UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival)

UNAFF 2025 is in it's 28th year | runs October 16-26, 2025 | Screening locations: Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, San Francisco, Stanford University The 2025 theme, MESSAGES FOR THE FUTURE, continues our devotion to human rights with an emphasis on our common destiny and issues fostering it, or standing in its way. In the past 27 years, UNAFF has screened 8 documentaries which won Academy Awards and another 38 which were nominated. UNAFF was founded in 1998 by Stanford educator and film critic Jasmina Bojic in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In its enduring advocacy for the Universal Declaration of Human Rights UNAFF celebrates the power of international documentary films dealing with the environment, refugees, famine, homelessness, racism, disease control, women's issues, children, universal education, war and peace and other topics mentioned in the UDHR.