The 45th Bi-Annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place between September 4-October 4, 2026. The Festival will be a hybrid as we will be presenting it online as well as doing select in-person screenings at Rutgers University. Almost all the films will be available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. VOD start times are at 12 Midnight Eastern USA. Each General Admission Ticket or Festival Pass purchased is good for both the virtual and the in-person shows when both are offered. This program is only available Online for 24 hours on this show date!

Godzilla’s Day Off - Myra Sito Velasquez (New York, New York)Even monsters need to chillax! 2025; 3 min.

Godzilla’s Day Off

Sonia and Lisa on Mushrooms – Vincent Turturro (New York, New York)Besties Sonia and Lisa get together on Sonia's weekly day off as a single mom. In a valiant attempt to help her friend "be more present", Lisa extols the prevailing virtues of microdosing. When micro inadvertently goes macro, Sonia and Lisa must rely on the bond of their lifelong friendship to brave a trip more intense than they bargained for. 2025; 43 min.

Sonia and Lisa on Mushrooms

Besties Sonia and Lisa get together on Sonia's weekly day off as a single mom.

35 Days – Heidi Kumao (Ann Arbor, Michigan)35 Days is an experimental, stop motion animation about what happens when a coalition of strangers answers the call to locate a missing cat during the pandemic lockdown of 2020. Created frame-by-frame using fabric cutouts and thread. 2025; 7 min.

35 Days

35 Days is an experimental, stop motion animation about what happens when a coalition of strangers answers the call to locate a missing cat during the pandemic lockdown of 2020.

Dustsceawung – Mateus Luna (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)A frustrated and heartbroken writer discovers that his robot vacuum shredded his rejected book into his own poetry, dedicated to the house’s Alexa. Fascinated, the man feeds the new author with the classics, but claims the work as his own, sparking a surreal clash between authorship, love, and cleaning. In Portuguese, subtitled. 2025; 21 min.

Dustsceawung

A frustrated and heartbroken writer discovers that his robot vacuum shredded his rejected book into his own poetry, dedicated to the house’s Alexa.

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The 45th Bi-annual New Jersey Film Festival will be taking place between September 4-October 4, 2026. Hover over images below to buy tickets and learn more about each screening! The Festival will be a hybrid as we will be presenting it online as well as doing select in-person screenings at Rutgers University. Most of the films will be available virtually via Video on Demand for 24 hours on their show date. VOD start times are at 12 Midnight Eastern USA. Each General Admission Ticket or Festival Pass purchased is good for both the virtual and the in-person shows when both are offered. We will also be offering an Audio-Visual Concert featuring Lawns and Hanging Coats as well as two FREE Filmmaking Workshops! The in-person screenings, the filmmaking workshops and the AV Concert will be held in Voorhees Hall #105/Rutgers University, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ beginning at 1PM, 5PM or 7PM on their show date.  General Admission Ticket=$15 Per Program; Festival All Access Pass=$100; In-Person Only Student Ticket=$10 Per Program. To buy tickets for the AV Concert go back to the welcome page and click on the appropriate red button. The Filmmaking Workshops are FREE and open to the public but have limited seating and require advance registration. To register email us at njmac12@gmail.com

Welcome to the Fall 2026 New Jersey Film Festival! The 45th Bi-annual Festival will be taking place place between September 4-October 4. The Festival will be presenting the Festival online VOD as well as doing select in-person screenings.

Here's what's coming up soon. Can't make it? No sweat. Many live streams will be available for on-demand viewing as well.