2026 Macon Film Festival

TITLE: Check Please
DIRECTOR: Shane Chung
TRT: 9:38
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
SYNOPSIS: Two headstrong Koreans can't agree on who's treating who to dinner, causing their casual restaurant outing to spiral into a martial arts death match.
RATINGS: Violence

TITLE: Two Envelopes
DIRECTOR: Martin Carter Scholl
TRT: 4:48
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
SYNOPSIS: A mail boy delivers 'bad news' envelopes throughout his neighborhood while his father anxiously waits at home.
RATINGS: None

TITLE: Watchdog
DIRECTOR: Harsh Vardhan Singh
TRT: 15:29
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
SYNOPSIS: In a fruit farm teetering on the absurd, SAMUEL, a young migrant worker, accepts a job as a guard dog. Under the watchful eyes of JOSÉ, his trainer, and the MANAGER whose ruthlessness drives the farm’s inhumane system, Samuel learns to adapt to his harsh new reality. Forced to live in a makeshift doghouse, survive on scraps, crawl on all fours, and be leashed around during rounds, he becomes entangled in a brutal system that erodes his dignity at every turn. What begins as a desperate bid for survival soon descends into a harrowing journey of dehumanization. The nights bring darker challenges as Samuel faces the hostility of the NIGHT GUARD, who pushes him toward his breaking point. When the cruelty escalates to a shocking extreme, Samuel’s quiet resistance threatens to unravel the precarious order of the farm.
RATINGS: Language

TITLE: Nowhere
DIRECTOR: Aidan Landrum
TRT: 9:20
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
SYNOPSIS: A story about a man and his dog.
RATINGS: None

TITLE: Guest
DIRECTOR:  Raed Faisal
TRT: 13:28
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
SYNOPSIS: A joyous wedding dance rehearsal in a Pakistani immigrant household turns into a night of confrontation between a matriarch and her son when he brings home an unexpected guest.
RATINGS: Language

TITLE: The Damned Thing
DIRECTOR:  Estevan Valdes
TRT: 19:14
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
SYNOPSIS: A coroner’s inquest into an inexplicable death uncovers the existence of an enigmatic creature.
RATINGS: Language, Violence

TITLE: The Joke's On Him
DIRECTOR:  Paola Ramones
TRT: 10:30
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
SYNOPSIS: In Mexico City, Adal Ramones, a stand-up comedian returns to the spotlight to turn his real-life kidnapping into his most fearless set. Through dark humor and deep scars, he transforms pain into timing and trauma into art.
RATINGS: Language, Violence

TITLE: Cottonmouth
DIRECTOR: Cole Johnson
TRT: 15:30
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: United States
SYNOPSIS: Based in the humid heart of rural Alabama, this is the tale of Chip and Fish — two twenty-something drifters bound together by dreams, dependency, and addiction. Haunted by lost love and failed fatherhood, Chip spirals toward a reckoning with his past as he tries to reconnect with Day, the mother of his daughter, Anya. What begins as a night of underground music and misguided hope descends into violence and revelations illuminated by burning bonfires. Cottonmouth is a fractured love story about broken men grasping for grace in a world that’s given them none.
RATINGS: Language, Violence, Drug, Use Adult Situations