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schedule
  • 2025 Program
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  • Home
  • schedule
    • 2025 Program
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    • Best Animation
    • Best Comedy
    • Best Documentary
    • Best Drama
    • Best Experimental
    • Best Horror
    • Best Local Director
    • Best Local Film
    • Best Micro Short
    • Best Music Video
    • Best Narrative
    • Best Student Short
  • Tickets and Passes
  • Info
    • Nominees
    • Awards
    • FAQ
    • Georgia Film Festivals
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    • Filmmakers
    • Stream Films on Festflix
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  • Atlanta Film Festivals
    • ATL Documentary
    • ATL Micro Shorts
    • ATL Shorts
    • ATL Underground
    • ATL Horror
    • ATL Experimental
  • Home
  • schedule
    • 2025 Program
  • 2025 Film Categories
    • Best Animation
    • Best Comedy
    • Best Documentary
    • Best Drama
    • Best Experimental
    • Best Horror
    • Best Local Director
    • Best Local Film
    • Best Micro Short
    • Best Music Video
    • Best Narrative
    • Best Student Short
  • Tickets and Passes
  • Info
    • Nominees
    • Awards
    • FAQ
    • Georgia Film Festivals
    • Award Winning Docs
    • Award Winning Shorts
    • Filmmakers
    • Stream Films on Festflix
    • Spotlight IMDB
  • Atlanta Film Festivals
    • ATL Documentary
    • ATL Micro Shorts
    • ATL Shorts
    • ATL Underground
    • ATL Horror
    • ATL Experimental

2025 Atlanta Spotlight Film Festival

Best of the Year Nominees - Narrative Shorts

Screening Saturday December 6, 2025 at 2:00 pm

ALOHA MEANS I LOVE YOU

Katy Dore / United States / 06:02


Clara and Bertie have been friends for nearly 60 years, but when Clara wants to add a new man into the mix, Bertie's devotion to her friend is tested.

BIRTHDAY CAKE

Jesse Foy / United States / 09:20


A young entrepreneur navigates a career of increasing success, but the path has not been easy as he constantly faces setbacks by his reckless father along the way.

BUG

Bryan Alfonso Berrios / United States / 14:00

 

When Luca’s old college friend Peter visits him and his boyfriend Sam in New York, jealousy and desire begin to surface. As boundaries blur and attraction grows, their once-stable relationship starts to crack, exposing the primal instincts of sex and territory.

DARLING

Finola Hughes / United States / 14:47


After months of suspicion, Fiona follows her husband to a seedy motel where her worst fears are confirmed. Accepting an invitation from Liza, the sex worker, to enter the motel room, Fiona learns that not everything is as it seems.

NOSOCOMEPHILIA

Michèle Kaye / Canada / 15:00


A middle-aged woman in a state of ennui starts compulsively visiting doctors.

ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE APOCALYPSE

Tiago Pimentel / Portugal / 20:00


In the aftermath of a nuclear war, totalitarian regimes disrupt world order.

Ernesto is hiding a secret, and when a government inspector shows up at his doorstep a cat and mouse game unfolds that can only end in tragedy.

A fable in times of war.

THE RE-EDUCATION OF JANE BROWN

MK McGehee / United States  / 16:20


A reticent young woman, haunted by her violent past, wakes to find herself imprisoned in a re-education facility for women who have attempted to have abortions. In this new reality where seeking bodily autonomy is a crime punishable by death, she must decide if she is willing to be re-educated or if she is ready to face her own mortality.

2025 Venue

Limelight Theater

Parking in the Pencil Factory Loft parking deck and street parking is available.  King Memorial MARTA is next door. 

We validate parking at the theater. Please see the front desk when you arrive to scan our parking code if parking in the Pencil Factory lot!

 

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