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2026 New Jersey Film Festival begins today January 23!!
by Al Nigrin
published 2026-01-23

The 2026 New Jersey Film Festival has screenings this weekend on Friday, January 23, Saturday, January 24 and Sunday January 25. Check out the Festival schedule and more info at this link: https://newjerseyfilmfestivalspring2026.eventive.org/welcome




 

New Jersey Film Festival Video Interview with Filmmaker Trina Bardusco!

by Vic Fern
published 2026-01-22

Al Nigrin, Executive Director and Curator of the New Jersey Film Festival, sits down with Trina Bardusco, director and producer of the short documentary A Way to Be Together, for a filmmaker interview. A Way to Be Together will be screened on January 24, 2026.



A Day in the Life of a Monk Documentary Screens at the 2026 New Jersey Film Festival!

by Logan Ward
published 2026-01-21

Portrait of a Monastery is a documentary by John Decker that follows the life of monks in the Order of the Holy Cross. They mainly rely on the teachings of the Rule of St. Benedict, focusing on peace, prayer, and work. This documentary differs from others by choosing to omit interviews. This gives it a very unique feel, as Decker instead chooses to highlight the beauty in and around the Holy Cross Monastery in West Park, New York. Scenes tend to jump from nature to the monks singing or partaking in regular activities. Everything is captured very gorgeously and makes use of the sounds that are present, rather than adding music in post-production, leading to birds heard chirping or the beautiful songs of the monks. Decker’s cinematography makes you feel as if you are there witnessing this in real time, and the use of the sounds that are naturally occurring adds to this. The outside shots tend to be very still, and there is a serene quality to these that encapsulates the way the monks must feel.



Haunting feature Anda screens at the 2026 New Jersey Film Festival on Sunday, January 25!

by Emma Hackbarth
published 2026-01-20

Anda directed by Jayendra Ganta is a haunting folktale of beauty and obligation. In it, an older woman finds the elixir of youth. It gives her body vitality and her face smoothness for days on end, turning her eyes its custom striking green. Based on a Nordic folktale, this film has a magical rhythm, accentuated by atmospheric music and the revolving settings of forest and home. 



New Jersey Film Festival Video Interview with Filmmaker Louis Cacchione

by Vic Fern
published 2026-01-19

Al Nigrin, Executive Director & Curator of the NJ Film Festival, sits down with Louis Cacchione, director of the short documentary Arrested at Delaney Hall, for a filmmaker interview. Arrested at Delaney Hall will be screened on January 24, 2026.





The Eye-opening Documentary B.F. Skinner Plays Himself Opens the 2026 New Jersey Film Festival on Friday, January 23!

by Dalton James Vassanella
published 2026-01-18

What led you to this article? A love for film? B.F. Skinner believed this wasn’t a choice but the result of psychologically programmed behavior. Skinner stands alongside Ivan Pavlov as a father of modern behaviorism. Yet, Skinner was interested in topics far beyond science. He wrote on the philosophical impacts of his discoveries, questioned free will, and became one of the most enigmatic academics of the 20th century.



New Release Review - "Hamnet"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2026-01-17

Remember that time when Batman and Superman stopped fighting because they realised they had both been raised by women named Martha? Chloé Zhao's Hamnet, adapted from the 2020 novel by Maggie O'Farrell, is centred on an equally silly contrivance. Just as Zack Snyder noted the aforementioned tenuous link between Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent, O'Farrell twigged that William Shakespeare had a short-lived son named Hamnet and also wrote a play titled 'Hamlet'. Could the two be linked? Err, no. 'Hamlet' was based on the Danish legend of Amleth and doesn't feature so much as a single dead son. But in O'Farrell's eyes Willy the Shake wrote the tragedy as a coping mechanism for the grief he felt over the loss of his boy, which is odd given how the bard penned a couple of comedies in the immediate aftermath of his kid's death.



New Jersey Film Festival Interview with A Way to Be Together Director Trina Bardusco!

by Al Nigrin
published 2026-01-17

The beautiful short documentary A Way to Be Together screens at the New Jersey Film Festival on Saturday, January 24, 2026! Here is my interview with A Way to be Together Director Trina Bardusco.



Stunning documentary Portrait of a Monastery screens at the New Jersey Film Festival on January 24, 2026!

by Emma Hackbarth
published 2026-01-16

A moving meditation, Portrait of a Monastery is a stunning documentary on the Holy Cross Monastery in upstate New York. In it, we are taken through three seasons in the lives of these monks. We enter a space of cultivated peace and reflection—the monastery itself and the natural world surrounding it. 



New Release Review - "No Other Choice"

by Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
published 2026-01-15

Though it's adapted from a novel from the '90s (Donald Westlake's 'The Ax', previously filmed as The Axe by Costa-Gavras in 2006), Park Chan-Wook's No Other Choice speaks to very modern fears around job stability in the age of AI. Like Bong Joon-ho's Parasite, it's centred on desperate measures taken by a protagonist to acquire a job, but there is no class satire here. AI doesn't care about our socio-economic backgrounds. It's coming for us all.


 

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 Wednesday, February 11, 2026 @ 10:00am
Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) - Main Stage
1601 Irving Street, Rahway, NJ 07065



Shorts

Shorts Program #2: Where the Rain Stops, Chota Bheem, Human Side Of Plastic, Ball Lightning, Last Puestero – Online for 24 Hours and In-Person at 5PM!

 Friday, February 13, 2026 @ 5:00pm
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71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901



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Sum Function - Online for 24 Hours!

 Saturday, February 14, 2026 @ 12:00am
NJ Film Festival
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901



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Zinema

 Sunday, February 15, 2026 @ 12:00am
NJ Film Festival
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901



Mahoning

Mahoning Drive-In Road Show 2026 “Original/Rip-Off” Drive-In Double Feature: The Exorcist & Beyond the Door

 Saturday, February 28, 2026 @ 7:00pm
Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC) - Main Stage
1601 Irving Street, Rahway, NJ 07065




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