“Scrap” will screen on Wednesday, March 20th at 7pm at the Fargo Theatre. The moving film is the winner of the Best Narrative Feature award at the 2024 Festival. Actor/director/writer Vivian Kerr will attend as a special guest; she will appear live on stage for a Q&A immediately following the film. Tickets and passes for the Fargo Film Festival go on sale later this month.
About Scrap: After getting laid off, a young single mom finds herself living in her car and struggling to hide her situation from her estranged brother. The film stars Vivian Kerr, Anthony Rapp (RENT), Lana Parrilla (ONCE UPON A TIME), and Khleo Thomas (HOLES).
About Vivian:
Vivian Kerr is an LA-based actor, writer, producer, and director. SCRAP, her feature film debut, world premiered at the 2022 Deauville-American Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Prize. The film has won awards at festivals around the country. Her second feature, SÉANCE, a Victorian-era psychological thriller, was selected for Wscripted’s Cannes Screenplay List and is currently in post-production.
As an actor, her work includes episodes of GREY’S ANATOMY, RIZZOLI & ISLES, SUPERSTORE, MASTERS OF SEX, CRIMINAL MINDS, NEW GIRL, CASTLE, FRANKLIN & BASH, and THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL. She has a BA in Theatre from the University of Southern California, during which time she studied Shakespeare in London. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors’ Equity, NYWIFT, and Film Fatales.
Actor and producer Jennifer Lafleur will be welcomed as a special guest at the 2024 Fargo Film Festival. Lafleur stars in “The Day Of”, an official selection in the Narrative Short category. The film plays as part of our Closing Night “Best of the Fest” Showcase on Saturday, March 23rd at 7pm. Lafleur will participate in a Q&A following the film’s screening.
The Day Of directed by Umar Malik
About Jennifer Lafleur: Jennifer is an actor and producer most recently seen in the GORDY sequence in Jordan Peele’s film NOPE and as Peggy in the HULU original THE DROP. She has worked on a plethora of television shows, including The Last Thing He Told Me, Big Little Lies, Billions, Room 104, The Resident, Castle Rock, The Good Doctor, Medical Police, Friends From College, American Crime, Chicago Fire, Workaholics, Married, Childrens Hospital, Newsreaders, Review, Animals, and Major Crimes, among others. She has also worked extensively in independent film, receiving critical acclaim and festival awards for her work in the films MAD, NO LIGHT AND NO LAND ANYWHERE, 6 DYNAMIC LAWS, BACK AT THE STAIRCASE, Sarah Adina Smith’s THE MIDNIGHT SWIM, and the Duplass Brothers films DO-DECA PENTATHLON, BAGHEAD, and JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME . She can be seen in the Independent Spirit Producer’s Award-winning film she co-produced called LAMB, directed by Ross Partridge. She also co-created the series WEDLOCK with Partridge, and starred alongside Mark Duplass and Rob Corddry. She made her writing and directing debut with the award-winning short film BABY KATE, in which she also starred opposite Jason Ritter. She can next be seen in the AMC series Parish and the psychological horror film she also co-produced, BIRTHRITE, directed by Ross Partridge.
Tickets and passes for the 2024 Fargo Film Festival will go on sale later this month.
The 2024 Fargo Film Festival includes two Oscar nominated movies! Congratulations to the filmmakers of Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó (Best Documentary Short Film) and Letter to a Pig (Best Animated Short Film). These incredible films screen at the Fargo Theatre during FFF24, held March 19-23.
Every year, the Fargo Film Festival commissions an original piece of cover art from a local or regional artist. This year, the FFF Cover Artist is Troy Becker. The Fargo Film Festival is proud to reveal the official cover art for the 2024 program guide.
The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce the slate of movies selected for the 2024 event. The Festival will be held March 19-23 at the Fargo Theatre. Congratulations to all the filmmakers; we look forward to sharing your talents with our audiences.
Selections for the 2-Minute Movie Contest will be announced in the coming weeks.
Animation
Winner: Starling (Mitra Shahidi)
Honorable Mention: 27 (Flora Anna Buda) Honorable Mention: Letter to a Pig (Tal Kantor)
Official Selections Armat (Elodie Dermange) Aube (Vincent Gibaud) Electra (Daria Kashcheeva) Finding Home (Maria Stanisheva) Money and Happiness (Ana Nedeljković and Nikola Majdak Jr) Oneluv (Varya Yakovleva) Shackle (Ainslie Henderson) Witchfairy (Cedric Igodt and David Van de Weyer)
Documentary Feature
Winner: Greener Pastures (Samuel-Ali Mirpoorian)
Honorable Mention: 40 Below: The Toughest Race in the World (Marius Anderson) Honorable Mention: With Peter Bradley (Alex Rappoport)
Official Selections Camp RicStar (Sam McConnell) Dusty and Stones (Jesse Rudoy) Nathan-ism (Elan Golod) Show Her the Money (Ky Dickens) What Happened to Jackson Avenue? (Hakima Alem and Rudi Gohl)
Documentary Short
Winner: Hakki Rising (David Larson)
Honorable Mention: Chasin’ Butterflies (Adam Dobbs, Joshua Harding, and Matt Klug) Honorable Mention: Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles (Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk)
Official Selections Ball People (Scott Lazer) Dynasty and Destiny (Travis Lee Ratcliff) Heart of an Astronaut (Jennifer Rainsford) Kambana (Samuel Pastor) Len and His Spitfire (Noelle Duddridge) Malignasquelluki: To Live in Harmony (Colin Russell and Ilegvak) Middle America (Dana Larson) Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó (Sean Wang) Nina and Irena (Daniel Lombroso) Please Ask For It (Allison Waid) Sanctuary (John Haley and Julia Szromba) Savi the Cat (Netsanet Tjirongo and Bryan Tucker) Soundscape (Timmy O’Neill) The Vanishing Point: Tracing Shadows in Prussian Blue (Marek Ryszard Dojs) The Vanishing Strings of the Andes (Sam Watkins) Wabanaki Modern (Clem McIntosh) Will You Look at Me (Shuli Huang)
Experimental
Winner: The Site of Unsure (Zachary Howatt)
Official Selections balaena (Alessia Cecchet) Broken Mirror (Sina Maali) Not Us (James Kautz) Skin (Leo Behrens) What Humans Do (Miranda Javid) White (Keum-Taek Jung)
Invited Films
AJ Goes to the Dog Park The Greater Cumberland County Cooking Show
Official Selections Aligned (Apollo Bakopoulos) The Business of Pleasure (Goce Cvetanovski) Daughter of the Sun (Ryan Ward) The Problem of the Hero (Shaun Dozier) Smoking Tigers (So Young Shelly Yo)
Narrative Short
Winner: Closing Dynasty (Lloyd Lee Choi)
Honorable Mention: Death to the Bikini! (Justine Gauthier) Honorable Mention: The Old Young Crow (Liam LoPinto)
Official Selections 48 Hours (Azadeh Moussavi) Body of Work (Andrea Tellez and Sophie Tellez) Busybody (Barclay DeVeau) Career Day (Chris Hooper and Jason Robinson) Chairs (James Hughes) Children of Light (Minkyu Kang) Classmates (Major Dorfman) The Countryman (Andy Kastelic) The Day Of (Umar Malik) Farther (Josh Hundermark) The Fourth (Johnny Kirk) A Good Day Will Come (Amir Zargara) Hatirlama (Josh Folan) Homebody (Brian Hoesing) Ivania (Luigi Abanto) Lunchbox (Anne Hu) Misprint (Adam Volerich) Mountain Dust (Marlén Ríos-Farjat) Mystic Tiger (Marc Martínez Jordán) Nian (Michelle Krusiec) Nur and Abir (Manu Gómez) The No Problem Zone (Nicholas Sennott) The Pencil (Thomas Schultz) Rabies (Alberto Díaz) Sèt Lam (Vincent Fontano) Slippers (Mark Ryan Walberg) Trevor Hurt Someone (Sam Pinnelas)
Student
Winner: Truth (Tamara Denić)
Honorable Mention: Code Rose (Taye Cimon, Pierre Coëz, Julie Groux, Sandra Leydier, Manuarii Morel, and Romain Seisson) Honorable Mention: Esmeralda (Jennifer Greco)
Official Selections Apex Point (Jacob Møller) Blue Hour (J.D Shields) Boxing Day (Leigh Schilling) Chocolat Chaud (Evelyne Peter) Coming of Age (Zhao Wu) Cowboy Kevin (Anna Lund Konnerup) Eptá (Carter Aakhus, Abigale Larson, and Holly Stedman) The Florist (Joachim Perino Pegalajar) The Flower Darkens (Philippe Berthelet) The General’s Room (Georges Marion) The Grassland Whisper (Jiaqing Lin) Kingdom of Songs (Anlan Tao) Mum’s Spaghetti (Lisa Kenney) Pivot (Aditi Sridhar) The Road to Victory (Clotilde Zimille-Tran) Sauvage (Alma Henry, Élina Nicolle, Andréa Lebon, Pauline Orsini, and Shiuan-An Lin) The Yellow Triangle (Yoanna Leclerc)
The Fargo Film Festival proudly and exclusively accepts entries on FilmFreeway, the world’s best way to enter film festivals.
With the exception of 2-Minute Movie Contest entries, films selected for the 2024 Fargo Film Festival must be provided in approved DCP format for exhibition.
The 24th Fargo Film Festival will be held March 19-23, 2024.
Submissions for the 2025 Fargo Film Festival will open in the summer.
The Fargo Film Festival would like to extend heartfelt gratitude to the sponsors, volunteers, moviemakers, special guests, audience members, and Fargo Theatre staff who made 2023 one of the most exciting celebrations to date.
We will take a moment to catch our collective breath before opening 2024 submission season on FilmFreeway.
The Fargo Film Festival is the largest annual fundraiser for the historic Fargo Theatre and we are grateful for the generous support of our sponsors. Thank you to the individuals and organizations that helped make the 2023 Festival a smashing success!
The 2023 Fargo Film Festival Program is available now. Click the image below to open the program guide to read descriptions of each film and to plan your festival experience.
