The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce the slate of movies selected for the 2026 event. The Festival will be held March 17-21 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: The Gnawer of Rocks (Louise Flaherty)
Honorable Mention: The Night Boots (Pierre-Luc Granjon)
Official Selections
9 Million Colors (Bára Anna)
Autokar (Sylwia Szkiladz)
Denmark (Robert Petrie)
The Finger Wife (Dan Lund, Taryn Stickrath-Hutt)
The Gun (Randall Christopher)
I Died in Irpin (Anastasiia Falileieva)
The Little Ancestor (Alexa Tremblay-Francoeur)
Murmuration (Tim Frijsinger, Janneke Swinkels)
A Night at the Rest Area (Saki Muramoto)
SnowBugs (Jenny Schuermann)
Documentary Feature
Winner: The Librarians (Kim A. Snyder)
Honorable Mention: Arrest the Midwife (Elaine Epstein)
Official Selections
Ali Eats America (Greg Morris, Roush Niaghi)
Between Goodbyes (Jota Mun)
The Edge of Existence (Aaron Wheeler)
Kim Novak’s Vertigo (Alexandre O. Phillippe)
Unless Something Goes Terribly Wrong (Alex Wolf Lewis, Kaitlyn Schwalje)
Documentary Short
Winner: Planetwalker (Dominic Gill, Nadia Gill)
Honorable Mention: I Wanted to Hear Your Voice (James Pellerito)
Honorable Mention: Tiger (Loren Waters)
Official Selections
At See (Serena Dykman)
A Great Love (Aisha Schliessler)
Ha Ha Ha (Josh Harding, Matt Klug)
The Invisible Enemy (Douglas Brian Miller, Mark Shapiro)
Like Father (Jared Callahan)
Middle Grounds (Christopher Boone, Kevin Smokler)
One Day I Will Hug You (Mohammed Fares Al Majdalawi)
Salt Cured Life (Cassidy Rast, Odin Wadleigh)
Scrap Works (Maksym Putintsev)
Shanti Rides Shotgun (Charles Frank)
Tiny Movements (Laura Sweeney)
We Were the Scenery (Christopher Radcliff)
Zastava Brothers (Pep Stojanovic)
Experimental
Winner: Purgatorio (Auden Lincoln-Vogel, Stephanie Miracle, Philip Rabalais)
Honorable Mention: Deluge (Meejin Hong)
Honorable Mention: Toil and Spin (Maureen Zent)
Official Selections
City In Observation (Audrey Whiteford-Woods)
Geography of Memory (The Swing) (Mary Trunk)
God Is Delighted When We Are in Motion (Sophia Alloggiamento)
Jones Street (Silvia Turchin)
Monument (Jeremy Drummond)
Invited Films*
Grit & Grace (Derek Fletcher, Ian Harmon)
Razeh-del (Maryam Tafakory)
*Additional titles will be added to this category
Narrative Feature
Winner: Silent Rebellion (Marie-Elsa Sgualdo)
Honorable Mention: Mad Bills to Pay (Joel Alfonso Vargas)
Official Selections
Bigfoot Woods (Elizabeth Chatelain)
Brooklyn, Minnesota (Jessica Blank, Erik Jensen)
The Floaters (Rachel Israel)
The Only Way Out Is Through (Kieran Thompson)
What We Dreamed of Then (Taylor Olson)
Words of War (James Strong)
Narrative Short
Winner: No Skate! (Guil Sela)
Honorable Mention: Check Please (Shane Chung)
Honorable Mention: The Sentry (Jake Wachtel)
Official Selections
Advent (Rachel Bass)
Babka (Serena Dykman)
Blossom Needs a Ride Home (Tim Schwagel)
Brief Somebodies (Andy Reid)
Call Gloria! (Malena Filmus)
Choice (Marko Crnogorski)
Crazy for You (Greta Díaz Moreau)
Dustsceawung (Mateus Lana)
Extinguished Lives (Roberta Grossman)
Fan (Philippe Berthelet)
Gallina (Fernando Reinaldos)
The Heart of Texas (Gregory JM Kasunich)
Hide (Brenden Hubbard)
Nani (Mainak Dhar)
Poreless (Harris Doran)
Randy as Himself (Margaret Miller)
Skin on Skin (Simon Schneckenburger)
There Will Come Soft Rains (Elham Ehsas)
Two Sisters (Antonio De Palo)
Under (Nick Benjamin)
Vital (Amir Zargara)
Vox Humana (Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan)
Whale Math (D. Andrew Hartfield)
Who Are You, Nanu? (Anjini Taneja Azhar)
Winkie (Daniel Duranleau)
Northern Plains Voices
Winner: Bound for the Last Continent (Joshua Carlon)
Honorable Mention: Becoming Ruby (Quan Luong)
Honorable Mention: Pipestone Carver (Dana Conroy)
Official Selections
Chasing Tables (Justin Bergh)
Medora: Empress of the Badlands (Daniel Bielinski)
Unraveling the Ribbon (Gwen Briesemeister)
Student
Winner: Typo (Alinta Burton)
Honorable Mention: Birds of a Feather (Katie Cobos)
Honorable Mention: To Write the Ending (Shaler Keenum)
Official Selections
Bittersweet (Jared Rosenthal)
Dead End (Claire Cohen)
Generation Well (Jack Serra)
Luca and Johnny (Antonio Martin Ducrot)
Mother Pearl (Angus Webb Ware)
Negative Space (Aaron Razi)
Rainbow Girls (Nana Duffuor)