The annual Fargo Film Festival 2-Minute Movie Contest takes place on Friday, March 18 at 9:30 p.m. at the Fargo Theatre. Tickets are $2.
Congratulations to all the moviemakers whose entertaining and creative work was selected. From coast to coast and around the world, big visions come in small packages. First, second, and third place winners are announced as part of the screening.
21 (Damian Gonzalez and Jeremy Weinstein) Again and Again (Lutz Kayser) Annie (Luis Alberto Martín) Chronos (Emmanuel Dubois) Creatures of Habit (Josh Drake) Driver’s Test (Alessandro Sassi) Enter the Dragon (Eugene Yuxuan Wong) Eureka! (David Creighton) Follow (Yoh Komaya) Food Apnea (Alex Nabors) Fruit Salad (Emma Balstad and Mary Balstad) Going Back Home (Daniele Gangemi) Going to Beyond (Kalli Paakspuu) How Much? (Arthur Fanget) How to Wash Your Dishes (Chloe Elie) In Plane English (Brian Plonka) Isolation (Sasha Ihnatovich) Kick Rocks (Ryan Tynan) Kui Tume (Kalli Paakspuu) Light on a Wall 2 (Andrew Payne) Liquids (Giulia Sbaffi & Valentina Savi) A Little Noir Music (Deb Ethier) Losing Sight (Betsy Stern) The One (JD May) Penn-ar-Bed (Emma Ramsay-Tanniou) The Phoenix in the Graveyard (Zeke Hanson) Plant Man (John Akre) The Pointe (Rachel Evans) Queen Bee of the Middle School (Jeryl Parade) Rebirth (Deniz Akyurek) The Right Wing (Donal O’Dea) Ruhwunsch (Jim Hall) Sweet Waiting in Lockdown (Massimiliano Nocco) Three Days (Luis Alberto Martín Bravo) Traditions (Goldie Krauss) Tutopique #Spleen (Maurice Huvelin) Witchcraft Unlike Any Other (Aaron Crume)
The Fargo Film Festival is committed to providing a safe and healthy movie-going experience for audiences, guests, and our team members. During the 2022 Festival, Fargo Theatre staff and FFF team members will be masked. Audiences and guests are encouraged to wear masks. – March 1, 2022 Statement
Please note: The COVID-19 safety protocols and measures for the 2022 Fargo Film Festival are subject to change.
The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce the F-M premiere of the wickedly funny, fully improvised feature The Bobcat Boys. The film screens at 3:00pm on Saturday, March 19 at the Fargo Theatre. Special guests Mac Alsfeld (director/co-star) and Andrew Megison (co-star) will appear live on stage for a Q&A immediately following the film! Tickets are on sale now.
About The Bobcat Boys: With only seven days to live, Bobby’s best friend Max drives him across the country so that he can die in his childhood home. For one last shot at cinematic glory, the two failed actors decide to film a documentary about his last days along the way. Visit the film’s website to learn more: www.bobcatboys.com/
About the filmmaker: Mac Alsfeld is a Los Angeles-based comedy writer, actor, and director. For the past five years, Mac has worked as Melissa McCarthy’s on-set comedy punch-up writer, providing the director and actors additional jokes to use in lieu of the scripted dialogue. His most recent work with Melissa includes Thunder Force and Superintelligence. He has also written for Will Ferrell and Gary Sanchez Productions.
The Fargo Film Festival is excited to announce the 2022 screening schedule for March 15 -19. Please note, times and locations are subject to change.
Tuesday Afternoon, March 15, Theatre 1 1:30pm Dọlápọ̀ Is Fine 1:45pm The Beauty President 1:55pm In the Shadow of the Pines 2:05pm Oldboy’s Apples 2:10pm Our Bed Is Green 2:20pm Sales Per Hour 2:30pm The Criminals 2:55pm Break 3:05pm The Syed Family Xmas Eve Game Night 3:20pm Marlon Brando 3:40pm The Kicksled Choir 4:00pm Break Any Spell 4:15pm GraceLand 4:30pm Paper Geese
Tuesday Afternoon, March 15, Theatre 2 1:30pm Charlotte 1:45pm Sea Dragon 2:00pm New Horizons (Andries) 2:20pm The Right Words 2:35pm Making Beethoven Proud 2:45pm Underdogs 3:00pm Break 3:10pm Supper Club 3:25pm Vinyl Nation
Tuesday Evening, March 15, Theatre 1 7:00pm Presentation of the Margie Bailly Volunteer Spirit Award to Lisa Faiman 7:10pm Krimes
Wednesday Morning, March 16, Theatre 1 10:00am FreeBird 10:05am The Sands of Time 10:20am Dreamover
Wednesday Morning, March 16, Theatre 2 10:00am Hello Sunshine 10:15am New Horizons (Andries) 10:45am Souvenir Souvenir 11:00am High Maintenance
Wednesday Afternoon, March 16, Theatre 1 1:30pm Muscle Memory 3:10pm Break 3:20pm Marlon Brando 3:30pm Numb 3:40pm Kendra and Beth
Wednesday Afternoon, March 16, Theatre 2 1:30pm Anchorage 2:50pm Break 3:00pm Feast 3:15pm Flux 3:30pm What’s Mine Is Yours 3:40pm Revolykus 3:55pm Summer Light for Tula 4:10pm Studies at Huningue / Basel or the Tree to Sleep 4:20pm Hold Me Tight 4:30pm Discovering of Fire
Wednesday Evening, March 16, Theatre 1 7:00pm Fly 7:20pm Fourth of July 7:50pm The Call 8:05pm Shark 8:20pm Please Hold 8:40pm The Letter Room
Thursday Morning, March 17, Theatre 1 10:00am Little Bird 10:15am The Right Words 10:30am The Grand Bolero
Thursday Morning, March 17, Theatre 2 10:00am Junior 10:10am 6,000 Waiting 10:40am Drawing on Autism 10:50am A Different Kind of Different 11:00am Trusted Messenger
Thursday Afternoon, March 17, Theatre 1 1:30pm Hair-Trigger 3:10pm Break 3:20pm The Intervention 3:40pm Sadie Breaks the Silents 4:05pm Final Chapter 4:25pm Kinesthesia: A Walk Through the Fargo-Moorhead Music Scene
Thursday Afternoon, March 17, Theatre 2 1:30pm GraceLand 1:45pm Cherry Cola 2:00pm Pops 2:20pm The Kicksled Choir 2:40pm The Letter Room 3:10pm Break 3:20pm The Painting 3:25pm Inheritance 3:40pm Hazel 4:00pm There’s Something in the Silence 4:10pm Human Trash 4:25pm Marked 4:40pm Final Masterpiece
Thursday Evening, March 17, Theatre 1 7:00pm Snowy 7:15pm New Horizons (Scholtz) 7:45pm ¿Que Haces Aqui? A Documentary About Karen 8:25pm When We Were Bullies
Friday Morning, March 18, Theatre 1 10:00am The Train Station 10:05am Forever 10:10am In the Shadow of the Pines 10:20am Documenting Death 10:30am North by Current
Friday Morning, March 18, Theatre 2 10:00am Aurora 10:05am Polka-Dot Boy 10:15am Little Forest 10:25am Stereotype 10:35am Wayback 10:45am Eatnameamet: Our Silent Struggle
Friday Afternoon, March 18, Theatre 1 1:30pm A Decent Home 3:00pm Break 3:15pm Everything in the End
Friday Afternoon, March 18, Theatre 2 1:30pm A Different Kind of Different 1:45pm Ace of Clubs 1:55pm Annah la Javanaise 2:00pm Seahorse 2:15pm A Little House in Aberdeen 2:25pm Georgia 2:55pm Break 3:05pm The Secret History of Donnelly 3:30pm Smelly Little Town 3:55pm All I Can Do 4:20pm Black Gold 4:40pm Put the Brights On
Friday Evening, March 18, Theatre 1 7:00pm We Burn Like This 9:30pm 2-Minute Movie Contest
Saturday Morning, March 19, Theatre 1 10:00am Dọlápọ̀ Is Fine 10:15am Silent Night 10:25am Myrtle 10:40am Gabriela 10:50am Our Bed Is Green 11:00am Leylak 11:15am An Occurrence at Arverne 11:25am Sales Per Hour 11:35am The Criminals
Saturday Morning, March 19, Theatre 2 10:00am The Mohel 10:15am Synthetic Love 10:40am Kendra and Beth
Saturday Afternoon, March 19, Theatre 1 1:30pm North Star 2:15pm The Dress 2:45pm Break 3:00pm The Bobcat Boys
Saturday Afternoon, March 19, Theatre 2 1:30pm Vinyl Nation 3:05pm Break 3:15pm Homebird 3:25pm These Voyages Unknown 3:50pm Annah la Javanaise 3:55pm Frankie 4:05pm Nsenene 4:15pm The Length of Day 4:30pm Ace of Clubs 4:40pm Winter of ‘79
Saturday Evening, March 19, Theatre 1 7:00pm 2-Minute Movie Contest Winner 7:05pm Like the Ones I Used to Know 7:20pm Glob Lessons
The screening schedule for the 2022 Fargo Film Festival will be announced on Tuesday, February 22nd! Additionally, tickets and passes will go on sale at noon on February 22nd.
The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce that “Glob Lessons” will screen as a part of the closing night Best in Fest showcase at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 19 at the Fargo Theatre. Writer/director/star Nicole Rodenburg and writer/star Colin Froeber will both appear live on stage for a Q&A immediately following the film. Tickets are $12 and go on sale at 12:00 p.m. on February 22.
Fargo natives Rodenburg and Froeber wrote and star in the film which was shot locally and throughout the region. The acclaimed comedy/drama had its world premiere screening at the internationally renowned Tribeca Film Festival in 2021. “Glob Lessons” received the Prairie Spirit Award at the 2022 Fargo Film Festival, one of the festival’s top honors. The film was also awarded Honorable Mention by the Narrative Feature Jury.
About Glob Lessons: While performing two-person low-budget children’s theatre out of a minivan across the frozen Midwest, two aimless thirtysomething strangers struggle to overcome their fears of inadequacy and intimacy in order to survive that lonely tundra called life. Visit the film’s website: www.globlessonsmovie.com
About the filmmaker: Originally hailing from Fargo, North Dakota, Nicole Rodenburg is an actor, writer and director based in New York City. She’s known for her work developing new plays with our most groundbreaking and lauded contemporary playwrights, starring in Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Flick,” Samuel D. Hunter’s “The Whale,” and most recently, Ming Peiffer’s hit play “Usual Girls” at the Roundabout Theatre Company. Her screen credits include the starring role in “What Children Do” alongside John Early and Josh Ruben, Lifetime’s “Amish Witches,” and “Inside Amy Schumer.” “Glob Lessons,” written with her longtime collaborator Colin Froeber, is her directorial debut. Rodenburg says, “It has been our lifelong dream to have a feature film at the Fargo Film Festival. We’re so excited that this dream has become a reality, and that we’re getting the opportunity to share Glob Lessons, a love letter to our home state, with the community that did so much to make the film possible.”
The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce the F-M premiere of the award-winning feature “We Burn Like This,” with special guest Alana Waksman, on Friday, March 18th at 7 p.m. at the Fargo Theatre. Writer/director Waksman will appear live on stage for a Q&A immediately following the film. Tickets are $12 and go on sale at 12:00 p.m. on February 22.
“We Burn Like This” was filmed on location in Montana. In 2021 it premiered at the prestigious Santa Barbara International Film Festival and has since been touring the global festival circuit. “We Burn Like This” was named Best Narrative Feature of the 2022 Fargo Film Festival.
About We Burn Like This: When 22 year-old Rae, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, is targeted by Neo-Nazis in Billings, Montana, her ancestors’ trauma becomes real. As antisemitism continues to rise in the community, we follow Rae on her journey to forgive herself, her mother, and the broken world.
Inspired by true events, this coming-of-age story shows the inherited effects of historical trauma and the strength of survival and healing. Visit the film’s website: https://www.weburnlikethis.com/
(Photo by Olivier VIGERIE / Contour by Getty Images)
About the filmmaker: Alana Waksman is an Ashkenazi writer, director, producer, and first generation descendant of Holocaust survivors from Poland. She is an alum of the USC School of Cinematic Arts MFA in Film & Television Production. As an actor, she trained at Shakespeare & Company, Berkshire Theater Festival, St. Petersburg Dramatic Arts Academy in Russia, and The O’Neill National Theater Institute where she studied under Colman Domingo.
While at USC, Alana was chosen as one of ten top directors to co-direct USC’s first feature film, DON QUIXOTE: THE INGENIOUS GENTLEMAN OF LA MANCHA (Palm Springs International Film Festival) with the guidance of James Franco. Her short film BLACKOUT, written by David Haskell, received the Audience Award at the LA Shorts Fest, and Best Actor and Best Cinematography at the Women’s Independent Film Festival.
WE BURN LIKE THIS, Alana’s debut feature, stars Madeleine Coghlan (THE ROOKIE) and Devery Jacobs (RESERVATION DOGS) and is executive produced by Emmy and Peabody award-winning producer Neda Armian (RACHEL GETTING MARRIED). The film premiered at Santa Barbara International Film Festival in April 2021, internationally at Deauville American Film Festival in competition in September, and is currently in the festival circuit. Alana is in development for her second narrative feature, and a personal documentary about her father’s relationship to Jewish identity, also executive produced by Neda Armian. Learn more about Alana on her website: www.alanawaksman.com
