Explore the 2026 Sun & Stars International Film Festival Lineup!

ETHAN BLOOM

This delightful and heartfelt Coconut Grove-set coming-of-age comedy navigates the perils of first love, religion and speculation about the afterlife as 13-year-old Ethan attempts to evade his Bar Mitzvah…

DEAD LANGUAGE

A marriage gone flat hangs in the balance when Aya (Adler) goes to the Tel Aviv airport to pick up her husband and, on impulse, departs instead with an arriving stranger by impersonating his…

ISLANDS

A ruthlessly amoral British grifter living in the Canary Islands gets into hot water over his head in this neo-noir thriller that critics have likened to Patricia…

THE PIANIST’S CHOICE

A young pianist’s prodigious talent sets a conflicted course in this meticulously crafted drama that unfolds before, during and after WWII…

ANDY KAUFMAN IS ME

Audacious performer Andy Kaufman blazed a new trail for American comedy beginning with his guest appearance at SNL’s inaugural show in 1975…

FRONTIER

A small community’s psychic wounds from the Spanish Civil War are opened anew when a Pyrenees mountain village is challenged and divided over their proximity to Nazi-…

THE MARCHING BAND

A music-filled and oh-so-French comedy/drama reunites two brothers separated in childhood by adoption…

CASE 137

In this timely police-thriller, Stephanie (Drucker), an internal-affairs officer, investigates allegations of police violence against civilians…

THE TASTERS

The year is 1943, and Rosa, a German wife taking refuge in a small town while her husband fights at the Russian front, is forcibly conscripted to serve as one of Hitler’s tasters…

SPEAK.

Acclaimed as the opening night film of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, SPEAK is a dynamic high-stakes journey through the lives, challenges and ambitions …

SULTANA’S DREAM

The colors and cultures of India are entrancingly on display in this animated neo-folk fable that fantasizes Ladyland, a safe…

THE MOHICAN

A smalltime farmer facing down gangsters becomes an accidental folk hero in this French thriller set on the rugged Mediterranean island…

CALLE MÁLAGA

Winner of the Audience Award, 2025 Venice Film Festival, this colorful romantic crowd pleaser is a triumph for luminous 80-year-old Spanish star Carmen Maura…

THE STRANGER

In a tension-filled and subtly homoerotic adaptation of the existential novel The Stranger by Albert Camus, prolific French director Ozon renders the Algerian…

READING LOLITA IN TEHRAN

Azar Nafisi’s #1 New York Times bestseller comes to life in a moving adaptation of her memoir as a young professor of English literature returns to her native Iran…

STEVE SCHAPIRO: BEING EVERYWHERE

Tapped by the New York Times as one of “65 Movies to See This Winter,” this story-telling tour careens through the brilliant six-decade career of…

NATCHEZ

Billowing hoop-skirts sway, Southern drawls charm, and opulent antebellum décor draws wows – all trademarks of the plantation tourism…

DROP DEAD CITY

Like a desperate debtor on the run from angry creditors, the city of New York in 1975 was facing down the prospect of total…

JIMPA

Two-time Oscar-winner Olivia Colman and Golden Globe-winner John Lithgow bring tender joy and heart-rending pathos to this remarkable drama of inter-generational adjustment…

CHECKPOINT ZOO

Exploding shells light the horizon and missiles strike within the perimeter of a popular zoo and eco-park in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, putting scores of animals from elephants…

YOUNG MOTHERS

Winner of both Best Screenplay and the Ecumenical Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, YOUNG MOTHERS expands…

A WORLD APART

Disillusioned primary school teacher Michele requests reassignment from Rome to a remote snowbound…

THE LITTLE SISTER

Winner of the Queer Palme at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, where actress Nadia Melliti was awarded Best Actress, this woman-directed…

THE TIES THAT BIND US

A revealing comment on the complexities of the modern family, the aptly titled THE TIES THAT BIND US ricochets between drama and…

LATE SHIFT

Switzerland’s Oscar contender for Best Foreign Film follows a powerful emotional trajectory over the course of one harried nurse’s night…

BLOCK PASS

The conservative calm of a French village where motocross racing reigns as the macho sport du jour is upset when a popular…

MORTICIAN

The wintry landscape of Quebec provides an apt canvas against which a dark and cryptic drama of co-dependence and resistance…

A MAN WITH SOLE: THE IMPACT OF KENNETH COLE

Fashion designer, philanthropist and footwear purveyor Kenneth Cole knows his shoes.  He also appears to know the Native American directive…