2025 Schedule of Events

Venue:

Bear Tooth Theatrepub

1230 W.  27th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99503

7:30 PM: Opening Night Film

Burt — Joe Burke – Event Tickets

Venue:

Alaska Experience Theater

333 W. 4th Avenue (NW corner of 4th & C St. – enter on C), Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:00 AM: Feature

1:00 PM: Shorts Block: Mixed Documentary – Event Tickets

  • 35,567 Yupik Stories — Magnus Shipe
  • Building Bub’s Grubs — Loye Miller
  • More Than Convenience — Rew Jones
  • Borrowed Time — Palmer Morse, Derek Knowles
  • Portrait of a Seaweed Farmer: Nick Mangini — Jeff Siebert
  • Sunrise Summer — Erin K. Stein, Ian Mayer

3:30 PM: Feature

  • Sgt. Stubby: An Unlikely Hero — Richard Lanni – Event Tickets

6:00 PM: Shorts Block: Am I the Drama? – Event Tickets

  • Darcine’s Day — Aaron Goffman
  • Life Support — Jamon Tolbert
  • Apricot — Frank Frascella
  • Turpentine — Rita Konopasky, Luke Konopasky
  • Saturday Ritual — Sydne Horton

8:30 PM: Shorts Block: Thrillers – Event Tickets

  • Hide — Brenden Hubbar
  • The Hand of Darkness — Rowan Kelley
  • Confidential Informant — Charlie Lyons
  • Charon — Daniel John Casey
  • Slice — Lauren Hoover, Siri Miller
  • Howard — Austin Bernhardt
  • Fireline — Robin Takao D’Oench
  • Ellie — Vinny O’Brien

Venue:

Anchorage Museum

625 C Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:00 AM: Animation Shorts – Event Tickets

  • Pow! — Joey Clift
  • But I’m a Shoe — Chen Drachman
  • Poncho and Lefty in Chrome Don’t Get Ya Home — Matt Jacobs
  • Holy Heaveness — Farnoosh Abedi, Negah Khezre Fardyardad, Mohammad Ghaffari
  • One Giant Waddle — Kevin Jones
  • Snow Bear — Aaron Blaise
  • A Little Story About Forever — Max Romey

6:30 PM: Feature

Venue:

Bear Tooth Theatrepub

1230 W.  27th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99503

12:00 PM: Feature

3:00 PM: Feature

Venue:

Anchorage Museum

625 C Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:30 AM: Shorts Block: Alaskan Shorts 1 – Event Tickets

  • ILP — Joshua Albeza Branstetter, Laura Norton-Cruz
  • Beyond the Bucket List: From Passion to Ph.D. at Solar Maximum — Adam Rubin
  • The City’s Story — Eliza M. Spangler
  • Fresh Eyes on River Ice — Matthew Scragg
  • Going Home — Anna Tedesco, Kylie Zarmati
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1:00 PM: Feature

3:30 PM: Feature

  • A Little Fellow: The Legacy of A.P. Giannini — Davide Fiore – Event Tickets

6:00 PM: Feature

8:30 PM: Feature

Venue:

Alaska Experience Theater

333 W. 4th Avenue (NW corner of 4th & C St. – enter on C), Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:30 AM: Shorts Block: Family, Culture, and Everything In Between – Event Tickets

  • Divide — Jeanette Buck
  • Experts in a Dying Field — Mitchell Camarda
  • Sometimes I Imagine Your Funeral — Vince Dixon
  • Wait to Tell Mother — Emma Elizabeth Steige
  • The Man Upstairs — Wendy Wang
  • Bible Camp — Philip DeRise
  • BEBO Was Here! — Freddy Caro
  • Out of the House — Brittani Ward

1:00 PM: Feature

3:30 PM: Shorts Block: International Gems – Event Tickets

  • Pierre West — Henrik Larsson, Jakob Arevärn
  • Dark Matter — Leo Berkeley
  • Just Before Dawn — Dustin Bowser
  • The Bride of Mont Blanc — Grace T.S.P

6:00 PM: Shorts Block: Doc Shorts – Event Tickets

  • Ranger of the North — Bradley Bethel
  • Old Lesbians — Meghan McDonough
  • Existential Action Thriller — Stephen Funk
  • Wrecked a Bunch of Cars, Had a Good Time — James P. Gannon, Matt Ferrin
  • Carving Lines — Dmitry Surnin

8:30 PM: Feature

Venue:

E Street Theater

315 E Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:30 AM: Shorts Block: Alaska Made Featurettes – Event Tickets

  • Electrified Alaska — Yasent Oliver
  • Alaska Rescue Story — Mark D. Rose

1:00 PM: Shorts Block: And Now For Something Different – Event Tickets

  • What The Heck Is Going On? — Greg Rubner
  • Extended Warranty — Tess Sullivan, Sara Carpenter
  • Death in The Desert — Anna Long
  • Hearts of Stone — Tom van Avermaet
  • Mom & Max — Jade Song
  • Zombie Revolt — Kevin Jones
  • Reprogrammed — Christopher Guerrero

Venue:

Bear Tooth Theatrepub

1230 W.  27th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99503

5:30 PM: Shorts Block: Female Filmmaker Showcase – Event Tickets

  • Out For Delivery — Chelsea Christer
  • Lemon — Beth Curry
  • Breaking The Tide — Katrin York
  • Flash Warning — Allegra Leguizamo
  • The Things We Keep — Joanna Fernandez
  • My Favorite Murderer — Tina Carbone

8:30 PM: Feature

Venue:

Alaska Experience Theater

333 W. 4th Avenue (NW corner of 4th & C St. – enter on C), Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:30 AM: Shorts Block: Uncensored Shorts – Event Tickets

  • My Age Now — Daniel Talbott
  • People Walk Dogs Late at Night in the Suburbs — Drake Wootton
  • She Said So — Madeline Clayton
  • Unknown, At Large — Andrew Klaus-Vineyard
  • Matt & Megan & Mike Don’t Give a F About Codependency — Justin Lawrence Hoyt
  • Guanaco — Mercedes Jerkovic & Martin Fisner

1:00 PM: Feature

Venue:

E Street Theater

315 E Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

12:00 PM: Shorts Block: International Shorts Block 2 (filmmakers not in attendance) – Event Tickets

  • Mercenaire — Pier-Philippe Chevigny
  • NANI — Mainak Dhar
  • Möbius Loop — Lee Peterkin
  • The Axe Forgets — John Christopher
  • Who Are You, Nanu? — Anjini Taneja Azhar

2:00 PM: Shorts Block: Respecting Earth Short Docs (filmmakers not in attendance) – Event Tickets

  • Free to Grow — Jesse Andrew Clark
  • Sitka’s Hidden Wonders — Ben Hamilton
  • Rewilding Cube Cove | The Kootznoowoo Stewards of Admiralty Island — Lee House
  • Chasing Fins — Tomas Koeck

4:00 PM: Feature

  • Among Thieves — Trevor J. Wallace, Gino R. Caspari – Event Tickets

6:00 PM: Feature

Venue:

E Street Theater

315 E Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

12:00 PM: Shorts Block: Narrative Shorts (filmmakers not in attendance) – Event Tickets

  • COMPOSURE — Windy G Raun
  • Money Talks — Tony Mucci
  • Saturday Class — Carri Chen 
  • Malka — Stacey Maltin
  • Giving Mom the Talk — Vidhya Iyer

2:00 PM: Shorts Block: Narrative Shorts (filmmakers not in attendance) – Event Tickets

  • Randy As Himself — Margaret Miller
  • Arman — Farzad Kiyafar
  • Coconut + Pistol — Gregory Caruso
  • LOVE MACHINE — Jon Clark
  • Everybody’s Sad — Steve Sanders
  • DRAINOMANIA — Christopher Greenslate

4:00 PM: Feature

  • The Fabulous Gold Harvesting Machine — Alfredo Pourailly De La Plaza – Event Tickets

6:00 PM: Feature

  • Sweet Störy — Sarah Justine Kerruish, Matt Maude – Event Tickets

Venue:

Anchorage Museum

625 C Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:30 AM: Feature

  • K’etniyi: The Land Is Speaking — Rory Banyard – Event Tickets

12:30 PM: Feature

2:30 PM: Shorts Block: Comedy – Event Tickets

  • May I Put You On Hold? — Ash Blodgett
  • Performance Review — Lain Ewing
  • Margaret the Brave — Danny Chandia
  • Forever After in Love — Boris Schaarschmidt
  • Bad Survivor — Alex Dvorak, Katie North
  • Ts and Ps — Liam Fineout
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5:00 PM: 

  • Alaska Teen Media Institute Afterschool Special – Event Tickets

7:30 PM: Feature

Venue:

Bear Tooth Theatrepub

1230 W.  27th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99503

5:30 PM: Feature

8:30 PM: Feature

Venue:

Alaska Experience Theater

333 W. 4th Avenue (NW corner of 4th & C St. – enter on C), Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:30 AM: Shorts Block: Music Videos – Event Tickets

  • Begin Again — Ava Acres
  • She’s Seen the Sun — Mykele Hill
  • Ideal Distance — Danny Chandia
  • Sky-Sky — Ilya Noyabrev
  • Valerie June – “Joy, Joy!” — Taylor Washington
  • Husse & Sugar Water “Sam” — HyunSoo Lim, Finn Benischek, Heung Joo Hunziker
  • LOSER — Andie Arbo
  • Thera – Stargazer — Steven Cornfield
  • Salmon of Positive Energy — Ben Gordon
  • THE DEEP ROLLING: MAGMA — Robin Scovill
  • Soiree Music Video — Hannah Claire McDaniel, Degosh Reed
  • Money — Tiumaluali’i Jody Hassel
  • She’s So Heroine — Kelly Moneymaker
  • Won’t Be Around — Terry Blade

12:30 PM: Feature

2:30 PM: Feature

Venue:

Anchorage Museum

625 C Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:30 AM: Shorts Block: Doc Shorts 2 – Event Tickets

  • Follow the Flower — Destyn Patera
  • Brewer — Erika Valenciana
  • Corteza — Simon Acosta
  • Liam & Friends — Chad
  • Loki Pete — BJ Bullert
  • Wild Horses at the Door — Carrie Lederer

1:00 PM: Shorts Block: Is It Love? – Event Tickets

  • The Wedding — Matt Latham
  • Te Seguiré a la Oscuridad — Nicholas Luciano 
  • Empano Gleasium — Joe Bowden
  • I’m Not Sure — Mylissa Fitzsimmons
  • Reminisce — Leslie Morris 
  • Tango in Room 1310 — Colin Alistair Campbell
  • Double Date — Hannah Wolf
  • A King’s Curtain — Grant M. Johnson

3:30 PM: Feature

  • I’ve Seen All I Need To See — Zeshaan Younus – Event Tickets

6:00 PM: Feature

8:30 PM: Feature

Venue:

Alaskan Experience

333 W. 4th Avenue (NW corner of 4th & C St. – enter on C), Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:30 AM: Feature

1:00 PM: Shorts Block: Arctic Shorts – Event Tickets

  • Greenland – Living with the Inuit — Josefin Kuschela
  • In Search of the Arctic Fox — Zach Hellmuth
  • Let My People Go Skiing — Ellen Bradley

3:30 PM: Shorts Block: Alaska Doc Shorts – Event Tickets

  • Iditarod: The Loneliest Road — Mason Quinn Schwarz
  • The Story of a Slough — Dawson Brannan 
  • Silver Rush — Kelsey Kroon 
  • Hidden Roots — Brad Hillwig 
  • Swift Current Swimmer — John W. Bushell

6:00 PM: Feature

8:30 PM: Feature

  • The World Outside — Katrine Eichberger, Nikolas Mühe – Event Tickets

Venue:

Anchorage Museum

625 C Street, Anchorage, Alaska 99501

10:00 AM: Feature

Venue:

Alaska Experience Theater

333 W. 4th Avenue (NW corner of 4th & C St. – enter on C), Anchorage, Alaska 99501

8:00 PM: AWARDS CEREMONY

Venue:

Bear Tooth Theater

1230 W.  27th Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska 99503

12:30 PM: Shorts Block: Spotlight Selections – Event Tickets

  • Stronghold — Meghann Artes
  • Christmas IRL — Rochan Liu 
  • The Singers — Sam Davis 
  • Flavor of the Month — Nathan Xia 
  • Forged — Greg Kubik 
  • Masclooking — Jonathan Brandon Hammond 
  • Saverio — Ellen Ancui

3:00 PM: Shorts Block: Native Voices – Event Tickets

  • My Message to You — Wáats’asdíyei Joe Yates 
  • Alutiiq Superhero — Brad Hillwig
  • Shaped by Land — Emily Sullivan
  • Braids — Elise M. Beers
  • Witness: Indigenous Arctic Voices — Ashley Qilavaq-Savard, Carmen Kuptana, Eriel Lugt, Jennifer Kilabuk, Johannes Vang, Marc Fussing Rosbach, and Princess Daazhraaii Johnson 
  • The Woman Who Married a Bear — Kaa Laa Mary Goddard 
  • Two Old Women — Princess Daazhraii Johnson
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