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Festivals & Fairs

Highlands-Cashiers Film Festival (HCFF)

Free

Four days. Over 10 selected films. One mountain town made for this kind of storytelling. The Highlands–Cashiers Film Festival (HCFF) has been called a curated, boutique gathering in the spirit of Telluride and early Sundance — and this September, it returns for its second year, bringing documentaries, competition dramas, filmmaker conversations, and an unmistakably mountain-town social calendar…