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25th Annual deadCenter Film Festival
Welcome to the 25th Annual deadCenter Film Festival Virtual Festival!
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In 1995, a dad brings his teenage daughter home to the small town where he grew up, hoping for a fresh start.
107 min | 2024 | United States
500 Fireflies
A roughneck commits a hasty and brutal crime after discovering his scumbag brother is planning to run off with his cheating wife, completely upending the only life he's ever known.
103 min | 2024 | United States
Anywhere
A simple contract dispute spirals into a whirlwind of music, romance and violence for a young investigator as he fights his growing obsession with a group of artists on the brink of splintering.
110 min | 2024 | United States
Close Enough to Burn
This film follows The Comanche Academy, an Indigenous charter school working to revitalize the Comanche language and culture. In doing so, they begin a generational healing from the impact of boarding schools.
83 min | 2025 | United States
Comanche Academy: A Healing Journey
What if it wasn't an accident?
45 min | 2024 | United States
Connecting the Dots
Dream Touch Believe illuminates the inspiring story of blind, Indigenous sculptor Michael Naranjo – a man who succeeded in doing what he was told he couldn’t do.
85 min | 2025 | United States
Dream Touch Believe
Deep in the Choctaw Nation of rural Oklahoma rages a fight to preserve the Kiamichi River, reckoning with a cycle of land loss for the Indigenous diaspora and the community at large.
86 min | 2024 | United States
Drowned Land
Life’s Ballet captures the soul of Jo Rowan’s life’s work — and in her story, celebrates the silent, enduring artistry of those who teach the world to dream.
59 min | 2025 | United States
Life's Ballet
A coming-of-age documentary told from the perspective of Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner, struggling to navigate his dream of becoming a collegiate athlete as the memory of his great grandfather's escape from an Indian boarding school begins to connect past, present, and future.
88 min | 2025 | United States
Remaining Native
The circumstances behind a missing teenage girl spirals out of control after her traumatized father and a determined detective search for answers.
126 min | 2024 | United States
Reverence
She Cried That Day is the story of a sister's love and the spirit, strength and will of Indigenous Women refusing to let their loved ones remain invisible in the eyes of the justice system.
89 min | 2025 | United States
She Cried That Day
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