RIDGWAY INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL · NOVEMBER 13–15, 2026
The fire is only the beginning.
Three days of independent film. Six chapters. One unfolding story.
THREE DAYS AT THE SHERBINO
Six chapters.
One unfolding story.
A weekend of campfire stories—beginning where we are, gathering around the fire, and eventually wandering beyond it.
THE 2026 PROGRAM
Follow the stories.
Friday · November 13 · 5 PM
Begin Where You Are
The Sherbino · 604 Clinton St, Ridgway, CO
Every story begins before we know where it will lead.
Opening night gathers threads from across the weekend—animated and lived, local and far-flung, strange and familiar. A little taste of where we are and everywhere we might go.
Paper Trail
Don Hertzfeldt
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Ms. Rossi 3: Ms. Rossi Meets the Mob
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What Happens in Vegas
Jewell Karinen
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The Orange at the Seder
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The Time My Grandmother Was Held Hostage by Bank Robbers
Rosella Tursi
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Mountain Guides: Barometers of Change
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Busy Bodies
Kate Renshaw-Lewis
Explore the filmSaturday · November 14 · 10 AM
Something Was Calling Us
The Sherbino · 604 Clinton St, Ridgway, CO
Sooner or later, a voice asks us to listen.
It may carry a memory, a lost love, an echo of someone gone, or the hope of finding our way back. Wistful, tender, and occasionally strange, these stories follow the quiet pull of love, loss, identity, and change—and the unexpected paths we take toward what is missing.
Saturday · November 14 · 1 PM
The Mountains Knew Our Names
The Sherbino · 604 Clinton St, Ridgway, CO
The places we pass through remember more than we do.
Rooted across Colorado, these documentaries explore the ties between people and place—the histories we inherit, the traditions we carry, the communities that raise us, and the paths we choose for ourselves.
Saturday · November 14 · 6:30 PM
We Gathered Around the Fire
The Sherbino · 604 Clinton St, Ridgway, CO
So we sit together and share what we have carried.
Look closely enough, and even a mailbox has a story. These films find community in the ordinary places where lives intersect—in neighbors, shared spaces, small gestures, and the things we build together. Come gather for a while. You may leave dancing.
Sunday · November 15 · 10 AM
We Invited the Monsters In
The Sherbino · 604 Clinton St, Ridgway, CO
Up close, it becomes harder to tell the monsters from the rest of us.
Gothic, gruesome, funny, and occasionally sweet, these stories pair tenderness with terror and vengeance with very dark humor. Come for the weird. Stay for the dark. And maybe don’t ask what’s for dinner.
Sunday · November 15 · 2 PM
We Wandered Beyond the Firelight
The Sherbino · 604 Clinton St, Ridgway, CO
By morning, the world is no simpler—only larger.
These stories move between truth and memory, expectation and identity, the lives we’re given and the ones we make for ourselves. Tender, tense, funny, and quietly unsettling, they inhabit the gray areas—where things get complicated and perhaps a little more human.
ONE MORE STORY
And we carried
the fire home.Stay for one last story
The screen goes dark. The room grows quiet. Outside, the mountains are still there.
But something comes with us. A face. A question. A moment we will find ourselves telling someone about.
We arrived with stories of our own. We leave carrying a few more.
Thank you for gathering here.
Until the next fire.Festival Supporters