TCFF: Sovereign

Synopsis: Twin Cities Film Fest 2025 Spotlight Film! Director Christian Swegal, actor Jacob Tremblay, and producer Nick Moceri in attendance! Q&A to follow screening! Inspired by real events, SOVEREIGN is a tense and provocative true crime thriller about a father and his teenage son — Jerry and Joseph Kane (Nick Offerman and Jacob Tremblay) — who follow the Sovereign Citizen belief system, a deeply anti-establishment worldview rooted in distrust of government authority. As the pair travel across the country delivering self-taught legal seminars and pushing back against systems they believe have failed them, their journey brings them into conflict with Police Chief Jim Bouchart (Dennis Quaid), setting off a tragic chain of events that forces a reckoning with power, principle, and the limits of freedom. The film comes from first time filmmaker Christian Swegal and also stars Thomas Mann, Martha Plimpton, and Nancy Travis. CONTENT WARNING: Coarse Language, Violence