NYICFF in the News For 2026 Festival press, click here.February 26, 2025At the Children’s Film Festival, Unstoppable Heroinesread moreMarch 13, 2025Lake Bell, Seth Meyers, Bob Odenkirk & Matthew Modine Among Jury For New York International Children’s Film Festivalread moreFebruaray 27, 2025New York International Children’s Film Festival Highlights Original Work From Around the Worldread moreFebruary 29, 2024Children's Film Festival Has Robots, Chickens, Authors, and Moreread moreMarch 4, 2024Ira Sachs, Ilana Glazer, and More NY Int’l Children’s Film Fest Jurors Share Their Favorite Childhood Moviesread moreMarch 21, 2024NYICFF Jury Selects Short Films ‘Magic Candies’ and ‘Unibrow’ for Top Awardsread moreMarch 2, 2023Growing a Generation of Movie-Loving Global Citizensread moreMarch 1, 2023Whimsical Children’s Film Tackles War and Displacement in Syriaread moreMarch 2, 202310 Films to Get to Know the New York International Children’s Film Festivalread moreMarch 2, 2023New York International Children’s Film Festival Opens Window to the Worldread moreMarch 3, 2022‘We Are a Film Festival First.’ A Focus on Children Comes Second.read moreMarch 3, 2021Children's Film Festival Pushes Boundariesread moreFebruary 20, 2020Kids to the Rescue: Film Festival Shines a Light on Activismread moreFebruary 23, 2018Children's Film Festival has Lots for Grown-Ups, ToolistenFebruary 28, 2018The New York International Children’s Film Festival is progressive, inspiring, and not just for kidsread moreFebruary 21, 2018Programmed for Kids, This Film Festival has Adults Lining Up, Tooread moreMarch 3, 2017Movies for Kids Don't Need to be Simple: 5 Ways to Programs a Children's Festival Without Dumbing it Downread moreFebruary 22, 2017New York International Children’s Film Festival Brings the Wide World of Animation to NYCread moreFebruary 24, 2017Behind the Screens: New York International Children’s Film Festivalread moreMarch 21, 2014One of New York's Best Film Festivalsread more