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Calling All Movie Fans: The Atlanta Film Festival Travels to Lefont Sandy Springs

This year, the Atlanta Film Festival is bringing an amazing selection of films right to your doorstep!  Instead of traveling all the way to midtown to see this year’s most popular films, Lefont Sandy Springs Theatre will be showcasing several festival highlights just for you.  Please check out the festival titles and showtimes listed below for Wednesday, May 4th.

 

KTO YA?

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Director: Klim Shipenko

This story begins at the Sevastopol station in the early rainy morning. On the platform near Moscow-Sevastopol train the police find a young man without documents, who has lost his memory. He remembers a lot of facts: historical dates, songs of his favorite band, but he can't recollect his name or say where he is from and what his family is.

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Cast: Aleksandr Yatsenko, Zhanna Friske, Sergey Gazarov, Anatoliy Belyy, Viktoriya Tolstoganova, Mikhail Babichev, Tatyana Fedorovskaya, Konstantin Demidov

Wednesday, May 4th at 12:00pm

 

THE FIRST GRADER

Director: Justin Chadwick

Set in a mountain village in Kenya, this film tells the remarkably true and uplifting story of a proud old Mau Mau veteran who is determined to seize his last chance to learn to read and write - and so ends up joining a class alongside six year-olds.

Cast: Naomie Harris, Tony Kgoroge, Sam Feuer

Wednesday, May 4th at 3:00pm

 

ATLFF invites Atlantans and cinephiles from around the Southeast to enjoy an eclectic mix of international films, narrative features and shorts, documentary features and shorts, and many special presentations. For more information, please visit www.AtlantaFilmFestival.com.

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