HIFF 2024: Compassion, Justice & Animal Rights

Created in 2012, Compassion, Justice & Animal Rights is a HamptonsFilm Signature Program that explores this important movement on film. Bringing together animal advocacy, environmental and social justice issues, our Animal Rights program provides a platform for filmmakers to share meaningful information, stories of inspiration, and tools for creating a safe and humane world for animals. This year’s Compassion, […]

Centerpiece, World Cinema + Animal Rights Films Announced for HIFF29

With HIFF29 just five weeks away, we’re delighted to announce that the US Premiere of Eva Husson’s MOTHERING SUNDAY will screen as the festival’s Sunday Centerpiece film on Sunday, October 10, sponsored by KORE Private Wealth. In the Spotlight Section, the festival will screen Mike Mills’s C’MON C’MON, Wes Anderson’s THE FRENCH DISPATCH, and the […]

HIFF Jr Heads East to Montauk!

Last Friday, Longtime HIFF Board member Linda Biscardi Fuller—who taught at East Hampton High School and Middle School for 35 years and has been instrumental in developing HIFF’s education programs—joined HIFF Jr. education and outreach manager Marissa Cangiolosi and headed east to Montauk School. Seventy-seven lucky 4th- and 5th-graders were treated to the red carpet experience at […]

HIFF25: Centerpieces, Spotlights, Award Winners + More

The 25th Annual Hamptons International Film Festival today announced two more Centerpiece films, three Spotlight features, the feature films in our HIFF Competition, and two key award winners. The Friday Centerpiece film in Southampton on October 6 will be the North American premiere of Simon Curtis’s GOODBYE CHRISTOPHER ROBIN, a look into the life of author A.A. […]

SummerDocs: ‘Trophy’ on July 29 at Guild Hall, 7pm

SummerDocs host (and HIFF Co-Chair) Alec Baldwin is back for the ninth year to present new and groundbreaking documentary filmmaking and thought-provoking stories to the East End. Next up: TROPHY, a powerful new call to action that challenges us to examine our complicated relationship with the great species of the world. Join us on Saturday, July 29, 7pm at Guild Hall! Followed […]