Finn Wittrock

Searching for a break from her cosmopolitan life in Milwaukee, Julia Rabia (Lily Rabe), arrives in the close knit Reagan-era town of Owl, North Dakota for a one-semester high school teaching job. But when the small town turns out to be a wonderland of second-string poets, smoldering Marlboro Men, and a social hierarchy that echoes high school, Julia doesn't know if she's come to town to get away from home or to find it.

A struggling writer, Bart meets an enigmatic woman, Vienna and they have a romantic weekend together. But unexpected revelations urge them to introspect as they try to understand what they mean to each other.

A young filmmaker chronicles his father's journey to recover lost memories following a traumatic brain injury. As memories return in the form of dreams the family struggles with acceptance of this new version of their father. A decade in the making, a young filmmaker confronts addiction, family, and memory as he chronicles his father's journey to recover lost memories following a traumatic brain injury. Using experimental approaches with projected installations he attempts to find those missing memories in hopes of finding the dad he used to know. As memories return in the form of dreams the family struggles with acceptance of this new version of their father. —Tim O'Donnell