2018 SummerDocs Series Celebrates 10 Years!

In 2018, the Hamptons International Film Festival will celebrate the 10th Anniversary SummerDocs series! SummerDocs host (and HIFF Co-Chair) Alec Baldwin will once again lead conversations with filmmakers and guests, presenting new and groundbreaking documentary filmmaking and thought-provoking stories to the East End at Guild Hall of East Hampton. In this anniversary year, the series will kick off with […]

The Beales are Back in ‘That Summer’ at IFC Center

Welcome to Grey Gardens…as you’ve never seen it before. Three years before the Maysles’ landmark documentary introduced the world to Edith and Edie Beale—the unforgettable mother-daughter (and Jackie O. relatives) living in a decaying dream world on Long Island—renowned photographer Peter Beard chronicled life at their crumbling estate during one summer in 1972. For the […]

HIFF 2018: Submissions Have Closed

Submissions for the 2018 Hamptons International Film Festival have now closed. With four competitive categories in narrative feature, documentary feature, narrative short film, documentary short film, and programs in seven non-competitive categories, the Hamptons International Film Festival seeks diverse films made by filmmakers who traverse the globe in order to tell their stories through different cultural […]

‘LOVING VINCENT’: April 27 at Southampton Arts Center

HIFF is pleased to present NOW SHOWING, an exciting series of screenings that brings notable films currently in theaters to the Hamptons. Curated by HIFF, the series features acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema. “The world’s first fully painted film… One of the most lunatic labors of love to appear on movie screens this year. And in that […]

‘THE SQUARE’: May 4, Southampton Arts Center

HIFF is pleased to present NOW SHOWING, an exciting series of screenings that brings notable films currently in theaters to the Hamptons. Curated by HIFF, the series features acclaimed first-run art house, independent, and world cinema. “It affirms that art, this movie very much included, can tell us things about ourselves that we’d prefer not to know.” — Justin Chang, Los Angeles […]