Founded in 2004, the Indianapolis International Film Festival seeks to create a shared experience by championing films that entertain, challenge and expand perspectives in Indianapolis and beyond. Combining premieres of international hits and American independents, the Indianapolis International Film Festival (Indy Film Fest) presents the largest variety of films in the city of Indianapolis.
Racing Dreams - Audience Award, Best FeatureWeathered - Audience Award, Best Short FilmSita Sings the Blues - American Spectrum, Best FeatureTrue Beauty This Night - American Spectrum, Best Short FilmA Ripple of Hope - Hoosier Lens Award, Best FeatureChicken Cowboy - Hoosier Lens Award, Best Short FilmFrankie 13 vs The World - Best Documentary Short FilmBest Worst Movie - Best Documentary FeatureSinnerman - Black ExpressionsGone Fishing - World Cinema, Best Short FilmThe Vanished Empire - World Cinema, Best FeatureThe Way We Get By - Eric Parker Social Justice AwardLapsus - Excellence in AnimationFirst on the Moon - The Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Prize for Outstanding Science Fiction FilmmakingMongol - Audience Award, Best FeatureTrying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon - Audience Award, Best DocumentarySpider - Audience Award, Best Short FilmPop Skull - American Spectrum, Best FeatureBitch - American Spectrum, Best Short FilmDer Ostwind - American Spectrum, Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Technical achievement to Kohl GassBeyond Belief - Real Visions, Best Featurekids + money - Real Visions, Best Short FilmThe Life and Times of Robert F. Kennedy Starring Gary Cooper - Real Visions, Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Experimental Film to Aaron ValdezCargo 200 - World Cinema, Best FeatureTen to Two - World Cinema, Best Short FilmBurn the Bridges - World Cinema, Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance to Irene AzuelaKarl Rove, I Love You - Hoosier Lens AwardLapsus - Excellence in AnimationFirst on the Moon - The Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Prize for Outstanding Science Fiction FilmmakingSpeed Dating - Audience Award, Best Feature(Tie)Waitress - Audience Award, Best Feature (Tie)In the Shadow of the Moon - Audience Award, Best DocumentaryThe Substitute (Il Supplente) - Audience Award, Best Short FilmAdrift in Manhattan - American Spectrum, Best FeaturePop Foul - American Spectrum, Best Short FilmDisappearances - American Spectrum, Special Jury Prize for CinematographyNevel Is the Devil - American Spectrum, Special Jury Prize for ComedyKidney Thieves - American Spectrum, Special Jury Prize for ComedyRain in a Dry Land - Real Visions, Best FeatureAngel's Fire - Real Visions, Best Short FilmHeavy Metal Jr. - Real Visions, Special Jury Prize for DirectionMcLaren's Negatives - Real Visions, Special Jury Prize for Direction to Marie-Josee Sainte-PierreFraulein - World Cinema, Best FeatureEramos Pocos - World Cinema, Best Short FilmThicker Than Water - World Cinema, Special Jury Prize for Outstanding PerformanceMilk and Opium - World Cinema, Special jury Prie for Outstanding ScoreMarrying God - Hoosier Lens AwardEverything Will be OK - Excellence in AnimationFirst on the Moon - The Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Prize for Outstanding Science Fiction FilmmakingA Place Called Home: An Adoption Story - Audience Award, Best FeatureSugar Mountain - Audience Award, Best Short FilmEl Inmigrante - Grand Jury Prize, Best FeatureBinta & the Great Idea - Grand Jury Prize, Best Short FilmAntonio's Breakfast - Grand Jury Prize, Best European Short FilmKnocking - Audience Award, Best Non-Fiction FilmOver the Hedge - Audience Award, Best Family FilmKinky Boots - Audience Award, Best ComedyA Place Called Home: An Adoption Story - Hoosier Lens Award for Best Indiana FilmBefore I Go - Special Jury Prize for Outstanding Performance to Heidy Forster and Horst SachtlebenLife in Transition - Special Jury Prize for Outstanding AnimationDirty Mary - Special Jury Prize for Achievement in Comedy to Daniele Ferraro for Writing, Producing, and ActingMonobloc - Special Jury Prize for Direction to Luis OrtegaDesire - Special Jury Prize - Honorable Mention for Documentary Filmmaking to Julie Gustafson & the New Orleans Teenage Girls Documentary ProjectBinta & the Great Idea - Markey's Humanitarian AwardApparition of the Eternal Church - Best North American Independent Feature FilmMurderball - Audience Award, Best FeatureWest Bank Story - Audience Award, Best Short FilmMurderball - Audience Award, Best Non-Fiction FilmNovem - Grand Jury Prize, Best FeatureSolo un Cargador - Grand Jury Prize, Best Short Film (tie)Tama Tu - Grand Jury Prize, Best Short Film (tie)The Innocent - Grand Jury Prize, Best Non-Fiction FilmPearl Diver - Grand Jury Prize, Hoosier Lens Award for Best Indiana FilmTropical Malady - Special Jury Prize, Outstanding Direction to Apichatpong WeerasethakulNovem - Special Jury Prize, Outstanding Performance to the entire castBrothers - Special Jury Prize, Outstanding Performance to Connie Nielsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, and Ulrich Thomsen9 - Special Jury Prize, Outstanding AnimationThe Story of the Weeping Camel - Audience Award, Best FeatureThe Climactic Death of Dark Ninja - Audience Award, Best Short Film (tie)Hairless - Audience Award, Best Short Film (tie)The Climactic Death of Dark Ninja - Grand Jury Prize, Best Short FilmBetween the White Lines - Grand Jury Prize, Best Feature FilmDogville - Special Jury Prize, Outstanding Performance to the entire castA Slipping Down Life - Outstanding Performance to Lily Taylor & Sara RueDisconcerting Symphony - Outstanding Performance to the entire castStuff That Bear! - Outstanding Cinematography to Oleg MutuEveryone and Their Mother Wants to Write and Direct - Outstanding WritingDates - April 26 - May 4, 2006Premieres:
Be With Me...Eric Khoo...Singapore - DramaDay Break...Hamid Rahmanian...Iran - DramaDead Man's Shoes...Shane Meadows...UK - ThrillerDistrict 13...Pierre Morel (produced by Luc Besson)...France - ActionThe Heart of the Game...Ward Serrill...USA - Sports DocumentaryI Am Cuba (1964) (Special Presentation)...Cuba / Russia...Mikhail Kaltazov - DramaIron Island...Mohommad Rasoulof...Iran - DramaJewboy...Tony Krawitz...Australia - DramaThe King...James Marsh...USA / UK - Thriller / DramaKinky Boots...Julian Jerrold...UK - ComedyLady Vengeance...Chan-wook Park...South Korea - Action / DramaLook Both Ways...Sarah Watt...Australia - DramaOver the Hedge (Special Presentation)...Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick...USA - AnimationShanghai Dreams...Xiaoshuai Wang...China - DramaThe Sun...Aleksandr Sokurov...Russia / Japan - DramaThree Times...Hou Hsiao Hsien...Taiwan - DramaU-Carmen eKhayelitsha...Mark Dornford May...South Africa - MusicalWater...Deepa Mehta...Canada / India - DramaCompetition Features:
Al'Leessi...An African Actress...Rahmatou Keita...Niger - DocumentaryApparition of the Eternal Church...Paul Festa...USA - Musical DocumentaryAs Smart as They Are: The Author Project...Joe Pacheco...USA - Musical DocumentaryBorderline Lovers...Miroslav Mandic...Bosnia & Herzegovina - DocumentaryBrasileirinho...Mika Kaurismaki...Brazil / Switzerland / Finland - Musical DocumentaryDesire... Julie Gustafson...USA - DocumentaryEveryone Their Grain of Sand...Beth Bird... USA / Mexico - DocumentaryGo West ... Ahmed Imamovic - DramaThe Gold Bracelet ... Kavi Raz ... USA / India - DramaEl Inmigrante ... Dave Eckenridge, John Sheedy, & John Eckenridge... USA / Mexico - DocumentaryKnocking...Joel P. Engardio & Tom Shepard - DocumentaryThe Land Has Eyes ... Vilsoni Hereniko ... Fiji / USA - DramaLittle Athens ... Tom Zuber ... USA - DramaMonobloc ... Luis Ortega ... Argentina - DramaPirates of the Great Salt Lake ... E.R. Nelson... USA - ComedyA Place Called Home: An Adoption Story ... Tom Gaunt ... USA (Indiana) - DocumentaryA Reel Man ... Todd Lothery ... USA (Indiana) - DocumentarySelf-Medicated ... Monty Lapica... USA - DramaSisters in Law... Florence Ayisi & Kim Longinotto ... Cameroon - CameroonTime Off ... Francisca Schweitzer & Pablo Solis ... Chile - DramaThe Traveler ... William Olsson ... Sweden / Germany - DramaWannabe ... Richard Keith ... USA - ComedyShorts:
Antonio's Breakfast - Daniel Mulloy - UK- 20 m- DramaBagelized - Matthew Bonafacio - US - 5 m - ComedyBefore I Go (Vorletzter Abscheid) - Heiko Hahn - Germany - 22 m - DramaBinta and the Great Idea - Javier Fesser - Spain / Senegal - 30 m - DramaCharlotte's Red - Colin McIvor - No. Ireland - 12 m - FamilyThe Cole Nobody Knows - Clay Walker - US - 21 m - DocumentaryCommon Practice - Marcos Efron - US - 10 m - MusicalConey Island, 1945 - Jeremiah Zager - US - 5 m - DocumentaryCorduroy - Dave Kendall, Bryan Falcon - US (Indiana) - 21 m - ComedyCredo - Keith Snyder - US - 9 m - MusicalDirty Mary - Stuart Rogers - US - 20 m - ComedyDivorce Lemonade - Justin Hayward - US - 9 m - DramaEd's Trip - Timothy Greenberg - US - 7 m - DramaEmployee of the Month - John Will Clay - US - 7 m - ComedyEnter the Dragonfly - Nir Paniry - US - 23 m - FamilyThe Faith of Joey Rail - Matt Robertson - US - 8 m - FamilyFlying Dream - John Bacone - US (Indiana) - 1 m - ExperimentalFrankenchicken - Ann-Marie Denham - Australia - 12 m - AnimationThe Game - Joel Umbaugh - US (Indiana) - 9 m - Comedy* A Half Man - Firas Momani - Canada - 7 m - AnimationHandshake - Patrick Smith - US - 5 m - AnimationHiro - Matthew Swanson - US - 20 m - DramaHoliday - Marcel Sawicki - Poland - 25 m - DramaImaginary Friend - Claire Thomas - US - 10 m - FamilyInitiation - Andrew Neel - US - 4 m - DramaJourney To Mangochi - Christopher de la Torre - Malawi - 30 m - DocumentaryK-7 - Christopher Leone - US - 16 m - ComedyLatent Sorrow - Shon Kim - US - 3 m - ExperimentalLiberte Conditionelle - Constant Mentzes - Canada - 12 m - DramaLife in Transition - John R. Dilworth - US - 4 m - AnimationThe Listener - Michael Chang - Ireland - 11 m - DramaLooking Good - Toni Powell - Australia - 7 m - FamilyLost Sole - Sanif Olek - Singapore - 15 m - DramaThe Loud Ladies of South Fork - Michael Harry, Joan Brooker - US - 28 m - DocumentaryLucky - Avie Luthra - UK / South Africa - 20 m - DramaLucky Man - Tamas Kemenyffy - Hungary - 25 m - DramaThe Mantis Parable - Josh Staub - US - 9 m - AnimationMessenger - Daniel Leeb - US - 18 m - DocumentaryMind Over Matter - Scott Gerow - US - 39 m - DocumentaryMoosecock - Will Hartman - US (Indiana) - 7 m - ComedyMy Backyard Was A Mountain - Adam Schlachter - US / Puerto Rico - 22 m - DramaNalini by Day, Nancy by Night - Sonali Gulati - US / India - 27 m - DocumentaryNight Falls - John Bacone - US (Indiana) - 3 m - ExperimentalNo Greater Love - Arthur Rasco - US (Indiana) - 16 m - DramaNoodle Soup - Toru Tokikawa - France / UK - 9 m - ComedyNow You See Me, Now You Don't - Atilla Szasz - Hungary - 30 m - DramaOn Air - Dave Bernstein - US - 4 m - DramaOne Sung Hero - Samantha Curtzman-Counter - US - 15 m - ComedyPaper Willy - Seong Joon Lee - US - 6 m - AnimationPatterns - Jamie Travis - Canada - 8 m - ExperimentalPee Shy - Deb Hagan - US - 15 m - ComedyPillow Girl - Ronnie Cramer - US - 8 m - ExperimentalProject Huxley - Simon Brown - UK - 12 m - ComedyPushing Up Daisies - Doug Whyte, Tom Grable - US - 30 m - DocumentaryQuitters - Henry Miller - US - 11 m - ComedyShepherds - Florence Buchanan - US - 8 m - DramaSingle Bed - George Kavaras - Greece - 12 m - Drama / Animationsite_specific: Las Vegas 05 - Olivio Barbieri - Italy / US / Canada - 13 m - ExperimentalSmall Ant Syndrome - Ann-Marie Denham - Australia - 3 m - AnimationSmartcard - James Oxford - US - 16 m - DramaSpace Chase- Daniel Duncan, Jonathan Pearson - UK - 5 m - ComedySpin - Jamin Winans - US - 8 m - MusicalStakeout On 10 Street - Richard Taylor - US (Indiana) - 15 m - ComedyStop! - Mathijs Geijskes - Netherlands - 6 m - ComedySugar Mountain - Kent Smith - US (Indiana) - 29 m - DramaSupermarket Love Song - Daniel Outram - UK - 14 m - DramaTells - Jack Newell - US - 2 m - ExperimentalA Tragic Love for Unfaithful Nuska - Taras Tkacenko - Ukraine - 16 m - ComedyThe Tub - Vasilis Giannakakis - New Zealand - 15 m - SuspenseTumshie McFadgen's Bid for Ultimate Bliss - Simon Hynd - Scotland - 10 m - ComedyUp On the Rope - Paula Froehle - US - 14 m - ComedyUs - James Blick - New Zealand - 6 m - DramaLa Vie d'un Chien - John Harden - US - 13 m - Experimental / ComedyWhat's Love Doing In the Mountains? - Yunus Emre Firat - Turkey - 28 m - DramaWhy Shakespeare? - Lawrence Bridges - US - 21 m - DocumentaryThe Zit - Mike Blum - US - 5 m - Animation