Subtropic Film Festival 2026
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From November 6 to 8 Subtropic Film Festival is taking over West Palm Beach and Lake Worth Beach. It's our fourth year at the Norton Museum of Art and we're back at Afflux Studios at G-Star.
For the first time, we're also spilling into Lake Worth Beach on Saturday, with screenings at the Lake Worth Playhouse and events around town.
Friday night we open at the Norton Museum of Art with Homegrown, five films that dig into the Florida most people drive straight past: sacred ground, buried history, the water under our feet, and whatever's living just below the surface.
After party next door, at Studio 1608!
Saturday runs all day! The camera workshop kicks off at Afflux at 11:30am, and shorts take over the screens there all afternoon.
At 2pm the Norton screens Frogtown, which took Best Florida Feature and the Audience Award at the Florida Film Festival.
Then we head to Lake Worth Beach for a photo walk, and a filmmaker happy hour.
Then catch two features at the Lake Worth Playhouse: Patrick Bresnan's First They Came For My College and William Means' Junkie.
The Junkie After Party hits Pomona and Propaganda at 9:30pm, and goes til late
On Sunday, Afflux runs from 11:30am straight through to the Awards Ceremony and live editing session at 6:45pm. The day has seven shorts blocks and Kevin Contento's The Moths and the Flame, just off its Berlinale Forum premiere. It also has Tropical Park, a Miami feature shot in one 85-minute take from the backseat of a car.
At 2pm the Norton screens Honeyjoon, a mother-daughter story about grief and arguing your way back to each other, with the galleries open to you afterward.
Grab one film or grab the whole weekend. We'll break down each day over the next few weeks, but the good seats won't wait that long.
For the first time, we're also spilling into Lake Worth Beach on Saturday, with screenings at the Lake Worth Playhouse and events around town.
Friday night we open at the Norton Museum of Art with Homegrown, five films that dig into the Florida most people drive straight past: sacred ground, buried history, the water under our feet, and whatever's living just below the surface.
After party next door, at Studio 1608!
Saturday runs all day! The camera workshop kicks off at Afflux at 11:30am, and shorts take over the screens there all afternoon.
At 2pm the Norton screens Frogtown, which took Best Florida Feature and the Audience Award at the Florida Film Festival.
Then we head to Lake Worth Beach for a photo walk, and a filmmaker happy hour.
Then catch two features at the Lake Worth Playhouse: Patrick Bresnan's First They Came For My College and William Means' Junkie.
The Junkie After Party hits Pomona and Propaganda at 9:30pm, and goes til late
On Sunday, Afflux runs from 11:30am straight through to the Awards Ceremony and live editing session at 6:45pm. The day has seven shorts blocks and Kevin Contento's The Moths and the Flame, just off its Berlinale Forum premiere. It also has Tropical Park, a Miami feature shot in one 85-minute take from the backseat of a car.
At 2pm the Norton screens Honeyjoon, a mother-daughter story about grief and arguing your way back to each other, with the galleries open to you afterward.
Grab one film or grab the whole weekend. We'll break down each day over the next few weeks, but the good seats won't wait that long.
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Where is it happening?
Norton Museum of Art, 1450 South Dixie Highway,West Palm Beach,FL,United States
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