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The 34th Heartland International Film Festival is scheduled for October 9-19, 2025! The film lineup and tickets will be available on September 18.
Virtual Screenings
When a high school senior finds herself in the wake of a traumatic accident, she must navigate a surreal inner limbo while stuck between escape and confrontation.
2025 | United States
11:17
Thu Oct 9th
Morgan (Ella Rubin) is a sheltered 17-year-old, struggling to define who she is in order to write her college entrance essay. When a crisis provides her the rare opportunity to spend time with her three significantly older half-siblings (Betsy Brandt, Thomas Sadoski, and Aya Cash), she hopes they’ll be able to shed some light on what it means to be an adult, only to be disappointed when she discovers they’re all faking it.
101 min | 2024 | United States
Adult Children
Thu Oct 9th
In an unprecedented attempt to heal centuries of racism and anti-semitism and combat the rising tension in their Brooklyn communities, activist Rabbi Rachel Timoner teams up with Baptist Reverend Robert Waterman to unite their congregations
2024 | United States
ALL GOD'S CHILDREN
Thu Oct 9th
Tucked away in northern Indiana, the city of Peru is the circus capital of the world. Thousands of visitors and townspeople come to this town for two weeks to see the annual amateur circus. Performed by only the local kids and fueled with the rich history and culture of the circus in Peru, this show is anything but amateur.
2025 | United States
The Amateur Circus
Thu Oct 9th
Using hand-drawn animation to bring the past to life, "Among Neighbors" focuses on one of the last living Holocaust survivors from a small Polish town, and an eyewitness who saw Jewish people murdered there—six months after the Nazis were defeated.
2025 | United States
Among Neighbors
Thu Oct 9th
Two mountain bikers find community in rural Vermont through a grassroots movement to build the world's first completely adaptive trail network in the world.
2025 | United States
Best Day Ever
Thu Oct 9th
A troubled young orphan must risk everything to save his beloved ostrich from a meat farm.
2025 | United States, South Africa
Bird Boy
Thu Oct 9th
In a Guatemalan barrio silenced by fear, teenage sisters lead a luminous rebellion—unleashing giant puppets, fire, and performance in a joyful fight for survival. They rally local youth, taking back the streets to expose and denounce violence against girls.
2025 | Guatemala, United States
Comparsa
Thu Oct 9th
A groundbreaking look at Phil Sharp’s rise from being a rural Kentucky farm boy to Nobel Prize-winning scientist, "Cracking the Code" reveals how Sharp’s RNA discovery transformed biology and launched the biotechnology revolution leading to life-saving treatments for millions.
98 min | 2025 | United States
Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
Thu Oct 9th
In a country where eligible men outnumber women by 30 million, three perpetual bachelors join an intensive seven-day dating camp led by one of China’s most sought-after dating coaches in a last-ditch effort to find a girl and love.
91 min | 2025 | United States, United Kingdom, Norway
The Dating Game
Thu Oct 9th
A family investigates the Nazi Aktion T4 program which targeted disabled people and catalyzed the Holocaust.
95 min | 2025 | United States
Disposable Humanity
Thu Oct 9th
"Dream Boats" follows two friends, Ben Towill and Charlie Layton, as they attempt to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Battling storms, exhaustion, and extreme isolation their story is an extraordinary test of friendship, endurance, and the unbreakable human spirit.
2025 | United States
Dream Boats
Thu Oct 9th
In the heart of Watts, a beloved neighborhood legend named Maxwell seeks redemption as a father after a lifetime of using basketball to mask his pain.
2025 | United States
Good Shot
Thu Oct 9th
Eight-year-old maid Toha goes to great lengths to ensure that her best friend Nelly, the daughter of her wealthy employer, has a successful birthday party in this poignant debut feature exploring classism in modern-day Cairo.
2025 | Egypt
Happy Birthday
Thu Oct 9th
This is the story of Sofia, a young marine biologist from the Galapagos Islands in Ecuador who reconnects with her absent father through their shared passion for trying to save the biggest shark in the world, the whale shark.
77 min | 2024 | Chile, United States
Her Shark Story
Thu Oct 9th
Living under the full-time care of her terminally ill mother, a 26-year-old socially awkward woman attempts to prove her independence by winning a hobbyhorse competition.
102 min | 2025 | United States
Horsegirls
Thu Oct 9th
Alper is a young and upcoming prosecutor in a land where anyone found guilty of a major crime is erased from society. But when his mother is convicted, Alper begins to question the rules he once fought to uphold.
97 min | 2024 | Turkey, Greece
The House with No Address
Thu Oct 9th
"Ignite the Fire" tells the story of the inaugural season of the Indy Ignite, Indiana's first ever professional women's volleyball team. The Ignite pursue success on and off the court as they navigate a new team, new league, new facility and more.
2025 | United States
Ignite the Fire
Thu Oct 9th
Indy Shorts 1
Thu Oct 9th
Indy Shorts 2
Thu Oct 9th
Indy Shorts 3
Thu Oct 9th
"THE INN BETWEEN", by award-winning director Ondi Timoner, invites audiences inside the only hospice for homeless in America (which also provides recuperative care) to discover the miracles that can happen when human beings regain their hope, dignity and feeling of belonging. Based in Salt Lake City, THE INN BETWEEN is the only place between the hospital and the street, and between life and death.
2024 | United States
THE INN BETWEEN
Thu Oct 9th
As a young girl in Houston’s Fifth Ward, Barbara Jordan was taught to defy expectations. She understood that to succeed, she would need to forge her own path. With relentless determination and unyielding tenacity, Barbara Jordan made history as Texas’s first Black state senator and the first Southern Black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
2025 | United States
The Inquisitor
Thu Oct 9th
Elena, a “half” Japanese high school girl, struggles with her identity. While constantly watched, she discovers she’s also being watched by something else—a monster that can only be seen through her smartphone and heard through her earphones.
2025 | Japan
The Invisible Half
Thu Oct 9th
A Texas border rancher accidentally shoots a migrant woman and must decide whether to help her and risk discovery by his son, a Border Patrol agent.
2024 | United States
La Gloria
Thu Oct 9th
The last cowboys of New Mexico eke out a fragile survival in a world of isolation, memories and rugged beauty as an epic drought devastates the American West.
2025 | United States
Land With No Rider
Thu Oct 9th
“After the Revolution, who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?” challenged Mierle Laderman Ukeles, blasting her way into the avant-garde. In 1977, Ukeles became the first artist-in-residence at New York City’s Sanitation Department.
2025 | United States
Maintenance Artist
Thu Oct 9th
In 1960s Peru, a privileged French-Peruvian woman’s life unravels when her husband’s betrayal ostracizes her from elite society and leads her to embrace people from the very communities that she was raised to disregard.
2024 | Peru
Mistura
Thu Oct 9th
In an alternate present-day society where the state frees parents from the burden of raising children, a rule enforcer learns a shocking truth that sparks her rebellion.
2024 | United States
Motherland
Thu Oct 9th
A centenarian Super Ager, blessed with astounding physical and mental health, Pauline spends her 102nd and 103rd years on camera in this sensitive, humorous and uplifting documentary. With grit and optimism, she powerfully embodies the women of America's "Greatest Generation."
2025 | United States
Pauline From 2 to 3
Thu Oct 9th
A Midwestern pastor embarks on a hypocritical and hilarious campaign to convert his daughter’s fiancé to Christianity only days before they marry.
93 min | 2024 | United States
Premarital
Thu Oct 9th
Filmed over three years, "Sacred Wisdom Sacred Earth" documents the interconnected stories of the Indigenous people of the Great Lakes, beginning with the Ho-Chunk Nation, and expanding outward to a global call for unity and environmental healing.
2025 | United States
Sacred Wisdom Sacred Earth
Thu Oct 9th
When a nine-year-old suddenly catches a mysterious illness in Kathmandu, doctors are bewildered. Her strong-willed mother turns to a local shaman who reveals shared trauma that catapults mother and daughter into a fight for justice.
2025 | United States, Nepal
Shakti
Thu Oct 9th
A father and daughter attempt to repair their relationship and reconcile a shared tragedy against the backdrop of the "Young Miss Southeast Regional Dance Finals.”
2025 | United States
She Dances
Thu Oct 9th
Shanta Sapkota, a courageous Nepali woman, leads an all-female team fighting to stop the trafficking of young women across the India-Nepal border. "She Walks a Line" reveals their raw struggles and triumphs against a global human trafficking crisis.
89 min | 2024 | Nepal
She Walks a Line
Thu Oct 9th
A forgotten storage unit uncovers the rise and fall of Ric Routledge, a dog show icon who revolutionized the industry from Indiana. Now his story, told in his own words, comes to light.
58 min | 2025 | United States
Sincerely, Ric
Thu Oct 9th
After her father ends up in the hospital, 11-year-old Yuna’s world is turned upside down when she’s reconnected with her Japanese mother and half-sister.
2025 | Belgium
Soft Leaves
Thu Oct 9th
Amid the Holocaust’s unimaginable cruelty, a young boy finds hope in music. Eighty years later, Frank Grunwald shares his true story of survival and resilience, intertwined with American jazz, offering a powerful testament to the strength of the human spirit.
2025 | United States
Sweet Lorraine in Auschwitz
Thu Oct 9th
A filmmaker’s exploration of her own dwarfism leads her into a community in flux and a question: can we see beauty and power in disability?
2025 | United States
The Tallest Dwarf
Thu Oct 9th
A seasoned grassroots activist struggles to keep his Tenderness Tour alive while managing new health realities and battling old demons.
2025 | United States
The Tenderness Tour
Thu Oct 9th
Simon, a struggling documentary filmmaker, enjoys free flights courtesy of his best friend and roommate, Bruce, who works for an airline. However, when Beatrice, a more successful filmmaker, enters the picture and starts dating Bruce, Simon risks flying too close to the sun.
2025 | United States
The Travel Companion
Thu Oct 9th
Sam, a boy with epilepsy, is so desperate to feel normal that he wants to go to prom despite knowing the lights will cause a seizure.
2025 | United States
Under The Lights
Thu Oct 9th
Founded in 1974 by Eli Lilly, Prairietown at Conner Prairie immerses guests in 19th-century Indiana life through trades, foodways, music, and daily activities. In 2024, its 50-year legacy is celebrated with the documentary "The Village on the Prairie: 50 Years of Prairietown".
2024 | United States
The Village on the Prairie: 50 Years of Prairietown
Thu Oct 9th
Two life-long friends who can't keep a relationship or a job find themselves with an opportunity to get rich and turn their lives around. The only thing standing in their way is the end of the world.
82 min | 2025 | United States
Weekend At The End Of The World
Thu Oct 9th
"When Everyone Swims" is the catalyst for a movement that sheds light on the often-overlooked intersection of swimming, public safety, and social inequality.
2025 | United States
When Everyone Swims
Thu Oct 9th
A 30-year-old searches for closure as she visits her hometown musical theatre program.
2025 | United States
Winter Fantasy
Thu Oct 9th