Experience the 20th Anniversary Topanga Film Festival from Opening Night through our final day!

Your Full Weekend Pass includes all three days of general Festival programming, including film screenings, filmmaker Q&As, panel discussions, entertainment, and more.

Three days of independent cinema, inspired conversation, unexpected discoveries, and the creative community that makes Topanga unlike anywhere else.

Valid September 4–6.

VIP and Filmmaker Only events are not included. Admission is subject to capacity.

Make a weekend of it! Your Friday + Saturday Pass includes access to two days of Topanga Film Festival programming, including film screenings, filmmaker Q&As, panel discussions, entertainment, and other general Festival events.

Join us for Friday’s Opening Night and return Saturday for a full day of independent cinema, conversation, creativity, and community.

Valid Friday, September 4 and Saturday, September 5.

Does not include events designated as VIP or Filmmaker Only. Admission to individual programs is subject to capacity.

Experience the opening and closing celebrations of the 2026 Topanga Film Festival with access to Friday’s Opening Night and Sunday’s final day of Festival programming, including the Awards Ceremony.

Your pass includes access to film screenings, filmmaker Q&As, panel discussions, entertainment, and other general Festival events scheduled on both days.

Valid Friday, September 4 and Sunday, September 6.

VIP and Filmmaker Only events are not included. Admission is subject to capacity.

Spend your weekend immersed in independent cinema, conversation, creativity, and community. Your pass includes Saturday and Sunday access to film screenings, filmmaker Q&As, panel discussions, entertainment, and other general Festival events.

Valid Saturday, September 5 and Sunday, September 6.

VIP and Filmmaker Only events are not included. Admission is subject to capacity.

Kick off the 2026 Topanga Film Festival with us on Opening Night! Your ticket includes Friday evening’s Gala, film screening of CHRO and Cat Kingdom, and party, as we gather in Topanga to celebrate independent cinema and launch our 20th Anniversary Festival.

Come for the films, stay for the evening, and help us open REFRAME: Cinema for Uncertain Times in true Topanga style.

Ticket valid Friday, September 4 only.

Spend Saturday immersed in the 2026 Topanga Film Festival! Your Saturday Day Pass includes access to the day’s film screenings, filmmaker Q&As, panel discussions, entertainment, and other general Festival programming.

Come discover independent films, meet filmmakers and fellow creatives, and experience a full day of cinema, conversation, and community in Topanga Canyon.

Valid Saturday, September 5 only.

VIP and Filmmaker Only events are not included. Admission is subject to capacity.

Join us for the final day of the 2026 Topanga Film Festival! Your Sunday Day Pass includes access to the day’s film screenings, filmmaker Q&As, panel discussions, entertainment, and other general Festival programming.

Spend the day discovering independent cinema, connecting with our creative community, and helping us bring our 20th Anniversary Festival weekend to a memorable close.

Valid Sunday, September 6 only.

VIP and Filmmaker Only events are not included. Admission is subject to capacity.

Through six short films, Wild Fires and Wild Lives: Stories of Resilience explores the impact of wildfire on our communities, landscapes, wildlife, and the people who call Southern California home.

From Altadena and Malibu communities rebuilding after the Eaton and Palisades Fires, to neighbors becoming first responders, efforts to save endangered wildlife, and the regeneration that follows destruction, these films offer intimate perspectives on resilience, recovery, and our relationship with the natural world.

The showcase includes Remember Here, Return to the Earth, Big Rock Burning, Fish for the Future, Bears in Hot Tubs, and Regeneration, and runs from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm.

Please note: This ticket provides admission to the complete Wild Fires and Wild Lives showcase only. At the conclusion of the showcase, guests will exit the theater. A separate ticket or Festival pass is required to attend additional screenings, showcases, panels, or events.

Celebrate emerging filmmakers with a collection of short films spanning experimental storytelling, drama, comedy, suspense, and more.

The Young Filmmakers Showcase includes Tree of Life, The Silence That Follows, Livvy Are You There?, WTF?, The Stand In, Lip Sync, and Tooth Fairy, Inc., and runs from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm.

Please note: This ticket provides admission to the complete Young Filmmakers Showcase only. At the conclusion of the showcase, guests will exit the theater. A separate ticket or Festival pass is required to attend additional screenings, showcases, panels, or events.

Fork in the Road follows small farmers, visionary chefs, and innovators working to heal the land, improve our food systems, and transition toward a regenerative future for both people and the planet. The movie begins at 2:00 pm, and is expected to end at 4:00 pm.

Join us directly after the film for a Q&A.

Please note: This ticket provides admission only to Fork in the Road. At the conclusion of the screening, guests will exit the theater. A separate ticket or Festival pass is required to attend additional screenings, showcases, panels, or events.

Join us for Short Narrative Showcase I, a collection of short-form narrative films selected for the 2026 Topanga Film Festival. The showcase is scheduled to run from 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm.

Please note: This ticket provides admission to the complete Short Narrative Showcase I only. At the conclusion of the showcase, guests will exit the theater. A separate ticket or Festival pass is required to attend additional screenings, showcases, panels, or events.

AI and the Creative Soul explores what creativity means as we enter a radically expanded creative universe increasingly shared with highly capable nonhuman intelligence.

Rather than debating whether AI is simply “good” or “bad,” the conversation looks toward new forms of making, authorship, collaboration, and creative expression—while considering how this changing landscape may reshape access, agency, ownership, and power. The salon is expected to run from 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm.

At its heart is a deeper question: Why is the creative soul driven to make in the first place - and what might we discover about ourselves as the meaning of creation begins to change?

Please note: This ticket provides admission only to the AI Salon. At the conclusion of the panel, guests will exit the theater. A separate ticket or Festival pass is required to attend additional screenings, showcases, panels, or events.

Join us for the Composer Panel, part of the 2026 Topanga Film Festival’s program of conversations bringing filmmakers, artists, and audiences together.

Additional panel details and participants will be announced soon. The panel is expected to begin at 4:00 pm and end at 5:00 pm.

Please note: This ticket provides admission only to the Composer Panel. At the conclusion of the panel, guests will exit the theater. A separate ticket or Festival pass is required to attend additional screenings, showcases, panels, or events.

A neurotic novelist can’t tell if his biggest problem is the blank page, his Southern family, or his best friend’s off-the-rails political campaign.

Directed by Nicholas Jude Holden and Joshua Ashy Holden. The movie is scheduled to begin at 4:00 pm and end by 6:00 pm. Join us following the film for a Q&A with the Directors.

Please note: This ticket provides admission only to Sell Out. At the conclusion of the screening, guests will exit the theater. A separate ticket or Festival pass is required to attend additional screenings, showcases, panels, or events.

Young Jerry and Annie chase Dead & Company’s final 2023 tour in a questionable camper van, organizing their lives around the music with intensity.

Directed by Mischa Richter, Summer Tour is presented as part of the Topanga Music Spotlight. This program is expected to begin at 5:00 pm and end at 7:00 pm. Join us after the film for a Q&A.

Please note: This ticket provides admission only to the Topanga Music Spotlight and Summer Tour program. At the conclusion of the program, guests will exit the theater. A separate ticket or Festival pass is required to attend additional screenings, showcases, panels, or events.

Join us for an immersive, multi-sensory exploration of natural systems through food & nature short films, a sonic grazing table and a wild apothecary bar. This experience is scheduled to begin at 6:00 pm and end at 7:30 pm.

Please note: This ticket provides admission only to the Food & Ecology Films program. At the conclusion of the program, guests will exit the theater. A separate ticket or Festival pass is required to attend additional screenings, showcases, panels, or events.

Some things are better left a surprise.

Join us for a top-secret Special Screening at the 20th Anniversary Topanga Film Festival. We can’t reveal the title or tell you much about what’s coming; but we can tell you that you’ll want to be in the room. This screening runs from 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM.

Please note: This ticket provides admission only to the Special Screening. At the conclusion of the screening, guests will exit the theater. A separate ticket is required to attend additional screenings, showcases, panels, or events.

This screening begins with the short film Kostia:

After failing a drug test on the eve of a tournament, an aging professional tennis player finds twilight turning to dusk all too quickly.

Kostia will be followed by Dante: 500 Miles on Psychedelics:

A man runs 500 miles through the desert using psychedelics to test his limits. Battling inner demons and harsh terrain, he seeks redemption while exploring the boundaries of human potential and challenging stigma around unconventional healing.

Directed by Fernando Gonzalez, this screening is scheduled to begin at 7:00 pm and end at 9:00 pm. Following the film, stay for a virtual Q&A with director Fernando Gonzalez.

Your ticket also includes admission to the Saturday Night Party featuring Will Worden, so you can continue your Festival evening after the screening.

Please note: This ticket provides admission to Kostia, Dante: 500 Miles on Psychedelics, and the Saturday Night Party. A separate ticket or Festival pass is required for any other Festival screenings, showcases, panels, or ticketed events.

Keep the Festival going Saturday night at the Topanga Community House with filmmakers, artists, Festival guests, and fellow film lovers.

The evening features musical guest Will Worden, performing from 9:00–11:00 PM.

Please note: This ticket provides admission only to the Saturday Night Party.

Separate tickets or a Festival pass are required for screenings, showcases, panels, and other ticketed Festival events.

Dance of the Wild is an award-winning documentary that takes audiences on a poetic journey into humanity’s timeless bond and fascination with the wild horse—a connection that mirrors our relationship to nature, spirit, and the deeper layers of the soul.

Directed by Chance Foreman, this movie is scheduled to begin at 11:00 am and end by 1:00 pm. Join us after the film for a Q&A with the Director.

Please note: This ticket provides admission only to Dance of the Wild. At the conclusion of the screening, guests will exit the theater. A separate ticket or Festival pass is required to attend additional screenings, showcases, panels, or events.