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Festival Year: 2025
In the dazzling incandescence of an unknown desert, three donkeys discover an abandoned astronomical observatory and the universe.
MORE ›To Catch a Predator was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. Predators is a surprising exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the show, and the world it helped create.
MORE ›The Right Honorable Dame Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand’s 40th Prime Minister, led her nation through unprecedented challenges, implemented bold policies, and became the second leader in history to give birth in office, all while championing an inclusive and empathetic leadership style that changed global expectations of what a leader can be.
MORE ›More people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight. “The Prison in Twelve Landscapes” is a film about the prison in which we never see a penitentiary. Instead, the film unfolds as a cinematic journey through a series of landscapes across the USA where prisons do work and affect lives.
MORE ›A haunted mechanic muses on his experiences as an immigrant in rural America—as well as the nature of life and death as he resurrects cars.
MORE ›This epistolary short film invites us into the unsettling life of a young Ghanaian man struggling to reconcile his love for his mother with his love for same-sex desire amid the increased tensions incited by same-sex politics in Ghana. Focused on a letter that is ultimately filled with hesitation and uncertainty, “Reluctantly Queer” both disrobes and questions what it means to be queer for this man in this time and space.
MORE ›Sally Ride became the first American woman to blast off into space, but beneath her unflappable composure was a secret. Sally’s life partner, Tam O’Shaughnessy, reveals their hidden romance and the sacrifices that accompanied their 27 years together.
MORE ›Seeds is a portrait of Centennial farmers in the geographical south. Using lyrical black-and-white imagery, this meditative film examines the decline of generational Black farmers and the significance of owning land.
MORE ›Selena Quintanilla—the “Queen of Tejano Music”—and her family band, Selena y Los Dinos, rose from performing at quinceañeras to selling out stadium tours. The celebration of her life and legacy is chronicled through never-before-seen footage from the family’s personal archive.
MORE ›Set high in the majestic French Pyrenees, “The Shepherd and the Bear” explores a conflict provoked by the reintroduction of brown bears amid a traditional shepherding community. The film follows an aging shepherd who struggles to find a successor as bears prey on his flock, and a teenage boy who becomes obsessed with tracking the bears. Through its breathtaking cinematography and immersive storytelling, “The Shepherd and the Bear” is a modern folktale about tradition, community, and humanity’s relationship with a vanishing natural world.
MORE ›The five films in this program move across landscapes to document connection to place: la Flor del Camino, The Long Valley, The Other Side of the Mountain, perfectly a strangeness, and Rat Rod.
MORE ›This program offers vivid explorations of women’s relationships to self and others: Constructing an Island, The Devil Is Busy, Hold Me Close, A Move, and Tiger.
MORE ›This compilation of films features creative assembly in their portrayal of varied perspectives: Confessions of Undecided Women, Mail Myself to You, Mama Micra, The Spectacle, and Your Opinion, Please.
MORE ›Created for the Japenese American National Museum’s exhibition, “America’s Concentration Camps: Remembering the Japanese American Experience,” this critically acclaimed, award-winning film features haunting compilation of rarely-seen home movies of the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
MORE ›An audiovisual diary of Ukraine’s immersion into the abyss of the first two years of Russia’s full invasion, made up of places, occasional characters, rare dialogues, intraframe sounds and silences which, when put together, capture the chronology of how the war became normalized. Against the backdrop of this (meta)physical landscape of collective disaster, a new generation of Ukrainians aspires to imagine the future.
MORE ›“Southern Comfort” tells the story of Robert Eads, a 52-year-old trans man who lives in the back hills of Georgia. “A hillbilly and proud of it,” he says, tobacco pipe in hand. But Robert was diagnosed with ovarian cancer and turned away by more than two dozen doctors for treatment. As his health declines, Robert falls in love with Lola, a trans-woman, and the film becomes a tale of love in the face of transphobia as it unfolds before the camera.
MORE ›Five top-ranked high school oratory students spend a year crafting spellbinding spoken word performances with the dream of winning one of the world’s largest and most intense public speaking competitions.
MORE ›The Spectacle is a short reflective documentary that explores the world of modern tourism. Filmed in various locations across Europe, the documentary unveils the transformation of serene landscapes into tourist attractions. What remains truly seen and felt amidst the curated snapshots of our adventures?
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