
The Savannah College of Art and Design’s 29th SCAD Savannah Film Festival, taking place October 24-31, revealed its 2026 lineup.

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.

Kerry Washington has been named the Ambassador for the 31st American Black Film Festival taking place May 20–23, 2027, in Los Angeles.

Mike Leigh’s Tender Loving Care has won the Golden Shell at the 74th San Sebastián International Film Festival.

When it comes to diversity in media, cultural representation has, undeniably, progressed over the past few years. There are still steps to be made, however, as Indigenous cultures are not yet at the forefront of such representation.