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Welcome to the Heartland Film Festival Streaming Film Hub!
Check out the database of festival films you can watch at home! Many, but not all, of the festival films are available to stream in the US, October 8-18.
Indiana Spotlight
The Protectors
Saving Ava
Seniors
We Are Not Invisible: Doulas and the Work of Survival
First Five
God I Want You
Method to the Madness
The Protectors
Saving Ava
Seniors
We Are Not Invisible: Doulas and the Work of Survival
First Five
God I Want You
Method to the Madness
The Protectors
Saving Ava
Seniors
We Are Not Invisible: Doulas and the Work of Survival
Narrative Feature
Seniors
Street Angel
Wake
A Woman's Work
California Scenario
Caterpillar
DISCONNECTED
Empress of the Badlands
Foreign Tongue
Genevieve's Garden
God I Want You
HIGHER LOVE
In Spite of Ourselves
Jackrabbit
Love - Love
Mallory's Ghost
Maybe We Should
Method to the Madness
Mick Skylark: Mini Golf Prodigy
Nuclear Boy
The Odyssey of Joy
OH SEASON (formerly Reimagined)
One Day in Sedona
The Peril at Pincer Point
Saving Ava
Seniors
Street Angel
Wake
A Woman's Work
California Scenario
Caterpillar
DISCONNECTED
Empress of the Badlands
Foreign Tongue
Genevieve's Garden
God I Want You
HIGHER LOVE
In Spite of Ourselves
Jackrabbit
Love - Love
Mallory's Ghost
Maybe We Should
Method to the Madness
Mick Skylark: Mini Golf Prodigy
Nuclear Boy
The Odyssey of Joy
OH SEASON (formerly Reimagined)
One Day in Sedona
The Peril at Pincer Point
Saving Ava
Seniors
Street Angel
Wake
A Woman's Work
Documentary Feature
Tough Old Broads
Unspoken Bond
We Are Not Invisible: Doulas and the Work of Survival
Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird)
Beyond
Breaking the Code
Cycles of Resilience: A Journey Through Austin's Black History
ESL: More Than a Language
First Five
The Fish Don't Care When it Rains
Forever Home
Fork in the Road
A Goodnight Kiss
I Got Bombed at Harvey's
Italian Wannabe
Latin Clowns Evolution
A Long Way to Go
Loving Karma
The Man with the Big Hat
PHINDA
PINBALL
The Protectors
Romare Bearden: A Life in Collage
Tough Old Broads
Unspoken Bond
We Are Not Invisible: Doulas and the Work of Survival
Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird)
Beyond
Breaking the Code
Cycles of Resilience: A Journey Through Austin's Black History
ESL: More Than a Language
First Five
The Fish Don't Care When it Rains
Forever Home
Fork in the Road
A Goodnight Kiss
I Got Bombed at Harvey's
Italian Wannabe
Latin Clowns Evolution
A Long Way to Go
Loving Karma
The Man with the Big Hat
PHINDA
PINBALL
The Protectors
Romare Bearden: A Life in Collage
Tough Old Broads
Unspoken Bond
We Are Not Invisible: Doulas and the Work of Survival
Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird)
Short Films
Indy Shorts Winners 1
Indy Shorts Winners 2
Indy Shorts Winners 3
Indy Shorts Winners 4
Virtual Screenings
Purchasing a house together on the Bowery in the 1950s, three female artists defied societal norms and prioritized their art over traditional roles as wives and mothers. Through interviews with the women, now in their 90s, as well as their grown children, "Artists in Residence" explores the emotional complexities of being an artist and a parent. A heartfelt celebration of independence, creativity and the enduring strength of women artists.
93 min | 2025 | United States
Artists in Residence
At Sing Sing prison, a group of incarcerated men organize and prepare for a TED-style event, featuring personal narratives and ideas for changing the prison system. With immersive access to Sing Sing, the film follows the speakers’ emotional journeys from first audition to their final climactic moments on stage.
90 min | 2025 | United States
Beyond
A filmmaker retraces his father’s journey from Indian immigrant to tech pioneer, uncovering a powerful story of ambition, sacrifice and love.
83 min | 2026 | United States, India
Breaking the Code
Single parents Jacob Hara and Laura Acker live parallel lives, each needing to heal before they can find one another. A family secret throws everything into chaos, sending Jacob to his daughter Lexi's side to confront the past together.
100 min | 2025 | United States
California Scenario
In early 2000s New Zealand, three generations of women push against the metamorphosis of family dysfunction as their enmeshed identities evolve and separate.
98 min | 2025 | New Zealand
Caterpillar
Hundreds of cyclists bike together through the streets of Austin, Texas, to learn undertold stories of Black history, highlighting the depths of community resilience and inspiration.
57 min | 2025 | United States
Cycles of Resilience: A Journey Through Austin's Black History
Follows a family as they navigate personal loss and online manipulation in a tech-reliant school system, where they and courageous students challenge a corrupt administration.
95 min | 2026 | United States
DISCONNECTED
In 1883 Dakota Territory, the Marquis de Mores and wife Medora arrive to build a home, town and meat empire, facing hostility from ranchers, beef trusts and violent locals determined to drive them out.
124 min | 2026 | United States
Empress of the Badlands
A group of immigrant families confront a fundamental need: the ability to communicate in their new English-speaking culture. Their journey to learn English through a family ESL program leads to something much deeper—lifelong friendships and a newfound sense of belonging.
56 min | 2026 | United States
ESL: More Than a Language
Five unheralded Indiana recruits place their faith in an uncompromising young coach named Bob Knight, transforming a struggling basketball program into a national powerhouse while chasing a championship that slips away by the narrowest of margins.
75 min | 2026 | United States
First Five
After seven years inside an institution that used painful electric shocks as behavioral "treatment," autistic artist Jen Msumba escapes, fights back and transforms trauma into music and film.
69 min | 2026 | United States
The Fish Don't Care When it Rains
After a freak accident leaves her speaking with a Bosnian accent, a North American woman is suddenly seen as a stranger by everyone around her—forcing her to live the immigrant experience she's never meant to have. "Foreign Tongue" is a gently absurd and emotionally rich exploration of identity, perception and belonging.
105 min | 2026 | Canada
Foreign Tongue
In North Carolina, two dreamers are revolutionizing animal care through groundbreaking architecture. With wild creativity and compassion, their farm animal rescue invites us to rethink the meaning of “home,” sustainability and our relationship with society’s forgotten animals.
56 min | 2025 | United States
Forever Home
Featuring Nick Offerman, "Fork in the Road" is a documentary following small farmers, visionary chefs, and innovators working to heal the land, improve our food systems, and transition toward a regenerative future for both people and the planet.
89 min | 2026 | United States
Fork in the Road
After being dumped and laid off in quick succession, Lily finds herself at a rising influencer’s new wellness retreat in the Hudson Valley. Looking for a distraction, she becomes obsessively infatuated with a fellow guest.
96 min | 2025 | United States
Genevieve's Garden
After his ex-girlfriend gets engaged, a man struggles to see God's plan for his life. He looks for answers in another lost soul.
88 min | 2026 | United States
God I Want You
Calls and birthday greetings pour in, carrying words of admiration. Irena Veisaitė is turning 92. A remarkable woman and leading voice in Lithuania’s culture, Irena lived through the horrors of two totalitarian regimes—and came out on the other side—with an unabating belief that life should be radiant.
90 min | 2025 | Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria
A Goodnight Kiss
A devoted husband's wife faces a severe health crisis, forcing an impossible choice and leading him into caregiving, solitude, and a surprising friendship that reshapes his views on love, family, and faith.
108 min | 2026 | United States
HIGHER LOVE
Filmmaker Mat Hames follows a decorated U.S. veteran and a friend who fled Vietnam as a child as they return over 50 years later, confronting former enemies on an emotional journey toward healing, reconciliation and peace.
72 min | 2026 | United States, Vietnam
Home from the Vietnam War
"I Got Bombed at Harvey's" wheels us into the outrageous events surrounding the biggest and most complicated homemade bomb ever encountered by the FBI and how the investigation and manhunt led them to a mad genius inventor who coerced his two teenage sons to be his unwilling accomplices.
95 min | 2026 | United States
I Got Bombed at Harvey's
Love comes easy — relationships don’t. When Hannah, a warm and determined Portland, Oregon, baker, crosses paths with Archie, an up-and-coming LA comedian with a habit of dodging commitment, their instant chemistry sparks a whirlwind romance neither expected. But after two blissful weeks together, real life pulls them back to separate cities, forcing them to confront distance, doubts, and their own hilariously messy insecurities.
100 min | 2026 | United States
In Spite of Ourselves
Indy Shorts Winners 1
Indy Shorts Winners 2
Indy Shorts Winners 3
Indy Shorts Winners 4
A celebrated American chef loses everything and returns to the small Italian village that started it all.
90 min | 2026 | United States, Italy
Italian Wannabe
An investigative journalist and struggling actress - who hate each other, but share a best friend - are reluctantly forced to team up when their shared friend mysteriously vanishes, only to discover that her disappearance is just the first of her secrets.
96 min | 2026 | United States
Jackrabbit
At the annual Congreso in South Los Angeles, a group of Latine clowns come together to teach enthusiastic attendees the complex and joyful art of clowning. Their vibrant optimism is powerfully juxtaposed with their stories of resilience and sacrifice having immigrated to the U.S.–demonstrating how the arts, community and chosen family can forge a path to healing.
67 min | 2026 | United States
Latin Clowns Evolution
Narrated by award-winning journalist and veteran ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, “A Light in the Darkness” reveals fascinating adaptations of species that have evolved in perpetual darkness.
68 min | 2026 | United States
A Light in the Darkness
“A Long Way to Go” explores the human realities of immigration through the intertwined journeys of three women—nurses who leave their home countries, the Philippines, Ghana, and India, to join the healthcare workforce in the United States. Their stories illuminate the emotional, economic, and cultural complexities of migration, revealing what it means to live between worlds while sustaining deep ties to families and communities across continents.
72 min | 2026 | United States
A Long Way to Go
After their grandmother’s death, two estranged brothers: Andy, who suffers from schizophrenia, and Jeff, an actor searching for meaning, set out on a road trip to find their father, a disgraced former professional tennis player living near the Salton Sea.
98 min | 2026 | United States, France
Love - Love
A former monk builds a Himalayan refuge where compassion and community help traumatized children heal.
79 min | 2025 | India
Loving Karma
A timid young woman follows her boyfriend on a creative retreat to coastal Maine, but soon becomes convinced that she’s being haunted by the ghost of his ex-lover and muse, forcing her to confront the deeper roots of her jealousy.
87 min | 2026 | United States
Mallory's Ghost
An excavation of long-buried archives resurrects obscure yet profoundly influential Texas singer-songwriter Steven Fromholz, revealing a soul-stirring journey of self-discovery and the true meaning of success.
90 min | 2026 | United States
The Man with the Big Hat
After Louie starts seeing strange visions, he and Laurie embark on a journey to build a therapy center on a farm where kids with disabilities can thrive, changing healthcare forever but testing their resolve in the process. Based on a true story.
90 min | 2025 | United States
Maybe We Should
After winning a chance to honor her late basketball star twin sister, an awkward woman unknowingly hires an actress posing as a basketball coach, forcing them both to discover confidence, purpose and healing through an impossible free throw.
75 min | 2026 | United States
Method to the Madness
After a sudden tragedy, mini golf prodigy Mick Skylark quits the sport for good… or so he thought.
119 min | 2026 | United States
Mick Skylark: Mini Golf Prodigy
The lonely, 17-year-old chemistry fanatic AIKE, in his desperate urge to be seen, tries to build a nuclear reactor in his mother's shed, with all the radioactive and catastrophic consequences that entails.
79 min | 2026 | Netherlands
Nuclear Boy
At the dawn of the new millennium, 11-year-old Lis, displaced by the Kosovo war and haunted by a secret tied to his missing father, joins a troupe of French clowns traveling through the ravaged land to bring joy to its children.
102 min | 2025 | Kosovo, France
The Odyssey of Joy
With his town's Christmas tradition on the brink of collapse, a teenager recruits street musicians to wildly reinvent the traditional orchestral concert. Behind his impossible plan lies a secret desire that changes the meaning of the season for everyone.
86 min | 2026 | United States
OH SEASON (formerly Reimagined)
Based on a true story, "On the End" follows a Montauk mechanic fighting eviction from his home and auto shop, and the woman he loves, as they struggle to preserve their life together.
113 min | 2025 | United States
On the End
Two strangers in their 50s, both going through pivotal moments in their lives, meet on a hike and share a deep connection as they talk about life, love, legacy and the betterment of humankind.
90 min | 2026 | United States
One Day in Sedona
On a quest to prove his competency, an inept sound recordist finds himself entangled in a nautical prophecy on the spectral island of Pincer Point.
84 min | 2026 | United Kingdom, Slovakia
The Peril at Pincer Point
In KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, retired schoolteacher Mama Zikhali gathers her class for one final lesson: the extraordinary 40-year story of how a degraded landscape became one of Africa's oldest and most celebrated rewilding successes.
68 min | 2026 | United Kingdom
PHINDA
In a contemplative coming of age portrait, "PINBALL" follows Yosef, a spirited athlete, in Louisville, Kentucky, as he dives into the memories of his journey from Iraq to America and what it means to chase his dreams in the shadow of a war that displaced his family from their Iraqi homeland.
86 min | 2026 | United States
PINBALL
Living on his own for the first time, a 55-year old artist with disability creates a comic book to honor the protectors in his life, including his late father.
121 min | 2026 | United States
The Protectors
In his lifelong fight to forge a Black identity—on and off the canvas—Romare Bearden, an artist, athlete, and activist, challenged cultural gatekeepers. "Romare Bearden: A Life in Collage" traces the unseen odyssey of one of America’s greatest artists—from Harlem to Paris, from Jim Crow to Civil Rights—as he used art, community, and collective memory to disrupt who holds the power to define American history and the value of Black creativity.
82 min | 2026 | United States
Romare Bearden: A Life in Collage
A group of friends races across the Midwest in search of their missing friend.
70 min | 2026 | United States
Saving Ava
When a troubled teen performing community service at a retirement home is recruited for a treasure hunt by a stubborn veteran with unfinished business, the unlikely duo's misadventure digs up friendship, purpose and a new sense of belonging.
103 min | 2026 | United States
Seniors
"'Street Angel" is a raw soulful drama about drugs, Jesus, love and redemption.
84 min | 2026 | United States
Street Angel
After meeting the day of their spouses’ funerals, a young widow and widower form a two-person, music therapy-style support group. But when they start to catch feelings, they are faced with the question everyone’s asking, is it too soon?
100 min | 2026 | United States
Too Soon
"Tough Old Broads" follows three trailblazing women who continue to fight for a better world. These feisty ladies broke barriers in their youth, and they’re still making waves in their old age. They’re living proof that it’s possible to follow your dreams and maybe even change the world in the process.
90 min | 2026 | Canada
Tough Old Broads
Not all love needs language. "Unspoken Bond" makes the case for the human-animal bond as its own profound relationship—not a substitute for human connection, but a vital one in its own right.
81 min | 2026 | United States
Unspoken Bond
Four semi-estranged siblings reunite on the day of their father's wake, navigating the clashing personalities of overbearing relatives, oblivious guests and a death-phobic funeral director as they fumble into their absurd new reality - one that maybe, just maybe, could bring them closer together.
2025 | United States
Wake
"We Are Not Invisible: Doulas and the Work of Survival" is a documentary that explores survival, maternal care and the voices of doulas, mothers and medical professionals who reveal what happens when people are heard, believed, and supported; and the cost when they are not.
95 min | 2026 | United States
We Are Not Invisible: Doulas and the Work of Survival
A young woman in rural Kentucky works as a coal miner to provide for her two younger sisters after losing her parents to the opioid epidemic.
92 min | 2026 | United States
A Woman's Work
Anna spends a decade obsessively building a detailed 1/3-scale version of her friend’s house after losing her. It’s just big enough for Anna to squeeze through the door, and inside lives a puppet of her friend Yo.
79 min | 2026 | United States
Yo (Love is a Rebellious Bird)