{"id":899,"date":"2026-01-16T13:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whiskeystream.com\/wp\/?p=899"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:33:14","slug":"variety-mosquito-in-the-ear-to-open-santa-barbara-film-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whiskeystream.com\/wp\/?p=899","title":{"rendered":"VARIETY:  Mosquito in the Ear to open Santa Barbara Film Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/awards\/news\/adam-sandler-leonardo-dicaprio-santa-barbara-film-festival-1236630351\/\">SEE FULL ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/leonardo-dicaprio\/\">Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a>, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and more will be honored at the 41st edition of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/santa-barbara-international-film-festival\/\">Santa Barbara International Film Festival<\/a>, which announced its full 2026 program on Wednesday. Dedicated to discovering and showcasing the best in independent and international cinema, the festival will showcase 46 world premieres and 80 U.S. premieres from 50 countries with 50% of films directed by women and feature tributes to the year\u2019s top talent, panel discussions and free community education and outreach programs. The festival will run from Feb. 4 through 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The festival will open with the US premiere of Nicola Rinciari\u2019s \u201cA Mosquito In The Ear\u201d<\/strong> and close with the US premiere of\u00a0 Zamo Mkhwanazi\u2019s \u201cLaundry (Uhlanjululo).\u201d \u201cA Mosquito In The Ear\u201d stars Jake Lacy, Nazanin Boniadi and Ruhi Pal. Rinciari and co-writer Emily Dillard will join the festival in-person. \u201cLaundry (Uhlanjululo)\u201d stars Ntobeko Sishi and Tracy September, with Mkhwanazi joining in-person. Leading up to the US Premiere of Schnabel\u2019s new film \u201cIn the Hand of Dante,\u201d there will also be a retrospective of filmmaker Julian Schnabel\u2019s past work, including \u201cBasquiat,\u201d \u201cBefore Night Falls,\u201d \u201cThe Diving Bell and the Butterfly\u201d and \u201cAt Eternity\u2019s Gate.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEE FULL ARTICLE Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and more will be honored at the 41st edition of the\u00a0Santa Barbara International Film Festival, which announced its full 2026 program on Wednesday. Dedicated to discovering and showcasing the best in independent and international cinema, the festival will showcase 46 world premieres and 80 U.S. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whiskeystream.com\/wp\/?p=899\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VARIETY:  Mosquito in the Ear to open Santa Barbara Film Fest&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskeystream.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskeystream.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskeystream.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeystream.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeystream.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeystream.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeystream.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeystream.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whiskeystream.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeystream.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whiskeystream.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}