At ATLFS, September means it’s time to buckle down to screening submissions for the yearly Atlanta Film Festival. Which in turn means that our long summer of watching whatever we want is over! Before the leaves turn and the weather cools down, our Programming team highlights some of the gems in this summer’s free time watching.

Beginning this February, ATLFS presents NOIRE - A series of screenings devoted to new and classic films by Black filmmakers. This series kicks off February 25th with a members-only early look at A24's ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL, the new film by director Rungano Nyoni (winner of the Cannes Camera D'or for her first feature I AM NOT A WITCH). On March 4th we'll follow up with a screening of Theodore Witcher's beloved 1997 classic LOVE JONES, and rounding out…