The 22nd Camden International Film Festival has unveiled its 2026 lineup, bringing together some of documentary film's most celebrated names ahead of the event, which runs from 17-20 September in mid-coast Maine. Run by the Points North Institute, Camden is regarded as one of the world's leading platforms for nonfiction cinema and a key launchpad for Oscar campaigns, giving the festival's programme significant weight within the documentary industry.

This year's slate includes Oscar winner Alex Gibney's Musk, examining the world's richest man's political shift; two-time Oscar winner Barbara Kopple's Union Town, on labour organising in New York City; and Free Solo directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin's Everest: The Other Side. Laura Poitras and Joshua Oppenheimer also feature with new short documentaries, while the programme includes 37 US, North American and world premieres, among them Sierra Pettingill's Argonauts at the End of History and Sundance breakouts Once Upon a Time in Harlem and To Hold a Mountain.