Festival Tickets
Price: $15
Single Day
- Opening Ceremony picture with your favorite filmmaker
- Day or Festival Pass
- Opening Ceremony
- Pictures with filmmakers
- Red Carpet Gala Ceremony
| THURSDAY, SEPT 24, 2026 | ||||
| CINEMA 4 | ||||
| Screening | Genre | Film Title | Director | Country |
| 2:00PM | Documentary | We Are the Redline | Mel Andre | USA |
| 3:50PM | Documentary | Journey of Hope | Sally Momtazi | UK |
| 5:09PM | Horror | Come the Nightfall | Tom Michaels | USA |
| 5:47PM | Drama | A Paradise Falls | Linwood Yarborough | USA |
| CINEMA 6 | ||||
| Screening | Genre | Film Title | Director | Country |
| 2:00PM | Action | Man | Salvador Garza | Mexico |
| 4:00PM | Comedy | Miss Matched | Jonathan Green | USA |
| 6:09PM | Drama | Dream of Liberation | Abbas Rafei | Iran |
| FRIDAY, SEPT 25, 2026 | ||||
| CINEMA 4 | ||||
| Screening | Genre | Film Title | Director | Country |
| 2:00PM | Animation | The Duke of Sorenburgh | Jack Fanburg | USA |
| 3:13PM | Screenwriter | Never Judge a Book by its Cover | Tyeshia Downer | USA |
| 4:35PM | Documentary | Allowed to Birth | Jacinta Lagos | Argentina |
| 5:56PM | Horror | Second Rate Meat (Carne de segunda) | Ruben Casalins | Colombia |
| 6:30PM | Sci Fi | The Glowing Man | Nicolas Sparger | USA |
| CINEMA 6 | ||||
| Screening | Genre | Film Title | Director | Country |
| 2:00PM | Sci Fi | The Glowing Man | Nicholas Sparger | USA |
| 2:44PM | Horror | Undertow | Andi Correa, Gabriel Ribeiro | Brazil |
| 3:23PM | Short Film | "The Cafone" Ep 1 | Thomas Bentey | USA |
| 4:01PM | Short Film | Prepper | Gordon Lamb | USA |
| 5:00PM | Sci Fi | Royal Retribution | Dustin Hawkins | USA |
| 5:46PM | Horror | Grandma's Couch | Ryan Howard | USA |
| 6:16PM | Drama | Calm Man | Behnoush Sadeghi | Iran |
Festival Tickets: Two Days
Price: $25
Two-Day Pass
- Opening Ceremony picture with your favorite filmmaker
- Day or Festival Pass
- Opening Ceremony
- Pictures with filmmakers
- Red Carpet Gala Ceremony
- Have access to all the films screening during the event
- Join our Red Carpet Award Ceremony with exclusive access
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