GEMS 2025 featured 40 films from over 20 countries, opening with No Other Choice with director Park Chan-wook in attendance to receive the Precious Gem Master Award.

This year’s festival screened over 160 narratives, documentaries, and short films of all genres from 45 countries worldwide, including 40 World Premieres, 2 International Premieres, 11 North American Premieres, 5 U.S. Premieres, 23 East Coast Premieres, and 63 Florida Premieres.

This year’s Festival screened over 199 narratives, documentaries, and short films of all genres, from over 45 countries worldwide, including 35 World Premieres, two International Premieres, nine North American Premieres, three U.S. Premieres, 21 East Coast Premieres, and 72 Florida Premieres.

The 41st edition of Miami Dade College’s Miami Film Festival took place April 5-14, 2024. The 10-day Festival showcased the work of the world’s best emerging and established filmmakers, with international and Ibero-American films, and served as a major launchpad for many local filmmakers, as well as for international and documentary cinema.

GEMS 2024 featured 30 films from over 15 countries, opening with The Room Next Door, three Centerpiece screenings of Emilia Pérez, Maria, and The Brutalist, and closing with A Real Pain.

The festival opened with Somewhere in Queens, directed by comedian and actor Ray Romano, who attended the festival. It closed with The Lost King, directed by Stephen Frears. Featuring a dozen World Premieres, three North American Premieres, seven US Premieres, and 14 East Coast Premieres, the 2023 Miami Film Festival will celebrate more than 140 feature narratives, documentaries, and short films of all genres, from over 30 countries worldwide.

GEMS featured 26 films from 14 countries, opening with the Mexican drama Radical. Four Centerpiece Screenings – the survivalist thriller Society of the Snow, the animated feature The Boy and the Heron, the provocative comedy American Fiction, the psychological thriller drama Saltburn, and the closing-night feature, The Holdovers, a comedy-drama by Alexander Payne starring Paul Giamatti.

The festival opened with Fernando León de Aranoa’s The Good Boss, while Plaza Catedral, directed by Abner Benaim, was the closer. In total, 120 films from more than 35 countries unspooled that year.

Taking place at MDC’s Tower Theater, the festival, for the second year, expanded to eight days from its traditional four-day format and ran from November 3-10.