The 16th Annual Science Film Festival brings you films that explore our theme of the year : (art)ificial.

We're a bunch of scientists running a film festival, so let's run some stats on our film lineup and challenge the status quo, shall we?

64 films are in the selection this year from over 35 countries represented. 22 films are less than 45 minutes and 42 films are over. We have 3 World premieres, 1 International premiere, 20 United States premieres, 4 East Coast premieres and 20 New York premieres.

Check out our schedule & events around New York city.

A Science New Wave Certificate will be provided to each film team to acknowledge that their film aligns and feeds into the spirit and ideals of the Science New Wave. Each film receives a unique 18-digit DNA code that appears on its Labocine page. All films are eligible for the Science New Wave Awards.

Why 64 films every year? 64 is a symbolic number that refers to the total number of nucleotide triplet combinations (codons) of the Genetic code that translate DNA/RNA language into amino acid/proteins. Each film this year is assigned a codon this year forming the Science New Wave XVI Genetic Code.