Enjoy some of the filmmakers' favorite films from this year's festival submissions! Tickets are $10/ person, drinks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Following Hurricane Helene's destructive wake, our people and mountains are still processing the trauma we've endured as a community. These touching stories of healing remind us how resilient humans can be. Tickets are $10/ person, drinks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit.

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Join us for two documentaries: the first is a short film about an unsolved murder followed by a longer doc that draws an intimate portrait of a hiphop/ jazz performer from Cincinnati's famed Beat Box Studios to the famous Parisian jazz club, New Morning. Tickets are $10/ person, drinks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Come see which of your favorite films of the 2025 Asheville Film Festival are honored on awards night and which film wins the 1st place cash prize! Tickets are $20/ person, drinks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Thank you for supporting the Asheville Film Festival and all of our local and regional filmmakers! Doors open at 6PM and this event is followed by a social with the filmmakers. This is a red carpet event so dress to impress, arrive early to bid on silent auction items generously donated by local businesses, grab a drink, and claim your seats!

Join us for this uplifting film block of two documentaries that highlight nature's ways of healing and bringing people together. Tickets are $10/ person, drinks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Whether you're seeking connection or missed one, these short films focus on the human need for relationships and the different (sometimes questionable) ways we search for them. Tickets are $10/ person, drinks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Join us for a collection of films that have literally nothing to do with each other at all. We just like them and you will too! Tickets are $10/ person, drinks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit.

The second feature screening of the 2025 Asheville Film Festival- "The Other Side of Learning: A Deeper Conversation About Education in the US". This locally-made documentary examines how we educate our youth in the United States today and explores a POD school here in Asheville where students thrive in a different learning model. Tickets are $10/ person, drinks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit.

A brief overview of the theory, equipment, and methods of lighting films for meaning, mood and emotion. Learn tricks and techniques used by top cinematographers and gaffers that can be adapted to low budget indie filmmaking.

Join us for a late night Feral Friday Film Block at the Asheville Masonic Temple! This block is made up of six off-beat, creepy, and downright feral submissions to the 2025 Asheville Film Festival. As the witching hour approaches, enjoy some of the best untamed storytelling that cinema has to offer. Tickets are $10/ person, drinks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Join us for the opening night ceremony and film block of the 2025 Asheville Film Festival! Tickets are $10/ person for this event, drinks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Join us for a feature screening of "Earley Times: A Family, A Ford, A Way of Life". This documentary is a heartfelt southern film that traces the legacy of a 1930 Model A Ford and the local Asheville man who grew up behind it's wheel. Tickets are $10/ person, drinks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Join us for an early afternoon film block to kickoff the 2025 Asheville Film Festival! Tickets are $10/ person, drinks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit.

Join us for a feature screening of "Earley Times: A Family, A Ford, A Way of Life". This documentary is a heartfelt southern film that traces the legacy of a 1930 Model A Ford and the local Asheville man who grew up behind it's wheel. Tickets are $10/ person, drinks will be available for purchase, and all ticket sales go to supporting the Asheville Film Festival 501(c)3 nonprofit.

This is your chance to take home a piece of the Singularity! Join us on an expedition to bottle up the sand on the event horizon for our permanent collections.

The tours will be led by experts in the field, leading us down a winding trail full of discourse on the upcoming unforeseeable changes to human civilization.

Slip into the Singularity with one of our signature Infinite Cocktails, while you’re whisked away by the hypothetical future sounds of irreversible technological progress.

As day turns to night and time collapses in on itself, a wide collection of gourmet food trucks will be available to delight even the most spherical palate.