Las Cruces, NM– The 10th annual Feminist Border Arts Film Festival (FBAFF) returns to Las Cruces, along with the second iteration of the Zine Festival, from June 6-7, 2025 at the University Art Museum (UAM) in Devasthali Hall.

For ten years, Feminist Border Arts has been dedicated to curating, creating, and sharing underrepresented perspectives across a wide array of media arts, including film, design, digital storytelling, illustration, and zine culture. Feminist Border Arts (FBA), founded by Dr. M. Catherine Jonet and Dr. Laura Anh Williams, is a ten-year collaborative initiative merging the humanities and arts to create new forms of expression and curation. The 10th Annual Feminist Border Arts Film & Zine Festival will be a two-day community event featuring short and feature-length films from the US and around the globe, spotlighting women's and LGBTQ+ narratives and Borderlands perspectives. The festival also includes a day-long Zine Fest, where independent artists and writers share self-published works—zines—that blend storytelling, visual art, comics, and personal expression in inventive and accessible formats.
FBAFF will screen 66 films ranging in length from two minutes to 90 minutes, with special presentations and panels from artists, filmmakers, and scholars. Featured speakers at this year’s festival include cartoonist and graphic memoirist Nicole J. Georges, along with acclaimed illustrator and comic artist Stef Choi, sculptor and filmmaker Tony Candelaria, and filmmaker/film scholar Celine Parreñas Shimizu.
To celebrate 10 years of the UAM’s collaboration with the FBAFF, there will be a special screening of the film Half-Life, along with a pre-recorded conversation featuring artist and filmmaker Cassils, UAM Director Marisa Sage, and FBAFF co-founders Dr. Jonet and Dr. Williams. Cassils is a groundbreaking artist with over 40 international exhibitions, who uses their body as a site of resistance to create powerful performances that redefine identity, power, and care.

The Film Festival will span across two days, from June 6-7 with screenings and programs running from 11 am-8 pm on both Friday and Saturday. Returning for its second year, the Zine Fest will be on Saturday, June 7, from 11 am-5 pm. Zines are available for purchase with most exhibitors accepting cash, Venmo, or PayPal. A comic workshop will take place on Saturday, June 7 at 1pm. Admission for all events is free and open to the public.

For a detailed schedule and more information on the FBAFF and Zine Festival, visit https://fba.nmsu.edu/.