The Nashville Film Festival (NashFilm), a week-long celebration of film, music and culture, has announced a robust film program including special presentations, official selections and more, for its 55th annual event, taking place from Thursday, September 19 through Wednesday, September 25, 2024 at venues throughout the area, including the historic Belcourt Theatre and Regal Green Hills in Nashville, and Franklin Theatre.
This year’s festival features more than 150 films, including 44 feature-length films and more than 33 official selections making their U.S., North American and world premieres with the festival. The films selected include an opening night double-feature presentation of “Devo” and “Rebel Country” and a closing night presentation of “This Is a Film About The Black Keys.”
This year’s Tennessee program includes six feature films made in or connected to the state, including “Session, If A House Be Divided,” which follows the Tennessee House of Representatives in 2024 as heightened tensions and party divisions spill into the national conversation. Don’t miss “Session, If A House Be Divided,” directed by Andrew Baxt. From the hallways and hearing rooms, to the House gallery and floor, “Session” steps back to unravel the current American political process.
Other Tennessee films include “Beat Down,” the only narrative feature film of the Tennessee program, directed by the previous winner of the Tennessee program feature in 2023, Curren Sheldon; and “THE Tennessee 11,” directed by Rod Blackhurst, focused on a group of 11 Tennessee citizens discussing legislative solutions to address gun rights and safety.
Among other notable festival presentations are Netflix’s “Will & Harper,” starring Will Ferrell and his close friend, Harper Steele who recently came out as a trans woman, as they take a road trip to process this new stage in their friendship and reintroduce Harper to the country she loves as her authentic self; Apple Original Films’ “The Last Of The Sea Women,” a documentary produced by A24 and Malala Yousafzai through her production company Extracurricular, follows an extraordinary band of feisty grandmother warriors as they wage a spirited battle against vast oceanic threats; IFC Films’ “Memoir Of A Snail,” a stop-motion feature by Academy Award winning animator Adam Elliot, that follows a melancholic woman who hoards snails; “Bob Trevino Likes It,” a film inspired by a true story when a woman bonds with a grieving man who shares the same name as her father; and “To A Land Unknown”, the film will have its US Premiere in Nashville following the Cannes Film Festival, in which a Palestinian refugee living on the fringes of society in Athens gets ripped off by a smuggler and sets out to seek revenge.
Grammy® and Academy® Award winner Melissa Etheridge will attend an exclusive Q&A and screening for her docuseries, “Melissa Etheridge: I’m Not Broken,” chronicling the singer-songwriter’s journey creating a new song inspired by five incarcerated women she meets in her Kansas hometown.
The full Nashville Film Festival program is online at: www.nashvillefilmfestival.org. Tickets for the screenings are available online there, along with Festival Passes and other information.
