Florida Film Festival kicks off this week with a bounty of nearly 200 adventurous films

The Florida Film Festival will screen 187 movies (50 features and 137 shorts), starting this week at Enzian Theater and Regal Winter Park Village.

Highlights of the 34th annual event include the Oscar-accredited shorts programs, the “spotlight” films (higher-profile features that already have distribution), five film-focused forums and appearances by actresses Mia Farrow (who will screen her 1968 horror masterpiece Rosemary’s Baby on April 18) and Christina Ricci (who will screen her 1995 coming-of-age dramedy Now and Then on April 13). Both will participate in Q&A sessions.

Forty nations are represented among the films, 164 movies are receiving some sort of premiere (world, national, Southeast or Florida), and more than 100 filmmakers plan to attend. The flicks were picked from a record 2,923 submissions from a record 119 countries.

The festival will again have a strong environmental and socio-political focus, but it will also embrace anarchy by celebrating the 25th anniversary of its love-it-or-hate-it Midnights Shorts program.

The numbers are in: There’s something for everyone at this feast of film.

Various times, locations and prices, floridafilmfestival.com.

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This article appears in The 420 Issue 2025.