--- title: 'Hamptons Film Festival Sets 2026 Lineup Around Wicker and Live Talks' type: 'blog post' section: 'Industry' format: 'Editorial feature' standfirst: 'The 34th Hamptons International Film Festival runs October 2–12 with Wicker closing the program and conversations led by Amanda Seyfried, John Turturro, Jesse Eisenberg and Ron Howard. Its packed slate turns the East Coast stop into an awards-season meeting point for premieres, repertory screenings and filmmaker access.' author: 'CinePixo' published: '2026-09-14' updated: '2026-09-14' about_people: - 'Jesse Eisenberg' - 'Amanda Seyfried' - 'John Turturro' tags: - '2026 Hamptons International Film Festival lineup' - 'Hamptons Film Festival Wicker closing night' - 'Amanda Seyfried Wilson Shedd conversation' - 'John Turturro Only Living Pickpocket in New York' - 'Jesse Eisenberg The Debut Hamptons' - 'Ron Howard Avedon documentary screening' - 'Hamptons Film Festival world premieres' sources: - 'https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/hamptons-film-festival-unveils-full-161123586.html' - 'https://www.broadwayworld.com/long-island/article/Amanda-Seyfried-John-Turturro-Jesse-Eisenberg-Ron-Howard-and-More-Set-for-2026-Hamptons-International-Film-Festival-20260910' - 'https://www.27east.com/arts-living/article_e15e104d-87da-483a-b850-a62542da28cf.html' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/blog/hamptons-film-festival-sets-2026-lineup-around-wicker-and-live-talks' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Hamptons Film Festival Sets 2026 Lineup Around Wicker and Live Talks *The 34th Hamptons International Film Festival runs October 2–12 with Wicker closing the program and conversations led by Amanda Seyfried, John Turturro, Jesse Eisenberg and Ron Howard. Its packed slate turns the East Coast stop into an awards-season meeting point for premieres, repertory screenings and filmmaker access.* By CinePixo, 2026-09-14 · Industry The Hamptons International Film Festival has announced the full program for its 34th edition, running October 2–12, 2026, with Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson’s Wicker as the closing-night film on October 12. Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Elizabeth Debicki and Peter Dinklage lead the Sundance-launched fantasy. For film readers, the draw is as much the access as the titles: Amanda Seyfried, John Turturro, Jesse Eisenberg and Ron Howard will appear in the festival’s Conversations With series, tying major screenings to in-person discussions. ## Wicker Closes, I Play Rocky Opens Peter Farrelly’s I Play Rocky remains the opening-night selection, while Wicker brings the festival to a close. The closing film’s cast gives Hamptons a recognizable final-night event, but the festival’s programming also makes room for films arriving from other major showcases and a small group making world premieres on Long Island. Deadline reported that the festival’s timing — immediately after Toronto, Venice and Telluride and overlapping with the New York Film Festival — has made Hamptons a useful stop as awards season gathers momentum. The schedule places the festival in a crowded autumn corridor, yet its identity is clear: a place where audiences can see likely conversation-starters and then hear directly from the people who made them. ![Amanda Seyfried, model, actrs, at 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy for the film Miu Miu Women's Tales .](https://pokemon-dive.us-lax-4.linodeobjects.com/cinepixo/posts/2026/09/2a8114bb-a05a-474c-b20d-eccef0559f6e.webp) *Photo: LucaFazPhoto · [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amanda_Seyfried_at_83rd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-3.jpg)* ## Seyfried and Turturro Anchor the Centerpiece Screenings Tim Blake Nelson’s The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd will receive its U.S. premiere October 3. Seyfried stars with Scoot McNairy, and she will speak at East Hampton Middle School on October 4 after the screening. Noah Segan’s The Only Living Pickpocket in New York screens October 10. Turturro leads a cast that includes Steve Buscemi, Giancarlo Esposito, Will Price and Tatiana Maslany, then joins a conversation at Guild Hall on October 11. Eisenberg’s The Debut, which he wrote and directed, screens October 9 before his Guild Hall conversation on October 10. Julianne Moore, Paul Giamatti, Halle Bailey and Eisenberg star. Howard’s Avedon, a documentary about photographer Richard Avedon, receives its East Coast premiere before Howard’s own Guild Hall appearance on October 10. This pairing of film and talk is the festival’s strongest practical proposition. The program does not treat conversations as decorative extras; it schedules them around films that give each guest something specific to discuss, from acting in Wilson Shedd to directing The Debut and documenting Avedon’s work. ![John Turturro at a press conference for The Only Living Pickpocket in New York at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival](https://pokemon-dive.us-lax-4.linodeobjects.com/cinepixo/posts/2026/09/076d519d-6499-4f12-a618-a6518e05b894.webp) ![Jesse Eisenberg at the Broadway opening of "Operation Mincemeat," 2025](https://pokemon-dive.us-lax-4.linodeobjects.com/cinepixo/posts/2026/09/aac91b29-16f4-4334-9dc1-2aa50c39bc7b.webp) *Photos: Harald Krichel · [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Turturro_at_the_2026_Berlin_International_Film_Festival-60203.jpg); PhilipRomanoPhoto · [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jesse_Eisenberg_by_Philip_Romano_(3x4_cropped).jpg)* ## Pedro Pascal, Scarlett Johansson and a Deep Spotlight Slate The Spotlight section gathers a broad group of high-profile projects. Tony Gilroy’s Behemoth! stars Pedro Pascal, while Siân Heder’s Being Heumann features Ruth Madeley and Mark Ruffalo. Simon Stone’s Elsinore, with Andrew Scott, Colman, Billie Piper and Johnny Flynn, and Beth de Araújo’s Josephine, starring Mason Reeves, Channing Tatum and Gemma Chan, receive East Coast premieres. Other selections include Guy Nattiv’s The Liberation, with Carrie Coon, Lily James, Bella Ramsey, Odessa Young and Tracy Letts; Rachel Morrison’s Love of Your Life, led by Margaret Qualley and Aaron Pierre; Ira Sachs’ The Man I Love, starring Rami Malek; Chris Rock’s Misty Green; and James Gray’s Paper Tiger, with Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson and Miles Teller. The section keeps widening: Juliette Binoche and Tom Courtenay appear in Lance Hammer’s Queen at Sea; Sara Bareilles is the subject of Sara Bareilles: Good Grief; and Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine brings John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits and Parker Posey together. Bareilles will take part in an extended post-screening discussion about returning to the studio after personal loss. ![Amanda Seyfried, model, actress , at 83rd Venice International Film Festival in Venice, Italy for the film Miu Miu Women's Tales .](https://pokemon-dive.us-lax-4.linodeobjects.com/cinepixo/posts/2026/09/8eb06d52-7138-4eb3-b233-9df582a15d55.webp) ![John Turturro at a press conference for The Only Living Pickpocket in New York at the 2026 Berlin International Film Festival](https://pokemon-dive.us-lax-4.linodeobjects.com/cinepixo/posts/2026/09/771a50a9-401e-429a-b82c-5305f73cfb7d.webp) *Photos: LucaFazPhoto · [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amanda_Seyfried_at_83rd_Venice_International_Film_Festival-2.jpg); Harald Krichel · [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · [source](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Turturro_at_the_2026_Berlin_International_Film_Festival-60218.jpg)* ## World Cinema, Documentaries and Two Hamptons Premieres Hamptons’ World Cinema Narrative lineup includes Pedro Almodóvar’s Bitter Christmas, Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s All of a Sudden, Lukas Dhont’s Coward, Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland and Cristian Mungiu’s Fjord, starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve. Andrew Haigh’s A Long Winter features Fred Hechinger, Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Caitríona Balfe, while Mike Leigh contributes Tender Loving Care. The documentary program ranges from Nanette Burstein’s Carl Sagan: We Are Made of Star Stuff to Alex Gibney’s Musk, Barnaby Thompson’s David Lean documentary Maverick: The Epic Adventures of David Lean, and Chris Smith’s Wilder, about Gene Wilder. Howard’s Avedon appears here as well. Two world premieres in Views from Long Island offer a more local angle. Jake Silbermann’s Barbizon follows a sculptor, played by Erica Pappas, who teaches chess to wealthy Hamptons families. Eric Weber and Nick Weber’s Not Dead Yet stars Richard Kind as an advertising man trying to reinvent himself. Special presentations add Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s Everest: The Other Side, which gets its New York premiere and first public U.S. IMAX screening. Christopher Guest’s Best in Show will screen alongside Bob Balaban’s Lifetime Achievement Award, while Phil Lord and Christopher Miller receive the Achievement in Directing Award during an Anatomy of a Scene presentation devoted to Project Hail Mary. The festival’s most revealing promise is sitting in that mix: a major fall showcase that still leaves room for a chess lesson, a giant screen and a conversation that starts when the credits end. ## How this piece was made **Format:** Editorial feature ## In this piece - [Jesse Eisenberg](https://cinepixo.com/people/jesse-eisenberg) - [Amanda Seyfried](https://cinepixo.com/people/amanda-seyfried) - [John Turturro](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-turturro) ## Sources - https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/movies/articles/hamptons-film-festival-unveils-full-161123586.html - https://www.broadwayworld.com/long-island/article/Amanda-Seyfried-John-Turturro-Jesse-Eisenberg-Ron-Howard-and-More-Set-for-2026-Hamptons-International-Film-Festival-20260910 - https://www.27east.com/arts-living/article_e15e104d-87da-483a-b850-a62542da28cf.html Every factual claim above is drawn from these. The reading of them is ours. 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