The Key West Film Festival will return for its 15th annual event beginning Nov. 18, with a program spanning international features, documentaries, LGBTQ+ selections and short films from around the world.
Paper Tiger, a thriller starring Miles Teller, Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, is scheduled to open the festival. The Debut, starring Julianne Moore and Paul Giamatti, will close it, while Elsinore and Club Kid are listed as centerpiece films.
A new programming category, Florida and Friends, will focus on films, filmmakers and stories with Florida connections. The series includes the world premiere of The Farmer and The Shark, about the real-life inspiration for a character in Jaws, and a 20th-anniversary screening of Florida filmmaker Billy Corben’s Cocaine Cowboys.
The festival will also host the Florida Keys premiere of Patrick Bresnan’s First They Came for My College, which examines efforts to reshape New College of Florida in Sarasota County. Two New College students are slated to take part in a question-and-answer session.
Short-film programming was selected from a record pool of nearly 1,000 submissions representing 50 countries, according to the festival. Titles include Body of Work, a documentary profile of Key West painter Eric Anfinson.
International work from filmmakers including Pedro Almodóvar and Ryusuke Hamaguchi is also part of the announced lineup.
