
The 22nd annual LA Femme International Film Festival will open with the West Coast premiere of Jesus Land, written and directed by Saila Kariat and starring Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear, Yellowjackets) and Ella Anderson (Song Sung Blue, Conviction).

The 22nd annual LA Femme International Film Festival will open with the West Coast premiere of Jesus Land, written and directed by Saila Kariat and starring Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear, Yellowjackets) and Ella Anderson (Song Sung Blue, Conviction).

The 13th Miami Film Festival GEMS, taking place from October 29 to November 5, 2026, revealed the lineup. GEMS will open with Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut, and close with Jordan Firstman’s Club Kid.

Filipina filmmaker Marie Jamora (Queen Sugar, Matlock) has started production on her indie romantic comedy film We Could Be in Love.

The Savannah College of Art and Design’s 29th SCAD Savannah Film Festival, taking place October 24-31, revealed its 2026 lineup.
After 25 years, the avant-garde designers Gabi Asfour, Angela Donhauser, and Adi Gil of the New York fashion collective threeASFOUR tell their story of fashion, friendship, creativity, and survival in the documentary threeASFOUR: Full Circle.
In Gentle Monster, the new drama-thriller from Austrian filmmaker Marie Kreutzer, a quiet family life turns terrifying when love, trust, and everything Lucy thought she knew about her husband begin to fall apart

Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth!, starring Pedro Pascal, will close the 27th Newport Beach Film Festival, set to run from October 15-22, 2026.

The action thriller Best Pancakes in the County, starring Nicolas Cage, Justin Long and Shelley Hennig, has been acquired by Independent Film Company.
Sophie Okonedo stars in Clarissa, a Lagos-set adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s celebrated novel Mrs. Dalloway, from Nigerian twin filmmakers Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri,
Project Hail Mary from Academy Award-winning filmmakers Phil Lord and Chris Miller has won the prestigious Sloan Science in Cinema Prize, presented by SFFILM and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
An investigation into a 1985 murder in the rural bayou outside New Orleans, Louisiana, turns into a haunting exploration of a community’s dark history of violence and bloodshed in the HBO documentary series, The Pet Cemetery Murders: A Ghost Story.

AFI FEST 2026, taking place in Hollywood from October 21 to 25, will present 157 films, including Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love; Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden, starring Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto; and Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard, starring Kate Mara and Rooney Mara.