EXCLUSIVE: The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham, NC has announced its 2026 lineup, a slate with more than a dozen world premieres as well as award-winning films from around the world.
The cinematic event running April 16–19 in downtown Durham will open with Sam Green’s The Oldest Person in the World, an essayistic documentary that examines fascination with the person who, at any given time, qualifies as the oldest human being on the planet.
I Was Born This Way, directed by Daniel Junge and Sam Pollard, will close the festival. It tells the story of the remarkable Archbishop Carl Bean, who became known for the 1977 disco hit of the same name that much later inspired Lady Gaga’s song. Bean went on to found the Unity Fellowship Church Movement, offering welcome and a spiritual home to people of color within the LGBTQ community, and he launched the
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