Check Out Indie Memphis Film Festival 2024

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Jalyn Souchek
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The lineup of movies for the 2024 Indie Memphis Film Festival, November 14-17, was just released. Prepare for a few days of feature films, shorts, documentaries, music videos, parties, and panels, with encore screenings at Malco Paradiso on November 18-19.

Festival passes are on sale now and individual tickets go on sale to the public October 22.

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Jalyn Souchek

For the uninitiated, the Indie Memphis Film Festival is our city’s standout film festival showcasing hundreds of films across a variety of genres. There is live music before films, opportunities to meet directors and cast members, and quite literally a film for every interest.

A few points of note:

  • This year’s festival runs from Nov. 14-17 at different venues near Overton Square.
  • Dozens of films will be screened. Check out the full list here.
  • Additional encore films will play at Malco Paradiso on Nov. 18-19
  • Many Memphis-based filmmakers will have works featured, and many filmmakers will be traveling from out of town

While there are dozens of great films that will be playing, here are few of note:

  • Nickel Boys, directed by RaMell Ross, is this year’s centerpiece film based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead. I read this book a few years ago and it’s an extremely powerful story detailing the friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating a reform school together. 
  • It Was All a Dream will be screened opening night. Directed by dream hampton, this is a visual memorial from hampton’s personal archives about the dawn of the golden era of hip hop. 
  • Boys Go to Jupiter, directed by Julian Glander, is a coming-of-age story about a teenager in suburban Florida desperately hustling.  
  • Flow, directed by Gints Zibalodies, follows a courageous cat, capybara, lemur, bird, and dog on a heartfelt journey after their homes are devastated by a flood, relying on visual storytelling with no dialogue. 
  • Memoir of a Snail is a bittersweet claymation drama from Academy Award-winning animator Adam Elliot, showcasing 200 handmade characters, including the melancholic misfit Grace Pudel, voiced by Sarah Snook 
  • There are seven featured documentaries, all with extremely powerful descriptions from a landmark sexual assault case in Japan, the first group of Black debutantes in Ohio, the fight against a toxic landfull, and more.

VISIT AND FOLLOW:

Indie Memphis Film Festival 2024
November 14-17
Various Locations

Passes are $130 / $119 for Indie Memphis members
VIP Passes are $240 / $192 for Indie Memphis members
Virtual Passes are $30 / $25 for Indie Memphis members
Single Tickets are $15

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Hello! I'm Jalyn Souchek, the Director of Content for I Love Memphis Blog! I love calling the 901 home. When I'm not running the blog you can find me cheering on the Grizzlies, at a concert, exploring a new restaurant or kicking back at one of our breweries. I hope you'll love experiencing Memphis with me.

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