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COMING TO THE 2020 FESTIVAL

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Blood Memory 

Friday, May 3 - Journey Museum

Battles over blood quantum and 'best interests' resurface the untold history of America's Indian Adoption Era. ..

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Dinner

Sunday, May 5 - Hill City 

An animated short describes the remembrance of a beloved one....

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40th

Saturday, May 4 - Hill City

Sunday, May 5 - Hot Springs

Anne’s mother died when she was 8, and left her the gift of 40 birthday cards...

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Duffy's Jacket

Friday, May 3 - Hot Springs

A forgetful boy and his 2 cousins must survive the night once discovered by an ancient woodland monster....

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East Side Sushi

Saturday, May 4 - Hill City 

Single mom Juana can slice and dice anything with great speed and precision....

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Hearts of Glass 

Saturday, May 4 - Hill City

Sunday, May 5 - Hot Springs 

Hearts of Glass' is a plunge into the critical first 15 months of operation of Vertical Harvest....

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Let My People Go: South Dakotans Stop Predatory Payday Lending

Saturday, May 4 - Hill City

Before November 2016, payday and car title lenders in South Dakota charged annual interest rates up to 574%...

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Mr.Pointy 

Wednesday, May 1 - Performing Arts Center

Sunday, May 5 - Hot Springs

A young girl convinces her father there is a monster in her closet. ..

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National Parks Adventure

Sunday, May 5 - Hill City

Sunday, May 5 - Hot Springs

The power of America’s national parks is undeniable.Millions have packed up the family to hike...

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Stories Of Intersex and Faith

Sunday, May 5 - Hill City

Five intersex people come out of the shadows to shine light on a medical scandal harming children for decades...

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Sweetheat Dancers 

Sunday, May 5 - Hill City

SWEETHEART DANCERS is a story about Sean and Adrian, a Two-Spirit couple determined to rewrite the rules...

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Never Land

Wednesday, May 1 - Performing Art Center

Friday, May 3 - Hill City High School - 7pm

The story of an inner-city foster boy whose only escape is his daydreams of Never Land....

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Obits

Friday, May 3 - Hill City

Sunday, May 5 - Hot Springs

“Another day, another death.” Writing obituaries is the least prestigious job at the paper...

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Our Tiospaye// Our Family

Friday, May 3 - Journey Museum

South Dakota's reservations are too often defined by deficit narratives. Poverty, unemployment, substance abuse...

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The Long Look Back

Friday, May 3 - Hill City

Sunday, May 5 - Hot Springs

A reformed outlaws journey to rendezvous with his old friend is interrupted by a bounty hunter...

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The Race

Sunday, May 5 - Hill City

A young, idealistic Huntington’s Disease researcher comes face-to-face with three generations of a family devastated by the fatal..

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The Recurring

Friday, May 3 - Hill City

Three years after being brutally raped in her home, Samantha Reynolds struggles with terrifying....

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The Rider

Wednesday, May 1 - Performing Art Center

After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means...

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The Scorpion's Tale

Friday, May 3 - Hill City

Friday, May 3 - Hot Springs 

The Scorpion's Tale is a story of death, revenge, jealously and greed. The perfect killer sits on death row awaiting his fate..

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The Trouble With Wolves

Saturday, May 4 - Hill City

Saturday, May 4 - Hot Springs

Death threats, court battles, and an iconic endangered species in the middle, The Trouble With Wolves takes...

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Tribes On The Edge

Thursday, May 2 - Elks Theatre

Saturday, May 4 - Hill City

Sunday, May 5 - Hot Springs

Building on a family legacy of exploration and environmental filmmaking, CELINE COUSTEAU journeys to the Brazilian Amazon...

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Up Not Down 

Sunday, May 5 - Hill City 

Welcome to the world of rock climbing in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. Climbing in the Black Hills has a rich...

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Wildus Johnitus

Saturday, May 4 - Hill City

Saturday, May 4 - Hot Springs

A seven year old boy's attempt to save the world..

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Wild Prairie Rose 

Friday, May 3 -  Hot Springs  

In 1952 Rose Miller returns to her rural hometown of Beresford, South Dakota to care for her ailing mother...

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Words From A Bear 

Friday, May 3 - Hill City 

Saturday, May 4 - Hot Springs

Words from a Bear examines the enigmatic life and mind of Pulitzer Prize winning author, Navarro Scott Momaday...

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The Buffalo King 

Saturday, May 4 - Hot Springs 

A candid examination of the life of The Buffalo King, James (Scotty) Philip, who overcame countless years of this nation's wanton buffalo...

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We are Still Here

Thursday, May 2, - Elks Theatre Saturday, May 4 - Hot Springs

The Story of the Xo'shga - a band of the Hidatsa tribe that broke away from the reservation and lived free for 25 years...

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