We are looking forward to welcoming you to the 50th AIFVF April 10-16, 2022. Visit us on our website or other socials to keep up to date.

Our final deadline to submit works to the 50th annual Athens International Film + Video Festival is coming up in just under 2 weeks! #aifvf50 find us on @filmfreeway here:

50th AIFVF #NewProfilePic logo/brand work courtesy of the amazing @MichaelASalter2

See the best of the fest shorts program tonight at 9pm Full list of awards here: https://t.co/IvE3T62y7Q

Throughout this long-form feature article, you can see how the likes of the @AthenaCinema and @AthenaGrand_ got through the pandemic as well as the @AthensFilmFest and those in the @oufilm school and the college of @OHIOfinearts. Hear their voices:

thank you @AthensFilmFest David C, Dan & Dan, Josh, Alex, Connor all @AthenaCinema staff. All the screeners, jurors - all the filmmakers. Thank you all for bringing this together and providing the @ohiou @CityofAthensOH community the space to experience cinema.

tonight 4/5 - @AthensFilmFest shorts, feature films - ASL and music/Sign the Show, @OHIOAlumni Danilo Šerbedžija, Croatian film/Tereza 37, Rafaela, narrative Domincan Republic. and shorts!!!! and more this week. https://t.co/wDEamC8fMG

Ohio film lovers, our new film premieres tonight @AthensFilmFest , written by James Everett (@Wilygoose ) @OneBigMop #indiefilm #FilmTwitter

AIFVF makes sense! #TikTok

The staff and volunteers of AIFVF strongly recommend and encourage all visitors to wear a mask while at all festival events.

Our short but mighty little film "When Monsters Walked the Earth", about grasshoppers and the anthropocene, made for @imaginescience 's competition Symbiosis, is screening this week at the @AthensFilmFest ! @_duanepeterson @JamieJover

Shawnee Showdown: Keep the Forest Standing directed by Cade Bursell plays AIFVF on Saturday, April 2, 5:30 PM and Wednesday, April 6, 5:00 PM. https://t.co/lhfiyHUXTl

Masking Threshold directed Johannes Grenzfurthner plays AIFVF Saturday, April 2, 9:15 PM and Thursday, April 7, 7:15 PM By no means for the faint of heart. https://t.co/1fuYVqxnU6

The Reverend by director Nick Canfield plays AIFVF Saturday, April 2, 7:30 PM and Tuesday, April 5, 5:30 PM The Reverend follows the spiritual and musical journey of Reverend Vince Anderson. https://t.co/hRqXZhnsgg

We're so ready! @AthensFilmFest https://t.co/ShFc81ONxL

First Time [The Time for All but Sunset – Violet] directed by Nicolaas Schmidt plays AIFVF on Saturday, April 2, 3:00 PM and Wednesday, April 6, 7:15 PM Two boys meet on a train ride. Something is born – not much and yet everything. https://t.co/2OXUCX6Xhs

The Massacre of Anroechte directed by Hannah Dörr play AIFVF on Saturday, April 2, 5:15 PM and Thursday, April 7, 7:00 PM Anröchte is the scene of a massacre as people are randomly beheaded. https://t.co/89yDSd9ozQ

greatNews from our Glitch Art whirlds: our next film, Silverror's Saloon premieres @ Athens Intl Film & Video Fest! @AthensFilmFest Silverror's Saloon, a 鬼鎮 (Ghosttown) story Glitch Western; Directed by Mickey Mahoney && jonCates; Written by Emily Mercedes Rich && jonCates ✨

Check out the strange and unique comedy Against the Wall by director J Pablo Ceja. It plays AIFVF on Saturday, April 2, 7:15 PM and Thursday, April 7, 3:15 PM A youngster, fresh out of prison, goes to work as an errand boy for a local mobster. https://t.co/ivVphqmZEi

Rez Metal directed by Ashkan Soltani Stone plays AIFVF on Friday, April 1, 9:15 PM and Sunday, April 3, 3:15 PM. REZ METAL, tells the story of the heavy metal scene on Navajo reservations where many youths have grown disaffected. https://t.co/KyIDDZJpTj