The Show Before The Show

Free to attend — RSVP now.

Join us October 27th at 6:30pm for a sneak peek of the film lineup and the first look at what KWFF has in store for November's 15th annual festival. Seating is first-come, first-served.

Date

Tue, Oct 27

Time

6:30 PM

Venue

General Horseplay

Five days of cinema at the southernmost edge of the continent.

The 2026 lineup drops this October. Join the Marquee and you'll be first to see the slate, the schedule, and the box-office on-sale time.

Dates

Nov 18–22

Edition

15th Annual

Where

Key West, FL

Programmers are deep in submissions.

Opening Night, Spotlight screenings, the Centerpiece, Floridocs and the full documentary slate are unveiled in October, the same week the box office opens. Marquee subscribers hear it first.

Announced

October 2026

Programs

6 strands

Venues

5 island screens

Your personal festival concierge, trained on fifteen years of Mile Zero cinema.

Tell it what you love — a documentary, a midnight comedy, a shorts block, or the best Cuban coffee before a 10am screening — and get a custom plan, venue map, and calendar export in seconds.

Open

24 / 7

Plans

Instant

Desks

5 tiers

Fourteen years of island premieres.

The Room Next Door, All of Us Strangers, Marriage Story, The Irishman and hundreds more played these screens first. Dig through every past edition, poster and trailer in the archive.

Editions

2012–2025

Titles

517+

Trailers

62 restored

Critics, directors and programmers, on one stage.

Our annual critics panel and filmmaker conversations put the year's most-argued-about films under the lights — free-flowing, unscripted, and recorded for the archive.

Format

Panels + Q&A

Stage

San Carlos

Archive

Watch past talks

Screens, harbor and sunset — all within blocks.

Every venue sits inside a few walkable blocks of Old Town, so the day runs from morning docs to a harbor sunset to a midnight screening without ever needing a car.

Venues

5 screens

Radius

Walkable

Nights

Harbor + parties