2025 Atlanta Film Festival Guide

Strange things begin to happen when a group of friends gather for a dinner party on an evening when a comet is passing overhead.

A devoted single father adjusts to life after his wife's passing while raising his son with Down Syndrome. They embark on a journey through Metro Atlanta to attend their first baseball game.

A bored New Jersey suburban housewife's fascination with a free-spirited woman she has read about in the personal columns leads to her being mistaken for the woman herself.

Two people struggle to connect with the world, themselves and each other, but are eventually required to face the force of life.

A solitary housekeeper secretly records the lives of her clients, seeking connection through their most private moments. But when her obsession leads to a dangerous bond with a troubled loner, the line between voyeurism and violence blurs.

Friends on a late-night food run become trapped on an infinite highway with otherworldly terrors lurking beyond. Confined in their Jeep Cherokee, they must decide whether to accept their fate or attempt escape.

Lesia, a teenager, is taken by a man to a villa where her fugitive father and his men are hiding. A war erupts, leading to death and a chase where father and daughter bond.

Raina, trapped in a car accident, finds herself drawn to a manipulative magician, whose illusions mirror her dysfunction. Their relationship worsens, leading to a dark exploration of guilt, attraction, and fractured friendships.

A media crew mistakenly ends up in the wrong country while trying to profile a musician. As they collaborate with locals to create a viral trend, relationships form amid an unfolding health crisis.

John Cuffee's film follows his crew's disbelief after violence during shooting. Despite pleas, he insists on finishing with Damon, leading to chaos and commentary on independent filmmaking, unrealistic expectations, and artistic obsession.

A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.

In 1991, a grieving Korean family immigrate to the Canadian prairies to help cull the troubling population of feral dogs, but must confront their own personal trials and tribulations.

A disillusioned teenager in the city follows a stranger to The Woods, and ends up learning about plants, their queerness, and a more beautiful purpose, in this 16mm ecological film, produced by the collective Purpose Repair Shop.

A curious student embarks on a journey of self-discovery, learning that the path, no matter how unfamiliar or daunting, is worthwhile.

Conor Marsh's secluded life disrupted when he plays OBEX game. His dog Sandy disappears, blurring reality and game. Conor enters OBEX world to rescue Sandy, navigating its strange realms.

After the death of a Southern preacher, his ne'er-do-well daughter returns home to collect her inheritance.

In a remote Russian orphanage near Lake Baikal, a small 9-year-old boy faces daily challenges from his peers and an unsettling relationship with the matron. Only one older girl stands between him and mounting dangers.

Struggling with new parenthood and stalling careers, Kallia and Ram's lives are thrown into chaos when Kallia's blind mother goes on a mission to exorcize the family from the evil eye.

Follows the inspirational tale of a young girl and her grandmother spending a summer on a small, uninhabited island in the Gulf of Finland.

Tadur is a pastoral escapade. It depicts an imaginary world deep in Mount Lebanon, where criminals, poor farmers, and monastic sages are immersed in both beauty and brutality.

A Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of society in Athens gets ripped off by a smuggler and sets out to seek revenge.

Two friends take a trip through a Michigan forest, intent on carrying out a disturbing pact.

A passionate young songwriter and her rebellious boyfriend must withdrawal from heroin to keep her conservative parents from sending her to rehab.

Claire struggles to cope as the shock of her father's suicide ripples through her small Quaker community. Desperate to reunite with the only person who seemed to understand her, she reaches out to her father across the boundary of death.

Rogelio (8) wants to unravel the mystery of death. When his parents send him off to Yucatán, he meets the Xibalba Monster, an old hermit who is sick but has made a deal with the Lords of the Underworld to remain amongst the living.