This January, LOCALS ONLY, gets back to the core of cinema - the drama! Winter 2026 LOCALS ONLY Presents: Let’s Get Soapy. This season is all about your tear-jerkers and heart-wrenchers, from soap operas to romantic dramas. Grab your tissues and meet us at the cinema!

This October, LOCALS ONLY, brings you a screening of everything fun and fantastic to look at! Fall 2025 LOCALS ONLY Presents: EYE CANDY. This recurring curated screening of short films from Georgia’s independent filmmakers with a distinct theme and focus, created entirely from submissions, is all about gore, guns, fists, and glitz!

Bon Voyage, Filmmakers! LOCALS ONLY returns this July with our recurring curated screening of short films from Georgia’s independent filmmakers. For July 2025, LOCALS ONLY Presents: TRIPPIN’. Every story is a journey. This season, queuing up short films depicting travel of all kinds - road trips, cruise ships, and 10-minute space landings!

Join us at the Plaza Theatre on March 3rd as we celebrate the third edition of the 100 Feet of Film project and screen the completed films. Two prizes will be awarded following this screening, one Jury Award and one Audience Award.

LOCALS ONLY is a recurring screening of short films from Georgia’s independent filmmakers, with each event having a distinct theme and focus. Featured short films come entirely from submissions. This February, LOCALS ONLY presents SHORTS AND GIGGLES, a screening for comedy shorts of every kind. For this go-round, we’re throwing down a challenge: make us laugh!

LOCALS ONLY is a recurring screening of short films from Georgia’s independent filmmakers, with each event having a distinct theme and focus. Featured short films come entirely from submissions. This November, we’re stretching spooky season into overtime with FALL 2024 LOCALS ONLY: WHAT HAUNTS YOU?

Summer 2024 LOCALS ONLY Presents: NEAR AND DEAR. This season, we’re bringing down the house with short films about all the love and chaos that can play out under one roof! Join us for a showcase of family dramas, documentaries about unlikely sisterhoods, short-form telenovelas starring your favorite cat and stories that drive us crazy about our loved ones.

It’s the 1970s, and America’s burgeoning obsession with marijuana has made Colombian farmers suddenly rich. In the Guajira region, a Wayúu family rises to prominence, but soon the trappings of wealth and power start a war that threatens to tear them and their ancient traditions apart. Featuring food from Kiosco Restaurant.

The most personal project to date from Academy Award-winning director and writer Alfonso Cuarón, ROMA follows a young domestic worker for a family in the middle-class neighborhood of Roma in Mexico City in the 1970s. Featuring food from El Ponce.

CUBAN FOOD STORIES is a unique film about food, society, and culture on the island of Cuba. A personal road-trip adventure all around the island to discover the most authentic flavors and stories behind the Cuban cuisine. Featuring food from Papi’s Cuban Grill.

Join us as we present a new crop of locally produced short films at the latest edition of Generally Local, Mostly Independent Film Series!

Siblings Dylan and Andrea set off with their new friends on a marvelous journey of discovery in search of long lost pirate loot.

A story of an unlikely friendship between neighbors in Havana, Cuba. Two men lean on their relationship in a city on the verge of substantial change.

Motivated by the desire for a better life and guided by the ancestral spirits of this house, José embarks on a mystical search for gold ""morocotas"" that are said to be buried in the mansion he occupies with his family.

The 2nd Annual Be Downtown Film Festival kicks off with Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and continues through the evening with two Star Wars classics, The Force Awakens and Rogue One.

Join us as we present a new crop of locally produced short films at the latest edition of Wonderroot's Local Film Series!

The #ATLFS New Mavericks Film Series returns as a full day of shorts screenings, networking, and education in celebration of the women on both sides of the lens. Admission is pay-what-you-can.

Argentine tango dancers María Nieves Rego and Juan Carlos Copes discuss their personal and professional relationship in UN TANGO MÁS (OUR LAST TANGO). This Argentinian film concludes our 2016 CineMás Film Series.

A woman distracts a criminal by sharing three of the dozens of tales she has written from different periods of Cuba's history. ESPEJUELOS OSCUROS (DARK GLASSES) continues our 2016 CineMás Film Series. Lead actor Luis Alberto García will be in attendance!

A young indigenous woman does not want to live in the modern world until it saves her life during a pregnancy complication. Guatemalan film IXCANUL kicks off our 2016 CineMás Film Series.

The latest installment of Homespun, a curated film series for locally made short documentaries about Atlantan subjects, plays the Plaza Theatre October 12th. ATLFS Members receive free admission!

The Atlanta Film Society's Revenge of the Summer Series concludes with a 20th anniversary screening of "Mars Attacks!" at the Plaza Theatre!

A 20th anniversary screening of F. Gary Gray's "Set it Off" continues the Atlanta Film Society's Revenge of the Summer Series at the Plaza Theatre!

A 20th anniversary screening of "Twister" kicks off the Atlanta Film Society's Revenge of the Summer Series at the Plaza Theatre!

WonderRoot's Generally Local, Mostly Independent Film Series returns to the Plaza Theatre! Check out an excellent array of short films, animations, music videos and experimental works—all in support of the local filmmakers that created them.

Celebrate Georgia's longest-running independent cinema with a 20th anniversary screening of THE CRAFT, starring Neve Campbell and Robin Tunney.

Westside Provisions District's third annual summer series continues into July with the coming-of-age throwback starring Rosie O'Donnell, Christina Ricci, Demi Moore and Melanie Griffith.