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Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) w/ Sierra Falcon
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Please welcome Sierra Falconer, whose luminous debut feature Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, for a screening and moderated conversation about her filmmaking journey.
Set over the course of a single Michigan summer, Falconer’s film weaves together the lives 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. With a patient, sun-dappled gaze, Sunfish captures the fleeting moments where restlessness gives way to transformation, and connection blooms in unexpected ways.
Following the screening, Falconer will join us on stage to discuss her creative process, filmmaking journey, and the real-life inspirations behind the film’s tender, interwoven portraits.
ON SCREEN: Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake)
2025. Directed by Sierra Falconer. Runtime: 87 minutes.
Cradled by the woods and water of Green Lake, Michigan, Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake) unfolds over the course of a summer, during which 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.