|
|
Genre
View:
A Cree Approach
An investigative documentary following a young woman, director Tristin Greyeyes’ quest to understand why Cree is not her first language through the story of her late grandmother, Freda Ahenakew. Freda was a mother of 12 children, and a high school drop out. Half of her children learned Cree as their first language and the rest were bereft of that. She would later become a worldwide known Indigenous scholar, a Cree language linguist and advocate. Her work in creating the Cree Standard Roman Orthography would go on to help plant language seeds in many students who would become teachers themselves, thus creating a ripple effect in language revitalization. This work was influential but how did she get there? Tristin discovers the importance of retaining the Cree and through this documentary she is inspired to learn to speak her language.
More Details
A Sad and Beautiful World
In this sweeping love story that spans three decades of passion, heartbreak, and hope, Nino and Yasmina find themselves drawn together by a magnetic relationship. As they face an impossible choice between love and survival, they must decide if they want to build a family and chart a path to happiness in Lebanon, despite the tragedies ravaging the country.
More Details
Animation Shorts
A curated mix of animations from local, national and international filmmakers.
More Details
Bigfoot Woods
When Bridget, a teenager struggling with their gender identity, and their dad accidentally capture video evidence of Bigfoot, they become heroes in a small town that would rather believe in Bigfoot than accept someone they once knew as a girl as a boy.
More Details
Boorman and the Devil
After the success of POINT BLANK and DELIVERANCE, Warner Brothers offered John Boorman the opportunity of a lifetime...the chance to direct a sequel to their smash hit, THE EXORCIST. The result was one of the biggest disasters in movie history. A critical and financial failure that not only changed how Hollywood did business, but nearly ended Boorman's filmmaking career. But to be an artist is to be a risk-taker. Now, John Boorman, Linda Blair, Louise Fletcher, Karyn Kusama, Mike Flanagan, and more reflect back on the ambition of the film, the artistry and craft, and the value of big creative swings.
More Details
Comedy Shorts
These short films will have you giggling in your seat and begging for more!
More Details
Documentary Shorts
This collection of short docs take us around the world to explore stories near and far.
More Details
Goody Goody
Lulled into a necessary sense of comfort during a long home birth process, expecting parents and their midwife begin to realize something may be horribly wrong. A blizzard rages outside, trapping the family in their home as increasingly sinister complications arise.
More Details
Honeyjoon
In this light-and-dark comedy, June and her Persian mom Lela travel to the Azores for a grief anniversary, with contrasting ways of coping. A charming surfer brings balance as they (and we) surf the waves of life, loss, flirting… an unforgettable ride. A surprisingly sexy, darkly funny, emotional rollercoaster. Honeyjoon is for anyone who lives with loss. For anyone who wants to feel free. For anyone who has tried, and failed, to flirt.
More Details
Horror Shorts
Get ready to shriek with horror, delight, and laughter at this year’s collection of ooky spooky tales.
More Details
If I Go Will They Miss Me
Twelve-year-old Lil Ant transforms his working-class neighborhood beneath the LAX flight path into a living mythology, where family members become gods and the sky is crowded with endless departures. As he searches for connection with his god-like yet conflicted father, he finds support in his close-knit community that helps him reconcile myth and reality.
More Details
Indigenous Shorts
Explore the array of storytelling from this year’s Indigenous and First Nation filmmakers.
More Details
Keep Quiet and Forgive
Thirty years after being assaulted, an Amish woman-turned-leader, Lizzie breaks her silence, igniting a growing movement of Amish and Mennonite survivors who challenge a deeply rooted culture of secrecy and demand accountability. Based on groundbreaking reporting, “Keep Quiet and Forgive” follows Lizzie and other survivors as they navigate trauma, faith, and family ties and fight to replace “forgive and forget” with healing and justice. With rare access, the film is a sobering celebration of resilience in the face of staggering oppression.
More Details
Medicine Ball
Medicine Ball follows Native college athletes Lexus and Leroy as they uncover their university’s dark history as a former Indian boarding school, revealing how basketball is more than a game — it’s a symbol of hope, resilience, and cultural pride in Native communities.
More Details
Momentous Shorts
These stories explore unexpected moments that shift future outcomes.
More Details
Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising
Ni-Naadamaadiz: Red Power Rising, tells the little-known 1974 story of Anishinaabe youth who staged an armed occupation at a Kenora, Canada park, along with members of the American Indian Movement. Using rare archival footage, first-hand interviews and the recently discovered manuscript of the occupation's charismatic leader, Louis Cameron, this 90 minute, powerful and groovy documentary, shouts out a story of Indigenous power and resilience.
More Details
Our Stories Shorts
Highlighting stories from filmmakers across Minnesota.
More Details
Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story
Blurring the line between performance and personal crisis, the film follows comedian Maria Bamford as she turns her mental health journey into material that’s riotously funny and ultimately inspiring.
More Details
Small Town Girl
In a small Midwestern town in 1973, the disappearance of a 14-year-old girl unravels buried secrets, forcing an unlikely local to confront disturbing truths and implicate two suspects, only for an unexpected twist to shock the community years later.
More Details
Student Showcase Shorts
Showcasing the talents of student filmmakers from across the Midwest and beyond.
More Details
TheyDream
TheyDream is a deeply personal documentary presented in a variety of animation styles, that examines the transformative nature of grief, for the director, his mother, and other members of their tight knit Puerto Rican family in Fayetteville, North Carolina, USA. As he revisits his past twenty years as a filmmaker who has employed an eclectic range of visual styles, he interweaves brand new animations with live action footage, in order to dig deeper than ever before and better understand why he makes the art that he does. Ultimately, this film becomes an intimate confession—not just about grief, but about the courage it takes to transform pain into art alongside the people we love most.
More Details
Time & Place Doc Shorts
These short docs examine our relationships to spaces, our past, and our future.
More Details
Why We Dance
On land marked by erasure and ignorance, a letter arrived in 1923 ordering hundreds of Tribal Nations to stop dancing. What officials called “unproductive gatherings” were in truth ceremonies of harvest, gratitude, and renewal — times when communities came together to thank the land, share food, and prepare for winter. The Meskwaki people refused to be silenced. In response, they organized one of the largest powwows of their time, a four-day celebration that drew thousands from neighboring towns and Tribal Nations. The tradition itself became the resistance. One hundred years later, the Meskwaki Annual Powwow continues celebrating, gathering families, friends to dance, sing, and give, carrying forward a rhythm that could not be outlawed.
More Details
|