The 2026 Frankfort Film Festival is here!

We are so excited to share the 18th Annual Frankfort Film Festival lineup with you. To purchase tickets, check out the 2026 Official Film Selections listed below with ticket links.

Or, you can purchase a Directing Sponsorship Festival Pass to get FULL ACCESS to all 15 films, including our Opening Night Trailer Viewing Party, our Trivia Nights, and Frankfort48 Showcase. 

Directing Sponsorships Festival Pass

This is our FULL ACCESS pass to the 2026 Frankfort Film Festival!

Directing Sponsorship: $200/$300 for Individual/Couple

-    1 or 2 individual passes to all 15 films 

- Free entry to the Opening Night Trailer Viewing Party ($25 value)

-    Name prominently on Website, On-Screen during Festival, and inside Festival Program

 
 

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FFF Opening Night Trailer Viewing Party

Wednesday, October 14 at 7:00 pm

The official start to the Frankfort Film Festival, come gather at The Garden Theater to kick off the weekend and watch all of the trailers for the films! If you remember the trailer viewing events from years past, this is your chance to watch all of the trailers and pick your films. There will be drinks, light hors d’oeuvres, and a whole lotta good vibes.


 

2026 Frankfort Film Festival Official Selections

 

A Private Life

thursday, October 15 at 12:00 pm

R | 1hr 47min | mystery/crime | FRANCE

The renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner mounts a private investigation into the death of one of her patients, whom she is convinced has been murdered

Director: Rebecca Zlotowski

2025 Cannes Film Festival

Lumière Awards

  • Jodie Foster - Nominated for Best Actress

  • Robin Rob Coudert - Nominated for Best Music

watch trailer | imdb movie Listing

 

My Dead Friend Zoe

thursday, October 15 at 2:00 PM

R | 1hr 42min | war/comedy | united states

Engaged in a mysterious relationship with her dead best friend from the Army, a female Afghanistan veteran comes head to head with her Vietnam vet grandfather at the family's ancestral lake house.

Director: Kyle Hausmann-Stokes

South by southwest

  • Winner - audience award

watch trailer | IMDB MOVIE LISTING

 

FJORD

thursday, October 15 at 4:00 pm

NR | 2hr 26min | Drama | ROMANIA

An immigrant Romanian family living in Norway is subject to an investigation and faces the scrutiny of the local judicial system.

Director: Cristian Mungiu

2026 Cannes Film Festival

  • Winner - Palme d'Or (best film)

  • Winner - François Chalais Prize

  • Winner - FIPRESCI Prize

  • Winner - Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

  • winner - Prix de la Citoyenneté

watch trailer | imdb movie Listing

 

The Last Viking

Thursday, October 15 at 8:00 pM

Nr | 1hr 56min | Comedy/crime | denmark, sweden

A bank robber released from jail must unlock his traumatised brother's memory to recover stolen loot.

Director: Anders Thomas Jensen

Venice international film festival premiere

european film awards

  • nominee - Best actor (Mads Mikkelsen)

Danish Film Academy - Robert Awards

  • winner - Nordisk Film Biografer Audience Award

  • nominations - Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Mads Mikkelsen), Best Actor (Nikolaj Lie Kaas), Best supporting actor (Lars Brygmann), Best Production Design, Best Cinematography, Best Costume Design, Best Make-Up, Best Editing, Best Sound, Best Original score, best visual effects

watch trailer | IMDB MOVIE LISTING

 

It was Just an Accident

friday, October 16 at 12:00 PM

pg-13 | 1hr 46min | thriller/crime | iran, france, luxembourg

An unassuming mechanic is reminded of his time in an Iranian prison when he encounters a man he suspects to be his sadistic jailhouse captor. Panicked, he rounds up a few of his fellow ex-prisoners to confirm the man's identity.

Director: Jafar Panahi

Cannes film festival

  • winner - Palme d'Or, Prix de la Citoyenneté

Academy Awards

  • Nominations - Best international feature film (france), Best original screenplay

watch trailer | IMDB MOVIE LISTING

 

Python Hunt

friday, October 17 at 2:00 PM

NR | 1hr 31min | documentary | united states

Every year the Florida government invites the public to compete in an invasive python removal contest in the Everglades. For 10 nights, an eclectic group of hunters confront the dangerous terrain, nocturnal creatures and their own desires.

DIRECTOR: Xander Robin

South by southwest

  • winner - documentary feature competition special jury award

Miami film festival

  • Made in MIA Feature Film award

watch trailer | IMDB MOVIE LISTING

 

Train Dreams

friday, October 16 at 4:00 PM

pg-13 | 1hr 42min | drama | united states

A logger leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 1900s.

Director: Clint bentley

Academy awards

  • nominations - Best Picture, Best adapted screenplay, best cinematography, best original song

Chicago International Film Festival

  • winner - artistic achievment award

Film Independent Spirit Awards

  • winner - Best Feature, Best Director, Best Cinematography

  • nominated - Best lead performance (Joel Edgerton)

watch trailer i IMDB Movie listing

 

The Baltimorons

friday, October 16 at 8:00 PM

r | 1hr 40min | comedy | United STates

A newly sober man's Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist as they explore Baltimore together.

DIRECTOR: Jay Duplass

South by Southwest Premiere

independent spirit awards

  • nominations - Best breakthrough performance (Liz Larsen), John Cassavetes Award

watch trailer | IMDB MOVIE LISTING

 

The Voice of Hind Rajab

saturday, October 17 at 12:00 PM

Nr | 1hr 29min | war/drama | Tunisia, france

Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under IDF fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.

DIRECTOR: Kaouther Ben Hania

Academy awards

  • nominated - best international feature film (tunisia)

Cinema for Peace Awards

  • winner - Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Film of the Year

Venice International Film Festival

  • winner - Grand Jury Prize, ARCA CinemaGiovani Award – Best Film of Venezia 81, CICT - UNESCO Enrico Fulchignoni Award, Croce Rossa Italiana Award, Edipo Re Award, Leoncino d'Oro Award, Sorriso Diverso Venezia Award for Best Foreign Film, UNIMED Award

watch trailer | IMDB MOVIE LISTING

 

Irena’s Vow

saturday, October 17 at 2:00 pM

r | 2hr 1min | war/Drama | canada, poland

Through the eyes of a strong-willed woman comes the remarkable story of Irena Gut, and the triumphs of the human spirit over devastating tragedy, as she risked her life to save a generation of Jews from the atrocities of the Holocaust.

DIRECTOR: Louise Archambault

Toronto international Film festival premiere

vancouver international film festival

  • winner - audience award

windsor international film festival

  • winner - LIUNA People’s Choice award

  • nominee - WIFF Prize in Canadian Film

watch trailer | IMDB MOVIE LISTING

 

The Marching Band

saturday, October 17 at 4:30 pM

nr | 1hr 43MIN | comedy/drama | France

A world-famous orchestra conductor discovers the brother he never knew he had — a school cafeteria worker who plays trombone in a local marching band.

DIRECTOR: Emmanuel Courcol

César Awards

  • nominations - Best Actor (Benjamin Lavernhe), Best Supporting Actress (Sarah Suco), Best Film (director Emmanuel Courcol and producers Marc Bordure and Robert Guédiguian), Best Editing, and Best Original Screenplay

San Sebastián International Film Festival

  • winner - City of Donostia Audience Award

American french film festival Los Angeles

  • winner - audience award

watch trailer | IMDB MOVIE LISTING

 

Mustache

Saturday, October 17 at 8:00 PM

PG | 1hr 23min | Comedy/Drama. | United States

Director, Imran J. Khan, and Cinematographer, David Robert Jones, will be on-site for any questions after the film!

Follows Ilyas, a 13-year-old boy who navigates the social hierarchy of his new school in California with a mustache his parents won't let him shave.

DIRECTOR: Imran J. Khan

South by Southwest

  • Winner - Audience Award

watch trailer | imdb movie listing

 

Directors: Alex Powell, Renn Smith, Flynn Rossington, Luna Barreiro

Windward

sunday, October 18 at 1:45PM

nr | 6min | | United States

This film was created by a team of four high school students from Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley California as part of the AIM program - the Academy of Integrated Humanities and New Media. Every semester, students in the program take a dive deep into given prompts, blending historical context, narrative depth, and technical filmmaking to produce short films and documentaries. 

Windward follows Blind sailor Walt Raineri who thought he had prepared for his loss of sight but learns anew through sailing, navigating by listening, feeling, and trusting the wind, water, and his community. Windward won an Award of Excellence from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and was accepted at The Mill Valley Film Festival.

 

Cookie Queens

sunday, October 18 at 2:00 pM

g | 1hr 31min | documentary | United STates

It's Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling "Cookie Queen," navigating an $800 million business in which innocence and ambition collide.

DIRECTOR: Alysa Nahmias

Sundance Film Festival

  • winner - audience award

Miami Film Festival

  • nominee - best documentary

watch trailer | IMDB MOVIE LISTING

 

The Last Picture Shows

sunday, October 18 at 4:30 pM

nr | 1hr 18min | documentary | United STates

Filmmaker Rustin Thompson journeys into the American West on a search for traces of what was once a center of small-town life: the movie theater. On the trip, he finds long abandoned and forgotten cinemas; movie houses that have fallen into disrepair; theaters recently closed, theaters struggling to hold on, and theaters that—thanks to their thoughtful caretakers—are not only surviving but thriving.

DIRECTOR: Rustin Thompson

"A cautionary tale and a love letter to an era before it becomes bygone."

- Donald Liebenson, RogerEbert.com

watch trailer | IMDB MOVIE LISTING