The 20th annual all-documentary Frozen River Film Festival kicked off in Winona on Sunday, February 9, 2025 and continues through Sunday, February 16, 2025 with highlights including Family Film Sets, a free workshop featuring augmented reality as a storytelling device, and the World Premiere of the festival’s first self-produced documentary: “Beneath the Ice: The Frozen River Film Festival Story.” There will also be screenings of “Behind the Curtain”: A documentary created by Winona area students ages 10 to 18 during their Summer Filmmaking Camps.
WXOW interviewed Managing Director Eileen Moeller about the importance of community events like FRFF in bringing people together around shared experiences.
“Experiences nowadays are sort of diluted because they’re happening through social media. We’re really decentralized as communities,” Moeller said. “Arts events like this one, are an opportunity to come into a room together with different people and experience the same thing but almost everyone get’s something different out of it.”
Weekend, all-day film screenings begin Saturday at 9am and Sunday at 10am and will be on the Winona State University campus and the Winona Arts Center.
All FRFF activities are free for students. More information and tickets can be found at frff.org.