Back for its fourth year, Baltimore’s New/Next Film Fest runs October 1-4, with over 160 films, 37 of them features. Since its debut in 2023, this now-annual event has become an autumn fixture of Charm City’s cinema scene. The 2026 iteration opens with local filmmaker Marnie Ellen Hertzler’s new documentary, Eternity One, and closes with Alexandre Rockwell’s The Projectionist. The stars of the latter—Vondie Curtis-Hall, Kasi Lemmons, and Karyn Parsons—will attend, along with the director. I’ll see them both, and plan to also catch, at a minimum, Sandra Wollner’s Everytime, Alex Karpovsky’s Riptides, and Kogonada’s Zi. I’ve watched three of the films in the program at previous festivals, which I recommend below.
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