12:00 PM

Total Runtime: 1:52:49
Screening Location: Mabel Tainter Theater

The Freak's Game Poster

The Freak's Game

Run Time: 00:10:40

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Genre: Thriller, Suspense

A young man, in a parking garage, is confronted by a weirdo who has a sadistic game planned.

The House on the Moon Poster

The house on the Moon (La Maison sur la Lune)

Run Time: 00:06:00

Country of Origin: Canada

Language: French

Genre: Western, Drama

A man walks into a bar and fires three shots, two people fall to the ground. He spots a woman sitting at a table with a book in her hand paying no attention to him. He points at her, fires, the gun goes off. He smiles. A new sidekick to lead his fight.

Happy Hour Poster

Happy Hour

Run Time: 00:05:09

Country of Origin: Not Specified

Language: English

Genre: Drama

Walter’s day revolves around beer-thirty. He successfully arrives at the bar right before the end of Happy Hour. Unfortunately, this is just in time for the place to be held up. How will he react when his life, those around him, and his beer are in danger?

Water, Star Medicine Poster

Water, Star Medicine

Run Time: 00:10:00

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Genre: Documentary, Environmental

A teacher and her students study the nature, science, and brilliance of water. They visit the Rio Grande in New Mexico and interview Veda Austin, a New Zealand Māori scientist to learn that water is life, memory, and healing.

Saturday Morning Live Poster

Saturday Morning Live/ Republic of Georgia Episode/ US

Run Time: 00:10:00

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English, Georgian

Genre: Episode, Multicultural

Five days after receiving my PhD, I was invited to serve First Response in the Republic of Georgia. I had come up with the idea for a multicultural children’s television program. I was suddenly evacuated due to Covid so took this raw footage with Elene and quilted together a first episode for the show.

Professional Intern Poster

Professional Intern

Run Time: 00:02:40

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Professional Intern is about a father's struggle to talk about his internship at his daughter's elementary school career day. The father fights for his career day time slot but ultimately must accept that his daughter is embarrassed that her father is a 30-year-old intern.

Nice & Steady Poster

Nice & Steady

Run Time: 00:12:42

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Genre: Drama

A man with dreams of becoming a writer has found himself stuck in a repetitive and unfulfilling life.

No Such Thing Poster

No Such Thing

Run Time: 00:09:46

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller, Pilot

Two lifelong friends make a breakthrough in their search for aliens. **Flashing lights**

Clutch & Shift Poster

Clutch & Shift

Run Time: 00:12:36

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Genre: Comedy, Thriller

A car thief finds herself in an ordeal when she breaks into a car with a manual transmission and is caught by the car's owner.

Love Don't Bully

Run Time: 00:08:00

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English, ASL

Genre: Documentary, Interpersonal

A teacher and her middle school students talk about, interview, act out and research bullying, both at school and as a society.

This is Real Love Poster

This Is Real Love

Run Time: 00:19:59

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Genre: Dark Comedy, Drama, Mystery

"This Is Real Love" is a non-linear dark comedy. The central events revolve around a casual gathering between two male painters and their female acquaintance, Amanda. Although the gathering begins innocuously enough, tension gradually builds beneath the surface, creating a sense of discomfort. During the conversation, a few lines trigger one of the nameless painter's descent into a claustrophobic and increasingly abstract nightmare. The painter becomes irrationally angry with his roommate (painter 2), accusing him of trying to see his secret painting, without permission. As the painter's narcissistic rampage reaches its psychedelic climax, it becomes clear that his anger stems from more than just a desire to protect his art.

Just A Minute

Run Time: 00:05:17

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Genre: Suspense

A man with no time for anything, finds himself in a paradox where he has all the time, but nothing.


Immediately Following Student Projects Approximately 2:00 pm - Festival Awards

Location: Mabel Tainter Theater

Best Narrative Feature
Best Narrative Short
Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short
Best Midwest Roots
Best Animated Project
Best Student Project