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MINNESOTA-Made Director Kevin Schreck Attending
Feature Documentary. Striving to make the greatest animated film of all time, acclaimed and visionary animator Richard Williams (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) toiled on his epic masterpiece, The Thief and the Cobbler, for nearly three decades – only to have it torn from his hands.

In Koch, director Neil Barsky, as well as former New York Mayor Ed Koch himself, look back fondly over Koch’s 12 years in City Hall. Koch, who died just days before the film’s premiere, was a colorful, boisterous, and amusing public figure, and, on screen at the age of 86, those traits still come through loud and clear. Plenty has been said about the New York of the 70’s, but, with Koch’s passing this year, it seems especially appropriate to revisit the city’s transformative 80’s and the man who sparked the major change.

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Narrative Short. When a troubled war veteran discovers a mysterious creature frozen in the lake, he must confront his deepest fears.
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Feature Narrative. Sidney is a quiet and hard-working clock repairer and a loving yet distant single father constantly preoccupied with his work. His son, Lloyd, takes after his father’s qualities as well as his work.

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Narrative Short. During an assignment, Jai, a loan shark collector, stumbles upon a piano which changes his life. Written and directed by Bryan Vue, who wrote and co-directed "Journey to the Fallen Skies," which won the Best MN Made Feature Film at the 2012 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival.

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Feature Documentary. Even in the darkest places on earth, there is always the need for light, for laughter. Making Light in Terezin explores the little-known role that theater, cabaret and comedy played in improving and even saving the lives of some of the Jews who lived in the Terezin ghetto in WWII.

Informant is an enthralling documentary about the walking contradiction that is Brandon Darby, a former leftist activist that turned on his friends during the 2008 Republican National Convention, which was held in the Twin Cities. Director Jamie Meltzer (Better This World) smartly avoids taking sides, and instead lets Darby explain how he came to controversially tip off the FBI to potential political violence. Informant is a must see for every political-minded cinephile.

Director Laura Archibald gathers a vast array of the most influential folk figures of the 60’s to tell the story of New York’s highly popular and, for some, controversial folk movement. Interviews with figures like Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger shine a light on this tight-knit group that came together to fight social injustice in the face of intense government scrutiny. With rarely seen performances from Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan, Greenwich Village: Music That Defined A Generation is a testament to the scene’s lasting hold on our society’s collective imagination.

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Earth Day screening

Shot on location on their beautiful farm in Southwest Minnesota, this short documentary follows a Minnesota family who grow organic Camelina seed, to be pressed into oil.

Screens with Living with the Land

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Narrative Short. Two strangers meet in a laundromat and play a game of vice and virtue.