The Hamptons

Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF), announced they are welcoming the world-renowned artist and longtime Sag Harbor resident Vija Celmins as their featured poster artist. The 33rd annual festival will run as an expanded 11-day event from October 3 – 13, 2025.

HamptonsFilm shared the poster art for the 2025 festival, continuing the 33-year tradition of featuring artwork from local Hamptons artists. This year’s poster features the internationally acclaimed artist Vija Celmins’ piece “Ocean”: 1975, © Vija Celmins, Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery.

Vija Celmins has long been admired for her meticulous renderings of natural imagery, including ocean waves, desert floors, and night skies. Her paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints depict scenes that are too vast or mercurial to be fixed in the mind’s eye. Her work has been featured in major institutions including MoMA, the Whitney, and the Centre Pompidou, and has had more than 40 solo exhibitions and retrospectives, and her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, and the Carnegie Prize.  Vija is currently the subject of a comprehensive solo exhibition featuring a selection of her paintings, drawings, and sculptures spanning from the 1960s to the present day, at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland.

“Vija Celmins is a celebrated visual artist known for her intricate drawings of oceans, stars, and desert landscapes. Her minimal, contemplative yet daring work mirrors the spirit of the films we champion at HIFF and reflects the natural beauty of the Hamptons. Having been inspired by Vija’s art for many many years, I am deeply proud and grateful to her for sharing her extraordinary work with us as the 2025 HIFF poster artist,” said Toni Ross, local East End artist and HIFF co-founder and founding Chairman of the Board.

HamptonsFilm, home of The Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF), based in the Hamptons on the Eastern End of Long Island, was founded in 1992 to celebrate the art of film and to introduce a unique and varied spectrum of international films and filmmakers to our audiences. A non-profit organization with year-round screenings of global narrative and documentary films, an annual Screenwriters Lab, a summer documentary showcase, and extensive educational initiatives, HamptonsFilm offers programs that enlighten, educate, and provide invaluable exposure for filmmakers, while also providing the East End of Long Island with an educational and cultural experience that enriches the lives of its citizens and contributes to the local economy. HIFF, celebrating its 33rd year in 2025, is an annual premiere film event in New York State, and an intimate showcase of some of the year’s best offerings in contemporary cinema from around the world. Awarding prizes to filmmakers in cash and goods and services of over $130,000, each year, with over $5 million awarded in competition funds and services over the decades, our program continues to play an important role during awards season. For eleven consecutive years from 2010 through 2020, the Festival screened the eventual Best Picture winner at the Oscars, making HIFF the only Festival in the world with such a distinction. For more information please visit hamptonsfilmfest.org

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