Lisbon · the year in cinema
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Festival · edition 2026
Lisbon Film Festival, 6–15 November 2026.
6–15 Nov 2026
5 venues
Source: Official LEFFEST 2026 programme and schedule (opens in a new tab)
Retrospectives, cycles and focuses now showing or coming up.
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Lisbon's annual festivals this year. Amber bars are still to come, grey ones already happened; a dashed bar means the dates are not published yet.
MONSTRA
Animation
12–22 Mar 2026 · held
IndieLisboa
Independent cinema
30 Apr – 10 May 2026 · held
MOTELX
Horror / genre cinema
3–13 Sep 2026 · held
Queer Lisboa
Queer cinema
18–26 Sep 2026 · held
Festa do Cinema Francês
French cinema
1–11 Oct 2026 · held
FESTin
Lusophone cinema
1–11 Oct 2026 · held
Doclisboa
Documentary
15–25 Oct 2026 · held
LEFFEST
International auteur cinema
6–15 Nov 2026
Olhares do Mediterrâneo – Women's Film Festival
Women's cinema / Mediterranean
23 Nov – 2 Dec 2026
Collaborations, partnership strands, open-air series and one-off programmes.
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