Beyond Fest Returns to Los Angeles with High-Profile Retrospectives, Restorations, and 10 World Premieres

Beyond Fest's 2026 program expands the festival's reach in Los Angeles by combining world premieres, recent festival standouts, and a broad set of retrospectives and restorations. What began as a scrappy genre festival has grown into a marquee Cinematheque-presented event that programs screenings with in-person guests and archival presentations across multiple venues.

Major retrospectives and restorations

• M. Night Shyamalan: The festival mounts a 12-film retrospective of Shyamalan's work, presented with the filmmaker in attendance. The program includes a triple-feature of his Eastrail 177 trilogy.

• Ken Russell's The Devils: A newly restored and recut version approved to Russell's specifications will screen twice on 35mm—simultaneous presentations at the Egyptian and the Aero.

• Michael Mann: A new 4K cut of Miami Vice will be screened for its 20th anniversary.

• Additional archival highlights: Day-long tributes and restorations include a Bruce Dern tribute (featuring The 'Burbs and The Driver), 70mm Hoffa with Danny DeVito and director Martin Brest in attendance, and 4K presentations of Rumble in the Bronx and Begotten.

Beyond Fest's contemporary slate emphasizes premieres and recent critical hits. The festival will present 10 world premieres, including unique projects such as a VHS edition world premiere of Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. Opening night is Primetime, making its West Coast premiere. The lineup also includes films that played major festivals: Musk, Victorian Psycho, Drag, and Paper Tiger (James Gray), which will play on a double bill with Gray's Little Odessa, with the director attending.

The festival programs 10th-anniversary celebrations for films like Don't Breathe, Green Room, Too Late, and Under the Shadow, each accompanied by special guests. High-profile appearances include Al Pacino joining for Scent of a Woman, Danny DeVito for Hoffa (with Martin Brest), Dolph Lundgren for a double bill tied to a new documentary Dolph: Unbreakable, and Michael Mann presenting his restored Miami Vice.

Beyond Fest schedules screenings across Los Angeles venues such as the Egyptian Theatre and the Aero, using format-specific presentations (35mm, 70mm, 4K) to stage archival events and filmmaker Q&As. That mix of dedicated-format exhibitions, world premieres, and filmmaker marathons distinguishes the festival's programming approach.

Expect dense programming across two weeks, opportunities to see restored or rare prints, filmmaker appearances and Q&As, and both contemporary premieres and deep dives into directors' bodies of work. The festival agenda is designed to please both genre fans and general cinephiles by pairing new films with curated retrospectives and anniversary screenings.