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
Stay tuned to our website, e-newsletter and social media for more information as we get closer. To sign up for our e-newsletter, click the link here.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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