The Science New Wave XVI Festival takes place in New York from October 20-27, 2023.

Head over to Imagine Science Films to also see the SNW XVI Schedule and Film Lineup (64 films in competition).

All film screenings will take place at the Cinema Village near Union Square. Every film plays once during the festival.

About the Science New Wave Pass

The Science New Wave Pass gives you access to both in-person and virtual programming. Note that not all the films will be available online.

Special events, notably Symbiosis (lab meeting + closing night) and Field Notes are not included with the SNW Pass and require separate you to purchase a separate ticket. 

Check out the October Issue (Art)ificial 2.0 with another 40 films playing concurrently to the festival and browse through the Science New Wave XVI Playlist to see all of the 64 selected films in competition.

Science New Wave XVI Festival Programming Notes

Our festival has a new identity. From hereon, we're called the Science New Wave Festival and we occasionally go by SNW Festival. Our SNW XVI lineup will be announced in late September 2023. Our goal is to celebrate films where scientific pursuit is free to co-exist and blend freely across disciplines and cultures. From documentary to fiction to data, we hope to always challenge the way you understand, interpret, and appreciate scientific ideas and perspectives edition.

Our festival theme for this 16th edition of the Science New Wave Festival is (art)ificial.

(art)ificial explores the art of the human while it acknowledges the limits of the human and the violence of its diverse art forms. What are the many forms of artificiality we humans conduct? (art)ificial is not about the artificial 'intelligent' simulations but the actual doings of human - to nature and to ourselves. By providing a counter-narrative to the assumed connotation that artificial entails under the very present wave of artificial intelligence, this year's film festival highlights the vast range of artificial modes of creation, including human intervention, intrusion of land, as well as the incoming technologies humanity develops with and through machines to highlight the very presence of the human in affected ecosystems.