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Since 2018, Atlanta's celebration of Indian cinema
Celebrate storytelling through Indian cinema
Oct 2 to 4 | 2026
Gala at Twelve Midtown | Screenings at the Tara Theater
until the red carpet opens at Twelve Midtown
Every pass is sold through the Georgia Indo-American Chamber of Commerce and you can be done in a minute. Early-bird pricing closed on August 31, so these are the current prices, and the VIP tables are limited.
One ticket for all three days: the opening dinner reception at Twelve Midtown on Friday evening, plus every screening on Saturday and Sunday at the Tara Theater, filmmaker interviews and the awards ceremony.
The opening dinner reception at Twelve Midtown, Autograph Collection Hotel, with the festival's special guests.
All twenty films across both days at the Tara Theater, including the Sunday awards ceremony.
Seven films, two features among them, with filmmaker interviews between blocks.
Thirteen films and the awards ceremony that closes the festival.
Priority seating at the gala dinner and ten full-access passes for the weekend. Limited availability.
A reserved table for ten at the Friday dinner reception.
Buying a table? Add the names and email addresses of your nine guests at checkout. If you don't have them all yet, enter the ones you have and send the rest to aiffatlanta@gmail.com. Birha on Saturday evening is a free screening.
The festival opens the way Indian cinema does, with a red carpet, a dinner and a room full of people who love films. Meet the filmmakers, share a table with the festival's special guests, and start the weekend properly.
Special guests
Actor and director
Actress
Comedian
Twenty films from India and the diaspora, in Tamil, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi, Malayalam, Bengali and English, and one told without a word. Features and shorts, a silent film and an animated documentary, with the filmmakers in the room for interviews after each block.
Saturday
Thavassi is now after his most precious possession in life, and it is not the gold pendant but dignity. Kanchana wins. The State is forced to redefine dignity, and it bows before Thavassi to make way for dignity to triumph.
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Saturday
Saras, an apathetic water board clerk who has given up on the system, is urged by her idealistic son to investigate the missing water supply in a Mumbai slum. When she laughs off his insistence that the water mafia is responsible, he takes matters into his own hands, and she is forced to grapple with the idea of individual responsibility.
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Saturday
A film about how families survive through silence, sacrifice, and the secrets that both save and destroy them.
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Saturday
Carried by original Rajasthani folk music, Avagunthan is about women who dare to dream and have their wings clipped by traditions that have not moved forward, even as the world has progressed in every other sphere.
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Saturday
A tender short about a middle-aged same-gender couple torn between love and family.
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Saturday
Nisha, a young phlebotomist at a blood collection centre, begins visiting Amar, a cancer patient confined to his home.
Trailer coming soon
Saturday
A loving family in a small village is unsettled by the immature ambitions of their young son. The road to redemption is long and lonely. Can the sins of the past be forgiven?
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Sunday
What begins as an exchange of fabric becomes an exchange of strength. Each woman leaves the hall carrying not just someone else's saree but someone else's courage, tenderness, truth and kindness.
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Sunday
When a series of events force him to turn away from the halgi, the drum, Janardan's silence becomes louder than sound.
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Sunday
A silent film about guilt, loneliness, and the strange grace that sometimes arrives just in time.
Trailer coming soon
Sunday
The emotional turmoil of a man in a difficult relationship with his wife, and the love, loneliness and longing that persist in an age of advanced science and technology.
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Sunday
An animated documentary short on how familial, cultural and societal pressures have shaped the idea of sex and relationships for young Muslims, and how that dynamic shapes their relationship with Allah.
Trailer coming soon
Sunday
Shinjini returns to her childhood home after two decades. She walks city streets she no longer recognizes, comes home, and starts cooking the recipe.
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Sunday
A sharp satire laced with humour, taking on caste discrimination, toxic masculinity, political opportunism, women's agency and the expanding power of the media.
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Sunday
A wife with a terminal illness goes on a diet, and her husband diets with her.
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Sunday
At a state basketball trial in Delhi, scrawny 21-year-old Safi Shaikh is measured against Yudhisthir Singh, the national champion, an immovable monument who has spent seventeen years converting childhood pain into personal mythology.
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Sunday
In a near-future Seattle under federal military occupation, an Asian American man and his niece must escape the city when they are targeted by a violent white-nationalist group.
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Sunday
A quiet, single-day story set in an amusement park, about a tired mascot performer and a lonely child finding unexpected comfort in each other.
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Sunday
As life slowly fades, a devoted husband watches his wife Sarada's world grow fragile. Refusing to let the coming shadows dim their love, he gently brings her small dreams to life.
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Sunday
A spunky woman in her sixties, a powder-blue vintage Fiat and a razor-sharp ten-year-old granddaughter struggle with dwindling funds, a failing engine and questions of relevance. Can they save Aasmani?
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Stretch your legs. Then get your seat for the second half. Screening passes start at $40 and the full weekend is $190.
Buy ticketsFilms play in the order below, with filmmaker conversations and a short intermission after each block. Tap a title to jump to its poster, synopsis and trailer.
Start times are estimates based on running times and may shift on the day. All times Eastern.
The Atlanta Indian Film Festival has brought the finest voices of Indian cinema to Georgia every year since 2018, welcoming visionary filmmakers, celebrated artists and passionate audiences for a weekend that feels like a homecoming.
Presented by the Georgia Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, the festival also introduces visiting directors, actors and producers to the state's film production infrastructure and incentives, so the stories on screen and the industry behind them both find a home in Atlanta.
The festival is made possible by the businesses, foundations and families below. Thank you for keeping the lights on and the reels turning.
Sponsorship places your brand in front of Atlanta's Indian community, visiting filmmakers and the Georgia film industry across all three days. Packages start with the sponsorship guide.
361 17th Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30363. The opening gala and dinner reception, 6 to 9:30 PM.
Get directions2345 Cheshire Bridge Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30324. All screenings, filmmaker interviews and the awards ceremony.
Get directionsThe lights go down on October 2
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Three days, twenty films, one red carpet. Be in the room when the story starts.
