Past Official Selections

ANIMATION

27, DIR Flora Anna Buda, FRANCE

Ecosphere, DIR Vito Pistone, BELGIUM

Eeva, DIRS Lucija Mrzljek, Morten Tsinakov, ESTONIA

Dragonfly, DIR Julia Morizawa, USA

Fogtown, DIRS Sean Parker, Austin Hillebrecht, USA

Gorilla Tactics, DIR Michael Long, USA

Humo (Smoke), DIR Rita Basulto, MEXICO

Isabella and the Moon, DIR Secoya Joaquin, USA

Rosemary A.D. (After Dad), DIR Ethan Barrett, USA

COLLEGE

Crowe, DIR Alessia Devecchi, USA

Hypnosis, DIR Andrew Goodwin, USA

Hysteria, DIR Zachary Alturas Spitz, USA

In Wonderland, DIR Andrea Camacho McCracken, USA

Inside Echo, DIR Grant VU, USA

Power, DIR Emma Grosklos, USA

Reagan/Quigley 85', DIR Elijah Kimmel, USA

Singing in the Lifeboat, DIR Grace Wijaya, USA

Whiskered Away, DIR Gale Smith, USA

COMEDY

Barefoot, DIRS Julia Knox, Kasey Orthmann, USA

Braces 2, DIR Jason Rosenblatt, USA

Catherine & Michael, DIR Kathy Fusco, USA

Dead Cat, DIR Annie-Claude Caron, Danick Audet, CANADA

Fuck Me, Richard, DIRS Lucy Elizabeth McKendrick, Charles Polinger, USA

Method, DIR Trevor Hembling, USA

Nana Dara is Gay, DIR Andrea Maxwell, USA

Retreated, DIR Julia Kots, USA

The Ballad of Tita and the Machines, DIR Miguel Angel Caballero, USA

The Naming of the Things, DIR Gadi Rubin, USA

The Vacation, DIR Jarreau Carrillo, USA

TROY, DIR Mike Donahue, USA

DOCUMENTARY

Blood of Iran, DIR Alicia Afshar, USA

Klever: Life of a Soviet Nonconformist Artist, DIR Nik Kleverov, USA

The Best Chef in the World, DIR Ben Proudfoot, USA

The World According to Pussy Noir, DIR Amy Oden, USA

With the Tide, DIR Chelsea J Jolly, USA

DRAMA

Border Line, DIR Hazel McKibbin, USA

Blue Hour, DIR J.D. Shields, USA

Cycle, DIR Naz Caybasi, TURKEY

Dolly's Room, DIR Mariel Eve Bennett, USA

Eid Mubarek, DIR Mahnoor Euceph, USA

Father's Day, DIR Tumelo Lekena, SOUTH AFRICA

Full Time, DIR Jon Ryan Sugimoto, USA

Hum, DIR Rebecca Tremblay, CANADA

Inganmi, DIR Sara Chung, USA

Nada De Todo Esto, DIR Patricio Martinez, Francisco Canton, ARGENTINA

Salum (Ladder), DIR Noam Argov, USA

Shut Up & Fish, DIRS Raul Sanchez, Pasqual Gutierrez, USA

Slippers, DIR Mark Ryan Walberg, USA

Something New, DIR Michelle Bossy, USA

The Concert, DIR Elizabeth Bourgeois, USA

The Old Young Crow, DIR Liam LoPinto, JAPAN

Unibrow, DIR Nedda Sarshar, CANADA

We Were Meant To, DIR Tari Wariebi, USA

ENVIRONMENTAL

Become a Salmon, DIR Jack Fisher, USA

Fl*shing Injustice, DIR Astrid Malter, USA

Just Beneath the Surface, DIR Jimmy John Thaiday, AUSTRALIA

Liquid Highway, DIR Kyle LaMontagne, USA

Puffling, DIR Jessica Bishopp, UNITED KINGDOM

Roundup Wine, DIR Carolyn Scott, USA

School of Fish, DIRS Colin Arisman, Oliver Sutro, USA

To Be Rich, DIR Erika Bolstad, USA

EXPERIMENTAL/A BIT STRANGE

Anacapa, DIRS Russell Sheaffer, Aaron Michael Smith, USA

Bubblegum, DIR Celestine Ocean, USA

Casual Vignettes of Gilded Vulgarity, DIR Paul Kaiser, USA

Eclipsis, DIR Tania Hernandez Velasco, MEXICO

Enter the Green Abysss, DIR john Quartaro, USA

Misericorde, DIR Natasa Prosenc Stearns, SLOVENIA

Toast, DIR Douglas Riggs, USA

Unio Mystica, DIR Katharina Klewinghaus, GERMANY

Vibrator Girl, DIR Kara Strait, USA

HORROR/THRILLER

A Folded Ocean, DIR Ben Brewer, USA

Checkout, DIR Jack Hannan, USA

Foreigners Only, DIR Nuhash Humayun, BANGLADESH

Get Away, DIR Michael Gabriele, USA

Not Him, DIR Sarah Young, USA

Now I Hold You Close, DIR Aubrey Rachelle, USA

PortPartum, DIR Tania Notaro, IRELAND

The Demon of Dumbo, DIR Stefanie Sparks, USA

The Mare Above the Thread, DIR Braden Kimble, USA

Whispers, DIR Derek Willis, USA

LOCALS

Dark Green Shirt, DIR Ryan Emerson Canfield, USA

Free Spirit, DIR Galen Flinn, USA

Just Talk, DIRS L. Hein, Q. Maruna, S. Skalak-Baenziger, USA

Oswin Woods, DIR Jacob Bunn, USA

RE50, DIR Phil Guzzo, USA

The Diary of Valerie Thompson, DIR John Reddy, USA

Under the Surface, DIRS F. Bergland, N. Craig, A. Root, C. Moniatte, L. Hein, K. Hitt, USA

OREGON FILMMAKER

Gamer, DIR Kate Prentiss, USA

“Is It”, DIR Adam Patrick Sweeney, USA

Mother, DIR Anchitta Noowong, USA

Navidad de Reserva, DIR Roberta Cumbianchera, USA/Argentina

Rent Free, DIR Jordan Satmary, USA

Sew Into You, DIR Emma Josephson, USA

That’s Not the Real Me, DIR Ashton T Livingston, USA

The Mall Man, DIR Dustin Morrow, USA

Where We Goin’, DIR Devin D Boss, USA

NATIVE AMERICAN

Athegus, DIRS Glen Reid, Maziar Ghaderi, CANADA

Horse Spirit - A Reflection, DIR Zach Putnam, USA

Indigenous Resistance: Now and Then, DIR Waats’asdiyei Joe Yates, USA

The Bear Dance, DIR Juanita Plentyholes, USA

Tiny, DIRS Ritchie Hemphill, Ryan Hache, CANADA

Ohskennon:ten Owi:ra (Little Deer), DIR Jonathan Elliott, CANADA

ANIMATION

Team Huh?!: King of the Lab, DIR Noah James Dorsey, USA

The Tower of the Eagle, DIR Peter Brandt, USA

Guitars, Guitars, Guitars, DIR Rett Bowers, USA

Magnified City, DIR Isaku Kaneko, Japan

Amok, DIR Balazs Turai, Hungary

SCALE, DIR Joseph Pierce, France

Bestia, DIR Hugo Covarrubias, Chile

My Year of Dicks, DIR Sara Gunnardsdottir, USA

COLLEGE

What Makes Life Worth Living, DIR AJ Carter, USA

Gaia, DIR Kaley Cho, USA

Bear, DIR Brianna Chapman, USA

Have a Good Day, DIR Noah Sokolsky, USA

our terminal, DIR Vyky Saiz, USA

Bad Child, DIR Nicole Emiliana Mendez, USA

When We Grow Old, DIR Kaylee Kim, USA

CARLY DOLLS, DIRS Maudie Schmidt, Jaxson Power, USA

Thoughts and Prayers, DIRAndrew Goodwin, USA

COMEDY

POPS, DIR Lewis Rose, UK

F^CK 'EM R!GHT B@CK!, DIR Harris Doran, USA

Without A Doubt, DIR Delaney Lloyd, USA 

Western Exit, DIR Scott Ballard, USA

SHARK, DIR Nash Edgerton, Australia

Racket, DIR Zoe Eisenberg, USA

One Last Summer, DIR Xavier Lacaille, France

Carol & Janet, DIR Andrea Rosen, USA

The Cross Eyed Dominatrix, DIR Jason Rosenblatt, USA

A peculiar and unusual birth, DIR S.J. Sanchez, Spain

DOCUMENTARY

Bear the Courthouse Canine, DIR Zach Putnam, USA

In Dreams, I'd Ask, Who Made These?, DIR Sarey Martin, USA

Chinatown Runners, USA Faith Briggs, USA

Raspberry Jam: Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Us, DIR Ariane Kunze, Vika Haiboniuk, USA

Swimming Through, DIR Samantha Sanders, USA

Caminantes: Human Stories that Cross Borders, DIRS Ricardo Rodriguez, Ana Maria Ariza, Colombia

MINK!, DIR Ben Proudfoot, USA

Winter Worm Summer Grass, DIR Justin Perkinson, USA

DRAMA

An Affair in One February Morning, DIR Myat Noe, Myanmar

She Always Wins, DIR Hazel McKibbin, UK

Nurture, DIR Sasha Argirov, Canada

TRUMPETS IN THE SKY, DIR Rakan Mayasi, France

SAME OLD, DIR Lloyd Lee Choi, USA

Bienvenidos a Los Angeles, DIR Lisa Cole, USA

Lay Me by the Shore, DIR David Findlay, Canada

Mulaqat "Sandstorm", DIR Seemab Gul, Pakistan

CHORUS, DIR Daniel J. Egbert, USA

The Well, DIRS Miles Orduna, Sarah Young, USA

NORTH STAR, DIR P.J. Palmer, USA

ENVIRONMENTAL

Yo Gleans, DIR Blake Horn, USA

land and flower, DIR David Wayne Reed, USA

Blue Room, DIR Merete Mueller, USA

EVIDENCE OF US, DIR James "Q" Martin, USA

Climate Emergency: Feedback Loops, DIR Susan Gray, USA

Kumu Niu, DIR Alex Cantatore, USA

Footprints in the Forest, DIRS Juhaidah Joemin, Sandra Khoo, Malaysia

EXPERIMENTAL/A BIT STRANGE

LR inspired by Louis Raifer, DIR Carlo Guttadauro, Italy

Wild Valley, DIR Jarratt Taylor, USA

A Report of Ongoing Research into Cosmic Intrusions upon the Paradigm of Fatherhood, DIR Noah Weisel, USA

Ziva (the Death of the Goddess Ziva), DIR Natasa Posenc Stearns, Slovenia

lovelace, DIR Kahlil I. Pedizisai, USA

VOID, DIR Claire Marshall, Australia

Climbing Eros, DIR Charles M Pepiton, USA

CENSOR OF DREAMS, DIRS Leo Berne, Raphael Rodriguez, France

Omi-Maiko Station, DIR Jean Gegout, France

LGBTQ+

Different Shores, DIR Shani Cohen, Israel

AT WATER'S EDGE, DIR Sean Dorsey, USA

Vita Love, DIR Francis Luta, Canada

How Not To Date While Trans, DIR Nyala Moon, USA

Rip Tide, DIR Luisa Dantas, USA

ALL I EVER WANTED, DIR Erin Lau, USA

Rendezvous, DIR Benjamin Howard, USA

Midnight Rhythms, DIR Quincy Woo, USA

Roads not taken, DIR Kat Rohrer, Austria

LOCALS

A Series of Moments, Quinn Groves, USA

Janus, Phillip Anthony Guzzo, USA

Barry Black and the Bad Trip, DIR Roman Martinez, USA

The P Word, DIR Roman Peter Martinez, USA

All Cats are Grey, DIR Ted deChatelet, USA
OREGON FILMMAKERS

Writer's Retreat, DIR Cosmo Spada, USA

Reclaim Your Water: Natasha Smith, DIR Faith E. Briggs, USA

Reclaim Your Water: TheBrosFresh, DIR Faith E. Briggs, USA

Father Mary, DIR Sarey Martin, USA

CATCH & RELEASE, DIR AR Nicholas, USA

In This Neighborhood, DIR Lilly Lion, USA

Red Hook, DIR Josephine Estrada, USA

VISIONS, DIR Karina Lomelin Ripper, USA

Bugtussle, DIR Derek Sitter, USA

Walla Walla, DIR Hayley Durelle, USA

NATIVE AMERICAN

Neo Woodland in G Minor, DIR Bawaadan Collective, Canada

Living Roots, DIR Amal Qureshi, USA

Meca, DIRS Ritchie Hemphill, Ryan Hache, Canada 

Rosalie Fish, DIRS Faith E. Briggs, Tim Kemple, USA

Grey Horse, DIR Emil Lozada, USA

Burros, DIR Jefferson Stein, USA

Voices of the Wisdom Keepers Part 1: The Reverse Society, DIR Quincy Davis, USA

The Golden Age, Bawaadan Collective, Canada

SUSPENSE/HORROR/SCI-FI

Once Bitten, DIR Ashton Tate Livingston, USA

Seafoam, DIR Izzy Stevens, USA

Go To Bed Raymond, DIR Nikki Taylor-Roberts, USA

Smiley Death Face, DIR Andrew Patrick Torrez, USA

Girls Night In, DIR Alison Roberto, USA

Diaspora, DIR Tyler Mckenzie Evans, Canada

Moshari, DIR Nuhash Humayun, Bangladesh

Waltz of the Angels, DIR Braden Barton, USA

BABY FEVER, DIR Hannah May Cumming, USA

ANIMATION

Co Cotton, DIR Yat Tu Yung, Hong Kong

Fledgling, DIR W Chung, Canada

Island Hopping, DIR Michael Long, USA

Jamaica – A Stop Motion Animated Music Event, DIR Rett Bowers, USA

Jung & Restless, DIR Joanna Priestley, USA

Metro 6, DIR Geoff Hecht, USA

Mila, DIR Cinzia Angelini, USA

Steve & Steve, DIR Charlie La Tourette, USA

The Gate, DIR Kino Jin, USA

The Quiet, DIR Radheya Jegatehva, Australia

There You Are, DIR Rui Huang, USA

To the Future, With Love, DIRS Shaleece Haas & Hunter Jimenez, USA

COLLEGE

A Place to Grow, DIR Ricky King, USA

Creation in Mourning, DIRS Scott Gaede & Carly Sweet, USA

Guardians, DIR Gale Smith, USA

Love, Dad, DIR Emma Asson, USA

Psyched Out, DIR Cullen Dallas, USA 

Rocky Is Dead, DIR Drew Crosby, USA

The Crusade of Felipe Espinosa, DIR Isaac Gallegos, USA

Wilson's Market - A Mom and Pop Story, DIR Trenton Fraser, USA

DOCUMENTARY

Águilas/Eagles, DIR Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, USA

Camp Yoshi, DIR Faith E. Briggs, USA

Forever In My Life, DIR Zach Putnam, USA

Her Resolve, DIR Marissa Dingman, USA

If I Tell Them, DIR Oliver Sutro, USA

Oases, DIR Adam David Nilsson, USA

Rat Tail, DIR Chad Sogas, USA

Salada’s Home, DIR Zach Putnam, USA

Shred & Flow, DIR Ryan Scuro, USA

The Black Stonefly, DIR Cody Lewis, USA

Whitney’s Giant Ass Cinnamon Rolls, DIR Zach Putnam, USA

DOCUMENTARY VIRTUAL SCREENING ONLY

Brown Girl Rise, Zach Putnam, USA

Connecting the Dots, DIR Doug Roland, USA

Dan Loves Butterflies, DIR Zach Putnam, USA

Farm to Families, DIR Katherine Roselli, USA

Life Again – A Story of Life with AIDS, DIR Zach Putnam, USA

My Brother Is Deaf, DIR Peter Kimball, USA

DRAMA/COMEDY

12 Kilometers, DIR Soledad Laici, Argentina

Counting, DIR Sarah Young, USA

Crouching Comic, DIR Alberta Poon, USA

Feeling Through, DIR Doug Roland, USA

Fractal, DIR Kiarra Goldberg, USA

Guide On, DIR Paige Compton, USA

Legion of Zoom, DIRS Meg Nordquist & Kari Staten, Canada

Squish, DIR Xavier Seron, Belgium

Again and Again, DIR Court Ross, USA

Dinner for Two, DIR Joe LoBianco, USA

Helen’s Nose, DIR Andrea Rosen, USA

Miracle Baby, DIR Michelle Bossy, USA

My Hero, DIR Logan Jackson, USA

The Book of Ruth, DIRS Chen Drachman & Becca Roth, USA

The Burial, Nicolás Gigenti, Spain

Thunder Harvest: The Story of a Band, DIR Jason Rosenblatt, USA

Yugen, DIR Ruth Du, USA

Being Me In The Current America, DIR Dmae Lo Roberts, USA

Blur, DIR Jason Rosenblatt, USA

Five Minutes, DIR Christine Khalafian, USA

Mother, Madam, DIR Mischa Webley, USA

Navel Gazers, DIR Kimmy Gatewood, USA

Sër Bi, DIR Moly Kane, Serbia

Such a Deal, DIR Dionna McMillan, USA

The Acolyte, DIR Sammy James, Jr., USA

Wasted Seed, DIR Nino Mancuso, USA

DRAMA/COMEDY VIRTUAL SCREENING ONLY

Almost a Jingle, DIR Bishen Sen, USA

Bees and Seas, Roy Boucher, USA

Connections, DIR Carl Hansen, Los Angeles, CA

Les Champs Magnétiques, DIR Romain Daudet-Jahan, Paris, France

Lunachicks, DIR Jess Joy, Canada

Magdalenas, DIR José Miguel Santacreu, Spain

Undecided, DIRS Betty Allen & Andy Woodward, USA

Under the Sun, DIRS Ilkka Leva & Hannele Kuusisto, Finland

After the Beep, DIR Jared Waters, USA

Dominoes, DIR Jonathan Millett, France

Home By 11, DIRS Adam Federman & Tommy Hallal, USA

Love X Bites, DIR Myat Noe, Myanmar

Otava, DIR Lana Bregar, Slovenia

Switch Pt. 1, DIR D'Vonte Rashaad Robinson, USA

ENVIRONMENTAL/NATIVE AMERICAN

Crushed: Climate Change and the Wine Country Fires, Barbara Barrielle, USA

My First Native American Boyfriend, DIR Joey Clift, USA

Painting By Numbers, DIR Radheya Jegatheva, Australia

The People’s Newspaper, DIR Eléonore Léo Hamelin, USA

Where They Drag the Boats, DIR Manon Voice, USA

Willow and Claude, DIR Emma Hakansson, Australia

LOCALS

Hell Is Other Witches, DIR Evan A. Baker, USA

Mac and Lewis, DIR Ted deChatelet, USA

Mr. Alemann, DIR Stewart Nestor, USA

Prison Blues, DIR Barrett Dunn, USA

Second Story, DIR Michael W. Dodge, USA

The Rise of Whore Betsy, DIR Simon King, USA

Trent Saucer Special, DIR West Skotko, USA

EXPERIMENTAL/A BIT STRANGE

Common Monsters Ch 1, DIR John Irvine, USA

Faces, DIR Charly Wenzel, USA

Melanin Vibes, DIR Cyrian Reed, USA

Nakusa Short Film, DIR Jennifer Kramer, USA

Reply from Mailer-Daemon, DIR Cosmo Spada, USA

Run Out Groove, DIR Kelsey Fordham, USA 

Ships In the Night, DIR Katherine Bourne Taylor, USA

The Call of Water, DIR Kaya Tone, USA

Transcending Duality, DIR Alexa Lautenschlager, USA

SUSPENSE/HORROR/SCI-FI

Dystopia, DIR Marco Bolognesi, Italy

Human Trash, DIR Aitor Almuedo Esteban, Spain

Part Forever, DIR Alan Chung-An, Taiwan

Relict, DIR Ilya Polyakov, USA
She. Picked. Me., DIR Jason Wilkinson, USA

Survivors, DIR Carlos Gómez-Trigo, Spain

The Tortured Soul, DIR Andrew de Burgh, USA

West Winds, DIR Matthew Thomas Ross, USA

MSFF 2021 ENCORE

A curated group of films that we felt represented the 2021 all-virtual festival.

Aida (In Between), DIR Christopher W. Graham, USA, Drama

Bigger Than a Breadbox, DIR Mitch Yapko, Comedy

Chocolate Cake & Ice Cream, DIR Steve Cowden, Animation

Proof of Loss, DIR Katherine Fisher, Drama

She Had It Coming, DIR Gedde Watanabe, Comedy

The Chris Mosier Project, DIR Alex Huebsch, Documentary

Tutu Grande, DIR Derek Sitter, Drama

Yehow, DIRS Sara Holzknecht & Pamela Chelalakem Bond, Native American