The 2-Minute Movie Contest screens at 9:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 21 as part of the 2024 Fargo Film Festival. Shown back-to-back in a whirlwind collection, more than 45 very short movies from all over the world, made by beginners and professionals alike, offer viewers an entertaining look at the hard work of artists who create for the sheer joy of it.

Ticket-holders for the Evening Showcase that begins at 7 p.m. are welcome to stay. Those arriving for the 2-Minute Movie Contest may purchase tickets at the door. Admission is two dollars.

Congratulations to all the moviemakers from near and far whose work was selected:

((O)) (Joanna Zybul)
8th St. Candy (Nora Becker)
9 (Claire Cooperman)
Alice in Uncomfort Zone (Nikolina Santovac)
Aliens o’ the Plains (Zach Miller)
All Nighter (Bridget Ruin)
Arrow Arrow (John Akre)
As If! (Liza Madore)
Balloons (Nigel Gould-Davies)
Bottle (Damian Gonzalez and Jeremy Weinstein)
A Day in the Life (Sophia Winters)
Dorfenstein’s Monster (Michael Dorfman)
Dropped (Nathaniel Henry)
The Duel (Molly Arcara)
Flights (Anne Gart)
Frozen Bliss (Rasmus Lindkvist)
The Gift (Gemma Rigg)
The Great Green Room (Molly Arcara)
Home Run Hazel (Aaron Crume)
Inner Child (Ryan Tynan)
Jellyhead Goes on a Walk (Scott Coello)
Lost in Focus (Tyler Haehn)
Lucky in the Sky (Lutz Kayser)
Mars (Yann les Jours)
Mirror Image (Max Halmueller)
My Way (Rasa Stanisic)
The Norga (Kelly Meehan)
The Other Half (Chloe Nguyen)
Pink Noise (Ulysse Lefort, Martin Wiklund and Arthur Lemaître)
Please, Excuse Me (Ryan Crawford)
The Process (Roberto Ercolalo)
Revelation Revelation (Allison Beda)
Rock of Ages (Ian Johnston)
Secrets of Success (Toby Jones)
Shadowplay (Cayla Carlson)
Shelf-Life (Liza Madore)
The Shortest Relationship in the World (Xiaoxuan Han)
Skinny Dip (Donal O’Dea)
Stick No Bills (Ebba Jahn)
A Story From Shaba’s Family Hairstyling (J. Onsuwan Johnson)
Strange Town Tonight (Dustin Morrow)
Transform(Her) (Bianca Malcolm)
Walk Through Time (Jason Kuntz)
Welcome Home! (Ezequiel Casamada)
What It Takes (Kelsi Phung)
What’s for Dinner? (Sidney Thompson)
Worn (Lilly Fischer)

Producer Will Greenfield will be welcomed as a guest of honor at the 2024 Fargo Film Festival! Greenfield’s latest film Immaculate, starring Sydney Sweeney, will screen at 7:00pm on Friday, March 22. Immediately following, Greenfield will appear live onstage for a conversation about the film and the journey of his career. To celebrate his artistic achievements, Greenfield will receive the Fargo Film Festival’s most distinguished honor, the Ted M. Larson Award.

Originally hailing from Kentucky, Greenfield’s career in the film industry has taken him all over the world. He steadily climbed the ranks from production assistant to production manager to producer/executive producer. Greenfield has worked with some of the industry’s top talent, including Quentin Tarantino, Jeff Nichols, Yorgos Lanthimos, Sam Levinson, Lena Dunham, Jon Favreau, Spike Lee, and Frank Darabont. Greenfield served as executive producer for season two of HBO’s smash hit series Euphoria, which garnered 16 Emmy nominations. He is currently working as executive producer on director Ryan Coogler’s newest film.

About IMMACULATE:
Cecilia, an American nun of devout faith, is warmly welcomed to the picture-perfect Italian countryside where she is offered a new role at an illustrious convent. But it soon becomes clear to Cecilia that her new home harbors a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.

The Fargo Film Festival is excited to share the screening schedule for March 19 -23 at the Fargo Theatre. Please note, times and locations are subject to change.

Tuesday Afternoon, March 19, Theatre 1
1:30pm Code Rose
1:35pm Ball People
1:50pm Shackle
2:00pm Career Day
2:10pm Mystic Tiger
2:25pm The Old Young Crow
2:35pm Nina and Irena
2:55pm Break
3:05pm The Grassland Whisper
3:20pm The General’s Room
3:30pm 48 Hours
3:50pm Coyote

Tuesday Afternoon, March 19, Theatre 2
1:30pm Dusty and Stones
2:55pm Break
3:05pm The Road to Victory
3:10pm Malignasquelluki: To Live in Harmony
3:25pm Soundscape
3:40pm Sanctuary
3:55pm Camp RicStar

Tuesday Evening, March 19, Theatre 1
7:00pm Presentation of the Margie Bailly Volunteer Spirit Award to Kendra O’Brien
7:15pm Show Her the Money

Wednesday Morning, March 20, Theatre 1
10:00am Chocolat Chaud
10:05am Hakki Rising
10:35am The Vanishing Strings of the Andes
10:50am What Happened to Jackson Avenue?

Wednesday Morning, March 20, Theatre 2
10:00am Hatirlama
10:10am Boxing Day
10:25am Farther
10:40am Aligned

Wednesday Afternoon, March 20, Theatre 1
1:30pm Nathan-ism
2:50pm Break
3:00pm The No Problem Zone
3:35pm A Good Day Will Come
4:05pm Mountain Dust
4:25pm Children of Light
4:45pm Sèt Lam
5:05pm Hatirlama

Wednesday Afternoon, March 20, Theatre 2
1:30pm Broken Mirror
1:45pm White
1:50pm What Humans Do
1:55pm Skin
2:00pm balaena
2:10pm Not Us
2:20pm Aube
2:25pm Electra
2:55pm Break
3:05pm Body of Work
3:20pm Coming of Age
3:40pm The Business of Pleasure

Wednesday Evening, March 20, Theatre 1
7:00pm Scrap

Thursday Morning, March 21, Theatre 1
10:00am Cowboy Kevin
10:10am Apex Point
10:15am Truth
10:45am Will You Look at Me
11:05am Slippers
11:15am Trevor Hurt Someone
11:30am The Fourth
11:40am Chairs

Thursday Morning, March 21, Theatre 2
10:00am Dynasty & Destiny
10:10am Please Ask For It
10:30am The Problem of the Hero

Thursday Afternoon, March 21, Theatre 1
1:30pm Eptá
2:00pm Misprint
2:20pm Busybody
2:50pm Homebody
3:05pm Break
3:15pm The Greater Cumberland County Cooking Show
3:55pm Nina and Irena
4:15pm Liturgy of Anti-Tank Obstacles
4:30pm Lunchbox
4:45pm Sanctuary

Thursday Afternoon, March 21, Theatre 2
1:30pm With Peter Bradley
3:00pm Break
3:10pm Chairs
3:30pm Nur and Abir
3:45pm Armat
3:55pm Coyote

Thursday Evening, March 21, Theatre 1
7:00pm Mum’s Spaghetti
7:10pm Savi the Cat
7:30pm The Site of Unsure
7:45pm Classmates
8:05pm Letter to a Pig
8:20pm Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó
9:15pm 2-Minute Movie Contest

Friday Morning, March 22, Theatre 1
10:00am Sauvage
10:05am The Yellow Triangle
10:10am Armat
10:25am Witchfairy
10:40am Finding Home
10:45am Oneluv
10:55am Money and Happiness
11:05am 27
11:15am The General’s Room
11:25am Apex Point
11:30am Electra

Friday Morning, March 22, Theatre 2
10:00am Pivot
10:10am Kingdom of Songs
10:15am Esmeralda
10:35am Dusty and Stones

Friday Afternoon, March 22, Theatre 1
1:30pm Wabanaki Modern
1:55pm The Flower Darkens
2:10pm A Good Day Will Come
2:40pm Len and His Spitfire
3:05pm Break
3:15pm Daughter of the Sun

Friday Afternoon, March 22, Theatre 2
3:10pm The Vanishing Point: Tracing Shadows in Prussian Blue
3:30pm Heart of an Astronaut
3:45pm Kambana
4:00pm Rabies
4:15pm Ivania
4:30pm The Pencil
4:40pm Nian
4:45pm The Florist
4:50pm The Countryman

Friday Evening, March 22, Theatre 1
7:00pm Immaculate with special guest Will Greenfield

Saturday Morning, March 23, Theatre 1
10:00am Middle America
10:25am Greener Pastures

Saturday Morning, March 23, Theatre 2
10:00am The Grassland Whisper
10:15am Lunchbox
10:30am Smoking Tigers

Saturday Afternoon, March 23, Theatre 1
1:30pm Chasin’ Butterflies
2:05pm Letter to a Pig
2:25pm Hakki Rising
2:55pm Break
3:05pm Cowboy Kevin
3:15pm Mystic Tiger
3:30pm AJ Goes to the Dog Park (Special Preview Screening)

Saturday Afternoon, March 23, Theatre 2
1:30pm My Motherland
3:00pm Break
3:10pm Soundscape
3:25pm 40 Below: The Toughest Race in the World

Saturday Evening, March 23, Theatre 1
7:00pm 2-Minute Movie Contest Winner
7:05pm Starling
7:15pm Blue Hour
7:45pm The Day Of
8:15pm Closing Dynasty
8:30pm Death to the Bikini!

The Fargo Film Festival is proud to announce that the award winning documentary feature “Show Her the Money” will screen as the Opening Night Showcase on Tuesday, March 19th at 7 p.m. at the Fargo Theatre. Producers Catherine Gray, Wendy Ryan, Azin Radsan Van Alebeek, and Julie Peterson Klein will appear live on stage for a Q&A immediately following the film. Tickets and Passes for the Fargo Film Festival are on sale now.

About Show Her the Money:
Money is power, but women receive less than two percent of venture capital funding. In this inspiring and empowering documentary, four female entrepreneurs work to turn their ideas into reality and grow their businesses with the support of women investors. Visit the film’s website: https://showherthemoneymovie.com/

“Show Her the Money” has been a hit on the film festival circuit with screenings at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, SXSW EDU, the Twin Cities Film Festival, and the Los Angeles International Film Festival. The film screens at the Fargo Theatre on Tuesday, March 19th at 7pm.

“Scrap” will screen on Wednesday, March 20th at 7pm at the Fargo Theatre. The moving film is the winner of the Best Narrative Feature award at the 2024 Festival. Actor/director/writer Vivian Kerr will attend as a special guest; she will appear live on stage for a Q&A immediately following the film. Tickets and passes for the Fargo Film Festival go on sale later this month.

About Scrap:
After getting laid off, a young single mom finds herself living in her car and struggling to hide her situation from her estranged brother. The film stars Vivian Kerr, Anthony Rapp (RENT), Lana Parrilla (ONCE UPON A TIME), and Khleo Thomas (HOLES).

About Vivian:

Vivian Kerr is an LA-based actor, writer, producer, and director. SCRAP, her feature film debut, world premiered at the 2022 Deauville-American Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Prize. The film has won awards at festivals around the country. Her second feature, SÉANCE, a Victorian-era psychological thriller, was selected for Wscripted’s Cannes Screenplay List and is currently in post-production.

As an actor, her work includes episodes of GREY’S ANATOMY, RIZZOLI & ISLES, SUPERSTORE, MASTERS OF SEX, CRIMINAL MINDS, NEW GIRL, CASTLE, FRANKLIN & BASH, and THE BOLD & THE BEAUTIFUL. She has a BA in Theatre from the University of Southern California, during which time she studied Shakespeare in London. She is a member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors’ Equity, NYWIFT, and Film Fatales.

Actor and producer Jennifer Lafleur will be welcomed as a special guest at the 2024 Fargo Film Festival. Lafleur stars in “The Day Of”, an official selection in the Narrative Short category. The film plays as part of our Closing Night “Best of the Fest” Showcase on Saturday, March 23rd at 7pm. Lafleur will participate in a Q&A following the film’s screening.

About Jennifer Lafleur:
Jennifer is an actor and producer most recently seen in the GORDY sequence in Jordan Peele’s film NOPE and as Peggy in the HULU original THE DROP. She has worked on a plethora of television shows, including The Last Thing He Told Me, Big Little Lies, Billions, Room 104, The Resident, Castle Rock, The Good Doctor, Medical Police, Friends From College, American Crime, Chicago Fire, Workaholics, Married, Childrens Hospital, Newsreaders, Review, Animals, and Major Crimes, among others. She has also worked extensively in independent film, receiving critical acclaim and festival awards for her work in the films MAD, NO LIGHT AND NO LAND ANYWHERE, 6 DYNAMIC LAWS, BACK AT THE STAIRCASE, Sarah Adina Smith’s THE MIDNIGHT SWIM, and the Duplass Brothers films DO-DECA PENTATHLON, BAGHEAD, and JEFF WHO LIVES AT HOME . She can be seen in the Independent Spirit Producer’s Award-winning film she co-produced called LAMB, directed by Ross Partridge. She also co-created the series WEDLOCK with Partridge, and starred alongside Mark Duplass and Rob Corddry. She made her writing and directing debut with the award-winning short film BABY KATE, in which she also starred opposite Jason Ritter. She can next be seen in the AMC series Parish and the psychological horror film she also co-produced, BIRTHRITE, directed by Ross Partridge.

Tickets and passes for the 2024 Fargo Film Festival will go on sale later this month.

The Radisson Blu Fargo is offering discounted rooms for visitors traveling to the 2024 Fargo Film Festival!

To book a room in the Fargo Film Festival discount block, guests can use one of the following methods:

1. Visit https://www.choicehotels.com/reservations/groups/G9659861 and enter the dates of your stay to receive the promotional rate during the Festival.
2. Call the Radisson Blu Fargo directly at (701) 232-7363 and ask for the Fargo Film Festival Room Block.

The 2024 Fargo Film Festival includes two Oscar nominated movies! Congratulations to the filmmakers of Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó (Best Documentary Short Film) and Letter to a Pig (Best Animated Short Film). These incredible films screen at the Fargo Theatre during FFF24, held March 19-23.

Every year, the Fargo Film Festival commissions an original piece of cover art from a local or regional artist. This year, the FFF Cover Artist is Troy Becker. The Fargo Film Festival is proud to reveal the official cover art for the 2024 program guide.

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)