Directed by Lance Todd
9:15 PM, Friday, 10/6, Zeitgeist Zinema 1
*Director Lance Todd in attendance
An obnoxious content creator is guided through a small town's woods to make a video about several unsolved disappearances.
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Directed By Nickolaus Swedlund
5:15 PM, Friday, 10/6, Zeitgeist Zinema 2
*Minnesota Made
*Director Nick Swedlund in attendance
*Producer Matt Roy in attendance
Bough Brothers is a story of reconciliation between two brothers after their father’s death. Centered around the annual balsam bough harvest in Northern Minnesota, these brothers are put face to face with the demons of their family’s past while trying to re-establish a bond with one another after more than a decade without contact.
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5:30 PM, Saturday, 10/7, Zeitgeist Zinema 2
*Multiple filmmakers in attendance
GIRO PREPARES FOR DEATH
Directed by Peter Coccoma
*Actors Martin Curry and Julie Stryker in attendance
*Wisconsin Made
After receiving a terminal diagnosis, a man returns to his remote homestead on a small northern island to process what he will do next. 17:58, WI USA
REALLY GOOD FRIENDS
Directed by Adam Sekuler (in attendance)
In a hotel room, a woman in her 60s shares a surprising and provocative story of longing and unlikely connection. 10:00, MI, USA
EN AVANT [about a year in MPLS]
Directed by Dan Schneidkraut (in attendance)
*Minnesota Made
A meditative ride through the city during a period of tumult and transition: coming together and falling apart. 36:58, MN USA
9:30 PM, Saturday, 10/7, Zeitgeist Zinema 1
*Northern States Made
*Hammersmith Director Kyle Lelend Cullerton in attendance
*Hammersmith Actor Colin Rice in attendance
Everything I Learned When My House Burned Down
Directed by Joe Pickett
Comedian Jacy Catlin was living the simple life in his remote log cabin in rural Wisconsin, eking out a living as a comedy writer and self-producing numerous comedy shorts. One fateful February, on the coldest day of the year, a fire in his wood stove spread out of control, and the house and all of his family’s belongings were destroyed. After the smoke had cleared, he returned to his former home to shoot one last comedy film.
Hammersmith
Directed by Kyle Lelend Cullerton (in attendance)
A narcissistic filmmaker dreams of stardumb during the production of his breakout action movie, while his cast & crew try to stay alive on a film set falling to chaos.
Directed by Mike Cheslik
Produced by Ryland Brickson Cole Tews
7:00 PM, Saturday, 10/7, Zeitgeist Zinema 1
*Wisconsin / Michigan made
*Executive Producer Louis Schultz in attendance
*Lead Beaver Mascot Jay Brown in attendance
In this silent, supernatural epic, a drunken applejack salesman is thrust into the frigid wilderness. Can he go from zero to hero, become North America’s greatest fur trapper, and defeat hundreds of beavers?
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Directed By Philip Harder
5:00 PM, Saturday, 10/7, Spirit of the North Theatre
*Minnesota Made
*Director Philip Harder - in attendance
*Producer Patrick Riley - in attendance
Alabama, 1972. As Billy falls for a patient at his father's mental asylum, his best friend becomes involved in a radical civil rights movement against Tuscaloosa's power elite.
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