11:00 AM - Family Friendly Short & Feature
Total Runtime: 1:46:36
Screening Location: Mabel Tainter Theater
Ruthless
Run Time: 13:08
Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Language: English
Category: Family Friendly Short
Genre: Comedy
In 1970’s Northern Ireland, a young boy, bereft of his mother, defies his father to get the Glam Rock album he so desperately wants.
Ruthless is a humorous, heartwarming story of how a prosthetic leg and a T. Rex album become the conduit for overcoming grief.
Shoveling Pixie Dust: a Memoir
Run Time: 01:20:56
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Category: Family Friendly Feature
Genre: Documentary, Memoir
From producing an audacious short film, to becoming a Hollywood refugee, to building a Magic Kingdom, follow Tim's adventures and struggles as he deals with the challenges of making magic. Enjoy a heartfelt memoir about the making of a Disney Imagineer, covering the entire working career of artist Tim Landry, from film school through to retirement.
2:00 pm - Midwest Roots: Shorts
Total Runtime: 2:04:16
Screening Location: Mabel Tainter Theater
Rice Street
Run Time: 00:25:00
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Category: Midwest Roots
Genre: Drama
Three Hmong teens reach a crossroads in their life, each having to make a choice that will change their lives forever. Little do they know that fate would intertwine their lives together.
Pre-Existing
Run Time: 00:09:06
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Category: Midwest Roots
Genre: Drama
A concerned husband seeks to buy a life insurance policy for his wife but her current condition is making it very difficult.
Chopping Block
Run Time: 00:9:46
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Category: Midwest Roots
Genre: Drama, Comedy
A young woman confronts someone too close for comfort after an alarming realization.
the bedroom
Run Time: 00:13:52
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Category: Midwest Roots
Genre: Drama
The Bedroom follows a woman as grief overcomes her while alone in the woods.
Mudança... Set Me Free
Run Time: 00:08:29
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Category: Midweast Roots
Genre: Documentary, Experimental
The story of a Minnesota artist's experience with Covid19, nightmares, and her metamorphosis and healing through art.
Yellow Polka Dot
Run Time: 00:17:40
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Category: Midweast Roots
Genre: Romance, Drama, LGBTQIA+
Sandra and Barbara are enjoying a day at the beach with their partners in 1962. The night before they all went out to a night club. The men bonded, as well as the women, albeit in very different fashions.
To Be Fair
Run Time: 00:10:23
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English,
Category: Midwest Roots
Genre: Documentary
Pegi Christiansen knows exactly how to end the contentious and increasingly dangerous election cycle for president of the U.S. It's called the National Popular Vote Compact, and this passionate performance artist needs just one minute to persuade you to support it.
Dairyland
Run Time: 00:30:00
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Category: Midwest Roots
Genre: Documentary
A fourth-generation Swiss dairy farmer in Wisconsin strives to keep his farm open while the state sees record family farm bankruptcies, closures, and rising suicide rates amongst agricultural workers.
4:30 PM - Documentary Feature
Total Runtime: 1:17:01
Screening Location: Mabel Tainter Theater
Greyland
Run Time: 1:17:01
Country of Origin: Canada
Language: English
Category: Documentary Feature
Genre: Documentary
Greyland is the story of what was the fastest shrinking city in the United States, Youngstown, Ohio. Once the booming centre of American steel, when the bottom fell out of the industry in the 1950s, 60% of the population moved out. Today, 37% of those left, live beneath the poverty line. Like Rocco and Amber. A recovering heroin addict turned urban archeologist, Rocco hunts through hundreds of abandoned houses. Vintage clothing, records, art works, everything he finds goes to Greyland, his art gallery come thrift store, to be converted into cash. Meanwhile Amber is a single mother and the president of the Neighbourhood Association of Homeowners, leading the fight against city hall for their inaction in cleaning up her neighborhood. “We want to believe,” Amber says, “that there’s good, hopeful things coming.”
9:00? pm (Sunset) - Festival Special Event - Free Community Screening
Total Runtime: 1:47:19
Screening Location: Wilson Park
Livestock on the Land
Run Time: 01:17:31
Country of Origin: United States
Language: English
Category: Midwest Roots
Genre: Documentary
In broad-brush, “Livestock on the Land” is a story about regenerative grazing and its promise for the Iowa landscape. Up close, however, it’s a story about people – the farmers driven by love of family, land and livestock to seek more resilient solutions, and the community that emerges when livestock are on the land. The film goes beyond the science to show how livestock are central threads connecting people, diversifying farms, protecting soil and water, and anchoring rural communities. When livestock leave, so do the people. “Livestock on the Land” shows the reverse: how livestock can repeople our rural communities by giving farmers a chance to get started, grow businesses, provide for their families, work together and bring back the next generation to sustain the cycle.