Alma Film Festival - 2026 Program Schedule

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Alma Film Festival - Schedule

A six-day cultural convergence across film, scholarship, global diplomacy, and immersive community experience.


Tuesday, March 17 — Opening Night Premiere

3:00 PM - Opening Reception & Screening

  • The Film: Dangerous Waters
    • Produced by Dominican filmmaker Pedro Catrain Jr
    • Film Screens at 4 PM
  • Location: Hotel Alisei Las Terrenas - Beach Resort

7:00 PM - Cocktails & Conversation

Wednesday, March 18 — Dominican Day

A full-day cultural immersion experience designed to connect international guests with the Samaná community. Encourage Attendees to Explore The Community

11:00 AM – 1:30 PM

  • Flavors and Rhythms Las Terrenas Tour - - Flavors and Rhythms Las Terrenas is a walking tour that connects visitors with the authentic life of the town through its flavors, music, and people. For two and a half hours, we explore family-run businesses, cultural spaces, and traditional areas, sampling fruits, ice cream, and local cuisine, learning merengue and bachata, and getting a close-up look at the dynamics of the fish market and local history.
  • For Additional Details and Reservations

12 NOON – 3:00 PM

  • Community Outreach Activation in El Limón
    • Sponsored by Soule Reserve and the Grand Cay Real Estate Development Team
    • Led by Diana Lynch-Grissette
    • To Learn More

Other Excursions Available through Emmanuel Tours

  • They can arrange a variety of excursions, including:
    • Whale watching, Private island experience (El Catey), Catamaran excursions, ATV tours, Samaná historical tours, El Limón waterfall experience, Jeep Safari, Ziplining, and fishing, among others

6:00 PM - Cocktails & Conversation




Thursday, March 19 — Fellowship & Summit Day

9:00 AM – Fellowship Features - Jamaica - Kurt & Noel Wright


11:00 AM Fiji - Tumeli Tuqota and the Fiji Film Collective

  • Screening a Series of Short Works

1:30 PM – Afro-Mosaic Cinema Summit

  • Begin laying the foundation for a Global Cinematic Agenda
    • This includes government leaders, scholars, filmmakers, executives, and audiences
    • Location: Hotel Alisei Las Terrenas - Beach Resort

3:00 PM – 6:00 PM - Malik Yoba Podcast Recording

  • Featuring Diana Lynch-Grissette

Location: TBD

6:00 PM - Cocktails & Conversation

Friday, March 20 — Global South Showcase

9:00 AM – Screening - Cameroon Film Selections & Fellowship Features-

      • Lesotho w/ Khotso Maphathe
      • Honduras w/ Joe Ramos
  • Location: Hotel Alisei Las Terrenas - Beach Resort

1:00 PM - Screening

  • The Real Estate Mixtape
    • Presented by Malik Yoba, followed by an interactive discussion. We want to bring all voices to the table - this includes government and civic leaders, scholars, filmmakers, executives, and the general public
    • About The Series
  • Location: Hotel Alisei Las Terrenas - Beach Resort

6:00 PM - Cocktails & Conversation

6:30 PM - Meditation on the Beach

  • Threads of the Sun Hosted by SignifyTV
    • A gathering honoring women filmmakers
  • Location: Onno’s Las Terrenas

Saturday, March 21 — Women, Truth & Fire

9:00 AM - Screenings - Lioness (Cameroon)


11:00 AM Je Suis Noires (“Becoming a Black Woman”)

5:30 PM - Barefoot Beach Party & Bonfire


Sunday, March 22 — Legacy & Closing Night

9:00 AM – Screening - Afrotopia (Gabon)



11: 00 - Brunch & Performance

  • Ciara A. Shaw performs One-Woman Show: Ain’t But a Few of Us Left

5:00 PM - Screening Closing Film - Cards On The Table (Kenya)

7:30 PM - Cocktails & Conversation

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About the Alma Film Festival

The Alma Film Festival was created in response to structural gaps in the global film ecosystem. By design, it is a next-generation destination, experience-based film festival and cultural convening—one that functions as a cultural intelligence engine, bringing together filmmakers, scholars, technologists, artists, institutions, and audiences from across the Global South and its diasporas.

Rooted in scholarship, innovation, and deep audience engagement, Alma prioritizes fewer films with greater intentionality, creating space for meaningful dialogue, relationship-building, and long-term collaboration. With up to 80% of the program dedicated to Global South cinema, the festival showcases narrative features, documentaries, shorts, animation, experimental works, audio storytelling, and new media—centering films that engage cultural memory, social relevance, and creative innovation.

Programming is curated in partnership with global entities and agencies, reinforcing Alma’s role as a platform for shared authorship rather than extraction. Through this approach, the festival has cultivated a global community of stakeholders spanning more than 51 cities across 35 countries.

Beyond screenings, Alma integrates fellowships, symposia, performance laboratories, editorial platforms, and emerging technologies—positioning the festival not simply as an event, but as an ecosystem. Guided by the principle “The Necessity of Something New,” the Alma Film Festival advances cultural diplomacy, fosters cross-regional collaboration, and contributes to the development of sustainable creative economies worldwide.

At its core, the Alma Film Festival is a global gathering designed to nurture both ideas and people. It embraces a kaleidoscope of cultures while intentionally shifting the social dynamic from competition to connection—creating space for collaboration, understanding, and shared growth. Alma moves us from extraction to exchange, from visibility to value, and from presence to purpose.

We are doing something new.

There is a necessity for something new.

#AlmaFilmFestival 

Festival Dates: March 17–22, 2026
Location: Las Terrenas, Dominican Republic
For more information, visit: www.almafilmfestival.com

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