The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce the slate of movies selected for the 2025 event. The Festival will be held March 18-22 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: Dragfox (Lisa Ott)
Honorable Mention: The Brown Dog (Nadia Hallgren and Jamie-James Medina)
Honorable Mention: The Death of James (Sam Chou)
Official Selections
Ana Morphose (João Rodrigues)
Au Revoir Mon Monde (Estelle Bonnardel, Quentin Devred, Baptiste Duchamps, Maxime Foltzer, Florian Maurice, and Astrid Novais)
Avenir (Katarina Fink)
Circle (Yumi Joung)
Loop Line (Renuka Shahane)
Marvelous Gift (German Acuña and Danna Galeano)
The Smallest Power (Andy Sarjahani)
Tiny (Ryan Haché and Ritchie Hemphill)
Documentary Feature
Winner: Film Is Dead, Long Live Film! (Peter Flynn)
Honorable Mention: Call Me Mule (John McDonald)
Honorable Mention: For the Living (Marc Bennett and Tim Roper)
Official Selections
Bring Them Home (Daniel Glick, Ivan MacDonald, and Ivy MacDonald)
Champions of the Golden Valley (Ben Sturgulewski)
The Day Iceland Stood Still (Pamela J Hogan)
Dog War (Andrew Abrahams)
Rooted (Bridget Besaw and Par Parekh)
Documentary Short
Winner: A Swim Lesson (Rashida Jones and Will McCormack)
Honorable Mention: The ABCs of Book Banning (Trish Adlesic, Nazenet Habtezghi, and Sheila Nevins)
Honorable Mention: I Am Ready, Warden (Smriti Mundhra)
Official Selections
Been There (Corina Schwingruber Ilić)
Beer Saves the World! (Kelly G Sallaway)
Big Moves (Sarah Grant)
Carl Ben Eielson: Over the Top of the World (David Kuznicki)
Dwight in Denmark (Cristopher Anderson)
Hold the Line (Daniel Lombroso)
Kowloon! (Erin Ramirez and Mona Xia)
Livestreams with GrandmaPuzzles (Emily Sheskin)
NITA: Hotbed in Deadwood (Justin Koehler)
Rectangles (Joshua Carlon)
Seat 31: Zooey Zephyr (Kimberly Reed)
She Marches in Chinatown (Della Chen)
Stud Country (Lina Abascal and Alexandra Kern)
Te Pito o Te Henua (Nils Cowan and Martin Kingman)
Then Comes the Body (Jacob Krupnick)
We Ride For Her (Prairie Rose Seminole and Katrina Sorrentino)
Weree (Tal Amiran)
Experimental
Winner: I Would’ve Been Happy (Jordan Wong)
Honorable Mention: Mast-Del (Maryam Tafakory)
Honorable Mention: Matta and Matto (Bianca Caderas and Kerstin Zemp)
Official Selections
14 Poems (Maxine Swann)
Born Days – How to Disappear (Louis Morton)
Despite (Kate Raney)
Rain (Vasilios Papaioannu)
Torii (Martin Gerigk)
Narrative Feature
Winner: Sideways For Attention (Brady Bryson)
Honorable Mention: Lie of the Land (John Carlin)
Official Selections
Battersea (T.J. Sandella)
The Ladder (Emilio Miguel Torres)
The Long Run (Mylissa Fitzsimmons)
Strange Creatures (Henry Boffin)
The Strange Dark (Chris Messineo)
Taste the Revolution (Daniel Klein)
Narrative Short
Winner: As Easy As Closing Your Eyes (Parker Croft)
Honorable Mention: Hearts of Stone (Tom Van Avermaet)
Honorable Mention: Room Taken (TJ O’Grady-Peyton)
Official Selections
528 (Mack Hastings and Shane Sleger)
All the Words on the Page (Hunter Gause)
Amarela (André Hayato Saito)
And Now I Lay Me Down (Rani DeMuth)
Artist Uncredited (Sven Fuhrken and Chris Hirschhaeuser)
Away with the Fairies (René Brar)
The Bingo Sisters (Andrew Przybytkowski)
Bloody Fury (Jordan Inconstant)
Camping in Paradise (Eirik Tveiten)
Fortune (Matthew Perkins)
Get You Better (Danica Jensen)
Good Boy (Colin Russell)
Have You Heard the One About the Couple In the Tent? (Joe Greening)
Heaven and Nature (Steven Fierberg)
The High & Lonesome Ladies (Megan Chumbley)
I Don’t Care If the World Collapses (Karim Shaaban Morsy)
Kind Mother (Clare O’Connor)
Knead (Timothy Michael Cooper)
Masterpiece Mommy (Dorothy Sing Zhang)
Nap (Javier Chavanel)
Neither Donkey Nor Horse (Robin Wang)
No Light / No Darkness (Margos Margossian)
Óbito (Fernando Amador)
On a Sunday at Eleven (Alicia K. Harris)
The Professional Parent (Erik Jasaň)
Punter (Jason Adam Maselle)
Revenge of the Language Master 1757B (Michael Beeson)
Sauna Day (Anna Hints and Tushar Prakash)
Strangers on the A Train (Rachel Kerry)
Sunflower Girl (Holly M. Kaplan)
The Therapy Room (Justin Schaack and Kristin Schaack)
The Ugly Chickens (Mark Raso)
Voyager (Pablo Pagán)
Wabi-Sabi (Josephine Green Zhang)
Student
Winner: Where We Once Roamed (Madee Sabatier and Ruthie Weeks)
Honorable Mention: Deer Divide (Nate Marquardt and Chloe Prahl)
Honorable Mention: Slobopoly (Yinghui Li)
Official Selections
Alpha 27 (Nick Azzaro)
Ash Wednesday (Grace O’Brien)
A Better Place (Shih-Chun Hsiao)
Brooklyn (Timur Guseynov)
The Color of Fire (Seungee Chang)
Dress to Impress (Marsalis Lam)
Hasta la Raíz (Nuria Schettino González)
The Tale of Mari (Anya Vaughn)