The Twin Cities Film Fest (TCFF) is a 10-day celebration of independent and Minnesota-made films. The festival is hybrid event with 70+ films screened in person at the ShowPlace ICON Theatres in St. Louis Park and 70+ films available online.

Schedule

October 19, 2023

5:30 PM: Stories Behind the Menu
Director: Amanda Brinkman & Matt Naylor
Runtime: 14 Minutes
Stories Behind the Menu is a shared experience celebrating culture and courageous conversation. What started as a dinner book club has expanded to quarterly culinary adventure featuring a local chef who prepares a multi-course meal, shares personal stories of their cultural traditions and history. Founders Chaz and Julie have intimate sit-down dinner with 4 of their featured chefs to dive deeper into each of their culinary journey's. These immersive, intimate, interactive dinner experiences spark brave conversations in which differences and similarities can be acknowledged and respected. Participants are nourished by great food, new connections, and deeper understanding of diverse cultures and perspectives.

7:15 PM: The Holdovers
Director: Alexander Payne
Runtime: 133 Minutes
Nobody likes teacher Paul Hunham (Giamatti)  not his students, not his fellow faculty, not the headmaster, who all find his pomposity and rigidity exasperating. With no family and nowhere to go over Christmas holiday in 1970, Paul remains at school to supervise students unable to journey home. After a few days, only one student holdover remains  a trouble-making 15-year-old named Angus, a good student whose bad behavior always threatens to get him expelled.

October 20, 2023

3:45 PM: AARON WITH 2 A’S - Streaming & Theater
Director: Michael Goldburg
Runtime: 17 Minutes

2:00 PM: Aitamaako’tamisskapi Natosi: Before the Sun -  Streaming & Theater
Director: Banchi Hanuse
Runtime: 88 Minutes

3:45 PM: An Extra Day in Prague -  Streaming & Theater
Director: Jacob Ramsay
Runtime: 16 Minutes

3:45 PM: Below Surface -  Streaming & Theater
Director: Lukas Hauser
Runtime: 19 Minutes

3:30 PM: Black Barbie - Theater
Director: Lagueria Davis
Runtime: 100 Minutes

3:45 PM: Blonsh -  Streaming & Theater
Director: James Werner
Runtime: 6 Minutes

8:30 PM: Chestnut - Theater
Director: Jac Cron
Runtime: 87 Minutes

3:45 PM: Coming of a Certain Age (Coming of Age Shorts Block) -  Streaming & Theater
Director: Multiple Directors
Runtime: 87 Minutes
FILMS INCLUDE:
- AARON WITH 2 A'S
- Kisses!
- An Extra Day in Prague
- BELOW SURFACE
- Mendo's Carousel
- Blonsh
- Happy New Year Jamie Morgenstern

12:00 PM: Culture Quest: Ukraine -  Streaming & Theater
Director: Ian Grant
Runtime: 60 Minutes

6:15 PM: Fingernails - Theater
Director: Christos Nikou
Runtime: 113 Minutes

9:15 PM: Ghosts of the Void -  Theater
Director: Jason Miller
Runtime: 88 Minutes

3:45 PM: Happy New Year Jamie Morgenstern -  Streaming & Theater
Director: Ben Wang
Runtime: 13 Minutes

1:45 PM: Hello In Here -  Theater
Director: Casey McAdams
Runtime: 91 Minutes

8:45 PM: Hundreds of Beavers -  Theater
Director: Mike Cheslik
Runtime: 108 Minutes

3:45 PM: Mendo’s Carousel -  Streaming & Theater
Director: David Michael Maurer
Runtime: 13 Minutes

3:45 PM: Kisses - Streaming & Theater
Director: Alicia Moore & Maddie Tatum
Runtime: 5 Minutes

1:30 PM: Mom & Dad’s Nipple Factory  - Theater
Director: Justinsuperstar
Runtime: 81 Minutes

4:00 PM: My Partner - Theater
Director: Keli'i Grace
Runtime: 98 Minutes

October 21, 2023

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt - Streaming & Theater
12:00 PM: A Winter Love
Director: Rhiana Yazzie
Runtime: 91 Minutes

5:00 PM: All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt -  Theater
Director: Raven Jackson
Runtime: 92 Minutes

7:15 PM: All of Us Strangers - Theater
Director: Andrew Haigh
Runtime: 105 Minutes

2:45 PM: Big Boys - Theater
Director: Corey Sherman
Runtime: 90 Minutes

4:30 PM: Boifriend - Streaming & Theater
Director: Rebecca Marquardt & Lane Michael Stanley
Runtime: 10 Minutes

10:15 AM: Break the Game - Streaming & Theater
Director: Jane M. Wagner
Runtime: 73 Minutes

4:30 PM: Cardiff - Streaming & Theater
Director: Sarah Smith
Runtime: 25 Minutes

10:45 AM: Curses -  Theater
Runtime: 45 Minutes

4:30 PM: EITR - Streaming & Theater
Director: Fateema Al-Hamaydeh Miller
Runtime: 15 Minutes

2:15 PM: Jess Plus None - Streaming & Theater
Director: Mandy Fabian
Runtime: 101 Minutes

7:30 PM: No Right Way - Theater
Director: Chelsea Bo
Runtime: 103 Minutes

4:30 PM: Not as Straight as This Line - Streaming & Theater
Director: Marigny Adelman
Runtime: 4 Minutes

4:30 PM: NOVENA - Streaming & Theater
Director: Fernando Lopez
Runtime: 16 Minutes

4:30 PM: Paper Planes - Streaming & Theater
Director: Alyssa Thordarson, Michael Glover Smith
Runtime: 17 Minutes

4:30 PM: Queer Life (Shorts Block) - Streaming & Theater
Director: Multiple Directors
Runtime: 102 Minutes

4:30 PM: Rearview - Streaming & Theater
Director: Victor Kirksey-Brown
Runtime: 14 Minutes

10:00 AM: Shape Island -  Theater
Runtime: 30 Minutes

9:30 PM: Suitable Flesh - Theater
Director: Joe Lynch
Runtime: 100 Minutes

October 22, 2023

10:30 AM: Aliens Abducted My Parents And Now I Feel Kinda Left Out -  Theater
Director: Jake Van Wagoner
Runtime: 87 Minutes

10:00 AM: DancingDADS -  Streaming & Theater
Director: Oliver Oertel
Runtime: 72 Minutes

4:30 PM: Dealing With Dad -  Streaming & Theater
Director: Tom Huang
Runtime: 106 Minutes

7:15 PM: Edge of Insanity -  Theater
Director: Barry Andersson
Runtime: 81 Minutes

2:45 PM: Escaping Ohio - Theater
Director: Jessica Michael Davis
Runtime: 81 Minutes

12:15 PM: Finding Our Wild -  Streaming & Theater
Director: Aditya Joshi & Sid Gopinath
Runtime: 16 Minutes

11:45 AM: Greener Pastures - Theater
Director: Samuel-Ali Mirpoorian
Runtime: 85 Minutes

12:15 PM: Hammpions -  Streaming & Theater
Director: Krystal Kelley
Runtime: 33 Minutes

2:15 PM: I Like Movies - Theater
Director: Chandler Levack
Runtime: 99 Minutes

10:15 AM: Imagining The Indian: The Fight Against Native American Mascoting -  Streaming & Theater
Director: Ben West (Cheyenne) and Aviva Kempner
Runtime: 95 Minutes

6:15 PM: Incompleteness, Part 2 - Theater
Director: Dave Ash
Runtime: 140 Minutes

12:15 PM: Justice for Batman: The Mark Racop Case -  Streaming & Theater
Director: Aidan Merck
Runtime: 12 Minutes

12:15 PM: Real-Life Champions (Documentary Shorts Block) -  Streaming & Theater
Director: Multiple Directors
Runtime: 90 Minutes

12:30 PM: Skilled - Theater
Director: Julio Palacio
Runtime: 37 Minutes

12:15 PM: Soundscape -  Streaming & Theater
Director: Timmy ONeill
Runtime: 14 Minutes

4:45 PM: Still Working 9 to 5 -  Streaming & Theater
Director: Gary Lane and Camille Hardman
Runtime: 90 Minutes

2:00 PM: The Stones and Brian Jones -  Theater
Director: Nick Broomfield
Runtime: 93 Minutes

7:00 PM: The Taste of Things -  Theater
Director: Anh Hung Tran
Runtime: 145 Minutes

October 23, 2023

7:00 PM: Foe - Theater
Director: Garth Davis
Runtime: 108 Minutes
Hen and Junior farm a secluded piece of land that has been in Junior's family for generations, but their quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal.

October 24, 2023

6:00 PM: A Little Prayer - Theater
Director: Angus MacLachlan
Runtime: 91 Minutes

7:45 PM: Daruma -  Theater
Director: Alexander Yellen
Runtime: 104 Minutes

8:00 PM: Elite Match - Streaming & Theater
Director: Kathy Meng
Runtime: 14 Minutes

8:15 PM: Hiding Places - Theater
Director: Brad Barnes
Runtime: 86 Minutes

8:00 PM: Mine Mine Mine - Streaming & Theater
Director: Duncan Ragg
Runtime: 20 Minutes

8:00 PM: Sayah - Streaming & Theater
Director: Hannah Rosalie Wright
Runtime: 5 Minutes

8:00 PM: Serenity - Streaming & Theater
Director: Ryan Stopera
Runtime: 14 Minutes

8:00 PM: The Day of - Streaming & Theater
Director: Umar Malik
Runtime: 18 Minutes

8:00 PM: The Invite - Streaming & Theater
Director: Catherine Licata
Runtime: 12 Minutes

8:00 PM: The Walk - Streaming & Theater
Director: Hannah Hayes
Runtime: 5 Minutes

8:00 PM: When Life Pushes, Push Back (Drama Shorts Block) - Streaming & Theater
Director: Multiple Directors
Runtime: 91 Minutes

October 25, 2023

5:45 PM: A View of the World from Fifth Avenue - Streaming & Theater
Director: Fiona Robert
Runtime: 96 Minutes

8:00 PM: Boys at Twenty - Theater
Director: Isaac Dell
Runtime: 75 Minutes

5:00 PM: Housekeeping for Beginners - Theater
Director: Goran Stolevski
Runtime: 107 Minutes

8:30 PM: Know Your Place -  Theater
Director: Zia Mohajerjasbi
Runtime: 125 Minutes

7:30 PM: The Teachers’ Lounge - Theater
Director: Ilker Çatak
Runtime: 98 Minutes

October 26, 2023

7:45 PM: A Disturbance in the Force - Theater
Director: Jeremy Coon & Steve Kozak
Runtime: 87 Minutes

1:45 PM: Arise Firebird -  Theater
Director: Jimi Okubanjo
Runtime: 80 Minutes

3:15 PM: Golden Delicious - Theater
Director: Jason Karman
Runtime: 120 Minutes

3:00 PM: Loren & Rose - Streaming & Theater
Director: Russell Brown
Runtime: 83 Minutes

1:15 PM: Mariposas del Campo - Streaming & Theater
Director: Bill Yahraus
Runtime: 85 Minutes

5:00 PM: Oyate - Streaming & Theater
Director: Brandon Jackson, Emil Benjamin
Runtime: 91 Minutes

4:00 PM: Playing Sam - Theater
Director: Ramon Pesante
Runtime: 89 Minutes

12:00 PM: Powerlands - Streaming & Theater
Director: Ivey-Camille Manybeads Tso
Runtime: 75 Minutes

9:15 PM: Scrap - Streaming & Theater
Director: Vivian Kerr
Runtime: 105 Minutes

12:15 PM: The Juneteenth Story: From Galveston, TX to Minnesota - Streaming & Theater
Director: Monique Linder
Runtime: 30 Minutes

6:15 PM: Translators - Theater
Director: Rudy Valdez
Runtime: 21 Minutes

October 27, 2023

2:15 PM: 2020 Chaos and Hope - Streaming & Theater
Director: June Beallor
Runtime: 95 Minutes

12:15 PM: A Crack in the Mountain - Streaming & Theater
Director: Alastair Evans
Runtime: 100 Minutes

6:15 PM, 6:45 PM: Abroad - Theater
Director: Giovanni Fumu
Runtime: 90 Minutes

9:00 PM: Bin Day - Streaming & Theater
Director: Ryan Neil Butler
Runtime: 9 Minutes

3:45 PM: Birthing Justice - Streaming & Theater
Director: Monique N. Matthews
Runtime: 86 Minutes

4:00 PM: Deep Rising - Theater
Director: Matthieu Rytz
Runtime: 93 Minutes

9:00 PM: Get Away - Streaming & Theater
Director: Michael Gabriele
Runtime: 15 Minutes

9:00 PM: It Heads Home - Streaming & Theater
Director: Richard Louprasong
Runtime: 4 Minutes

8:15 PM: Jonah - Streaming & Theater
Director: Ben Van Kleek
Runtime: 89 Minutes

9:00 PM: Killer in a Small Town - Streaming & Theater
Director: Clinton Cornwell
Runtime: 18 Minutes

2:00 PM: King Coal - Streaming & Theater
Director: Elaine McMillion Sheldon
Runtime: 78 Minutes

9:00 PM:  Little Anna - Streaming & Theater
Director: J. Batzli
Runtime: 16 Minutes

12:30 PM: My Indian Name - Theater
Director: Abraham Cote
Runtime: 46 Minutes

8:30 PM: Showdown at the Grand - Theater
Director: Orson Oblowitz
Runtime: 92 Minutes

9:00 PM: TAP - Streaming & Theater
Director: Vanessa M. H. Powers
Runtime: 7 Minutes

4:15 PM: The Disappearance of Shere Hite - Theater
Director: Nicole Newnham
Runtime: 116 Minutes

6:00 PM: The Nana Project - Theater
Director: Robin Givens
Runtime: 84 Minutes

9:00 PM: The Puppet King - Streaming & Theater
Director: Nick Michael
Runtime: 7 Minutes

October 28, 2023

10:00 AM: A Binding Truth - Theater
Director: Louise Woehrle
Runtime: 92 Minutes

8:30 PM: ABSURDLY FUNNY (Comedy Shorts Block) - Streaming & Theater
FILMS INCLUDE:
- All Choked Up
- South Pasadena 3
- Wiener
- The Washing Machine
- Noodles Forever
- Grandma Lee's Dress
- HANGMAN
- Curiosity
- No Words
Director: Multiple Directors
Runtime: 99 Minutes

8:30 PM: All Choked Up - Streaming & Theater
Director: Allison Volk
Runtime: 4 Minutes

5:30 PM: American Fiction - Theater
Director: Cord Jefferson
Runtime: 117 Minutes

12:00 PM: Art + Medicine: Speaking of Race - Streaming & Theater
Director: Brittany Shrimpton
Runtime: 57 Minutes

6:00 PM: BLACK VOICES MN (Shorts Block) - Streaming & Theater
FILMS INCLUDE:
- Unplugged
- The Cherry Man
- Mother's Tongue
- Literacy for Freedom: Empowering Black Boys in Minnesota
- Woven
- Preschool to Prison
- Prom Party
Director: Multiple Directors
Runtime: 100 Minutes

12:15 PM: Covid Confessions: Filmmakers and Festival Organizers - Theater
Director: Alec Fischer
Runtime: 30 Minutes

8:30 PM: Curiosity - Streaming & Theater
Director: James Sunshine
Runtime: 15 Minutes

8:15 PM: Downtown Owl - Theater
Director: Hamish Linklater, Lily Rabe
Runtime: 91 Minutes

8:30 PM: Grandma Lee’s Dress - Streaming & Theater
Director: Janalee Budge
Runtime: 10 Minutes

8:30 PM:  HANGMAN - Streaming & Theater
Director: Megan Brotherton
Runtime: 15 Minutes

6:00 PM: Literacy for Freedom: Empowering Black Boys in Minnesota - Streaming & Theater
Director: Deacon Warner
Runtime: 16 Minutes

2:00 PM: Losing Grip - Theater
Director: Steven Nye
Runtime: 61 Minutes

6:00 PM: Mother’s Tongue - Streaming & Theater
Director: D. Wilmos Paul
Runtime: 15 Minutes

8:30 PM: No Words - Streaming & Theater
Director: Ryan Sheehy
Runtime: 13 Minutes

8:30 PM: Noodles Forever - Streaming & Theater
Director: McKinley Carlin
Runtime: 12 Minutes

10:15 AM: Patrick and the Whale - Theater
Director: Mark Fletcher
Runtime: 72 Minutes

6:00 PM: Preschool to Prison - Streaming & Theater
Director: Dr. Karen Baptiste
Runtime: 16 Minutes

Date: October 19 - 28, 2023

Location: Online and Showplace ICON Theatre, 1625 West End Boulevard,  Saint Louis Park, MN 55416

TICKETS
General Admission (In Person): $12
Spotlight (in Person) $20
TCFF Streams (Online Films): $9

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