The Lake County Film Festival’s 15th edition brought 17 feature films and over 120 short films from around the world to Lake County, IL.

Screenings were primarily held at the College Of Lake County in Grayslake, with additional screenings hosted at the Gorton Center in Lake Forest.

You can explore the full lineup and schedule as it existed during the festival at 2025.lakecountyfilmfestival.org. You can also see the complete schedule as a pdf or as a google doc, and find our original press release for the festival.

The list of films played at the festival:

Narrative Features:
$POSITIONS (d. Brandon Daley)
Blue For A Boy (d. Raul Guardans)
Brim (d. Keenan Dailey)
Heartstorm (d. Jerry White Jr.)
The Ladder (d. Emilio Miguel Torres)
The Other People (d. Chad McClarnon)
Paper Marriage (d. Jeff Man)
Rules Of Living (d. Greg Dale)
Stephanie Stevens (d. Kelsey Ann Wacker)
Tether (d. Hariharasudhen Nagarajan)

Documentary Features:
25 Cats From Qatar (d. Mye Hoang)
American Dendrite (d. Adam Marshall Present)
Brady Street: Portrait Of A Neighborhood (d. Sean Kafer)
MELT: The Memory Of Ice (d. Betsey Biggs)
Video Dreams: A VHS Massacre Story (d. Thomas Seymour)

Short Film Programs:
Adult Situations
Animated Shorts
Apocalypse When?
Computer Age
Doc Stories From Around The World
Doc Stories From The US
Horror Shorts
Making Movies (& Acting, & Kung-Fu!)
Music Documentaries
Music Narratives
OMG! WTF!
Oners
Pens To Lens
Science-Fiction
Shorts With Kids
The Souls Of Black Folk
Student Shorts
Support Local

Short Films List:
A Nice Lady (d. Jessica Weber Kass)
Against The Ropes (d. Kleyon (Prince) Hampton)
All You Need Is Love (d. Dany Ruz)
An Affair At The End Of Time (d. Chase Todd)
Apart (d. Sukwon Jeong)
As Long As We Can (d. Kristy Guevara-Flanagan)
Autophagy (d. Edie Lawrence)
Before The Dawn (d. Alexander Denysenko)
Blink (d. Trude Namara)
Blitzmusik (d. Martin Amiot)
Brothers (d. Jay Lape)
Brush Me (d. Nikolaus Jantsch)
Buick (d. Michael Godere)
Building A Champion (d. Mike Woodall & Neal Woodall)
bush (d. Emma Mazurek)
C-Note (d. Jack Horrigan)
Calico (d. Jake Mavity)
The Cancer Card (d. Jimmy Rancich)
Captain Of Industry (d. Andrew Laudone)
Cast & Brew (d. Priscilla Zanni)
Cell Budies (d. Melle Windig)
Chasers (d. Erin Brown Thomas)
Chatbot DeeDee (d. Kenny Holmes & Kyle Bales)
Check Please (d. Shane Chung)
Chips Or Crackers (d. Michael Gabriele)
Chocolate Chip (d. Josh Deepan)
Choice (d. Marko Crnogorski)
Claire Bikes (d. Molly Weinstein)
Coconut Girl (d. Ayesha Agarwal)
Con/Freud (d. Brian Quintero)
Conspirituality (d. Jake Edwards)
Controlled Burn (d. Peter Howie)
Cowboy Boots (d. Eric K Delehoy)
Crac! (d. Dimitri Martin Genaudeau)
Cubosee: The Secret Garden (d. Filip Gašparović Melis)
Dance Of The Bootlegger (d. Adam Karp)
Dobrina (d. Hannes Rall)
Family Portrait Of The Black Earth (d. Ivan Popov-Zaeka)
FearISH (d. Soheila Madadi)
Feeling Blessed (d. Mark Stewart Iverson)
Figment (d. Ian Sweeney)
The Finger Wife (d. Taryn Stickrath-Hutt & Dan Lund)
Flavor Of The Month (d. Nathan Xia)
Floss (d. Alexander Gustaveson)
Freak Job (d. Langan Kingsley)
Freakin’ Weakend (d. David L Bradburn)
Freeman Vines (d. André Robert Lee & Tim Kirkman)
Gator Girl (d. Michelle Craig)
Hang (d. Sam Slowik)
Hellvette (d. Amiel Peter Matthews)
HomePlanet (d. Andrew Pritzker)
The Invite (d. Max Chopovsky)
It’s Time (d. Jason Lindsey & Scott Krahn)
Juliene Of Light Bulbs (d. Dave Lojek)
Kal-Haven (d. Kal Kociss)
Kali (d. Cassius Michael Kim)
La Guerra Verde (d. Cassius Michael Kim)
Last Night In Urbana (d. Aaron Anastos)
Light Bunny (d. Valerian Zamel)
Lightly Ghosted (d. Garrett Sammons)
Like Comment Subscribe (d. Sabina Olivia Lambert)
Lil’ Something in: Clash With The Cube Demon (d. Dan Sollaccio)
Looking Forward (d. Devon Gulati)
Love Machine (d. Jon Clark)
Middle Of Nowhere (d. Travis Shields)
Mildred 4 A Million (d. Kimmie P. Callaway)
The Most Memorable Art (d. John Beder)
Möthrhead (d. Angie Mills)
My Back Pages (d. Nick Canfield & Paul Lovelace)
My Last Martini (d. Rob Christopher)
Mystery Seeds (d. Nathan Truesdell)
OK/NOTOK (d. Pardeep Sahota)
Okay Annie (d. Sam Chudler)
Out Of The Box (d. Rene Marcelle)
The Pearl Comb (d. Ali Cook)
Perfect Casting (d. Autumn English)
The Piano (d. Avery Kroll)
The Places We Don’t Know (d. Chané Fischer)
Please Don’t Send Help (d. Grigory Lukin)
Poem With Human Intelligence (d. Pamela Falkenberg & Jack Cochran)
Randy As Himself (d. Margaret Miller)
Retirement Plan (d. John Kelly)
Ring Ring (d. Lucas Xavier Simes)
Roadkill (d. Colleen Goldberg)
Ruby (d. Jaclyn Bethany)
Sage (d. Max Blustin)
The Sardine Roaster (d. Adrián Ordóñez)
Scored (d. Robert Henry)
The-Second-To-Last Time I Pooped My Pants (d. Sébastien Landry)
Shephard Boy (d. Joao Queiroga)
Something In The Water (d. Nateya Taylor)
Something’s Wrong With Kit (d. Lida Everhart)
Songs Of Black Folk (d. Haley Watson & Justin Emeka)
Sticky Buns, Ravioli, And White Cake (d. Nicole Pouchet)
Superman Doesn’t Steal (d. Tamika Lamison)
Supermarket Affairs (d. Hang Luong Nguyen)
Tacocunr (d. Erin Brown Thomas)
Te Seguiré a la Oscuridad (d. Nicholas Luciano)
They Call Me The Tattoo Witch (d. Lindsay Nyman)
Thomasville (d. Alex Woodruff)
Tigre (d. Maria Victoria Sanchez Lara)
Travel Plans (d. Zoey Sidwell)
Un Film Social (d. Esteban Sanchez Del Rio)
Unbreaking (d. J. Andrew)
Undeletable (d. Benjamin Blaine & Christopher Blaine)
Unfurled (d. Gail Willumsen)
Wandering (d. Nuoya Ge)
We Are Not Magicians (d. Yu-Lun Chang)
We Were The Scenery (d. Langan Kingsley)
Weave (d. Martyn Lee)
Welcome Home Freckles (d. Huiju Park)
What’s Left (d. Ryan Gentle & Austin Quarles)
When Everything Went Blue (d. Christina Chironna)
When The Clocks Stop (d. Brett Willis)
Wolf (d. Chris Blaine & Ben Blaine)
Wrong Address (d. John Simmons)
You Don’t Say! (d. Jeffrey D. Simon)
Yule (d. Griff Jones)
Zastava Brothers (d. Pep Stojanovic)