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Full Frame Alumni Honored with 2026 Peabody Awards
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival is proud to celebrate three recent Full Frame selections recognized as winners at the 86th annual Peabody Awards, one of the most respected honors in media and storytelling. This year’s winners include works that connected with Full Frame audiences in Durham and now join an extraordinary group of films recognized for their cultural impact and artistry. Among the honorees is Come See Me in the Good Light, which screened…
Sunday Encores: One More Chance to See the Award Winners
From Grand Jury winners to audience favorites and emerging voices, these films represent the breadth and depth of this year’s festival. Join us for one last gathering in the theater and an opportunity to close out the weekend with the artists and stories that defined Full Frame 2026.
Full Frame Presents 2026 Award Winners
Full Frame Awards Grand Jury Award to A Fox Under a Pink Moon, Introduces New Nancy Buirski Award
Welcome to the 28th annual Full Frame Documentary Film Festival!
We are enormously proud of this year’s event and are so pleased to share it with you. We are always awed by how much attention and energy goes into a celebration so fleeting— the four days pass by far too quickly—but our hope is that the experience of discovering these documentaries will be as revelatory and rewarding for you as it is for us.
Full Frame Picks By…
Can’t decide which films to see in 2026? Consider these picks from Mac McCaughan, Chris Vitiello, and Tom Rankin.
See These Animated Films at Full Frame
Four documenrtary films employ animation in striking and varied ways, expanding the language of nonfiction and inviting audiences to experience these stories from new vantage points.
First Feature Films at Full Frame 2026
At this year’s festival, a number of directors will present their debut features, offering audiences the chance to encounter new voices in documentary filmmaking and engage with artists at an exciting early moment in their work.
Full Frame Announces 2026 Tribute Film Lineup
The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival has announced seven films to screen in the Full Frame Tribute honoring esteemed filmmaker Dawn Porter. The lineup features a screening of Porter’s most recent documentary, WHEN A WITNESS RECANTS.
MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN’s Oscar Win
David Borenstein and Pavel “Pasha” Talankin won the Oscar for best documentary feature Sunday, with their film MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN.
Full Frame Unveils NEW DOCS, Invited Programs
THE OLDEST PERSON IN THE WORLD and I WAS BORN THIS WAY open and close the 28th annual festival