The Lake County Film Festival’s 16th edition brought 25 feature films and 132 short films from around the world to Lake County, IL.

Screenings were primarily held at the College Of Lake County in Grayslake, with additional screenings hosted at the Gorton Center in Lake Forest.

You can explore the full lineup and schedule as it existed during the festival at 2026.lakecountyfilmfestival.org.

The list of films played at the festival:

Narrative Features:

American Stream (d. Chandler Chavez)
Anywhere (d. Adam Seidel)
Gunman (d. Cris Tapia Marchiori)
Honeyjoon (d. Lilian T. Mehrel)
I Agree With You (d. Jake VanKersen)
The Legend Of Juan Jose Mundo (d. Michael Walker)
Not If I See You First (d. Aaron Wertheimer)
Under The Lights (d. Miles Levin)
Weekend At The End Of The World (d. Gille Klabin)

Documentary Features:
Age Of Audio (d. Shaun Michael Colón)
All Skate (d. April Wright)
Cycle (d. Laura Dyan Kezman & William Howell)
The Green Mill: A Real Chicago Joint (d. Paul L Carr)
Kaleidoscope Child (d. Michael Patrick McKinley)
The Last Dive (d. Cody Sheehy)
The Magic Lantern (d. Eli Brown)
Nuisance Bear (d. Gabriela Osio Vanden & Jack Weisman)
Saffron Robe (d. Jane Centofante)
Second Nature: Gender And Sexuality In The Animal World (d. Drew Denny)
Senegal, A Round Trip Dream (d. Marcos Gualda)
Shuffle (d. Benjamin Flaherty)
Slouching Towards Branson (d. Will Wood)
Tight & Nerdy (d. Jeff Nucera & Jonathan Ruane)
Voices: The Danny Gans Story (d. Andrew Davies Gans)
WTO/99 (d. Ian Bell)

Short Film Programs:
Animated Shorts
Comedic Short Films / Adult Situations
Documentary Shorts
Identities: Asian-American
Identities: Jewish-American
Identities: The Souls Of Black Folk: Documentary
Identities: The Souls Of Black Folk: Narratives
Is This Therapy?
OMG! WTF!
Science-Fiction
Shorts With Kids / Shorts With Parents
Student Shorts
Support Local
Thriller / Horror

Short Films List:
003 (d. Daniel Chamorro)
11 Blocks To Go: The Bet (d. Nathaniel P. Claridad)
A Bit Of Everything And Matzoh Balls Too (d. Emily Lobsenz)
A City That Cares (d. Aaron Hose)
A Mary Can Dream (d. Shin-Fei Chen)
A Moonlit Night (d. Jing Wen)
Ad/Break (d. Walter Banasiak)
An Afternoon Punch-Up (d. Garance Chagnon-Grégoire)
Anaglyph (d. Valle Comba)
Anesthesia (d. Jeff Osborne)
Babka (d. Serena Dykman)
Baby Tooth (d. Olivia Accardo)
Bag Ladies (d. Harry Syed)
Baking With Boris (d. Maša Avramović)
The Bathtub (d. Sergi Marti Maltas)
Beneath The Same Sky (d. Christine Kane)
Bible Camp (d. Philip DeRise)
Big Steps (d. Oliver William Staton)
Blindsided (d. P. Patrick Hogan)
Blueprint For My People (d. Carol Bash)
Breaking Ice: The Making Of Cracks In The Ice (d. Jason Lindsey)
Buster Boone (d. Giovanni Crocco)
Catalogue Of Noses (d. Josie Andrews)
Clack Mountain Clay (d. Jeffrey Hill)
Clean Girl (d. Emily Kent)
Clementine (d. Mike Doyle)
Clutter (d. James Card)
Cockroach (d. Heather Older)
Contente 🙂 (d. Ale Peralta)
Counterparts (d. Nicholas Gao)
Dating Mark Silcox (d. Joe Lycett)
Dave Muir: All Of Nothing (d. Hugo Pettit)
December (d. Dalten Martin)
Dirty Change (d. Tibor Tasi)
Don’t Watch This (d. Daniel Pineros)
Double Happiness (d. Shari Albert)
Draft Paper (d. Olivia Moon)
Dream Defenders (d. Nicole Nowel)
Dryland (d. Marissa Vonn)
Eat Your Fish (d. Marc-Antoine Bricout, Arthur Rouvres, Mathieu Beaussart, Maria Amzal, Andy Helli)
Every Dog Has Its Day (d. Lindsay Van Blerk)
Facade (d. Sam Slowik)
Fellow (d. Martha Rivière, Laura Darras, Théo Bergougnoux, Gaspard Keller de Schleitheim, Johanne Coppier, Romane Casha)
Final Frame (d. Andrew & Adrian Nuño)
Fractures (d. Roman Gubin)
Give Me One Second (d. Ricardo Serrano)
Good Luck To You All (d. Cordell Barker)
Hāfu (d. Josh Wolff)
The Healing Circle (d. Thavary Krouch)
Hell (d. Parker Croft)
Help Me Tom (d. Jiahang Yang)
Horse (d. Akkhiel Nambbiar)
How To Sell Your Soul (d. Joseph Ford)
I Hate Helen (d. Katie Lambert)
I’m Sorry (In The Future) (d. Ben Louis Nicholas)
Irrelevant (d. Joel Munu)
Kamarade (d. Garance Valere, Valentin Okoundou, Hubert Chauvaux, Alice Bourget, Louise Laurent, Fleuriane Le Guillou)
Kingdom Of The Penguins (d. Lionel Ziblat)
KosherSoul (d. Ilja Sarro)
Kuchar (The Itch) (d. Vaidaangi Sharma)
La Fenêtre (d. Lucas Ortiz Estefanell)
Langue de Chat (d. Sarah Legras-Marie, Alexia Monnier, Timothée Beauville, Sibylle Bank De Loof, Cindy Ly, Assia Le Tellier, Al Charvet)
Learners (d. Paul Testar)
Let Kids Play (d. Benjamin Gagné)
The Liars Of Black Mountain Road (d. Parker Croft)
Living With Maria (d. John Barnard)
Loss (d. Sivan Levy Zakin)
Lost & Found (d. Wiktoria Kwoka)
Magan’s Fare (d. Chris Knoblock & Dana White)
Magical Meat (d. Eric Boadella)
Magicked (d. Cooper Barnes)
May I Put You On Hold (d. Ash Blodgett)
Miles Of Life (d. Charli Doherty)
My Memory-Walls (d. Axel Robin)
Nan (d. Lily Ellora Newton)
Neo Dome (d. Bonnie Discepolo)
Nervous Ravenous Hunger (d. Jorge Cotte)
The Nest (d. Aurélien Coquery, Léa Kermanach, Soline Mauguin, Abel Tixador, Jean Baounon, Romane Selter-Fiette)
No Clean Hammer (d. Brent Butler)
No Nation (d. Jeffrey Elmont)
OH YEAH!! (d. Nick Canfield)
Other I (d. Alina Popescu)
Out For Delivery (d. Chelsea Christer)
Paper Swans (d. Sehar Batra)
Pas de Deux! (d. Nathan Koranda)
Pearls (d. Alastair Train)
Pelacaras (d. Ricardo Albarrán)
Permanent Residence (d. Bi An)
Pippa & Leo (d. Abeille Tard)
Places We Knew (d. Oliver William Staton)
Plasticized (d. Nerea Úbeda Segura)
Pocket Man (d. Ericka Clevenger)
Pool (d. Cameron Fife, Josh Zuckerman)
Post Conviction (d. Margaret Byrne)
Quiet Tonight (d. Thomas Nicol)
Ripple (d. Erick Juarez)
Rooftop Lempicka (d. Nguyễn Lương Hằng)
Rush To Be Ready (d. Maria Eleni Sterr)
The Search For Concentration (d. Danny Fain)
The Second Life Of Freddie Nole (d. Dana Nachman)
Shell Yeah (d. Sam Graff)
Shit For Mum (d. Rocío Rubio)
Siren (d. Marilou Caravecchia-Pelletier)
Soccer Mommies (d. David L Bradburn)
The Solution (d. John Klein & Steve Kniss)
Soul Of The City (d. Roger Melvin)
Sound Asleep (d. Nadaav Soudry)
Still Moving (d. Rui Ting Ji)
Sunlight, Veiled (d. Sina Khani)
The Super (d. Michael Marc Friedman)
Susurros (d. Alexandra Pewinski, Marie Lombard, Florian Reignier, Emma Pluchard, Lisa Francillon, Alice Parmentier)
Synthesize Me (d. Bear Damen)
Time Is Money (d. Duran Jones)
The Trial (d. Lian Cornieux, Ingrid Lala, Agathe Arduini, Ilan Blauwblomme)
Two Ships (d. McKinley Benson)
Twofer (d. Jenny Waldo)
Umbra (d. Danny Bohmer)
Used To Be (d. Matt Webb)
We Regret To Inform You (d. Michelle Bossy)
We Should Eat (d. Shaina Feinberg)
What If I Die Flying Over Oklahoma? (d. H. Nelson Tracey)
What Once Was (d. Alexander Tammaru)
Wild Cat (d. Ava R Kahut)
Wildkind (d. John McDaid)
Wolf Rayet (d. Emma Corbillon, Julie Demelle, Alexandra Ventouras, Mélanie Sthehlé, Perryne Crevier)
The Woman In The Bed (d. Victor Mellors)
Worst. Experience. Ever. (d. Alex Boutell)
Yoga Girl (d. Kaitlyn Furey)
You Found A Friend In Elvis (d. Janie Price)
You Get What You Pay For (d. Jeff Low & David Kolbusz)
You’re Bad (d. Blue Gerber & Dylan Silver)
Youth Promised Me So Much (d. Azamat Satybaldiev)