Animation
Winner: Mind My Mind (Floor Adams)

Honorable Mention: Girl in the Hallway (Valerie Barnhart)

Honorable Mention: The Kite (Martin Smatana)

Official Selections
Big Wolf and Little Wolf (Remi Durin)
The Bird and the Whale (Carol Freeman)
Coaster (Amos Sussigan)
Daughter (Daria Kashcheeva)
Don’t Feed These Animals (Guilherme Afonso and Miguel Madaíl de Freitas)
Flower Found! (Jorn Leeuwerink)
Flowing Through Wonder (Joanna Lurie)
The Fox and the Bird (Fred Guillaume and Sam Guillaume)
Hors Piste (Léo Brunel, Loris Cavalier, Camille Jalabert, and Oscar Malet)
The Lonely Orbit (Benjamin Morard and Frederic Siegel)
Racing the Sunset (Nikolas Smith)
Sister (Siqi Song)
Symbiosis (Nadja Andrasev)
Two (Emre Okten)
Wild Love (Paul Autric, Quentin Camus, Léa Georges, Maryka Laudet, Zoé Sottiaux, Corentin Yvergniaux)

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Documentary Feature
Prairie Spirit Award Winner and Honorable Mention: Balkowitsch (Chelsy Ciaverella and Gregory DeSaye)

Official Selections
Changing the Game (Michael Barnett)
Decoding the Driftless (Jonas Stenstrom)
False Confessions (Katrine Philp)
Prey (Matt Gallagher)
The Pollinators (Peter Nelson)
Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street (Roman Chimienti and Tyler Jensen)

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Documentary Short
Winner: R.A.W. Tuba (Darren Durlach and David Larson)

Honorable Mention: 25 Texans in the Land of Lincoln (Ellen Brodsky)

Official Selections
Everything You Wanted to Know About Sudden Birth (But Were Afraid to Ask) [Scott Calonico]
The Iron Grandmother (Emily Sheskin)
The Litas (William Desena)
The Traffic Separating Device (Johan Palmgren)
Undue Burdens (Andrea Raby)

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Experimental
Winner: Blooming (Lingyun Zheng)

Honorable Mention: Chairs (Avner Pinchover)

Official Selections
Patron (Emily Haigh and Alon Young)
Spring II (Ed Carter)

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Narrative Feature
Winner: Hearts and Bones (Ben Lawrence)

Honorable Mention: International Falls (Amber McGinnis)

Honorable Mention: The Planters (Alexandra Kotcheff and Hannah Leder)

Official Selections
Alice (Josephine Mackerras)
Book Week (Heath Davis)
The Garden Left Behind (Flavio Alves)
Lost Bayou (Brian C. Miller Richard)
Red Rover (Shane Belcourt)
Saint Frances (Alex Thompson)
The Wretched (Brett Pierce and Drew Pierce)

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Narrative Short
Winner: The Neighbors’ Window (Marshall Curry)

Honorable Mention: Brotherhood (Meryam Joobeur)

Official Selections
Anna Karenina (Yana Sar)
Aziza (Soudade Kaadan)
Butterfly (Bonnie Foster)
Change (Alec Holland)
The Christmas Gift (Bogdan Muresanu)
Dead Animals (David Oesch and Remo Rickenbacher)
Distinguished Feelings (Keren Marciano)
Extra Innings (John Gray)
The Field (Sandhya Suri)
Floating (Frankie De Leonardis)
Green (Suzanne Andrews Correa)
The Inuring (James Hughes)
Kanari (Erlendur Sveinsson)
King Wah (I Think I Love You) [Horatio Baltz]
Let Mercy Come (Andrew Serban)
Made Public (Foster Wilson)
The Minors (Robert Machoian)
Norm (Amanda Kaye)
Peggy (Justin O’Neal Miller)
Sometimes, I Think About Dying (Stefanie Abel Horowitz)
Unkept (Michael P. Vidler)
Unleashed (Jonathan Levy)

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Student
Winner: Progeny (Justin Daering)

Honorable Mention: Florence (Emanuele Daga)

Official Selections
Bird of Paradise (Alexander Zorn)
Blueberry (Martina Lee)
Fraser Syndrome and Me (Kyle Anne Grendys)
Ghazaal (Ragini Bhasin)
In My Eyes (Vincent Dorazio)
Jack and Anna (Ksenia Ivanova)
Moonwalk with Me (So Young Shelly Yo)
Reverb (Arsal Asal)
A Sidewalk Becomes a Street (Chris Lee)
Tuesday (Margo E. Sawaya)

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to share the program art for our 20th anniversary season. Fargo-based Punchgut, whose design for the 2009 festival continues to be one of the most popular in FFF history, returns with another wonderful image.

Submissions are now open for the 20th Fargo Film Festival, which will be held March 17-21, 2020.

Take advantage of the earlybird discount until August 1, 2019.

The Fargo Film Festival proudly accepts entries exclusively through FilmFreeway, the world’s best way to enter film festivals.

Congratulations to filmmaker Tim Pattinson, whose animated short Domestic Cat won first place in the Fargo Film Festival’s 2019 2-Minute Movie Contest.

Second place went to Caibai Cai’s Pining, and Ari Fararooy’s A Video received third place.

Forty-five movies representing multiple countries and states screened in the showcase, one of the longest-running events of its kind.

The 2-Minute Movie Contest will return for the festival’s twentieth anniversary in 2020.

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce the line-up of selections for the annual 2-Minute Movie Contest. Forty-five movies from around the world, representing student, amateur, and professional filmmakers, will be screened at the Fargo Theatre on Friday, March 22, 2019.

Animation, live action, nonfiction, and experimental approaches are just some of the creative and inspiring techniques explored by emerging talent and veteran storytellers.

The winning movie will also be screened during the closing evening showcase on Saturday, March 23. For those unable to attend the screening, the top three films will be announced on this website that same Saturday morning.

The 2019 2-Minute Movie Contest starts at 9:00 p.m. and admission is two dollars. Those attending the previous session, An Evening with Richard Edlund, do not require a separate ticket or additional admission charge.

1980Yen’s Takoyaki Story (Sawako Kabuki)
Absence (Alex Goddard)
Alma (Valere Amirault and Lili des Bellons)
Baby Baby (Aggelos Papantoniou)
The Balking Dead (John Maslowski)
Bear’s Leafy Day (Scott Sailer)
Blip (John Akre)
Bon Apetit (Saman Haghighivand)
Bored of America (Nick Biewer and Joe Greening)
Brain Wave (Jake Fried)
Bringing Schools to Where There Are None (Gianmarco D’Agostino)
The Buggyman (Karolina Kraus)
Domestic Cat (Tim Pattinson)
Enough (Anna Mantzaris)
The Girl Who Spoke (Michael Ottone)
Gossip Ghouls (Desmond Confoy)
Gruesome Filmmaking Accidents (Aaron Crume)
Hacked (Summer Ward)
HNY 2019 (Vladimir Tomin)
Hotline (Kyle Odefey)
I Hate Mowing the Lawn (Jason Schumacher)
If You Can (Hanna Rybak)
Invisible Heel (Ryan Simantel)
Janus (Chris Cook and Madeline Malone)
La Cathedrale (Benjamin Bardou)
Light (Reza Golchin)
A Man Sits on a Chair in a Field and Drinks a Cup of Tea (Paul Bailey)
Michael! (Kevin Ackley)
Mirror Mirror (Jackie Siminerio)
No Shit Show (Nathalie Cusson, Joshua Cox, Solomon Burbridge)
Penny (Emily McNeill)
Perfume King (Ava Papunen)
Pining (Caibei Cai)
Plushophilia (Mauricio Marces)
Profound Deafness: Overcoming the Challenge (Dorothy Fadiman)
Stalked (Emma Jayne Farkas)
Tying the Knot (Kera McGovern)
Ultager Hirde (Kacper Slonina)
A Video (Ari Fararooy)
Wacipi (John Gigrich)
Wanderlust (Emily McNeill)
What They Can’t Say (Alexandra Weitzman)
You Are Enough (Summer Ward)
Yowza-chan Falls in Love with a Cat (Zheng Kang)
Zipperman (Edward Linder)

You can also view the PDF of the complete FFF19 glossy program schedule by clicking here.

View the Fargo Film Festival schedule & directory.

Do you want to see the best of what the Fargo Film Festival has to offer? Enter the Best of the Fest Sweepstakes! One lucky winner will receive two passes valid for all movie screenings on Saturday, March 23. 

Nicknamed the “Best of the Fest” day, programming includes award-winning films and exciting special guests. You’ll see Academy Award nominated movies, selections from the Sundance and Cannes film festivals, and FFF winners across all categories/genres. Plus, you and a guest will be invited to go to the exclusive closing night wrap party.

To enter, simply post a picture from any movie you consider one of the best over the next week. Make sure to tag the Fargo Film Festival and use #fffbestofthefest in the post. The winner will be announced on Monday, March 18^t. Enter today and win your exclusive pass to some amazing films.

Official Sweepstakes Rules

Eligibility: Best of the Fest (the “Sweepstakes”) is open to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia.

How to Enter
The Sweepstakes begins on March 12, 2019 and ends on March 18, 2019 (the “Sweepstakes Period”). Entries that are submitted before or after the Sweepstakes Period will be disqualified. To enter, participants will post a picture of one of their favorite movies on their social media platforms. For the post to be eligible, they must tag the Fargo Film Festival and use the hashtag #fffbestofthefest. Participants only need to post on one platform, which can be their personal Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter. The Fargo Film Festival social media accounts, one of which the participants must tag in the post include:
Facebook: @FargoFilmFest
Instagram: @fargofilmfest
Twitter: @FargoFilmFest

Prize Drawing
On March 18, 2019, the Sponsor will select the potential winner in a random drawing from among all eligible entries received. The odds of being selected depend on the number of entries received. The Sponsor will attempt to notify the potential winner via social media on or about March 18, 2019. If the potential winner cannot be contacted within 24 hours after the date of the first attempt to contact him/her, the Sponsor may select an alternate potential winner in his/her place at random from the remaining non-winning, eligible entries.

Prizes
* 2 tickets to the morning, afternoon, and evening sessions on Saturday, March 23.
* 2 invitations to the closing night wrap party at the Radisson
* 1 Fargo Film Festival T-shirt

The Fargo Film Festival is excited to share the complete glossy program schedule guide for 2019.

You can see a PDF of the glossy program by clicking here.

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce the regional premiere of “To the Stars,” the latest feature from Northern Lights Films and producers Jeff Schlossman, Karen Schlossman, Bill Wallwork, and Erik Rommesmo.

Directed by Martha Stephens, “To the Stars” premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival in the festival’s challenging feature film competition. Out of more than 14,250 submissions, just 112 films made the cut.

The film stars Kara Hayward, Liana Liberato, Shea Whigham, Tony Hale, and Malin Akerman.

“To the Stars” will screen at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, March 23 at the Fargo Theatre.

Tickets are now on sale at the Fargo Theatre box office.