Hamnet and ‘Lost & Found in Cleveland’ Headline 16th Twin Cities Film Fest Lineup

Twin Cities Film Fest (TCFF) celebrating its “Sweet 16” anniversary, unveiled its film slate of more than 150 movies set to both screen and stream October 16 – 25, 2025.

Hamnet, from Academy Award-winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, opens the festival on Thursday, October 16. This year’s People’s Choice Award winner at the Toronto International Film Festival tells the story that inspired the creation of William Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

This year’s closing night gala will showcase Lost & Found in Cleveland, a 24-hour slice-of-life vision that follows five people whose paths cross when an antiques appraisal TV show visits their Midwestern city. The film stars Martin Sheen, June Squibb, Jon Lovitz, Stacy Keach, Liza Weil and Santino Fontana.

Between those tentpoles, TCFF’s 2025 Centerpiece will be The Floaters, directed by Rachel Israel, which follows a struggling musician, Nomi (Jackie Tohn), who accepts a last-resort job from her overachiever best friend Mara (Sarah Podemski): mentoring the misfit campers known as “Floaters” at their childhood Jewish summer camp. The film, which also stars Seth Green, Steve Guttenberg and Jonathan Silverman, will premiere at TCFF on Tuesday, October 21.

Other acclaimed entries in this year’s program: Christy, starring Sydney Sweeney; Hedda, starring Tessa Thompson and Nina Hoss; Man on the Run; Bugonia starring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons; Rental Family starring Brendan Fraser; Belén starring Dolores Fonzi; Rosemead starring Lucy Liu; Westhampton starring RJ Mitte; The Eagle Obsession starring William Shatner; Go On starring Vincent Kartheiser; Sovereign starring Jacob Tremblay; and Good Fortune starring Seth Rogen, Aziz Ansari and Keanu Reeves.

“This year we wanted to put a brighter spotlight on the independent spirit,” said TCFF Executive Director Jatin Setia. “As we celebrate our ‘Sweet 16,’ our programming team went above and beyond in curating the most diverse slate of independent visions in our history. Independent films give audiences the chance to discover fresh perspectives and bold storytelling that might never otherwise reach the mainstream. That’s what makes celebrating them so vital.”

This year’s “TCFF Changemaker Series” will spotlight “Domestic Trauma” as the festival’s key social issue, featuring several screenings, including the premiere of the Minnesota-made film The Seventh Turn, directed by Eric D. Howell and co-directed by Marta Milans, on October 25. The film will be followed by an in-depth discussion featuring local community partner organizations; CornerHouse along with And Now She Rises.

The festival will hold in-person events and screenings at The Shops at West End’s Marcus West End Cinemas, and will also expand its programming to Edina via a new partnership with the Edina Mann 4 Theatre at 50th and France. More than 70 films will simultaneously stream online via the TCFF STREAMS platform at TwinCitiesFilmFest.org.

2025 Twin Cities Film Fest Feature Films + Director/s

A Better Man, Attiya Khan and Lawrence Jackman
A Culinary Uprising: The Story of Bloodroot, Annie Laurie Medonis
Abigail Before Beatrice, Cassie Keet
Adult Children, Rich Newey
All In: The Saint Paul Public Schools Literacy Journey, Steven Shega
Anxiety Club, Wendy Lobel
Assembly, Rashaad Newsome and Johnny Symons
Battersea, T.J. Sandella
Behind the Rage, Deeyah Khan
Belén, Dolores Fonzi
Between Goodbyes, Jota Mun
Beyond the Ruins, Brady Skye
Bird In Hand, Melody C. Roscher
Blue Zeus, Miranda Winters and Rock Romano
Boy George & Culture Club, Alison Ellwood
Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos
Can I Get a Witness?, Ann Marie Fleming
Canoe Dig It?, Samuel Dunning
Christy, David Michôd
Classroom 4, Eden Wurmfeld
Clear Sky, Shawn Clearsky Davis and Michael Del Monte
Color Book, David Fortune
Cotton Candy Bubble Gum, J Pinder
Detour, Demian Alan Mancino
Enongo, Kevin Schreck
Espina, Daniel Poler
Firebreak, Kenzie Bruce
Forward is a Pace, Robin Oroso
Fucktoys, Annapurna Sriram
Go On, Landon Ashworth
Good Fortune, Aziz Ansari
Hamnet, Chloé Zhao
Hazel, Daniel Bielinski
Hedda, Nia DaCosta
Her Fight, His Name: The Story of Gwen Carr and Eric Garner, Brad Bailey
Home Truth, April Hayes, Katia Maguire
I Really Love My Husband, GG Hawkins
If An Owl Calls Your Name, Zaya Benazzo and Maurizio Benazzo
I’ve Seen All I Need To See, Zeshaan Younus
Killing Faith, Ned Crowley
Kukràdjà, Palmer Douglas Durr
Lemonade Blessing, Chris Merola
Lone Wolves, Ryan Cunningham
Looking UP, Elena Neuman
Lost & Found In Cleveland, Marisa Guterman and Keith Gerchak
Magic & Monsters, Norah Shapiro
Man On the Run, Morgan Neville
Micro Budget, Morgan Evans
Missing Pieces, Cameron Andrews
New Jack Fury, Lanfia Wal
Next Life, Tenzin Phuntsog
No Baby on Board, Julia Kots
One Minute Remaining, Colin Sytsma
Outer Edge, Adam Zuehlke
Premarital, Robert Ingraham
Reconstruction Destructed, Monique Linder
Remaining Native, Paige Bethmann
Rental Family, Hikari
Rosemead, Eric Lin
Searching for the Light, Andrés A. Parra
Seeds, Brittany Shyne
She Dances, Rick Gomez
She Runs the World, Perri Peltz and Matthew O’Neill
Silly Little Wounds, Vanessa Magowan Horrocks Powers
Sovereign, Christian Swegal
Speak., Jennifer Tiexiera
The Doctrine, Gwendolen Cates
The Eagle Obsession, Jeffrey Morris
The Floaters, Rachel Israel
The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo, Michael Walker
The Librarians, Kim A. Snyder
The Most Biodiverse Place in America, John Fiske
The Opener, Jeff Toye
The Quiet Ones, Nicholas Winter
The Ride Ahead, Samuel Habib and Dan Habib
The Seventh Turn, Director Eric D. Howell // Co-Director Marta Milans
The Way We Are, Sarah Rose Larson
Together: Family Recovery, Jess Speight
Trash Baby, Jacy Mairs
Unbroken, Joshua Chen Cavalier
Urban Ed, Wade Wofford
Vida Nueva (New Life), Eliana Reyes
We Are Pyramids, Dr. Tracine Asberry
Westhampton, Christian Nilsson
Where in the Hell, Laramie Dennis
Women in Film in Minnesota, Stefanie Fauth
You Are Not Alone, Marie-Helene Viens and Philippe Lupien
Zurawski v Texas, Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault