Offering an immersive program of screenings and carefully moderated conversations, the Seminar is an internationally recognized forum for field-building collective inquiry into the form and function of non-fiction cinema.
For 70 years, The Flaherty has been more than films. We’ve been conversations, breakthroughs, and a catalyst for cultural change.
“The Flaherty does, in fact, have one enduring feature: argument. (...) Everyone seems to disagree about what The Flaherty was, is, or should be. These debates are never resolved, always opening up ideas and films to a yet to be imagined future. In the end, contentious, pitched arguments with like-minded people about cinema, politics, and art keep The Flaherty convulsing, vibrating, and pulsing with life. Never cemented to its legacies, never inert, The Flaherty can never be defined only by its history because, as Erik Barnouw declared, it has only one goal: ONWARD.”