20th Fargo Film Festival Announces Schedule
BY SCOTTIE KNOLLIN
The 20th Fargo Film Festival opens March 17, 2020, showcasing four days of inspiring films at the historic Fargo Theatre in downtown Fargo. This year’s crop of films were chosen by panels with keen eyes for artistic achievement, diversity in filmmaking, and all-around best-in-show work. Category winners were announced in late 2019 and will be screened alongside other notable works from filmmakers around the world.
Tickets for the 2020 Fargo Film Festival go on sale at noon on Monday, February 24, 2020. See the Fargo Theatre’s box office for ticket pricing and to purchase passes for this year’s festival.
Announced last week, the festival will include several special events, including a screening of the documentary “Balkowitsch,” with special guests Shane Balkowitsch, Gregory DeSaye, and Chelsy Ciavarella. The film is the recipient of the 2020 Prairie Spirit Award and screens the same evening Balkowitsch’s much-discussed mural featuring Greta Thunberg will debut in downtown Fargo.
Sounds of the Criterion Collection is another special event, taking place Thursday, March 19th, at 7:00 p.m. Ryan Hullings will discuss his work on several landmark rock films, like “A Hard Day’s Night” and “Don’t Look Back.” He’ll also introduce the Criterion Collection’s audio restoration process.
Also announced last week, Tom Brandeau will receive the 2020 Ted M. Larson Award, given in recognition of an outstanding career in film production, film preservation, and/or film education. The Ted M. Larson Award is the festival’s highest honor. Brandeau, a Moorhead, MN, resident, is a graduate of the American Film Institute and acclaimed filmmaker. his films have been shown at several film festivals and Brandeau has received a number of prestigious awards, including a Regional Student Academy Award (“Whales, Ltd.”), Retirement Research National Media Award (“Sonny and Cornblatt”), Barry Levinson Arts Award (“Sonny and Cornblatt”), and the Rosebud Award (“Sonny and Cornblatt”).
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(Please note, times and locations are subject to change.)
Tuesday Afternoon, March 17, Theatre 1
1:30pm The Kite
1:45pm Blueberry
2:00pm Extra Innings
2:10pm A Sidewalk Becomes a Street
2:25pm The Girl in the Hallway
2:35pm Brotherhood
3:00pm BREAK
3:10pm Hors Piste
3:15pm Don’t Feed These Animals
3:30pm Change
3:35pm Dead Animals
3:45pm Traffic Separating Device
4:00pm Norm
4:25pm Wild Love
4:35pm Made Public
4:50pm Peggy
Tuesday Afternoon, March 17, Theatre 2
1:30pm False Confessions
3:05pm BREAK
3:15pm Alice
Tuesday Evening, March 17, Theatre 1
7:00pm Mind My Mind
7:30pm The Neighbors’ Window - Winner of the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short FIlm
7:50pm R.A.W. Tuba
Wednesday Morning, March 18, Theatre 1
10:00am Daughter
10:15am Birds of Paradise
10:30am The Pollinators
Wednesday Morning, March 18, Theatre 2
10:00am Racing the Sunset
10:05am Butterfly
10:30am The Inuring
10:40am The Minors
10:50am Let Mercy Come
11:10am Moonwalk with Me
11:25am Jack and Anna
11:40am Dead Animals
11:50am Everything You Wanted to Know About Sudden Birth
Wednesday Afternoon, March 18, Theatre 1
1:30pm Ghazaal
1:45pm Reverb
2:05pm Tuesday
2:20pm In My Eyes
2:45pm BREAK
2:55pm Two
3:00pm The Fox and the Bird
3:10pm Sometimes I Think About Dying
3:25pm Extra Innings
3:35pm The Christmas Gift
4:00pm Green
4:10pm Aziza
4:25pm Unkept
4:40pm The Field
Wednesday Afternoon, March 18, Theatre 2
1:30pm Prey
2:55pm BREAK
3:05pm Progeny
3:35pm The Wretched
Wednesday Evening, March 18, Theatre 1
7:00pm Balkowitsch
Thursday Morning, March 19, Theatre 1
10:00am Big Wolf and Little Wolf
10:15am Unleashed
10:25am Book Week
Thursday Morning, March 19, Theatre 2
10:00am 25 Texans in the Land of Lincoln
10:30am Breaking Out
Thursday Afternoon, March 19, Theatre 1
1:30pm Red Rover
3:10pm BREAK
3:20pm The Iron Grandmother
3:30pm The Litas
3:40pm Decoding the Driftless
Thursday Afternoon, March 19, Theatre 2
1:30pm The Lonely Orbit
1:40pm King Wah (I Think I Love You)
1:50pm Patron
2:00pm Anna Karenina
2:15pm Spring II
2:25pm Blooming
2:40pm Chairs
2:50pm Symbiosis
3:05pm Distinguished Feelings
3:15pm BREAK
3:25pm Floating
3:35pm Lost Bayou
Thursday Evening, March 19, Theatre 1
7:00pm Sounds of the Criterion Collection with Ryan Hullings
Friday Morning, March 20, Theatre 1
10:00am A Sidewalk Becomes a Street
10:15am Saint Frances
Friday Morning, March 20, Theatre 2
10:00am Undue Burdens
10:30am Changing the Game
Friday Afternoon, March 20, Theatre 1
1:30pm 20th Fargo Film Festival Retrospective
3:00pm BREAK
3:15pm The Garden Left Behind
Friday Afternoon, March 20, Theatre 2
1:30pm Hearts and Bones
3:20pm BREAK
3:30pm R.A.W. Tuba
4:00pm 25 Texans in the Land of Lincoln
4:40pm Fraser Syndrome and Me
Friday Evening, March 20, Theatre 1
7:00pm Scream, Queen! with special guest Mark Patton
9:30pm 2-Minute Movie Contest
Saturday Morning, March 21, Theatre 1
Saturday Morning Cartoons … For Adults.
10:00am The Kite
10:15am Sister
10:25am The Girl in the Hallway
10:35am Flowing Through Wonder
10:50am The Bird and the Whale
11:00am The Fox and the Bird
11:10am Flower Found!
11:20am Coaster with animators Dan Lund and Amos Sussigan
Saturday Morning, March 21, Theatre 2
10:00am Aziza
10:15am The Christmas Gift
10:40am Occupied
11:15am Brotherhood
11:40am The Neighbors’ Window - Winner of the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film
Saturday Afternoon, March 21, Theatre 1
1:30pm Ted M. Larson Award Presentation
1:50pm Florence
2:05pm Change
2:20pm Made Public
2:35pm Peggy
2:45pm BREAK
3:00pm The Planters
Saturday Afternoon, March 21, Theatre 2
1:30pm The Pollinators
3:00pm BREAK
3:10pm 17 Blocks
Saturday Evening, March 21, Theatre 1
7:00pm Margie Bailly Volunteer Spirit Award presentation to Jenny Jensen and Peg O’Neill
7:10pm 2-Minute Movie Contest Winner
7:15pm International Falls
