Tag: LFF 2026

LFF 2026 is 251 films from 88 countries.

You already know about maybe fifteen of them or so. The galas, the Cannes winners, the ones with a Telluride rave and a distributor pushing hard. Those films will be reviewed by everybody, and they’ll be reviewed really well, by people who have been doing this a lot longer than me.

The interesting part of a festival programme is never that bit though. The hidden gems are the films where you search the title and find nothing but a synopsis, a festival listing, and then not much else at all. No English review. No consensus. Nobody telling you in advance what you’re supposed to get out of it.

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Twelve films at LFF 2026. Six days in October

Booking for a festival is quite a different thing from booking a cinema ticket. You are choosing partly blind, partly on trust, and partly on a hunch about which of these will still matter during awards season. So some of what follows has been reviewed to death since May already. Some of it has almost nothing written about it in English at all. Both kinds are on the list for different reasons, and I’ve said which is which.

Here’s the slate.

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