Hamptons Film Festival 2026: Final Weekend Planner

The 34th Hamptons International Film Festival opened October 2 with the East Coast premiere of I Play Rocky and closes Monday, October 12, with its last five days running Thursday through Monday. Those days include a Saturday centerpiece, three conversations with actors and filmmakers, and the closing film, and the schedule below is built from what the festival and local press have confirmed, with the gaps marked as gaps.

Screenings span five locations: Regal UA East Hampton Cinema, Guild Hall, East Hampton Middle School, Sag Harbor Cinema, and Southampton Playhouse, according to a September 10 lineup report in 27east. Chief Creative Officer David Nugent described the festival’s aim in that report: “Each year, HIFF aims to bring audiences not just the best films from around the world, but the opportunity to hear from the artists that create them.”

Day	Confirmed program	Venue
Thursday, Oct. 8	Wild Horse Nine, 5:00 p.m.; Bleeding Hearts, 5:30 p.m.; Club Kid, 8:15 p.m.	Guild Hall; Regal UA East Hampton; Guild Hall
Friday, Oct. 9	No individual events confirmed in the sources reviewed	Not listed
Saturday, Oct. 10	Centerpiece, The Only Living Pickpocket in New York; conversations with Jesse Eisenberg and Ron Howard	Guild Hall for the conversations; centerpiece venue not confirmed
Sunday, Oct. 11	Conversation with John Turturro	Guild Hall
Monday, Oct. 12	Closing night film, Wicker	Regal UA East Hampton Cinema

Thursday, October 8

Thursday’s confirmed listings come from the festival’s own film guide, where each title carried a next-screening time when it was checked on October 6. Wild Horse Nine, a 119-minute narrative feature, plays at 5:00 p.m. at Guild Hall. Half an hour later, at 5:30 p.m., the 97-minute documentary Bleeding Hearts screens at Regal UA East Hampton. The evening slot belongs to Club Kid, a 122-minute narrative feature, at 8:15 p.m. back at Guild Hall.

Wild Horse Nine and Bleeding Hearts overlap for most of their running times, which makes the early evening a choice between them, and Club Kid follows at Guild Hall. Film guide times can shift, and a title’s next-screening time is not a full schedule.

Friday, October 9

None of the sources reviewed confirmed a specific screening or event for Friday. The festival’s film guide carries the daily schedule grids, and the call center, open daily from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 631-825-0050, can answer questions the listings do not.

Saturday, October 10

Saturday carries the heaviest billing. The centerpiece screening is The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, directed by Noah Segan and starring John Turturro, Steve Buscemi, and Giancarlo Esposito, per 27east. The sources reviewed gave no time or venue for it.

The Film Stage reported in August that the film is from Sony Pictures Classics and opens in New York and Los Angeles on October 23, with a nationwide expansion October 30. Its plot, as that outlet summarized it, follows an aging pickpocket whose old routine of lifting cash and watches has given way to credit cards and smartphones. The trailer above is the one embedded on that page.

Two of the festival’s “Conversations With” sessions also fall on Saturday at Guild Hall, with Jesse Eisenberg and Ron Howard, according to the same 27east lineup report. Session times were not listed there.

Sunday, October 11

Sunday’s confirmed entry is a conversation with John Turturro at Guild Hall, again from 27east’s lineup report. Because Turturro stars in Saturday’s centerpiece, the two events can be paired, although neither source gave times, so anyone planning both should check the schedule before building a day around them.

Monday, October 12

Wicker closes the festival at Regal UA East Hampton Cinema. It is directed by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson, and the cast includes Olivia Colman, Alexander Skarsgård, Peter Dinklage, and Elizabeth Debicki, according to 27east. Showtime was not confirmed in the reports reviewed.

Awards and What the Prizes Look Like

The festival’s awards page lists $2,500 in cash for Best Narrative Feature plus an in-kind production package valued at $92,500, and $2,500 plus a $50,000 package for Best Documentary Feature. The two short-film awards pay $1,000 each and, per the festival, qualify for Academy Awards consideration. Audience members vote festival-wide in three categories: narrative feature, documentary feature, and short film. This year’s awards total $196,500, and the festival says it has “proudly bestowed close to five million dollars in its 34-year history.”

Ceremony timing was not specified on that page. Honorees named for this year’s festival include Bob Balaban, who receives the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, who receive the Achievement in Directing Award.

Tickets and Getting There

A fall event listing from LongIsland.com put admission at $20 per film, with programs running $20 to $45, a range worth confirming with the box office before buying because it comes from a third-party calendar rather than the festival. The festival’s film guide carries the daily schedule grids, and the call center number above handles ticket questions.

Anyone staying in or driving to the Hamptons for the weekend might also read about how October fits the local calendar in The Quiet Season Advantage: Why Hamptons Sellers Who List in October Consistently Outperform, and Sag Harbor, home to one of the festival’s cinemas, is the subject of Sag Harbor’s Main Street Effect: How Proximity to the Village Center Is Rewriting Price Per Square Foot and Why Sag Harbor’s Whaling Decline Created the Exact Lot Sizes That Make It the Most Walkable Village on the East End Today. For a longer view of the region, Hamptons-Adjacent Without the Hamptons Price Tag: The Long Island Towns Buyers Are Discovering in 2026 covers the towns around it.

Schedules, venues, and ticket prices can change after publication, and this guide reflects reporting through October 6, 2026.