Atlanta Film Festival 2025
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Atlanta Film Festival
The Atlanta Film Festival has been operating since 1977. A predecessor film festival, the Atlanta International Film Festival began in 1968. Each year, the festival brings in a mix of local and international films of importance for the community and has been operating out of Plaza Theater on Ponce de Leon Avenue for the past several years.
Atlanta Film Festival 2025
The Atlanta Film Festival is in its fourth decade.
Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 1) - Opening Night: Reel Connections Spring
04/24/2025 6:00 PM
Tara Theatre, Eddie Auditorium
We are thrilled to invite you to an evening to capture the beautiful projects created by our Social Media and Post Production Students. This is a nigh...
Opening Night: Atlanta Film Festival 2025 + Creative Conference
04/24/2025 7:00 PM
Plaza Theatre and Tara Theatre
The 49th annual Atlanta Film Festival + Creative Conference (ATLFF) revealed key programming highlights, including the full lineup of selected works f...
Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 1) - Opening Night: "Color Book" (Sold Out)
04/24/2025 7:00 PM
Plaza Theatre
Following his wife's recent passing, single father Lucky finds himself navigating the challenges of raising his son Mason, who has Down syndrome. Maso...
Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 1) - Opening Night Party
04/24/2025 9:00 PM
Plaza Theatre - The Green Room
The Green Room @ The Plaza
The Green Room - Presented by Classic Tents and Events
April 24, 2025, 9- 11 PM
Atlanta Sustainable Fashion Week presents: Fashion Meets Film: The 2025 Zero Waste Fashion Show
04/25/2025 5:00 PM
The Supermarket
In partnership with Atlanta Sustainable Fashion Week, Fashion Meets Film: The 2025 Zero Waste Fashion Show will take place on April 25 at The Supermar...
Atlanta Film Festival 2025: Meta Take One
04/25/2025 6:00 PM
Plaza Theatre
In this highly stylized black and white epic shot entirely in Atlanta, a young director named John Cuffee is determined to complete the film he deems ...
Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 2): Meta Take One
04/25/2025 6:00 PM
Plaza Theatre (LeFont Auditorium, downstairs)
META TAKE ONE
directed by Ryan Dutter / John Dierre, United States // 2025 // English // 95 mins
An obsessive young director & his crew plunge into ...
Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 2): Driver
04/25/2025 7:00 PM
Plaza Theatre, Rej Auditorium (Upstairs)
DRIVER
directed by Nesa AzimiUnited States // 2024 // English // 92 mins
After losing everything, Desiree Wood takes a second lease on life as a lon...
Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 2) - Shorts: Transcend
04/25/2025 7:00 PM
Tara Theatre
Pastor's Kid: As Joseph returns to his childhood home one last time to gather his things, he confronts a traumatic memory and must persevere to redisc...
Atlanta Film Festival 2025: To A Land Unknown
04/25/2025 7:15 PM
Tara Theatre
A Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of society in Athens gets ripped off by a smuggler and sets out to seek revenge.
Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 2) - Shorts: Funhouse
04/25/2025 8:30 PM
Plaza Theatre
Rat! When a disgruntled music journalist accuses a global pop star of queerbaiting, the singer’s devoted stans seek retribution.
Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 2): Xibalba Monster
04/25/2025 9:30 PM
Plaza Theatre
Rogelio wants to know what happens when we die. Forced to spend holidays with his nanny in Yucatán, he aims to unravel this mystery.
Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 2): The Surfer
04/25/2025 9:45 PM
Tara Theatre, Eddie Auditorium
A man returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. When he is humiliated by a group of locals, the man is drawn into a conflict...
Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 2): The Rocky Horror Picture Show w/LDOD
04/25/2025 11:00 PM
Plaza Theatre
In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet ( Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansio...
Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 3) - Shorts: Veneration
04/26/2025 1:30 PM
Plaza Theatre
The Beguiling, directed by ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby, United States // 2024 // English // 15 mins
Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 3): Third Act
04/26/2025 1:45 PM
Tara Theatre, Eddie Auditorium
A documentary about an Asian American father and son filmmaking duo evolves into an exploration on art, activism, grief, and fatherhood.
Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 3): Mongrels
04/26/2025 2:15 PM
Tara Theatre, Jack Auditorium
In rural Canada in the 1990s, a Korean family – a widower, his teenage son, and young daughter – attempt to find their way in a new land while navigat...
Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 3): Giant's Kettle
04/26/2025 3:00 PM
Plaza Theatre, Rej Auditorium (Upstairs)
In a mechanistic world composed of strict duty and bureaucratic inertia, a man and woman struggle to relate until a family trip takes them beyond thei...
Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 3): Metropolitan
04/26/2025 4:00 PM
Plaza Theatre (LeFont Auditorium, downstairs)
Metropolitan, directed by Whit Stillman, United States, Spain // 1989 // English // 98 minsA
Atlanta Film Festival 2025 (Day 3): Speak
04/26/2025 4:30 PM
Tara Theatre, Eddie Auditorium
Speak, directed by Jennifer TiexieraGuy MossmanUnited States // 2025 // English // 104 mins
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