Oneota Film Festival releases the list of all 31 films it will show next month

"Highway 6 & Moscow" is one of the 31 films to be shown at the Oneota Film Festival

The 2016 Oneota Film Festival has selected 31 films for showing at the festival March 4th through the 6th in Decorah.

More than 250 films were submitted for screening at the 2016 Oneota Film Festival. Just 28 made the cut (for the full slate of films—including the festival's 31 invited films—visit www.oneotafilmfestival.org.)

"This year we had the greatest number submissions in the festival's history—from animated shorts to full-length documentaries," says OFF president Nancy Sojka.

Several of the 31 films have local ties.  "American Storytellers," profiles the Decorah-based Free River Press and its founder, Robert Wolf.  "Driving Change in the Driftless Area" follows La Crosse car dealer Chris Schneider as he visits environmentally conscious friends throughout the Driftless Area. "The Simple Gift of Walnut Grove" recalls a son's bonding with his immigrant father on the rugged terrain of early 1900s Iowa.  "Sons of Jacob Synagogue" takes viewers inside the Jewish community of the same name in Waterloo.  "Highway 6 and Moscow" tells the story of a young woman who, two decades later, finally meets the men who saved her from drowning as an infant.