ching Juhl
WHAT IS SRFF?
SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival New York is a film festival that focuses on socially relevant film content, andhuman interest stories that raise awareness to social problems and offer positive solutions through the powerfulmedium of cinema. SR believes that through raised awareness, expanded knowledge about diverse cultures, andthe human condition as a whole, it is possible to create a better world free of violence, hate, and crime.
WHAT IT STANDS FOR
SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival New York's mission is to shine the spotlight on filmmakers who tell compelling, socially relevant, human interest stories across a broad range of social issues without resorting to gratuitous violence or violent forms of film making.
"As the founder of the SR film festivals, Nora Armani is blessed with
an uncommon ability to curate some of the most important films being made today."
Louis Proyect NY Film critic
SRFF is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit film festival that showcases socially relevant films with human interest stories as a response to the proliferation of violence and violent forms
of storytelling. SR™ believes in promoting positive social change through the powerful medium of cinema.
(*) Donations to SR Socially Relevant™ Film Festival New York are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. Donors get VIP seating at events.
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