The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce the slate of movies selected for the 2023 event. The Festival will be held March 21-25 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: Black Slide (Uri Lotan)
Honorable Mention: Period Drama (Anushka Tina Nair and Lauren Anthony)
Honorable Mention: The Record (Jonathan Lasker)
Official Selections
Beware of Trains (Emma Calder)
A Bite of Bone (Homani Yano)
The Color of Life (Preston Owen)
Ed’s Last Will (Lisa Wen Dou and John Wang)
Hey Toby Hey Owen: This Is Not Sponsored by Valvoline (Owen Dennis)
How Small! (Charlene Xu)
I’m Late (Sawako Kabuki)
Luce and the Rock (Britt Raes)
Night of the Living Dread (Ida Melum)
The Queen of the Foxes (Marina Rosset)
Runelight (Matt O’Donnell)
Steakhouse (Spela Cadez)
Documentary Feature
Winner: Jesszilla (Emily Sheskin)
Honorable Mention: Big Crow (Kris Kaczor)
Official Selections
Dear Audrey (Jeremiah Hayes)
Iron Opera (Mike Scholtz and Marius Anderson)
Jack Has a Plan (Bradley Berman)
The Long Rider (Sean Cisterna)
Oyate (Brandon Jackson and Emil Benjamin)
Queen of Hearts (Chema Ramos)
Documentary Short
Winner: Stranger at the Gate (Joshua Seftel)
Honorable Mention: Eco-Hack! (Josh Izenberg and Brett Marty)
Honorable Mention: Free to Care (Chris Temple and Owen Dubeck)
Official Selections
Bring Back the Whistle Dog (Bob Simpson)
CANS Can’t Stand (Matt Nadel and Megan Plotka)
Freedom Swimmer (Olivia Martin-McGuire)
In Search of Boozers and Schmucks (Hrag Yedalian)
Kylie (Sterling Hampton IV)
Long Line of Ladies (Shaandiin Tome and Rayka Zehtabchi)
The Merry Widow (Jason Jakaitis)
The Panola Project (Rachael DeCruz and Jeremy S. Levine)
Rockin’ Baker (Ringo Jones)
You’ll Be Happier (Daniel Lombroso)
Experimental
Winner: Light Leak (Nate Dorr)
Honorable Mention: Demi-Gods (Martin Gerigk)
Honorable Mention: House of the Unholy (Daniel Merlot)
Official Selections
blk (Na Forest Lim)
Country Roads (Ryan Clancy)
Every Diaspora Poem Is About Mangos (Eden Sabolboro)
Lii Bufloo Aen Loo Kishkishiw (Dianne Ouellette)
Ouroboros (Toko Shiiki)
Tear (Krzysztof Chodorowski)
2:26 p.m. (Arnaud Feret)
13th Ave Fargo Mine Cart (Raymond Rea)
Invited Films
AJ Goes to the Dog Park: Part One (Toby Jones)
Blue Room (Merete Mueller)
Liquid Gold: From the Midwest to the Mediterranean (Derek Chirstopher Fletcher and Tracy Briggs)
My Hatton (David Kuznicki)
The Thief Collector (Allison Otto)
*Additional titles may be added to this list in the coming weeks.
Narrative Feature
Winner: Northern Shade (Christopher Rucinski)
Honorable Mention: Everybody Wants to Be Loved (Katharina Woll)
Honorable Mention: La Corriente (Jesús Lloveras)
Official Selections
All Is Vanity (Marcos Mereles)
Amerikatsi (Michael Goorjian)
Brutal Season (Gavin Fields)
Loren & Rose (Russell Brown)
Menina Casilda (Eric du Bellay)
Narrative Short
Winner: The Voice Actress (Anna J. Takayama)
Honorable Mention: A Dire Strait (Liang-Chun Lin)
Honorable Mention: Kassandra (Ivar Wigan)
Official Selections
Aaron With 2 A’s (Michael Goldburg)
Act of God (Spencer Cook and Parker Smith)
All That Glitters (Dan Bronzite)
Babel (Alejandro San Martín)
Brutal (Sam McConnell)
Can’t Stop Me (Scott Piggott)
Chaperone (Sam Max)
Cruise (Sam Rudykoff)
The Diamond (Vedran Rupic)
Eating the Silence (Joël Jent and Ali Al-Fatlawi)
Escape (Oren Brimer)
The Ever Hours (Ella Vance)
The Family We Chose (Justin Schaack and Kristin Schaack)
The Hunt (Yann Reuzeau)
I’m Lina (Juli Suàrez)
Legs (Celine Cotran)
A Mind Cannot Touch (Geoffrey Prather)
Murder Tongue (Ali Sohail Jaura)
A Night in the Cósmico (Luis De Val and Diego Herrero)
Past Life (Rose O’Shea)
A Peculiar and Unfortunate Birth (S.J. Sánchez)
Red Line (Jake Bistrong)
Rerouted (Kelsey Andries and Noah Fallis)
Rips (Major Dorfman)
SONAR (James Hughes)
Stalking the Bogeyman (Markus Potter and Jack Dorfman)
Sunshine State (Kate Enge)
Triggered (Tara Westwood)
An Umbrella in Case It Rains (Andrew Howell)
Warsha (Dania Bdeir)
Western Exit (Scott Ballard)
Wild Card (Tipper Newton)
You Forgot Your Wallet? (Brandon Blackmon)
Student
Winner: The Boy Who Couldn’t Feel Pain (Eugen Merher)
Honorable Mention: Living All of Life (Marlén Ríos-Farjat)
Honorable Mention: Wei Lai (Robin Wang)
Official Selections
Aperio (Patrick Hanser)
Black (Moritz Geraldo Scherzer)
The Concubine (Maks Michorczyk)
Dismay (Joanna Helena Szymańska)
Moles (Vanja Victor Kabir Tognola)
Negatives (Thomas Broadbent)
Sparrow Song (Christina Yoon)