The Atlanta Film Festival is one of the region’s largest and longest-running preeminent celebrations of cinema in the Southeastern United States. More than 25,000 festival attendees enjoy independent, animated, documentary and short films each year.
The 49th annual Atlanta Film Festival + Creative Conference (ATLFF) which is the festival’s educational programming, will take place Thursday, April 24 – Sunday, May 4, 2025, at the Plaza Theatre and Tara Theatre in Atlanta and virtually.
Now in its fourth decade, the Atlanta Film Festival (ATLFF)—one of only two-dozen Academy Award® qualifying festivals in the U.S.—is the area’s preeminent celebration of cinema. ATLFF is one of the largest and longest-running festivals in the country, welcoming an audience of over 28,000 to discover hundreds of new independent, international, animated, documentary, and short films, selected from 8000+ submissions from all over the world.