
Ava DuVernay’s 14th leads the nominees for the 11th annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards with six nominations, including Best Documentary Feature and Best Director for DuVernay.

Ava DuVernay’s 14th leads the nominees for the 11th annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards with six nominations, including Best Documentary Feature and Best Director for DuVernay.

The 39th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), set to take place in Amsterdam from November 12 to 22, 2026, has announced the main International and Envision competition lineups.
Here is the full official trailer for Being Heumann, the biographical drama from filmmaker Siân Heder that follows disability rights activist Judy Heumann, who leads more than a hundred young people in a radical act of defiance as they take over the San Francisco Federal building in a fight for equal rights.

Artis—Naples shared the lineup of 59 films for the 18th Naples International Film Festival, to be held October 22-25, 2026.

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.