Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)

Friday, September 12 - Thursday, September 25, 2025

Friday, September 12 & Saturday, September 13 at 7:00: Q&As with director Sierra Falconer moderated by Jourdain Searles (Fri) and Alessandra Lacorazza (Sat)

Please note: Showtimes on this page are for screenings of SUNFISH (& OTHER STORIES ON GREEN LAKE) without open captions (on-screen display of dialogue and sounds). For open captioned screenings, see here.

Cradled by the woods and water of Green Lake, Michigan, SUNFISH (& OTHER STORIES ON GREEN LAKE) unfolds over the course of a summer where the intertwined stories of locals and visitors linger at the edge of personal transformation.

Sierra Falconer’s assured directorial debut casts a steady, sun-dappled gaze on the interconnected summers of a fourteen year-old girl at her grandparents’ lake house, a young virtuoso at music camp, a listless bartender, and two sisters running a bed and breakfast; fleeting moments imbued with humanity and introspection. Like the birds and the trees quietly observing life around the lake, Falconer’s sensitivity as a director allows the characters to be studied in all their restlessness and yearning for connection.

Screenings of SUNFISH (& OTHER STORIES ON GREEN LAKE) are followed by Elizabeth Rao’s short film TRUCK, in which a Chinese-American teen and her boyfriend try to buy the morning-after pill in post-Roe America.

  • Country USA
  • Running Time 88 minutes
  • Format DCP
  • Distributor The Future of Film is Female
  • Director Sierra Falconer
  • Cast Maren Heary, Jim Kaplan, Karsen Liotta, Dominic Bogart, Tenley Kellogg, Emily Hall
  • Accessibility Assistive Listening, T-Coil, Closed Captioning

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