{"id":162850,"date":"2026-02-20T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162850\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:24:09","slug":"40th-annual-fort-lauderdale-international-film-festival-brings-global-cinema-to-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162850\/","title":{"rendered":"40th annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival brings global cinema to South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0February 20, 2026 at 12:58 PM<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival kicks off Friday  The 40th annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival kicks off Friday, celebrating four decades of bringing global cinema right here to South Florida.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 The 40th annual Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival kicks off Friday, celebrating four decades of bringing global cinema right here to South Florida. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This year\u2019s festival runs through Feb. 28 and features more than 50 films from around the world, plus red carpet premieres, filmmaker Q&amp;A\u2019s, and special events happening all across Broward County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Opening night starts with \u201cMiami Nights\u201d at Savor Cinema \u2014 complete with a red carpet, reception and even a street party to launch the celebration. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cFilm festivals are important because it adds a sense of community to watching a movie,\u201d Steve Savor, of the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, said. \u201cWe all know we have content to last us five lifetimes at home now, with all of our streaming services. But it\u2019s special when you get to watch a film with an audience and feel their reactions, and also share it with the filmmakers that made the film. Also with the festival, which is amazing, is you\u2019re going to discover films that you didn\u2019t even know were out there. Each film is really an experience.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Throughout the week, big names like Chevy Chase, Jamie Kennedy and Guy Harvey are set to appear, along with international filmmakers, sharing everything from comedies to powerful documentaries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For a full schedule and ticket information,<a href=\"https:\/\/fliff.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/fliff.com\/\"> click here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Alexis Frazier\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/fb18f4c1-1a20-4938-8d.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Alexis Frazier<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Alexis Frazier is an Emmy-award winning journalist who joined the Local 10 News team in April 2020 as the morning traffic reporter. Within a year, she was promoted to anchor, and now co-anchors the Local 10 morning news. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0February 20, 2026 at 12:58 PM Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival kicks off Friday The 40th annual Fort&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-162850","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}