FAFF 2026 Opened September 5, 2026 at Torrance Art Museum

World’s Largest Art Film Festival
90 Films from 42 Countries Around the Globe Selected

The Venice Institute of Contemporary Art (ViCA) presented the 13th Annual Fine Arts Film Festival (FAFF) in person on September 5, 2026, at Torrance Art Museum and Online on Vimeo Sept. 14 - 30. The festival is dedicated to presenting the finest new films about how art is made, how artists survive, how they think and work, and what makes creativity our most important skill, and our best hope for mankind.
We know you'll love this year's lineup!

Public Screenings in Order of Appearance at TAM:

Alone against all – Fabrice Castanier | Short Documentary | France
Reddening – Sinem Kayacan & Elina Pirinen | Experimental Film | Finland
Vitacamp – Jeffrey Chin | Short Narrative | United States
Boudoir Doll – Dandan Luo | Animated Film | China
The Storm Within – Marjoleine Boonstra | Short Documentary | Netherlands
WAIT – Vittoria Mengoni | Student Film | Italy
Ça reste entre nous – Maryam Shapoorian | Feature Documentary | Iran
Kinesthesia – Aidan Rutman | Student Film | United States
ERIK SATIE : RELOADED – Gregory Monro | Feature Documentary | France
Kind Procedures – Marco Santos | Short Documentary | Portugal
Unspoken Lines – Sasha Gitin | Student Film | United States
Themis is Tired – Ilya Demutsky | Short Narrative | France
Shifting Grounds – Zana Selimi | Experimental Film | Switzerland
One Day The Will Only Shine for You I Gjert Rognli I Norway
Dobrina - Hannes Rall I Animated Film I Germany
Mozart's Sister – Madeleine Hetherton-Miau | Feature Documentary | Australia

All FAFF 2026 Official Selections

Mozart's Sister – Madeleine Hetherton-Miau | Feature Documentary | Australia

ERIK SATIE : RELOADED – Gregory Monro | Feature Documentary | France

Bacon's Histories – Martha Parsey | Feature Documentary | United Kingdom

Mending the Sky – Dan Cao, Ying Ye | Feature Documentary | France

The Skin of Light – Premjish Achari | Feature Documentary | India

The Art Accomplices – Ebba Sinzinger | Feature Documentary | Austria

TACHELES, A Berlin Story – Andy Cohen | Feature Documentary | United States

Out of Context – Tina Grushina | Feature Documentary | Indonesia

Ça reste entre nous – Maryam Shapoorian | Feature Documentary | Iran

Cowboy Meditations – Gary Richard Milliken | Feature Documentary | United States   

Workers Of Art – Marc Levin | Feature Documentary | United States

Master – Vage Mikaelyan | Feature Documentary | Russian Federation

The Rhythm Of Jamaican Art Feature – John Campbell | Feature Documentary | United States   

Le chien qui boit le thé – Jean-Claude Moschetti, Arnaud Nouvel | Feature Documentary | France

Minnie Evans: Draw or Die – LINDA ROYAL | Feature Documentary | United States

The Painted Life of E.J. Hughes – Jenn Strom | Feature Documentary | Canada

Breaking The Cycle – Eric Jon Liebman | Feature Documentary | United States

The Piccirilli Factor – Eduardo Montes'Bradley | Feature Documentary | United States

M'ANAM : Between Two Worlds – Michael McGlynn | Feature Documentary | Iceland

OHO Film – Damjan Kozole | Feature Documentary | Croatia, Slovenia

In Limbo – Alina Maksimenko | Feature Documentary | Poland

Memoirs of Teatro da Cornucópia – Solveig Nordlund | Feature Documentary | Portugal

I Am Only a Craftsman – Salvatore M Brown | Feature Documentary | United States

Flying with fins – Maria Averina | Feature Documentary | Bulgaria

Waterline – Rui Simões | Feature Documentary | Portugal

The Foul-Mouthed Granny – Seung-pyo Hong | Feature Documentary | South Korea

An Investigation into an Italian Memory – Matthew Buzzell | Experimental Film | United States

Ilana Goor - A Woman Against the Wind – Tomer Heymann | Feature Documentary | Israel

TALISKER: Vol. 1 – Carolyn Corbett | Feature Narrative, Experimental Film | United States

The Vessel of Words – Makoto Ishii | Short Documentary | Japan

Rodolphe Proverbio, A World within a Drop of Water – Olivier Vandersleyen | Short Documentary | Belgium

Kind Procedures – Marco Santos | Short Documentary | Portugal

Alone against all – Fabrice Castanier | Short Documentary | France

Roman Studio – Wendy Artin, Saskia Scorselo | Short Documentary | United States

Through – Béatriz Mediavilla | Short Documentary | Canada

Installing Lutzick Snowdrift Arrays – Lori Bentley Law | Short Documentary | United States

The Fragility of Tradition – Stella M. Holmes | Short Documentary | United States

Piero della Francesca - A Pioneer of the Re… – Marion Kollbach | Short Documentary | Germany, Italy

Philip Vaughan – Daniel Zimbaldi | Short Documentary | United States

En Plein Air – Matt Steeves | Short Documentary | Canada

THE LANGUAGE OF LIGHT: PONCH HAWKES – Fiona Cochrane | Short Documentary | Australia

Figuring It Out – Andreas Apostolidis | Short Documentary | Greece

The Storm Within – Marjoleine Boonstra | Short Documentary | Netherlands

THE CIRCLE OF TRAUGOTT – Maxim Yakubson | Short Documentary | Russian Federation

Call Me Waya – Charles Abelmann | Short Documentary | United States

penosar – hosein fatahi | Short Documentary | Iran

Mary Kelly: From Stone to Cloud – Sophie Chahinian | Short Documentary | United States

ANDREW LOGAN: SCULPTOR OF JOY – Liam Alexander O'Brien | Short Documentary | United Kingdom

Unfurled – Gail Willumsen | Short Documentary | United States

Salt Marsh – Tom Bell | Short Documentary | United States

Sculpting Reflections – Chalkley Calderwood | Short Documentary | United States

Amygdala – Ali Kianersi | Short Narrative | Iran

Studio Dialogues – Alex Culshaw | Short Narrative | United Kingdom

The Third Dream – Mohammadhossein Nikzad | Short Narrative | Iran

Taking Stock – Jonathan Ozburn | Short Narrative | United States

Vitacamp – Jeffrey Chin | Short Narrative | United States

Blue Beard Gas Light – Kyra Miller | Short Narrative | United States

Crit – Isabel Lea | Short Narrative | United Kingdom

Woman Dies Alone – Angela Harvey | Short Narrative | United States

Luiz Telles, Artist of Tomorrow – Jonatan Gentil | Short Narrative | Brazil

Themis is Tired – Ilya Demutsky | Short Narrative | France

(I) Miss America – Hannah Ballou, Peter Case | Music/Performance Video | United Kingdom   

Chimeric Womb – Okyoung Noh | Music/Performance Video | South Korea, United States

Freedom Renegade – Bo Pressly | Music/Performance Video | United States

Free on Bail – Spartakus Santiago | Music/Performance Video | Brazil

un deux trois – Brooke Dooley | Music/Performance Video | United States

FRANCESCO HOCH - Diabolus ex musica - audiofanie – Adriano Kestenholz | Music/Performance Video | Switzerland

Jeff Hilliard - Love Myself – Jeff Hilliard | Music/Performance Video | United States

Mould - Wheeze – Martyn Thomas | Music/Performance Video | United Kingdom

TO THE HANDS – Marty Austin Lamar | Music/Performance Video | United States

Vanitas – Tomaz Standeker | Experimental Film | Slovenia

The Fifth Floor – David Baeumler | Experimental Film | United States

(sighing softly) – Süheyla Noyan | Experimental Film | Türkiye, United States

GRACE A Prayer for Peace – Gaylene Preston | Experimental Film | New Zealand

Shifting Grounds – Zana Selimi | Experimental Film | Switzerland

One day the sun will only shine for you. – Gjert Rognli | Experimental Film | Norway

land.scape notes on exile – Berette S Macaulay | Experimental Film | United States

Reddening – Sinem Kayacan | Experimental Film | Finland

HAPPY DAY – Boru Zheng | Experimental Film | China

This Is Where I Leave You – Joy Bernard | Experimental Film | Israel

BOOK OF SKIN – Neil Kendricks | Experimental Film | United States   

Boudoir Doll – Dandan Luo | Animated Film | China

Dobrina – Hannes Rall | Animated Film | Germany

The World Came Flooding In – Isobel Knowles, Van Sowerwine | Virtual Reality Film | Australia

IF YOU SEE A CAT – Atsushi Wada | Virtual Reality Film | Japan

Coded Black – Maisha Wester | Virtual Reality Film | United Kingdom

Xian’er (Chinese Immortals) – Fang Zhou | Virtual Reality Film | China

WAIT – Vittoria Mengoni | Student Film | Italy

Kinesthesia – Aidan Rutman | Student Film | United States

Unspoken Lines – Sasha Gitin | Student Film | United States

Official Selections of FAFF 2026 will be offered a distribution deal through the ViCAFilms/Eagle Rock Pictures partnership, which has resulted in the Art/World Collection, viewable now on Vimeo. Over the past 6 years, films have been licensed to some of the most popular national streamers, including Tubi and Roku.

"It's hard to believe we're in our 13th year at FAFF", says Juri Koll, founder of the Festival. "We've worked hard to bring the best films from around the art world to Los Angeles, and now to the rest of the world online. It never ceases to amaze us, the love and respect these filmmakers have for their subjects, and it shows in every frame."

Ioana Matei is Co-Founder of FAFF, Chief Innovation Officer | Emerging Tech | CIO | Producer | Co-founder of Women in Immersive Technologies NGO

Sponsors past and present include Torrance Art Museum, Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico City), Blick Art Materials, Beyond Baroque, 4 Brothers Wine Co., Flake, the Estonian American Business Alliance, and many others.

About ViCA

The Venice Institute of Contemporary Art (ViCA) is devoted to presenting and sustaining the unique stories, history and culture of one of the most important centers of independent artistic expression. Through its exhibitions, events, research facilities, and education curriculum, ViCA celebrates the world of art internationally, and the art and culture of Venice Beach/Southern California. Our founding in 2011 marks an ongoing commitment to our community - to present the art world from the perspective of its artists, writers, curators, collectors, and the art viewing public.

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