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Fairtown (2021)
10 / 10

Documentary

The Iowa State Fair draws millions of people to the city of Des Moines every year. However, this film is not about the Iowa State Fair or the people...

Shimmer (1993)
7.5 / 10

Drama

The solo actor in Shimmer tells the story by becoming each character in turn. The play takes place in 1956, in a harsh Midwestern juvenile detention...

Alkali, Iowa (1995)
5.3 / 10

Drama

On his family's farm in rural Iowa, young Jack Gudmanson is wrestling with his sexual identity, not an easy thing to do in the macho world of the...

State of Bacon (2014)
0 / 10

Comedy, Documentary

State of Bacon tells the kinda real but mostly fake tale of an oddball group of characters leading up to the annual Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival....

Plastic Him (2022)
0 / 10

Horror, Documentary

A self portrait filmed with a modified PXL 2000 Camcorder. The camcorder itself records on to audio cassette tape. The tapes themselves are recycled...

Haunting Villisca (2009)
0 / 10

Horror, Drama, Mystery

Professor David Salt's guilty secrets draw him to the fabled town of Villisca. Past and present collide as he is driven to help the trapped spirits...

East of Middle West (2021)
0 / 10

Crime, Drama

A teenage runaway and a widowed father each fight to take matters into their own hands to redeem their dark past.

Saints Rest (2018)
6.8 / 10

Drama, Music

A musical drama set in small-town Iowa, SAINTS REST tells the story of two estranged sisters, who over the course of one summer, form a connection...

Mushtown (2019)
0 / 10

Drama, Family

It's the end of the summer of 1994 and life is about to change for two boys on a farm.

Two Ways Home (2020)
6.3 / 10

Drama

Soul-touching and moving, TWO WAYS HOME compassionately follows Kathy (Tanna Frederick), a woman newly diagnosed with bipolar disorder who is...

Birth of the Cy-Hawk (2019)
0 / 10

Documentary

A Local Iowa documentary about the history of trophy to the Cy-Hawk games.

Brent Houzenga: Hybrid Pioneer (2010)
0 / 10

Documentary

A documentary about an Iowa artist who made his career from two antique photo albums that he found in the trash. It has been four years since he...

Mysteries of the Driftless (2013)
0 / 10

Documentary

What strange forces saved one isolated section along the Upper Mississippi River from the repeated crushing and scouring effects of glaciers during...

You and Me This summer (2022)
0 / 10

Drama, Family

Set in the backwoods of rural Iowa, this is Regan and Addisyn's last summer after high school. Growing up next door to each other, the girls are as...

The Agony and Sweat of the Human Spirit (2011)
0 / 10

A quiet ukeleleist and his talkative manager struggle to realize their artistic vision in this comic story of loss and friendship.

James Bearden: Man of Metals (2013)
0 / 10

Documentary

An essay style film in the vein of Orson Welles' "F For Fake" and Jon Jost's "Speaking Directly". From 2011 to 2013, filmmaker Kristian Day randomly...

Drawings by Billy and His Friends (2011)
0 / 10

Animation, Documentary, Fantasy

In this experimental short film, Kristian Day collected artwork created by the public. He found the majority of the pieces at "Sharpie marker...

Cactua (2011)
0 / 10

Fantasy

A short film collaboration between director Kristian Day and make up artist Patrick Boltinghouse. Patrick had created the make up for Pride Weekend...

A Woman Who Writes (2010)
0 / 10

Horror

The film tells the story of a woman reflecting on a painful part of her past as she writes. Although we do not see what she has written, we do see...

The Burial (2019)
0 / 10

Drama, Crime

A woman returns to her hometown for her father's funeral. A couple strike a deal with her to help her fund the funeral service.