Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “New York Dog Film Festival 2025” showing March 14-18 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre.
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 Humane Society of Sedona.
“New York Dog Film Festival 2025” will be shown at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre March 14-18. Showtimes will be Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 14, 15 and 16 at 3:30 p.m.; and Monday and Tuesday, March 17 and 18 at 6:30 p.m.
Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.
