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 (Special Preview Screening)
The Greater Cumberland County Cooking Show
Immaculate
Narrative Feature
Winner: Scrap (Vivian Kerr)
Honorable Mention: Coyote (Katherine Jerkovic)
Honorable Mention: My Motherland (Benoit Cohen)
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)