Humboldt Int'l Film Fest

10/28/2025

Halloween is 3 days away! Here’s some film recommendations to get into the spooky spirit! 🎃🎬✨

10/20/2025

Hey you 🫵 Yea you! Do you have a short film that’s under 30 minutes? Can it be considered a narrative, documentary, animation, or experimental? Then you should join other talented filmmakers, like yourself, and submit to this year’s film festival! Deadline is January 12, don’t miss out! 🎬✨

04/29/2025

Thank you to our sponsors for making HIFF 58 possible! We encourage you to support these businesses as they have supported us. 💚

04/28/2025

Congratulations to our 58th Humboldt International Film Festival award winners! All of these wonderful filmmakers will be receiving our cash award for their amazing work thanks to our sponsors! 🎞️✨

We’d also like to thank our wonderful sponsors who allow us to make this film festival happen!

Best of Fest is sponsored by Coast Central Credit Union

Best Local Film is sponsored by the Humboldt Del Norte Film Commission

Best Immigrant Story is sponsored by the Matteoli family

04/22/2025

Come celebrate the opening night of the film festival at our 21+ after party at The Summitt!🕺🪩💃 Drinks at The Summitt will be discounted for HIFF weekend + we have a BONUS screening of a film we picked just for this! Come see our installation of Border Dwellers by 🌟

04/21/2025

Did you know that all of the films in our programs are qualified to receive awards? Yep! And it’s all thanks to our generous sponsors who reward our talented filmmakers. 💚💚💚

Make sure to come to our Best of Fest program on Sunday at 7pm to see all of our award winning films! ✨🎞️

04/20/2025

Last, but not least… our Best of Fest program will be Sunday at 7pm in the Minor Theatre. Come and see the films our judges thought were award-worthy! 🏆

04/17/2025

Our fest is coming up fast! In the mean time, check out our animation program featuring our many talented artists! Screening will be April 26 at 4pm! 🎞️✨

Featured films:

DONKEYBAT
Dir. Mostafa Ghorbanpour
United States

HURDLES
Dir. Pamela Oliver Munoz
United States

LILLY VISITS THE HOSPITAL
Dir. Medina Dennie, Ocean Demuth, Zaiyah Dennie, Sol Demuth, Xstine Cook, Heather Cook
Canada

LEAVE ME AS YOU FOUND ME
Dir. Hannah Mutz
United States

FATHER’S LETTERS
Dir. Alexey Evstigneev
France

TOIL AND SPIN
Dir. Maureen Zent
United States

ILLUMINATUS!
Dir. Chris Kalis
United States

BEAR MEDICINE SOCIETY
Dir. Kiron Hussain, Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
United States

DESPITE
Dir. Kate Raney
United States

FLOWER SHOW
Dir. Elli Vuorinen
Finland

04/16/2025

Join us next Friday, the 25th for our amazing documentary program! 🎞️✨

04/16/2025

04/15/2025

We are officially 10 days out until our film festival! ✨ Until then, check out our Narrative Program and all the wonderful filmmakers that made it happen! More information about our narrative program on our website in our bio! 🎞️✨

Film Festival

04/10/2025

We are excited to announce our first guest judge this year… Victoria Vincent (aka Vewn)!! ✨ We’re so excited to have her join us this year to be a judge of the films in our program as well as speak on our guest judge panel which will be April 25 on campus!