COMING TO THE 2020 FESTIVAL
1995
Sunday, Feb. 23rd - Hill City - Film Session H 3:25 - 6:00 pm
Sunday, Feb 23rd - Hot Springs - Film Session M 7:00 - 9:30 pm
Kaja Powlaski has closed herself off from the world. Taking solace only in her love for photography...
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A Rodeo Film
Saturday, Feb. 22nd - Hill City - Film Session E 3:25 - 5:15 pm
A bull rider who falls out of love with the sport must choose between his family’s...
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Acts Of Contriction
Sunday, Feb. 23rd - Hot Springs - Film Session L 2:00 - 5:00 pm
A priest grapples with his experiences of faith, the past, and his ride-sharing night job...
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All That You Love Will Be Carried Away
Saturday, Feb. 22nd - Hill City - Film Session D 1:00 - 3:10 pm​
A Salesman's love of bathroom graffiti may save his life on a cold, dark Nebraska night....
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Another Scar of Genocide: Diabetes in Indian Country
Friday, Feb. 21st - Journey Museum - Film Session B 1:00 - 5:00 pm
This project is a documentary designed to bring awareness to the epidemic of diabetes....
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Ashes To Ashes
Saturday, Feb. 22nd - Hill City - Film Session D 1:00 - 3:10 pm ​
Winfred Rembert, the only living survivor of a lynching, a Star Wars fanatic and leather artist, develops a friendship with Doctor Shirley..
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BEING DEAD
Sunday, Feb. 23rd - Hill City - Film Session G 1:00 - 3:10 pm
Friday, Feb. 21st - Hot Springs - Film Session I 7:00 - 9:30 pm
Joseph and Celice were once in love. As two scientists, they shared a magical passion that brought them together over...
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CANNONBALL​
Saturday, Feb. 22nd - Hill City - Film Session F 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Darla is a type-A Brentwood mom who’s done with her abusive marriage. Her solution? Hire an assassin...
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Dark Harbor
Friday, Feb. 21st - Elks Theatre - Film Session A 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Saturday, Feb. 22nd - Hot Springs - Film Session K 7:00 - 9:30 pm
Olivia, a pregnant woman approaching her due date, returns to Maine for the funeral of her father....
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Decade of Dominance, The Warriors
Friday, Feb. 21st - Journey Museum - Film Session B
1:00 - 5:00 pm
This David vs. Goliath story is about the achievements of a small reservation school of 120 students that wins 5 state championships....
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Just In Time
Saturday, Feb. 22nd - Hill City - Film Session F 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Saturday, Feb. 22nd - Hot Springs - Film Session K 7:00 - 9:30 pm
Justin lives a comfortable life with Camille, a loving and compassionate Puerto Rican woman....
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L'eau est La vie
(Water is Life)
Friday, Feb. 21st - Journey Museum - Film Session B
1:00 - 5:00 pm
Saturday, Feb. 22nd - Hot Springs - Film Session J 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Water protector Cherri Foytlin leads us on a no nonsense journey of Indigenous resistance to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline(BBP)....
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Lost Treasure of the Valley
Saturday, Feb. 22nd - Hill City - Film Session D 1:00 - 3:10 pm
A young photographer and an adventurer discover that all of the abandoned shopping carts in LA's San Fernando Valley lead to a hidden cave off of Sepulveda Blvd...
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Love Speaks A Different Language
Sunday, Feb. 23rd - Hill City - Film Session G 1:00 - 3:10 pm
Cassie & Noah meet at school, but their relationship is a little uncommon in that Cassie is deaf.....
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Name Escapes Me
Saturday, Feb. 22nd - Hill City - Film Session D 1:00 - 3:10 pm​
A couple's fragile unity is threatened when they realize that their only child may be guilty of something awful. Anthony, recently dia....
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Patrinell: The Total Experience
Sunday, Feb. 23rd - Hill City - Film Session H 3:25 - 6:00 pm
Sunday, Feb. 23rd - Hot Springs - Film Session L 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Seattle's extraordinarily gifted "First Lady of Gospel", Rev. Patrinell Staten Wright, struggles to maintain the...
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Pipe Dream
Friday, Feb. 21st - Elks Theatre - Film Session C 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Sunday, Feb. 23rd - Hot Springs - Film Session M 7:00 - 9:30 pm
Each year thousands of budding actors take that huge leap of faith and move to L.A. or New York in search of stardom...
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Raising Buchanan
Saturday, Feb. 22nd - Hill City - Film Session F 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Sunday, Feb. 23rd - Hot Springs - Film Session M 7:00 - 9:30 pm
In suburban Phoenix, 40-year-old Ruth Kiesling is not exactly “living the dream.” She’s a donut shop employee with anger issues. She’s got no....
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Showing up
Saturday, Feb. 22nd - Hill City - Film Session F 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Friday, Feb. 21st - Hot Springs - Film Session I 7:00 - 9:30 pm
No one can break your heart unless for a time they’ve held it in their hands. Once someone truly loves you...
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Snake River Rising
Saturday, Feb. 22nd - Hill City - Film Session F 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Friday, Feb. 21st - Hot Springs - Film Session I 7:00 - 9:30 pm
A stranger appears in a small town during Christmastime and helps a weary mother and her son by repaying a debt from long ago...
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Spark, A Profile of Sarah Rodgers
Sunday, Feb. 23rd - Hill City - Film Session H 3:25 - 6:00 pm​
Sarah is a well-known and extremely talented regional painter who is at the apex of her career...
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Tales of an American Hoodrat
Saturday, Feb. 22nd - Hill City - Film Session E 3:25 - 5:15 pm​
A coming of age story that follows four millennial teenagers, who live their days of adolescence by their own set of rules....
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The Love of Two
Friday, Feb. 21st - Journey Museum - Film Session B 1:00 - 5:00 pm
David gets a call about Ruth being in the hospital. He remembers the first time he met her...
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The Mustang
Friday, Feb. 21st - Elks Theatre - Film Session C 7:00 - 10:00 pm ​
The story of Roman Coleman, a violent convict, who is given the chance to participate in a rehabilitation therapy program involving the training of wild mustangs...
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The Still Life of Annika Myers
Friday, Feb.21st - Elks Theatre - Film Session C 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Sunday, Feb.23rd - Hot Springs - Film Session L 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Tuesday, Feb.25th - Matthews Opera House - Film Session N 7:00 - 10:00 pm
During the Dutch Hunger winter of 1945, ANNIKA MYERS traded her family’s treasured painting of a feast for rations. Now, at 84, she has...
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Totems
Thursday, Feb.20th - Elks Theatre - Film Session A 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Saturday, Feb.22nd - Hot Springs - Film Session J 2:00 - 5:00 pm
A post-apocalyptic film about two Indigenous men existing in the aftermath of colonial America. When their spouses kick them out, making...
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Warrior Women
Thursday, Feb. 20th - Elks Theatre - Film Session A 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Tuesday, Feb. 25th - Matthews Opera House - Film Session N 7:00 - 10:00 pm
“Warrior Women” is the story of mothers and daughters fighting for Native rights in the American Indian Movement of the 1970s....
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When Life Gives You Lemmon
Sunday, Feb. 23rd - Hill City - Film Session H 3:25 - 6:00 pm
Tuesday, Feb. 25th - Matthews Opera House - Film Session N 7:00 - 10:00 pm
A profile of South Dakota artist and sculptor John Lopez in his home town of Lemmon....
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Varlet
Saturday, Feb.22nd - Hill City - Film Session D 1:00 - 3:10 pm
Saturday, Feb. 21st - Hot Springs - Film Session K 7:00 - 9:30 pm
Tuesday, Feb. 25th - Matthews Opera House - Film Session N 7:00 - 10:00 pm
Set in the 1860s, a backwoods fur trapper on a grueling winter journey is attacked while resting at his camp. Now injured and a long way from...
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