Starting Time - 4:30PM

Dress in your best and join us on the red carpet! Our opening night event is the perfect way to kick off the weekend and meet filmmakers, actors, stars, VIPs, and all the supporters of the Wyoming International Film Festival.

Starting Time: 6:00 PM - Run Time: 105 min.

THE LONG RIDER

Documentary/Western/Adventure

When Filipe Leite leaves his adoptive home of Canada, the aspiring journalist sets out on an epic quest to ride from Calgary to his family's home in Brazil - and later beyond - entirely on horseback.

Starting Time: 9:45 AM - Run Time: 105 min.

Short Films by Wyoming Filmmakers

• Return to Foretop's Father

• Excuse Me While I Succeed (WTSW)

• Apple Valley School (WTSW)

• CYSFF #1 - Pieces

• CYSFF #2 - Imagine

• Seek

• Blue Dusk

• Lucid

• Crimson Iris

• Early Light

Starting Time: 9:45 AM - Run Time: 100 min.

SWEET DISASTER

Feature/Romance/Comedy

A late-in-the-game pregnancy and the sudden ending of a relationship are not necessarily catastrophic by themselves. Combine the two, and it is like throwing fire accelerant on charcoal.

Starting Time: 12:20 PM - Run Time: 95 min.

Comedy, Spoof, & Satire Short Films

• Kitman

• Come on, Shake Your Body Baby, Do the Conga!

• Pillow Fight

• Human Telegraphs Ep. 7

• Rookie Baby

• Soulful Sinning

• How to Do Sh!t with Guido Gagootz

• Sweat of His Cow

• Mike Sizzer | A Chair Wrestling Documentary

• Triumph of the Actor

Starting Time: 12:20 PM - Run Time: 91 min.

Documentary/Immigration/Social Justice

Mango House is the largest shared space for refugees in the greater West. The risk-taker behind it all is Dr. P.J! Proceeded by Pioneers of Rock Springs, My Father’s House.

• Pioneers of Rock Springs (Short)

• My Father's House (Short)

• Mango House (Feature)

Starting Time: 2:45 PM - Run Time: 91 min.

THE REUNION

Feature/Drama

Ricky Reilly, a former actor, is on a spiritual journey. When Ricky’s best friend Andy returns from a trip overseas, he challenges Ricky to confront his nemesis at his upcoming high school reunion.

Starting Time: 2:45 PM - Run Time: 85 min.

Non-Fiction Short Films

• The Inside

• A Trout With Feathers

• Who Are We?

• Last Days of August

• Into the Circle

• Soldier

Starting Time: 5:05 PM - Run Time: 82 min.

Suspense & Thriller Short Films

• C A • D E N C E

• Speeches

• Welcome to Forever

• Anniversary

• The Decision

• The Blactor

• Welcome to God's Country

Starting Time: 5:05 PM - Run Time: 86 min.

Documentary/Inspirational/Animals

Dumped and alone at a city park, Honk spends his days dodging cars, begging for food and looking for friends. When Cheryl and Honk's path cross unexpectedly, what follows is a story in which fairy tales are made. Proceeded by Added Years, Freedom Farm Sanctuary, Underdogs.

• Added Years (Short)

• Freedom Farm Sanctuary (Short)

• Underdogs (Short)

• Honk (Feature)

Starting Time: 7:20 PM - Run Time: 110 min.

REKINDLING CHRISTMAS

Feature/Romance/Family

Annika Marshall and Jesse Winchester were the perfect couple in college. But a week after becoming engaged, Jesse was drafted into the NFL, and never came back. Now, years later, Jesse is back with a blown out knee and only one goal in sight, to live a simple life and win Annika back.

Starting Time: 7:20 PM - Run Time: 97 min.

Crime, Heist, & Revenge Short Films

• Litany for Mister President

• Dollar Generals

• Talion

• Dead Man's Hand

• The Quiet

• Fragile

• Rottweiler

Starting Time: 9:50 AM - Run Time: 90 min.

Music & Dance Videos/Short Films

• Dawn

• Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

• Undercover

• Walk Into the Water

• What Happened

• Jackrabbit of Adventure

• Minotaur // Black Vulpine

• Washington

• Last Call Romance - What Do I Have To Prove

• Unspoken

• Qingren

• The Wind and The Kite

• These Waters Bleed Deep

Starting Time: 9:50 AM - Run Time: 90 min.

Non-Fiction Short Films

• Faces After Suicide

• #TaAnaMeToo

• Some Million Miles

• Magpies & UFOs

• The Dukha

• Energy of Water

• Mason's Return to Dirt

• Re-forming Glaciers

• Fire Spinner

Starting Time: 12:10 PM - Run Time: 110 min.

PERMITTED

Feature/Drama/Thriller

As a teacher develops an obsessive crush on a coworker, he gradually loses his grip on reality--when he arms himself and heads to the high school graduation, it leads to unthinkable consequences.

Starting Time: 12:10 PM - Run Time: 110 min.

Short Films About Family, Friends, Love, & Loss

• The Gesture and the Word

• A Moment in Time

• YuanYuan

• Big Touch

• Starlight

• Aurora

• Tooth

• Homestead

• Feeling Through

Starting Time: 2:50 PM - Run Time: 100 min.

DEEP WOODS

Feature/Action/Thriller

The hunter becomes the game when a successful architect wanders off trail while grouse hunting and is pursued into the treacherous deep wilderness by menacing members of a ruthless drug cartel.

Starting Time: 2:50 PM - Run Time: 87 min.

Drama Short Films

• A Narration of a Funeral

• The Ladder

• Be Still

• Silver Age

• Myrtle

Start Time: 5:20 PM - Run Time: 91 min.

Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Films

• Artificial Existence

• Sunset Black, Part 1 Episode 1

• Hell Creek

• Jettison

• Blue

• Scooty

• MeTube: August Sings “Una Furtiva Lagrima”

Start Time: 5:20 PM - Run Time: 87 min.

Historical Fiction & Period Short Films

• Solvi

• The Death of Winter

• Ruthless

• Wildcat

• The Plumber

• One Foot In

Start Time: 7:40 PM - Run Time: 93 min.

Feature/Dramedy/Road Trip

A self-destructive ex-Mormon finds out her abusive father is on his deathbed and road trips to Utah to reckon with her past.

Start Time: 7:40 PM - Run Time: 80 min.

Horror Short Films

• Veral

• Prudence

• The Girl From Nowhere

• Weekend Guests

• Unveiled

• The Fuzzies

• The Man in the Pinstripe Suit

• $trip

Start Time: 12:00 PM - Run Time: 90 min.

A Screening of Finalists from the Wyoming 48 Hour Film Festival

Start Time: 2:00 PM - Run Time: 61 min.

Documentary/Biographical/Wyoming

Beyond Heart Mountain is a documentary memoir about the filmmaker, Alan O'Hashi's upbringing in Cheyenne, Wyoming as a Baby Boomer after World War II.

Start Time: 2:00 PM - Run Time: 60 min.

Family Friendly & Children’s Short Films

• Rocks 4 Sale!

• Goodbye Home

• A Cookie On A Plate

• Shakespeare for all Ages

• A Journey to the Moon

• Breakfast Town, On the Coast of Table Bay

• Coyote

• Monster in a Box

Start Time: 3:50 PM - Run Time: 94min.

Drama Short Films

• The Angler

• Seven Fishes

• Undercut

• Ido

• Paper Geese

• Chords

Start Time: 3:50 PM - Run Time: 94 min.

Documentary/Native Issues

Home From School: The Children of Carlisle - In 2017 a delegation of Northern Arapaho tribal members travels from Wyoming to Pennsylvania to retrieve remains of three children who died at Carlisle Indian Industrial school in the 1880s.

Spirit of the Peaks - For Connor, skiing in Ute Territory has always raised questions about being in reciprocity with the land and its people. As a skier who connects with the land through sport, he empathizes with the injustices that have displaced the Utes and ongoing colonization, erasure and extraction impacting the Ute people.