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Here’s a simple guide to short film festivals in Atlanta. These events highlight comedy, drama, horror, documentary, animation, micro shorts, experimental work, underground films, and the best indie shorts screening in the city each year. We highlight the top film festivals in Atlanta, Georgia that showcase short films. If you're looking for an Atlanta short film festival, check out this list.
Atlanta’s short film festival with two full days of curated comedy, drama, horror, documentary, animation, and experimental shorts.
A festival focused on fast, creative films under six minutes. A place for new voices, experimental ideas, and micro short storytelling.
A showcase for experimental film, motion art, AI work, and avant garde shorts that push film in new directions.
Atlanta Underground Film Festival features offbeat, unconventional, and genre bending indie shorts and features. A home for filmmakers working outside the mainstream.
Atlanta Horror Film Festival features scary shorts, thrillers, supernatural stories, and dark indie genre films.
The end of year short film festival where the top indie shorts compete for Best of the Year awards.
The Atlanta Doc has been the only film festivals in Georgia focusing on indie docs from across the globe for over two decades.
The Atlanta Film Series has been part of the Atlanta film community for nearly 25 years. It brings together a full season of independent film events across Atlanta. Each festival has its own focus and its own crowd. You get documentaries in March, micro shorts and experimental work in May, comedy and drama at Shortsfest in June, underground films in August, horror in October, and the top shorts of the year at Spotlight in December. The series was built by people who care about films and the artists who make them. Screenings stay focused, the rooms stay engaged, and filmmakers keep coming back because their work is treated with respect. If you’re searching for Atlanta film festivals, Georgia film events, indie film screenings, or things to do in Atlanta, this is where you’ll find the strongest independent filmmaking in the city.