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Even beyond the Indie Memphis festival, it’s a big movie week in Memphis, with a trio of awards-season hopefuls and one big, promising creature feature landing on local screens.
After a one-year hiatus and with reconstituted leadership, the Indie Memphis Film Festival returns this week.
The second annual Like You Children’s Film Festival puts a spotlight on emotional growth and connectivity for kids in a fun and interactive space.
Also opening this weekend: “Finding Emily,” “Buddy,” “Idiots” and “Never Stop Chasing.”
Indie Memphis will announce the entire festival lineup during a preview party on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at the Metal Museum in Overton Park.
One of 2026’s standout arthouse films so far is coming to Studio on the Square for a one-night Indie Memphis screening.
Aliens are on the big — and giant — screen in Memphis, and you can stream the portrait of the life of Memphian Maurice White. And somehow, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” brings it all full circle.
Brandon Harris returns to his role to curate films for an Indie Memphis Film Festival that, he said in an interview, “runs the gamut of American independent cinema.”
As Indie Memphis bounces back from a year without its signature film festival, the group’s new co-executive director, Alicia George, joins Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of “The Sidebar” to talk about the organization’s future.
Local screens fill up with everything from Oscar heavyweight “Sentimental Value” to the new “Wuthering Heights,” sci‑fi comedies, fresh horror, and special showings of “Zappa,” “Grease” and a 40th‑anniversary “Pretty in Pink.”
The festival is expected to span much of the South Main district, with films being screened at Malco’s Powerhouse Cinema and the Orpheum’s Halloran Centre, while Central Station and other venues in the area will host parties and other festival events. Indie Memphis announces 2026 comeback for film festival with new leadershipRelated content:
The festival will be held in Downtown’s South Main Arts District, with the selected films being shown in Malco’s Powerhouse Cinema as well as the Orpheum’s Halloran Centre.
Indie Memphis announced Friday it was “pausing” programming, but the organization is adamant the “intermission isn’t goodbye.”
The 27th annual Indie Memphis Film Festival starts Thursday with potential sleeper hits, films of local interest and movies you may not see anywhere else.
One of the year’s most highly anticipated films, an adaptation of author Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel “Nickel Boys,” will be the centerpiece selection of the 27th Indie Memphis Film Festival.
“All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt” was not filmed in Memphis or in Tennessee. But Memphis and Tennessee have left indelible marks on the A24 film.
This week, 1990s R&B legends Tony! Toni! Tone! play the Orpheum, spooky double dutch comes to Tom Lee and you can sample your way around India at the Agricenter.
Both recipients receive a $7,500 unrestricted cash grant during their two-month program.
This week, Master Gardeners get the garden party started, U of M dance students present new works and “Ink” tells the story of Robert Murdoch’s rise.
This season, Sundance Film Festival attendees will buy their passes through Eventive, a ticketing app made for Indie Memphis by 15-year-old Theo Patt in 2015.
The concert sometimes called the “Black Woodstock” turns 50 this year.
Zaire Love is the woman behind “Slice,” a short documentary about the style of pool diving mostly practiced among Black youth and men in the Memphis area.
This week, see cult classics from John Waters and David Lynch, explore an interactive art exhibition made from guitar cords and microphones and take a trip to Southern Decadence at MOSH.
This week, Opera Memphis kicks off 30 Days of Opera, animatronic dinos stomp into the Renasant Convention Center and an art show at Tone explores gender and gender variation.
A generation ago, Todd Snider and the Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood and Mike Conley were all struggling Memphis musicians. With Snider and the Truckers back in town on the same night, here’s a listening guide to their Memphis-inspired songs.