Sun Valley Film Festival Names Honorees and Announces 2026 Lineup

The Sun Valley Film Festival announced its 2026 program on November 11, naming Jessica Lange, Bill Pullman, Seth Rogen, and, among the featured guests, Lauren Miller Rogen, Luke Davies, Stephen Beresford and Peter Farrelly. The festival runs December 2-6 in the Idaho resort town and was founded in 2012.

Lange will receive the Vision Award on December 4. Pullman will be given the Pioneer Award; the Impact Award will go to Rogen and Miller Rogen. Davies is set to receive the Disruptor Award, and Beresford the High Scribe Award.

The opening-night film is Jesse Eisenberg’s The Debut, and Luca Guadagnino’s Artificial is scheduled to close the festival. Other titles include I Play Rocky, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Tenzing, Everybody Digs Bill Evans, The Row, All of a Sudden, A Long Winter, Elsinore and Tangles. The program also includes 30 short films.

Farrelly will take part in a conversation following a special screening of I Play Rocky on December 5. Pullman’s jazz drama Everybody Digs Bill Evans and Lange’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, which also stars Ed Harris, are among the films screening during the event.