2025 New York Dog Film Festival

Join us for a family-friendly escape to the movies and celebrate everything DOGS! “New York Dog Film Festival 2025” is a collection of short films celebrating the love between dogs, their people, and the animal welfare groups that bring them together. Films featured in the 2025 lineup include: • WELLY THE DOG POET: Three very funny philosophical poems by Welly, a poetic dog. • LUCKY DOG: An animated celebration of a dog who lives what he considers a lucky life in a retirement home, where the residents know and remember him in different ways. • TRAVELING THIS ROAD TOGETHER: A woman and her dog, both cancer survivors, helped each other in their remote Colorado Rockies home through recovery during the pandemic. ׇׇ• LOVE ANOTHER: A fanciful black and white “old timey” film about falling in love with a new dog while grieving another. • TO COMFORT & SERVE: A close look at the deep bond between three veterans in Vermont with PTSD service dogs, and the woman who founded Paws & Boots, a non-profit to train dogs for these veterans. • PEARL & ARGOT A LOVE STORY: A heart-warming fable about three dogs and a cat. • BEFORE US: A sophisticated animation of an adopted dog’s owners trying to imagine how he ended up on the streets. • UNLEASHED: A New York City dog walker who brings the pack for hikes in the woods. • THE WINGMAN: Former Air Force General Scott Wiggins shares the profound connection he has with his service dog, Bear, who helps manage his PTSD and is a true wingman to him. • BUFFY & THE BALLOON: An animated short tale of a dog who meets a special balloon. • ROLLING WITH THE PACK: Dogs and a human in harmony, as two German Short haired Pointers pull their paralyzed owner in an adapted wheelchair-bike in symbiotic thrall! • COMING DOWN IS THE HARDEST THING: Cubby, a 3-year old Bernedoodle, is in a funk. When his parents threaten to leave him behind for the first time, he must learn to do the impossible • WHO WANTS A CUDDLE?: At the Muttville Senior Dog Rescue in San Francisco, the Cuddle Club for (human) senior citizens celebrates 10 years of the Cuddle Club. • A DOG CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE: After a profound loss, Carol dedicated her life to training service dogs for veterans with PTSD, providing them practical assistance and a renewed sense of purpose and hope. • EBEN: A joyful testimonial to Eben, a traveling French Bulldog, who has climbed mountains his whole life and at 12 years old sets out to summitone last peak while battling cancer. • WELLY THE DOG POET: Three more poetic musings on life from a philosophical dog. • FREDDIE BEAR’S LOVELY DAY: Freddie Bear the Goldendoodle joyfully channels Bill Withers’ iconic song on a Hamptons Beach. “New York Dog Film Festival 2025” is presented in partnership with the West Columbia Gorge Humane Society which will receive 10% of all tickets proceeds. Tickets are $8.50, Show dates are May 10, 11 & 14.