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Yahoo
16-04-2025
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All the winners from the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival
The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival unveiled the winners of the Jury and Audience Awards on Tuesday, shining a light on the exciting work screened during the festival. The 2025 fest featured 127 feature films and 80 short films from 70 countries and cultures during its nearly two-week run that concluded on Sunday. For anyone who missed out on screenings of the honored films, MSP Film Society will present a "best of fest" run of films at The Main Cinema in Minneapolis throughout the week. A full list of those screenings can be found here. And here's a look at all the awards doled out during MSPIFF44. Jury Award for Emerging Filmmaker: Beloved Tropic, directed by Ana Ednara Mislov Honorable Mention for Emerging Filmmaker: Rickey, directed by Rashad Frett Jury Award for Best Feature Documentary: Checkpoint Zoo, directed by Joshua Zeman Special Jury Award for Feature Documentary: Folktales, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady Jury Award for Best Documentary Short: "How to Care," directed by Brennan Vance Honorable Mention for Documentary Short: "Summer Camp," directed by Dahee Kim Jury Award for Best Fiction Short: "Lengua," directed by Tahiel Jimenez Medina Honorable Mention for Fiction Short: "Sourdough," directed by Hallie Haas and Alex Cohen MN Made Shout Out for Fiction Short: "Inventing," directed by Benjamin Hasle Myrick Jury Award for Best Animated Short: "The Devil's Neighbor," Directed by Brian Hawkins Honorable Mention for Animated Short: "Have I Swallowed Your Dreams," directed by Clara Chan Audience Choice Awards Best Documentary Feature: The Last Journey, directed by Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson Best Fiction Feature: Brooklyn, Minnesota, directed by Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen Best Documentary Short: "How to Care," Directed by Brennen Vance Best Animated Short: "Les Betes," directed by Michael Granberry Best Fiction Short (tie): "Night Session," directed by Ballard C. Boyd; "Belief," directed by Christian Loubek
Yahoo
15-04-2025
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Missed MSPIFF? Film fest is playing the 'best of fest' this week
The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival called cut on an impressive run on Sunday with a screening of Singing Back the Buffalo and a handful of other films. It's a marathon, with hundreds of movies and screenings running throughout the day for nearly two weeks. Unless you drained your PTO, you probably missed some great films. Luckily, beginning on Monday, April 14, MSPIFF is presenting four straight days of the "best of fest" at The Main Cinema. The run includes documentaries, stars, locally made work, and a showcase of short films. Here's what and when you can catch during MSPIFF's "best of fest" programming. Find details about each of the films at the MSP Film Society website. Monday, April 14: Carnival Is Over - 4 p.m. Crocodile Tears – 4:15 p.m. The Last Journey — 7:10 p.m. Brooklyn, Minnesota — 7:15 p.m. (sold out) Tuesday, April 15: The Spies Among Us — 1 p.m. John Cranko — 1:10 p.m. The New Year That Never Came — 4 p.m. The Dance Is Not Over — 4:15 p.m. Feature Doc Jury Winner — 7 p.m. (TBA) Come See Me in the Good Light — 7:15 p.m. (sold out) Wednesday, April 16: Short film winners — 1 p.m. Regretfully at Dawn — 1:10 p.m. From Hilde, With Love — 4p.m. Magic & Monsters — 4:15 p.m. Four Mothers — 7:10 p.m. The People's Way — 7:15 p.m. Thursday, April 17: Acts of Reparation — 1 p.m. Unholy Communion — 1:10 p.m. TBA — 4 p.m. The Fun-Raiser — 4:15 p.m. Waves —7 p.m. The Wedding Banquet — 7:10 p.m. (theatrical run starts on Friday) Movies from MSPIFF starting theatrical runs: The Friend — began last week The Ballad of Wallis Island — begins 4/14 The Way, My Way — begins 4/14 The Wedding Banquet — begins 4/18 One to One: John & Yoko — begins 4/18 The Legend of Ochi — begins 4/25 The Shrouds — begins 4/25 Friendship — begins 5/9
Yahoo
07-03-2025
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Oscar-winning director to attend 2025 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Fest
The MSP Film Society has called "action" on the 44th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF). The festival will return in 2025, with the bulk of programming taking place at The Main Cinema from April 2–13. Highlights from the announcement include an appearance from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee and an opening-night screening of Free Leonard Peltier. The opening-night documentary recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, arriving there just a week after Peltier was granted clemency after a nearly 50-year imprisonment. The presentation of Free Leonard Peltier will include appearances from director Jesse Short Bull and producer Jhane Meyers. It'll be followed by a party at Sean Sherman's Owamni. The festival will also welcome Lee for the MSPIFF44 Milgrom Tribute, a celebration of the 20th anniversary of Brokeback Mountain, the film that saw him become the first Asian director to win an Academy Award for Best Director. Lee's appearance will include a conversation on Sunday, April 6, which will be followed by a screening of Brokeback Mountain, introduced by the director. The Milgrom Tribute, named for MSPIFF and MSP Film Society founder Al Milgrom, honors "artists whose talents put a distinctive stamp on every one of their films, who have been instrumental in promoting a higher regard for the art of cinema, and who have consistently made and continue to make critical waves at a global level." Lee has embodied those attributes in his more than 40-year career with moving, personal films like The Wedding Banquet and The Ice Storm, as well as big-budget productions like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hulk, Life of Pi, and Gemini Man. The fest will again include a slate of Minnesota-made and Minnesota-connected films, including Folktales and Speak, both of which appeared at Sundance. Other films on the MSPIFF calendar include Sundance award winners DJ Ahmet, Seeds, Sally, and 2000 Meters to Andriivka; Kim A. Snyder's The Librarians; and Julie Delpy's satire, Meet the Barbarians, among others. As usual, films will also be screened at other Twin Cities area theaters, including the Capri Theater and Landmark Center, as well as the Edina Mann Theatres, a new partner for the 44th installment. The full lineup of films can be viewed on the MSPIFF website. The schedule and presale for those events will be unveiled later this month.
