Welcome to our 10th Anniversary International Film Festival!

August 29th at the Aurora Cineplex in Roswell Georgia. Full day passes $10.

11:00 TO 12:15

Best Picture Retrospective
MUSICAL
SCI-FI / FANTASY
ANIMATION

PLEASE NOTE: All times are subject to change.

Just Wanna Say I Love You - Musical
Seoyoung opens a new café with her best friend and meets a strange boy. She falls in love with on sight. When he leaves without warning, she is depressed until he returns. But is their love meant to be? Or is she just dreaming?


Gary – SciFi/Fantasy The brave crew of the Equinox have just landed on Mars. Now inhabitants of Station Orion, they will look to each other for inspiration and survival. And then there's Gary..	Bloody Fury - SciFi/Fantasyy In the Far West, the fur trade is raging! Bloody Furry, one of the last red wolves, decides to avenge his exterminated family. But is revenge the best solution to find the way to redemption?


Period Drama – Animation In Victorian-era England, highly precocious and imaginative eleven-year-old Georgiana Crimsworth suddenly experiences cramps and finds blood on her sheets. Not having received the talk yet, she doesn’t understand that this is her first period, and she thinks she’s dying. Her imagination runs amok as she searches for answers among sins and deadly disease!	Game Changer – Animationa A macho toy arcade prize is quick to judge a young girl who wants to win him, and goes on a life changing journey in attempt to stop her from winning enough tickets to take him home.

12:15 to 1:30

MADE IN GEORGIA DRAMA

The Fourth Star – Made in Georgia
An estranged couple comes to terms with their daughter's death on the eve of her birthday. Pulled apart by what they love most, Carolyn and Bruce are forced into a situation where they must face what was left unspoken in order to reconcile.


Mend – Made in Georgia After the loss of his wife, Marv Waters is stuck in a lonely routine meant for two. But what he doesn't see is that purpose and community exist just outside his front door	Black Dispatch - Drama Sable, a Confederate engineer's house slave, risks everything by stealing military plans, in hopes of delivering them to the Union Army and earning her and her family’s freedom.

1:30 to 2:15

COMEDY

Honor the Governor’s Honor - Comedy
A missing girl. A meddling ex. And a detective dragged into a high-society mystery gone sideways. Honor the Governor’s Honor is a straight-laced film noir comedy offering standout performances
and lush noir visuals.


Tipped – Comedy A waitress reaches her tipping point with a difficult table and serves up her own dish of revenge.	Shy Guys - Comedy Two strangers (Tony winner Reed Birney & newcomer Blake DeLong) bring the laughs as they confront and resolve one of the most insidious scourges afflicting mankind - while standing at public urinals with their willies out. The first film by ubiquitous character actor Fredric Lehne


Alternative Math - Comedy A well meaning math teacher tries to deal with a post-fact America, which has gone from politically correct to politically bizarre.e.

2:15 to 4:00

FOUNDER'S SHOWCASE

Passing - SciFi/Fantasy
Hundreds of years have passed since the alien’s ship crashed on earth. In order to survive, the crew have had to put their bodies in stasis and move their consciousness into human bodies. Once again, John must move from his aging human body into a new one, but this time he’s not so sure he wnts to.


The Kings’ Guitar - Mystery Restaurant manager Don has a customer who’s forgotten his wallet. Justin, a young street musician, reluctantly leaves his old guitar behind as collateral. Richard, an antiques appraiser, asks to inspect the guitar and claims it once belonged to Elvis. Don must now choose. Should he give Justin Richard’s card, or take advantage of the situation?	Kenzie's Secret - SciFi/Fantasy Bartender Kenzie has seen a lot of real characters in her day, but tonight's patrons are a new level of… different.

4:00 to 5:15

STUDENT FILMS
AI FILMS

Not Enough - Student Film
A young couple on vacation deal with insecurities arising as they talk about their future together


Us and Them - Student Film When a 15-year-old filmmaker conducts the first youth-led in-depth interview with Ameca, the most expressive humanoid obot on Earth, the Q&A blossoms into an unexpected friendship that dissolves the boundary between silicon and soul.	Dairyland - Student Film A struggling film director acquires a human-identical robot from a mysterious tech company and teaches it to act.


Boy Left Outside – AI Film Haunted by ordinary childhood wounds, a seemingly stable man must confront the fear that has ruled his life—or keep mistaking survival for living.	Lord of Illusions - AI Film An AI-created sci-fi music video in Russian (with subtitles) dedicated to true gamers who sometimes blur the lines between reality and the virtual world. The film raises questions about moral choices. Who can say where the fairy tale ends and reality begins?"—and the price of such choices. It also conveys an anti-war, anti-aggression message.

5:15 to 6:45

DOCUMENTARIES

James Burton Blair: Nothing But the Truth
The Improbable Life of an Arkansas Giant - Documentary
For 90 years, Jim Blair lived large. He befriended and mentored monumental private business and national decision makers, including poultry tycoons, politicians, and even a President of the United States.
A generous benefactor, he donated 5 million dollars to the Fayetteville Public Library, later named in his honor.


Climate Change and… - Documentary Dayna Reggero’s film explores Appalachian foothill communities in North Carolina, highlighting their resilience in the face of climate change and ongoing struggles. Despite challenges, these communities are building solutions and caring for each other.	The Movement of Champions - Documentary The Movement of Champions reveals Tuscaloosa’s civil rights legacy, honoring the students, leaders, entrepreneurs, and foot soldiers whose courage transformed the city and continues to inspire change.

6:45 to 8:30

SCI-FI/FANTASY
COMEDY
MYSTERY - DRAMA

ReSPAWN - - Sci-Fi / Fantasy
In a game of survival, two sisters from warring factions collide, in an epic dogfight across space, the older destroying and resurrecting the younger to see who will be the next Champion.


Touchstone - Sci-Fi / Fantasy A weary woman on a dawn highway journey confronts her younger self and unresolved grief when her self-driving car blurs the linebetween past and present.	Mom Walkers - Comedy Tired of your mother always running late or getting lost? Mom Walkers is a new service from our trained dog walkers that gets your mom where she needs to go, no matter the struggle!


They Got Out - Comedy Joe, with a successful career and a bright future, plans to propose to Madison after ending his affair with her sister, Casey. However, a portal to hell forces him to confront his past transgressions.	Thaw - Mystery Set an remote winter cabin, a couple starts to unravel in silence. At first the discomfort feels like emotional distance, but Gail's visions begin to reveal something for more unsettling, where artistic brilliance ends, and something much darker begins.

8:45 to 10:00

AWARDS
PRESENTATION

A King’s Curtain - Drama
A career woman’s love and devotion to her Shakespearean actor father are tested when his descent into Alzheimer’s jeopardizes her chance for a coveted promotion.

The Fourth Star – Made in Georgia An estranged couple comes to terms with their daughter's death on the eve of her birthday. Pulled apart by what they love most, Carolyn and Bruce are forced into a situation where they must face what was left unspoken in order to reconcile.

The Fourth Star – Made in Georgia
An estranged couple comes to terms with their daughter's death on the eve of her birthday. Pulled apart by what they love most, Carolyn and Bruce are forced into a situation where they must face what was left unspoken in order to reconcile.