DCIFF 2025 – Final Program

DCIFF 2025 Final Program

The DC Independent Film Forum is pleased to present professional seminars focusing on the Business of Film, Documentary and Animation at DCIFF2025, February 12-17, 2025

 

Wednesday February 12th

All Screenings at The Miracle Theater, 535 8th St SE Washington, DC 20003.

 

5.00pm-7.30pm North Putnam directed by Joel Fendelman (USA/2024/130mins) followed by a panel discussion and post-screening drinks and conversation.

7.00pm-7.40pm Ticketed pre-screening reception for God is an Astronaut (drinks and conversation at Hill Center for the Arts. Book signing with noted author Alyson Foster.

7.40pm-10.30pm God is an Astronaut directed by Bailey Kobe (USA-2025/120mins)

Thursday February 13th

9am-1pm: On the Hill:  Panel session presented in Congress addressing: tax incentives for independent filmmakers and economic support for independent movie theaters (TBD)

 

Evening Screenings at The Avalon Theater, 5612 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20015

5.20pm-7.40pm  A Good Wolf directed by Ramey Newell (USA/2024/93mins), followed by a panel discussion with the director and executive director Megan Draheim.

8pm-10pm  The Other You directed by Shoshana Rosenbaum (USA/2025/78mins)

FRIDAY February 14th

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Happy Valentine’s Day!

1-4pm: WORKSHOP  Using, Creating and Donating to Moving Image Archives / FREE EVENT

401-A Conference Room, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library,  MLK Library, 901 G St NW, Washington, DC 20001

 

All Screenings at Regal Cinemas, Chinatown, 701 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

 

5.00-7.30pm    Water Lilies directed by Lee Chan-ho (Korea/2024/91mins)

 

6.30pm-8.30pm : Where there is love, there is animation: Animation Program One

Falling For Greta, Metal Flower, Velo Love, A Stand Still Journey  

Dotonbori,  Little Box

 

7.30pm-9.50pm Paper Marriage directed by Jeff Man (USA/2024/91mins)

8.30pm  BitterSweet directed by Steven Martini (USA/2024/84mins)

9.50pm-11.30pm  Strange Times: Short Films Program One

Meow, 3, 2, 1, 0, HomePlanet, Beach-O, The Burger, 8 Ball.

SATURDAY February 15th

All Seminars at German-American Museum, 719 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

JOIN US AT THE FESTIVAL BAR 5.30-6.30pm at the German-American Museum

 

All Screenings at Regal Cinemas, Chinatown, , 701 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

 

1pm-3pm  Amazing Animation Program 

Patient Comes First, Cartagene, A Bird Hit My Window and Now I’m a Lesbian, In Half, Impossible Journey, A pleasure, Les Lucioles, Unknown Callers 

 

1.30pm-3.30pm Diminished Returns: The Black Wealth Gap in Washington, D.C directed by Sabiyha Prince (USA/2025/49.11mins), followed by a panel discussion. (SOLD OUT)

 

3.00pm -5.30pm Powerful Stories: Short Doc Program Two

On Beyond Fences, The Cavalry Money Maker, Window Treatment 

 

3.30pm-5.45pm  Dissidents directed by Yi Chen (USA/2025/1.15 mins), followed by a panel discussion.

 

5.45- 8.15pm  Women and Their Stories: Short Fiction Program 2

Argie Berman, Written in Skin, Gold Rush, Don’t be late, Myra, Ashes , Fishtank, Gag

 

6.00-8.20pm New Web Series

From Buckingham Palace  directed by Randy Carter

The Sessions directed by Vince Eisenson 

Cause Celebre  directed by Patrick John Donnelly

 

8.30pm-11.00pm Sideways for Attention directed by Brady Bryson (USA/2024/96mins)

 

8.15-11pm Spelonk: A World Undone directed by Desmond Denton (South Africa/2024/77mins)

Sunday February 16th

All Seminars at German-American Museum, 719 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20001.

JOIN US AT THE FESTIVAL BAR 4.30-6:30pm at the German-American Museum

 

12 noon-1.30pm Working Creatively with Investors:  FILM FINANCING WORKSHOP Presented by Carol Bidault de L’Isle and Alex Stickle, CEO, CIO Poiesis Capital Management 

1.30pm-3.00pm  Understanding the Grants Landscape For Documentaries: FILM FINANCING WORKSHOP presented by Deirdre Evans-Pritchard

3:00pm – 4:30pm  Getting Your Film Distributed and Sold presented by Sana Soni, Director of Sales. Giant Pictures.

4:30pm -5:30pm Hollywood: What we see on screen; how it happens–and more often does not: Screenwriter Terrell Tannen reads from his new memoir Tell the Story.

 

All Screenings at Regal Cinemas, Chinatown, 701 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20001

 

12noon- 1.45pm Experimental Animation: Short Animation Program

In Between City, VanTongerloo’s Dream, The Untranslatable Forest, Animators also Cook!
Chrysanthemum, Whose Woods are These, Bob Dylan’s Big Dick, Next Show in 90 Minutes

 

1.00pm- 3.15pm Healing Hope directed by Elio Cassaghi (France/2024/1.04mins), followed by a panel discussion with Dr. Shereef Elnahal, former VA’s Assistant Deputy Under Secretary for Health.

3.15pm-5.45pm Capturing Kennedy directed by Steele Austin Burrow (USA/2024/95mins) Followed by drinks at the bar and photo exhibition with Jacques Lowe.

 

3.30pm-5.15pm Family Matters Short Fiction Program 

Sometimes I Imagine Your Funeral, My Independence Day, Broad Daylight, Sins of a Father 

 

5.30-7.30pm   Past, Present or Future: Short Film Program 3

Memory Project, Safety State, My Last Martini, A Guest in my County

5.45-7.45pm Devotions: Short Doc Program Two

Space Coast,, Noumenon, Back to the Sky, The Last Puppet Show 

 

7.30pm -10.00pm  Only Round Up Remains directed by Brian Liu (USA/2023/78mins) Not in competition (SOLD OUT)

 

7.45pm-10.15pm Maxxie LaWow: Drag Super-shero directed by Anthony Hand (USA/2024/90mins/animation)