2023 FILMS ANNOUNCED!

The 2023 films bring an eclectic mix of 14 films from Washington, Idaho, and Montana.. Check out the selection below!

IDAHO BABE

BY ARLIE SOMMER

Idaho Babe is a short, poetic, documentary about the Idaho Buckaroo legend, Babe Hanson. The film features collage animation, archival photos, and contemporary video of oral history interviews with and about Harriet “Babe” Drake Hanson, a queer woman who ran the Sawtooth Lodge in Grandjean, ID, at the beginning of the 20th century.

DIE

BY RANTZ HOSELEY

In 1976, a young boy in rural America has his worldview upended when his fascination with tattoos is misconstrued as having a darker meaning.

SHITFACED

BY JACK E.K. COLLIER

An aspiring artist attempts to sketch her boyfriend only to find the dissatisfaction in her own work does more harm than good.

I DIDN’T MEAN TO

BY BRITNEY NGAW

In his glass home, a man attempts to hide evidence of murder but is confronted by a voyeur from below.

NOBODY

BY MINGYUAN LI

A woman comes to Paris, France seeking chances of making money to support her struggling family in China. And her fate has since been rewritten.

TALL ORDER

BY CHRISTOPHE BOUCHARD

At the height of the Prohibition, an unorthodox detective takes the mafia head-on.

SECOND CHANCES

BY JACQUELINE RATLIFF

The film is set in Livingston, Montana, at a Non-Profit Draft Horse Sanctuary called United In Light. UIL serves as a draft horse safe haven. They save draft horses from slaughter and death by bringing them to their sanctuary built for them to live out the rest of their lives in peace and harmony. Through interviews, the film explores the different healing tendencies of people and animals as both deal with their issues together. Second Chances illustrates why healing is a crucial step toward finding your inner happiness once more.

MAURADING MANDIBLES

BY BRIAN PLONKA

A neighbor cutting down a tree over a 6-foot tall Thatcher Ant Mound causes en masse to alarm pheromones. Chemical warfare and brute force tare on display. The ant colony functions like a well-oiled fighting machine.

THAT’S MY TV!

BY MAKAULY G. MORRISON

Rob, an angry-at-the-world amateur TV thief, comes face to face with Dude, a down-on-his-luck couch potato, when he is caught stealing Dude's CRT Television Set. After their confrontation leads to the destruction of said TV and Rob refuses to leave the scene of the crime, the unlikely pair discover their shared love for an obscure foreign television called Capsumon and must decide whether or not to put their differences aside and become friends.

A TOUGH BREED

BY SARA REARDON

Montanans face some of the nation's highest depression and substance use rates, and climate change is exacerbating these problems among farmers and ranchers. A mental health outreach campaign - facilitated by a popular ag radio program - is trying to break down the stigma and provide aid.