Montclair Film Festival 2026 Reveals Full Winners List: ‘Possible Love,’ ‘Wild Horse Nine’ Take Top Honors (EXCLUSIVE)
The 2026 Montclair Film Festival awarded its top fiction feature prize to Lee Chang-dong’s “Possible Love” and its documentary feature award to Pegah Ahangarani’s “Rehearsals for a Revolution”. The results recognise work across fiction, documentary, world cinema and shorts, while audience and jury awards show which films stood out to festival-goers and specialist panels.
Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes’ “One in a Million” received a documentary special jury prize. “Bedford Park” and “TheyDream” shared the Future/Now competition and its $5,000 Mark Urman award; audience winners included “Wild Horse Nine” for fiction, “My NDA” for documentary and “All of a Sudden” for world cinema. Short-film honours went to “An Unknown Substance”, “I See You in the Flood”, “Buckskin” and “Us Being Epic”; “Mouse” won the Junior Jury prize, and Senzo Ueno was recognised for cinematography on “Look Back”.
In short
- “Possible Love” won the fiction feature competition.
- “Bedford Park” and “TheyDream” shared a $5,000 award.
- Audience awards recognised films across four categories.
Explained simply
Montclair Film Festival is an annual film event held in Montclair, New Jersey, showcasing new films from the United States and around the world. Its programme includes feature films and shorts, with awards chosen by juries and by audience vote.
The awards recognise different kinds of filmmaking, including fiction, documentary and world cinema. Jury prizes reflect panels’ choices, while audience awards indicate which films were most popular with festival-goers; the Future/Now competition also highlights emerging filmmakers.