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First Feature Films at Full Frame 2026

Doctors in masks and scrubs look down at the operating table

    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.

    First features are where the voice, vision, and craft of a filmmaker come into full view, shaped by years of inquiry, experimentation, and lived experience. These films reflect a wide range of perspectives and approaches, each bringing a distinct point of view to the screen.

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    American Doctor Doctors in scrubs and masks look down at the operating table/ United States, the State of Palestine, Denmark, Malaysia, Qatar (Director: Poh Si Teng; Producers: Poh Si Teng, Kirstine Barfod, Reem Haddad)
    When three American doctors—Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
    Friday, April 17 — 7:00 pm

     

     

     

    Barbara Foreverblack and white image of Barbara Hammer holding a camera / United States (Director: Brydie O’Connor; Producers: Elijah Stevens, Brydie O’Connor, Claire Edelman)
    An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of iconic, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
    Friday, April 17 — 7:30 pm

     

     

     

    JaripeoA cowboy in gold hat and clothing against an indigo sky / Mexico, United States, France (Directors: Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig; Producer: Sarah Strunin)
    Jaripeo journeys to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos. What starts as a celebration of tradition descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing—a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
    Saturday, April 18 — 2:30 pm

     

     

    JoybubblesA man holding two phone receivers up to his face / United States (Director: Rachael J. Morrison; Producers: Sarah Winshall, Will Butler, Annie Marr)
    A boy discovers he can control the global telephone system by whistling a magic tone. Born blind and yearning for connection, his early obsession with the telephone sparks a subculture that shapes the future of hacking and technology.
    Saturday, April 18 — 11:30 am

     

     

    A man floats in a green body of waterThe Lake / United States (Director: Abby Ellis; Producer: Fletcher Keyes)
    An environmental nuclear bomb looms in Utah. Two intrepid scientists and a political insider race the clock to save their home from unprecedented catastrophe.
    Friday, April 17 — 1:30 pm

     

     

     

    Singing WingsA man and woman transport an stork by motorbike / Iran, Georgia, Belgium (Director: Hemen Khaledi; Producers: Inna Tedzhoeva, Sargol Moradi, Zina Broyan)
    Through the intertwined destinies of a wounded stork and an elderly Kurdish woman, whose daughter contemplates migrating to the UK, Singing Wings weaves a poetic parallel between animal and human migration.
    Friday, April 17 — 10:00 am

     

     

     

    March 24, 2026