The 23rd Annual Tallgrass Film Festival will screen 188 Films, 14 World Premieres from October 16th – October 19th 2025
The 23rd Annual Tallgrass Film Festival Announces Full Film Selection
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Wichita, Kan. (September 12th, 2025) — The Tallgrass Film Festival (Tallgrass) announces the selection for its 23rd edition. This year’s festival will feature 14 World Premieres, 1 International Premiere, 10 North American Premieres, 7 USA Premieres, 60 Regional Premieres, and 87 Kansas Premieres. The full selection includes 38 features, 150 short films and the addition of a Music Video category. Highlighted in this release are films in the feature film competitions. Feature Films that are playing out of competition, Gala Films, and short films paired with those films were announced in this release dated September 5th, 2025.
Over the 4 day festival, Tallgrass will present 111 Film programs across 3 venues. The main venue for the festival this year is Boulevard Theatres at Old Town. Friday and Saturday evening will have films screened at the Mary Jane Teall Theatre at Century II, additional screenings will also take place at the Emily Bonavia Tallgrass Film Center. Tickets for all in-person screenings are available for purchase online at tff25.eventive.org.
Following the in-person festival a selection of festival films will be screened virtually from October 20th-October 27th. Full Virtual Announcement on Friday, September 19th.
Tickets for virtual screenings will be available via the same link starting on Friday, September 19th as well.
The festival will also produce a series of panels on a variety of topics relevant to today’s filmmakers, from a dialogue between last year’s winners to a conversation on film festival strategy, a discussion of documentary filmmaking today, and more.
We are so proud to announce the full selection of this year’s Tallgrass Film Festival. With over 180 total films this is one of the festivals with the most to offer to our audience. This year we welcome the Music Video category as well, which hopefully will give our audience a new experience and potentially attract new viewership too. A point of pride for this edition is the fact that close to half of the features are directed by women. Another highlight is how “fresh” the program is, with the majority of the films having been completed in 2025. The Tallgrass viewers can be happy to know that their eyes will be some of the very first to see this amazing line up of the best in Stubbornly Independent cinema.
– Andre Seward, Programming Director
“This year’s lineup of films reflect a diverse range of voices, stories and experiences that we can’t wait to share with the greater Wichita community and beyond.” – Sierra Franklin-Morton, Interim Executive Director
Below are the feature films in competition as well as short films in Alphabetical Order. For more information, showtimes, passes and tickets, visit tff25.eventive.org.
FEATURE COMPETITION:
STUBBORNLY INDEPENDENT
Abigail Before Beatrice | Regional Premiere | Cassie Keet | 109m | USA | 2025
An isolated woman is confronted by her past when a fellow former cult member reaches out with news that their leader has been released from prison early.
Anything That Moves | Kansas Premiere | Alex Phillips | 81m | USA | 2025
Liam bikes through Chicago delivering snacks and pure satisfaction to his love-hungry clients while a serial killer leaves a trail of blood that leads to the innocent lover’s own bed.
If You Should Leave Before Me | Kansas Premiere | 120m
- Markus Anderson, Boyd Anderson | USA | 2025
Mark and Joshua, a married couple, face a devastating loss that strains their relationship. To escape grief, they focus on their unconventional jobs as guides for the recently deceased, leading them to the afterlife.
NARRATIVE FEATURE
Fucktoys | Kansas Premiere | Annapurna Sriram | 106m | USA | 2025
A bubblegum grindhouse adventure through sunny and romantic Trashtown, USA.
Lijepa večer, lijep dan [Beautiful Day, Beautiful Evening]
| Kansas Premiere | Ivona Juka | | 137m | Croatia | 2024
The pursuit of freedom becomes a fight for survival .
Our Hero, Balthazar | Regional Premiere | Oscar Boyson | 91m | USA | 2025
“Ultra-wealthy NYC teenager Balthy makes dramatic gun control videos to impress his activist crush. When an online troll targets his content, Balthy becomes convinced he’s communicating with a potential school shooter and embarks on an ill-advised journey to Texas to confront him.”
Under The Lights | Kansas Premiere | Miles Levin | 108m | USA | 2025
Sam, a boy with epilepsy, is so desperate to feel normal that he wants to go to prom knowing the lights will cause a seizure.
What Comes Next | Regional Premiere | Alex Caulfield | 92m | Canada | 2025
In the summer before she heads off to college, 17-year-old Tanya starts up a relationship with an older family friend who, unbeknownst to her, had an affair with her mother, Laura, a decade earlier.
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
A Brief History of Chasing Storms | Regional Premiere | Curtis Miller | 70m | USA | 2025
A roving, episodic road film chasing the mythologies of the American tornado.
Coroner to the Stars | Kansas Premiere | Ben Hethcoat, Keita Ideno | 83m | USA | 2025
Dr. Thomas Noguchi’s high-profile autopsies of icons like Marilyn Monroe, Robert Kennedy, and Natalie Wood thrust him into the spotlight, earning him the nickname ‘Coroner to the Stars’—while sparking backlash from Hollywood elites and political adversaries in a city obsessed with fame and celebrity.
Diamond Diplomacy | Regional Premiere | Yuriko Gamo Romer | 88m | USA, Japan | 2025 Diamond Diplomacy explores the long and complex relationship between the U.S. and Japan through the shared love of baseball, revealing a moving diplomatic history that spans generations. The film features a cross-cultural lineup of baseball legends, including Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Ichiro Suzuki (newly inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame this summer), and Shohei Ohtani, and makes a powerful case for sports as a conduit for international healing, connection, and resilience.
It’s Dorothy! | Kansas Premiere | Jeffrey McHale | 97m | USA | 2025
Since her first adventure in L. Frank Baum’s classic “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” Dorothy Gale has been on countless journeys, reintroduced and reimagined, and become a cultural touchpoint for many. This joyous documentary explores an iconic American heroine’s legacy and our universal quest for identity and belonging.
Remaining Native | Kansas Premiere | Paige Bethmann | 87m | USA | 2025
Remaining Native is a coming-of-age documentary told from the perspective of Kutoven (Ku) Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner, struggling to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete as the memory of his great-grandfather’s escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, and future.
حالة عشق – (Halatu ‘Ishq) [A State of Passion] | Kansas Premiere
Carol Mansour & Muna Khalidi | 90m | Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, UK, Kuwait | 2024
After bearing witness to the unprecedented horrors of an ongoing genocide, a war surgeon emerges from Gaza calling for justice and accountability.
GORDON PARKS AWARD FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE IN FILMMAKING
A Mess of Memories | Regional Premiere | Ebony Blanding | 77m | USA | 2024
“When siblings return home to save their mother from losing the family home to hoarding, they unearth long-buried wounds, and unexpected healing, for themselves and each
Other.”
It Comes In Waves | Kansas Premiere | Fitch Jean | 105m | Canada | 2025
After tragedy strikes, a 17-year-old Rwandan-Canadian teen must protect his younger sister from being taken by child services—until a violent act forces him to choose between holding on and letting go.
Meta Take One | Kansas Premiere | John Dierre, Ryan Dutter | 96m | USA | 2025
An obsessive young director & his crew plunge into a frantic night long odyssey of desperation to finish his film no matter the cost.
Seeds | Kansas Premiere | Brittany Shyne | 123m | USA | 2025
A look into the lives of Black generational farmers, unveiling the challenges of maintaining legacy and the value of land ownership.
KANSAS FILMMAKER FEATURE
$POSITIONS | Kansas Premiere | Brandon Daley | 98m | USA | 2025
An Autumn Summer | Kansas Premiere | Jared Isaac | 98m | USA | 2025
In a magical lake town, one couple and four best friends spend the final month before college chasing an endless summer.
Flood | Kansas Premiere | Katy Scoggin | 75m | USA | 2025
Filmmaker Katy Scoggin journeys home to the Inland Empire, revisiting her evangelical roots and finding humanity and common ground with her estranged father.
Let’s Talk Shop | World Premiere | Sara and Charity Harmon | 45m | USA | 2025
A documentary about Innes and Henry’s, two of Wichita’s biggest department stores, that provided a fashionable downtown shopping experience in the 20th century.
Taffy: A Divine Instrument Against the Demonic Forces of Evil | World Premiere
Colter Lemmon | 74m | USA | 2025
If you thought teen-parent relationships were hard, try adding Satan.
MURMURATIONS FEATURE
Difference & Repetition, 2020 | Regional Premiere | Mav Block | 86m | Peru | 2025
A manic audiovisual fantasia in which a woman reconstructs the destruction of her marriage during lockdown in 2020.
La Libertad de Fierro [The Freedom of Fierro] | Kansas Premiere
Santiago Esteinou | 96m | Mexico | 2024
César Fierro has just become a free man and he needs to rebuild his life after being wrongly sentenced to death in Texas. He spent most of his life in solitary confinement deprived of any physical contact with other human beings. Despite the challenges, César remains determined to find true freedom. “The Freedom of Fierro” is the second part of the documentary “The Years of Fierro”, directed by Santiago Esteinou in 2014.
LOS AHOGADOS [DEEP END] | International Premiere
Juan Sebastián Jácome | 86m | Ecuador | 2024
Niñxs | Regional Premiere | Kani Lapuerta | 86m | Mexico, Germany | 2025
While Karla navigates her transition, Kani shapes eight years of footage into a joyful film, as they handle the vagaries of a rural trans adolescence together.
Un mundo para mí [Newborn] | Regional Premiere
Alejandro Zuno | 104m | Mexico | 2024
When their first baby is born with both female and male features, a young couple faces a huge dilemma: while he thinks they should assign a sex surgically to their child as doctors advise, she gets to know other intersex people and listens to their experiences, starting to believe that they should let their baby’s body as it is. Their differences go stronger and a decision has to be made; the most difficult of their life.
OUT OF COMPETITION FEATURE
Rennie | Kansas Premiere | Jessica Dressler, Jen Frank Klenke | 101m | USA | 2024
A hilarious voyeuristic look into a found family of eccentrics working to save their small town’s Renaissance Festival.
SHORT COMPETITION CATEGORIES:
NARRATIVE SHORT
All Beauty Queens Have Broken Bones | Regional Premiere | Max Tullio | 8m | USA | 2025
All The Real Boys | World Premiere | Ohad Ira Amram | 11m | USA | 2025
Amar Comrade [My Comrade] | Regional Premiere | Tathagata Ghosh | 25m | India | 2025
And Usted También | Regional Premiere
Andrea Cañizares-Fernandez; Emilia Mendieta Córdova | 4m | USA | 2024
anniversary_6 | North American Premiere | Carmen I. Perez | 14m | USA | 2024
Appetite | World Premiere | Chris Shaw | 4m | USA | 2025
Are You a Friend of Dorothy? | Regional Premiere | Andrés García | 9m | USA | 2025
Baby Tooth | Regional Premiere | Olivia Accardo | 6m | USA | 2024
Braids | World Premiere | Elise Beers | 14m | USA | 2024
Cherry-Colored Funk | Kansas Premiere | Chelsie Pennello | 17m | USA | 2025
COW HEAVY AND FLORAL | Regional Premiere | Richa Rudola | 15m | USA | 2024
Deux Personnes échangeant de la Salive [Two People Exchanging Saliva]
Kansas Premiere | Natalie Musteata, Alexandre Singh | 36m | France | 2024
Finding Daddy | Kansas Premiere | Emily Wilson | 12m | USA | 2025
Flamingo | Regional Premiere | Sarah Avilés | 11m | USA | 2025
Flash Warning | Regional Premiere | Allegra Leguizamo | 10m | USA | 2024
Forest Echoes | Kansas Premiere | Eva Grant | 19m | Canada | 2024
Giving Mom the Talk | Kansas Premiere | Vidhya Iyer | 14m | USA | 2024
HAND | World Premiere | Jennifer Winterbotham | 18m | USA | 2025
Hatchlings | Regional Premiere | Jahmil Eady | 15m | USA | 2025
Healing Hands | Regional Premiere | Jordan Ochel | 14m | USA | 2024
Holy Curse | Kansas Premiere | Snigdha Kapoor | 16m | India | 2024
IDAHO | North American Premiere | Franky DEMOULIN | 24m | France | 2024
Legend of Fry-Roti: Rise of the Dough | Kansas Premiere | Sabrina Saleha | 9m | USA | 2025
Magical Meat | Regional Premiere | Eric Boadella | 13m | USA | 2025
MEOW! | Regional Premiere | Michal Vojtech and Ariel de la Garza Davidoff | 14m
Czech Republic | 2024
Miraculous Accident | North American Premiere | Assaf Gruber | 30m | Poland | 2025
MONEY TALK$ | Regional Premiere | Tony Mucci | 33m | USA | 2025
Nightbirds | North American Premiere | Maria Estela Paiso & Ashok Vish | 14m | Philippines | 2024
No Hands | Regional Premiere | Joslyn Jensen | 6m | USA | 2024
Oceania | Kansas Premiere | Valentin Noujaïm | 24m | France | 2024
One Day This Kid | Kansas Premiere | Alexander Farah | 18m | Canada | 2024
Patina | Regional Premiere | Jake Hull | 12m | USA | 2025
Queerbait | Regional Premiere | Nate Gualtieri | 10m | USA | 2025
Recesses | Regional Premiere | Dylan Trupiano | 16m | USA | 2025
Ride or Die | Regional Premiere | Liliana Tandon | 10m | USA | 2025
Squall Mouth | World Premiere | Eva Chaitman | 14m | USA | 2025
Such A Pretty Girl | Kansas Premiere | Deborah Puette | 7m | USA | 2025
The Fundamentals | Kansas Premiere | Kyle Yazzie | 11m | USA | 2024
The Wishing Wand | Regional Premiere | Jane Kathleen Fraser | 3m | USA | 2024
When Were We Human | World Premiere | Umar Malik | 12 | USA | 2025
Ya Hanouni | Kansas Premiere | Lyna Tadount & Sofian Chouaib | 3m | France | 2024
عيد [Eid] | Regional Premiere | Rame Ibrahim | 12m | Turkey | 2024
Synthesize Me | Kansas Premiere | Bear Damen | 16m | Mexico | 2024
PURPLE PATROL! | Kansas Premiere | Jessica Q. Moore | 8m | USA | 2025
She Raised Me | Kansas Premiere | Ben Lewis | 14m | USA | 2025
THUMP | Kansas Premiere | 12m | USA | 2024
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Apocalypse | Regional Premiere | Benoit Méry | 15m | France | 2024
Daily Worker | Kansas Premiere | Ting Su | 10m | USA | 2025
Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune | Kansas Premiere | Dominic Yarabe | 18m
Ivory Coast | 2024
How the West Was Fun | Kansas Premiere | Sue Ding, Sarah Garrahan | 14m | USA | 2025
I Wanted To Hear Your Voice | Kansas Premiere | James Pellerito | 12m | USA | 2025
Idle Warriors | Kansas Premiere | Molly Stark-Ragsdale | 19m | USA | 2025
If I Can Dream | Luis Cross | 12m | UK | 2024
In Totality | Regional Premiere | Jesse Rudoy | 13m | USA | 2025
Lanawaru | Regional Premiere | Angello Faccini Rueda | 16m | Colombia | 2024
My Tía during an Eclipse | Regional Premiere | Christina Humphrey | 14m | USA | 2024
Mystery Seeds | Regional Premiere | Nathan Truesdell | 9m | USA, China | 2025
Orgy Every Other Day | Kansas Premiere | Samuel Döring | 13m | USA | 2024
perfectly a strangeness | Regional Premiere | Alison McAlpine | 15m | Chile | 2024
Shotgun Baby | Kansas Premiere | Lorraine Sovern | 10m | USA | 2024
The Congress | Regional Premiere | Eko Krisna and Matthew Beighley | 12m
Indonesia | 2025
The Conscience Files | Regional Premiere | Brian Bolster | 14m | USA | 2025
如你所愿 [Correct Me If I’m Wrong] | Kansas Premiere | Hao Zhou | 23m | China | 2025
A Nobody With Two Faces | Regional Premiere | Xavier Alexander | 10m | USA | 2025
Cake For Breakfast | North American Premiere | Owen McCourt | 2m | USA | 2024
Double Dribble | World Premiere | Walker Grossi | 15m | USA | 2024
Farmer’s Farm | USA Premiere | Dakota Haughbrook | 2m | USA | 2024
Five Stages of a Crush | Regional Premiere | Lily Allison | 9m | USA | 2025
Grim Sleuth of a Monkey’s Truth | USA Premiere | Miguel Smet, Ethan Pinto | 6m
USA | 2024
Just One More | USA Premiere | Bingqing Liu | 4m | China, Singapore | 2025
Late For a Date | Regional Premiere | Dexter Shaffer, Jupiter Chapman | 3m | USA | 2025
Patriot | Regional Premiere | Audrey Maxon | 19m | USA | 2025
Propagate | Kansas Premiere | Mia Evans | 6m | USA | 2024
The Backseat | Benjamin Shore | 14m | USA | 2025
The ugly one | Kansas Premiere | Emry Costilla | 8m | USA | 2025
What Goes Around Comes Around | Kansas Premiere | Nathan Danese | 4m | USA | 2024
GORDON PARKS FOR BLACK EXCELLENCE IN FILMMAKING SHORT
ADO | Regional Premiere | Sam Henderson | 16m | USA | 2025
BABA | USA Premiere | Fitzgerald Junior | 13m | USA | 2025
BALDY The Film | Regional Premiere | Eddie Griffith | 16m | USA | 2024
Intruder | Kansas Premiere | Camille Casmier | 13m | USA | 2024
LICK BACK | Marielle Gutermann | 12m | Germany | 2024
MUNCHIES | Kansas Premiere | Brittany Alexia Young | 11m | USA | 2025
Nay Day |Derek Ugochukwu | 13m | Ireland | 2024
Surgeons | Kansas Premiere | Damon Royster | 12m | USA | 2025
PURPLE PATROL! | Kansas Premiere | Jessica Q. Moore | 8m | USA | 2025
KANSAS FILMMAKER SHORT
12 HOURS | Kansas Premiere | Kelly Stanphill | 13m | USA | 2025
Cozumo Root | North American Premiere | Derek Norris, Jackson Stofka | 9m | USA | 2023
Derby | Kansas Premiere | Aisha Amin | 13m | USA | 2025
For the Birds | USA Premiere | Jordan Breindel, Jeremy Gilberto | 4m | USA | 2025
Kansas, 1989 | Kansas Premiere | Clayton Dean Smith | 14m | USA | 2025
Matt’s Monsters | Blaise Webster | 14m | USA | 2025
Osa Johnson: Queen of the Jungle | Kansas Premiere | Mason Vietti | 5m | USA | 2025
Puzzles | Brett Eitzen | 9m | USA | 2025
Superzeroes | World Premiere | Ben Cleveland | 2m | USA | 2025
Sylvia’s Stone | Kansas Premiere | Declan Franey | 14m | USA | 2025
The Living Room – A Short Film | Regional Premiere | Jake Glover | 10m | USA | 2024
Who Raised You? | Regional Premiere | Dani Guzman | 10m | USA | 2024
MURMURATIONS SHORT
En la noche caminamos solos [At Night We Walk Alone] | North American Premiere
Rafa Alberola | 20m | Spain | 2024
Imade | Kansas Premiere | Ignacio Acconcia González | 28m | Spain | 2024
La Piñata De Marcel [Marcel’s Piñata] | Regional Premiere | Manuel Trotta | 15m | USA | 2025
Paradise Buffet | Kansas Premiere | Héctor Zafra,Santi Amézqueta | 8m | Spain | 2024
Saq Nikté y El Espíritu de la Máscara [Saq Nikté and the Spirit of the Mask]
Kansas Premiere | Ester Weiner | 5m | Guatemala | 2025
SYNTHESIZE ME | Kansas Premiere | Bear Damen | 16m | Mexico | 2024
VORTEX EXPERIMENTAL
5-cent American Flag | Kansas Premiere | Vito A. Rowlands | 6m | USA | 2024
A Poem | Kansas Premiere | Vasilios Papaioannu | 3m | USA, Greece, Italy | 2025
Becquerel | Regional Premiere | Daniel Vettorazi & McKenzie Stubbert | 4m | USA | 2024
Borders | Regional Premiere | Kira Powell and Mads Fridolin Vejlby | 3m | USA | 2025
Death Is The Bridge | Kansas Premiere | Stephen Mlinarcik | 6m | USA | 2023
Decomp Disco | Kansas Premiere | Russell Sheaffer & Aaron Michael Smith | 5m | USA | 2024
Hollowgram | Kansas Premiere | Laura Iancu | 7m | Romania | 2025
Lost Pieces of Her | Kansas Premiere | Sofie Jo Lebow | 3m | Czechia | 2024
Manakin | North American Premiere | Kasey Oldford | 4m | USA | 2025
Monument | Kansas Premiere | Jeremy Drummond | 18m | USA | 2025
Muses | Regional Premiere | Simon Vermeulen | 7m | Canada | 2025
PIN | World Premiere | MJ Golzari | 5m | USA | 2025
Stroad Movie | Regional Premiere | Pablo Nez Garcia | 10m | USA | 2025
Tooth & Nail | Kansas Premiere | Francesca Roth | 12m | USA | 2025
Wall Udder | Regional Premiere | Alexandra Hayden | 9m | USA | 2025
VORTEX ANIMATION
A Beautiful Day | Regional Premiere | Justin Dean | 6m | USA | 2024
A Time Before | Regional Premiere | Leo Metcalf | 13m UK | 2024
And a Little for Me | Kansas Premiere | Kathryn Roake | 6m | USA | 2024
Creatures of Chaos | Regional Premiere | Asavari Kumar | 7m | USA, Denmark | 2025
I Beg Your Pardon | Kansas Premiere | John W. Lustig | 5m | USA | 2024
Kid President | Kansas Premiere | Yadid Hirschtritt Licht | 6m | USA | 2024
Objects in Mirror | Regional Premiere | Nandini Sarkar | 2m | USA | 2025
Paint | USA Premiere | Angeline Ameloot | 1m | USA | 2025
Plazer bat [A pleasure] | USA Premiere | Sonia Estévez | 4m | Spain | 2024
Pow! | Kansas Premiere | Joey Clift | 9m | USA | 2025
The GOAT | Kansas Premiere | Dean E. Kobs | 6m | USA | 2024
The View | North American Premiere | Alli Sadegiani | 18m | Sweden | 2025
There’s a Robbery in Progress | Kansas Premiere | Morgan Miller | 4m | UK | 2025
This Never Happens at Our Age | Regional Premiere | Alexander Greenblatt | 5m
USA | 2024
Tiger Lily Mountain Pass | Kansas Premiere | Nate King | 6m | USA | 2024
VHX | Kansas Premiere | Alisa Stern, Scott Ampleford | 5m | USA, UK | 2024
Where the Tide Whispers | World Premiere | Michelle Mullin | 4m | USA | 2025
MUSIC VIDEO
Agoraphobia | Ashley Wong | 4m | USA | 2025
Before the Dawn | Regional Premiere | Alexander Denysenko | 7m | Ukraine | 2025
Church Bell | Regional Premiere | Naftali Beane Rutter | 4m | USA | 2023
Fool Me Once by Keo & Them | Ryan Crews & Dre Kahmeyer | 5m | USA | 2025
FootRocket – Apple Seed | Kansas Premiere | Zach Strum | 4m | USA | 2024
Forgiveness | Kansas Premiere | Eric Arsnow | 3m | USA | 2025
IKINARI | World Premiere | Nic Altobelli | 3m | Canada | 2025
Luna Llena | Kansas Premiere | Ryan Riddle | 6m | USA | 2024
MOTHERLESS CHILD | Kansas Premiere | Anders Øvergaard, VJUS AS, Oslo Norway | 4m Norway | 2025
Paloma Negra | World Premiere | Steve Condiotti | 4m | USA | 2025
Ruth | Kansas Premiere | Drey Jordan Singer | 4m | USA | 2022
SHAMDEMONIUM | Kansas Premiere | Grace Ann Rathbun | 6m | USA | 2025
Sneakerwave by Boy in the Water | Regional Premiere | Hannah Leikin | 4m | USA | 2024
The Pact | Joel Rodgers, Patrick Marsh, Wesley Kersey, Nathan Tompkins, and Isaac Maas
3m |USA | 2024
Up & Out | Kansas Premiere | Alex Bugg | 3m | USA | 2023
THANE CHASTAIN EMERGING YOUNG FILMMAKER SHORT
A Nobody With Two Faces | Regional Premiere | Xavier Alexander | 10m | USA | 2025
Cake For Breakfast | North American Premiere | Owen McCourt | 2m | USA | 2024
Double Dribble | World Premiere | Walker Grossi | 15m | USA | 2024
Farmer’s Farm | USA Premiere | Dakota Haughbrook | 2m | USA | 2024
Five Stages of a Crush | Regional Premiere | Lily Allison | 9m | USA | 2025
Grim Sleuth of a Monkey’s Truth | USA Premiere | Miguel Smet, Ethan Pinto | 6m
USA | 2024
Just One More | USA Premiere | Bingqing Liu | 4m | China, Singapore | 2025
Late For a Date | Regional Premiere | Dexter Shaffer, Jupiter Chapman | 3m | USA | 2025
Patriot | Regional Premiere | Audrey Maxon | 19m | USA | 2025
Propagate | Kansas Premiere | Mia Evans | 6m | USA | 2024
The Backseat | Benjamin Shore | 14m | USA | 2025
The ugly one | Kansas Premiere | Emry Costilla | 8m | USA | 2025
What Goes Around Comes Around | Kansas Premiere | Nathan Danese | 4m | USA | 2024
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Since its founding in 2003, Tallgrass has grown into one of the largest independent film festivals in the Midwest, welcoming thousands of attendees each year. The festival has been recognized nationally for its commitment to showcasing diverse voices, supporting women and LGBTQ+ filmmakers, and fostering community engagement through film.
About Tallgrass Film Association
Stubbornly Independent since 2003, the Tallgrass Film Festival is the largest in Kansas. A program of the 501(c)3 Tallgrass Film Association, the Festival showcases more than 120 films from around the world, hosts dozens of visiting filmmakers, and includes galas, parties, and educational workshops and panels. In addition to bringing the best of independent cinema to heartland audiences, the Festival is designed to highlight the city’s cultural attractions, including world-class museums, landmarks, and unique local businesses, to visitors and residents alike. Throughout the year, TFA presents independent cinema at the year-round film center in the Lux.
Note: Premiere status is relevant at the time of publication.
Media Contact:
Sierra Franklin-Morton
Interim Executive Director
Tallgrass Film Association
Phone: 316-202-8207
Email: sierra@tallgrassfilm.org
Website: tallgrassfilm.org
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