SCAD Savannah Film Festival, which starts October 25, has disclosed its full itinerary. Exciting additions include Chloe Zao’s Hamnet, Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein and Yorgos Lanthimos’ Bugonia.
The festival is going into its 28th year of hosting Hollywood talent at the Savannah College of Art and Design. Notable guests from last year include Amy Adams (Outstanding Achievement in Cinema Award), Kieran Culkin (Virtuoso Award) and Colman Domingo (Spotlight Award).
The 2025 festival will open with David Freyne’s Eternity, an abstract A24 love drama, and close with Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Johnson’s latest addition to the Knives Out series will follow detective Benoit Blanc, played by Daniel Craig, as he investigates murder in a devout community. Craig Brewer’s Song Sung Blue is the festival’s Centerpiece Gala Presentation. The film stars Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson as the real-life couple who played as “Lightning and Thunder,” a Neil Diamond tribute band.
The festival will screen 56 narrative features and 16 feature documentaries this year. Since its inception in 1997, the festival has screened over 225 Academy Award-nominated films and honored almost 200 notable figures in the film world.
“Every October, SCAD transforms Savannah into a master class in moviemaking, with our 2025 SCAD Savannah Film Festival lineup featuring J.Lo, Mark Hamill (the original Skywalker!), Wicked’s’ Jon M. Chu, and so many more who help SCAD Bees make the leap from classroom to call sheet,” Paula Wallace, SCAD President and Founder, said in a statement. “Come for the Oscar-bound premieres and stay for the splendor of the South’s most cinematic city. Silver-screen dreams live here — lights, camera, SCAD!”
The festival will run from October 25 until November 1.
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