Festival Year: 2026


Alone
Garrett Bradley

Aloné Watts, a young woman in New Orleans, contemplates marrying her boyfriend, who has been incarcerated for a year and is still awaiting sentencing. What…

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America
Garrett Bradley

Garrett Bradley’s film America opens with a headshot of actor Bert Williams, followed by production stills of the actor in blackface. The images transition to…

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American Doctor
Poh Si Teng

When three American doctors–Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian–enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.

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American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
David Alvarado

Against political resistance and industry skepticism, Luis Valdez pushes Chicano storytelling from the fields to the film screen with Zoot Suit and La Bamba, crafting iconic works that challenge, celebrate, and expand America’s story.

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Ask E. Jean
Ivy Meerapol

The thrilling and adventurous life of beloved advice columnist and gonzo journalist E. Jean Carroll, the only woman to beat Trump in court. Twice.

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BAEA
Terra Long

In the dead of winter, at a wildlife rescue center on the pacific coast of so-called Canada, a team of rehabbers treat Bald Eagles suffering from lead poisoning so that they can be released back to their environment.

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Barbara Forever
Brydie O'Connor

An archive-driven exploration of the life, work, and legacy of iconic, pioneering lesbian filmmaker Barbara Hammer.

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The Bend in the River
Robb Moss

Following and filming friends for nearly fifty years, The Bend in the River is an exploration of the inexorable flow of aging and the unfinished project of living.

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BENITA
Alan Berliner

In this deeply intimate and haunting documentary, Alan Berliner posthumously collaborates with his friend and colleague, experimental New York City filmmaker Benita Raphan, who died by suicide during the COVID-19 pandemic. The film is an unflinching, lyrical, and ultimately moving study of an artist’s mind, offering profound insights into the intersections of mental health, creativity, loneliness, and human resilience.

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A Bisbee ’17 Short Film (no. 2 of 6)
Robert Greene

This seven-minute film directed by Robert Greene sources unused material from his feature film Bisbee ’17 to deconstruct the circumstances around the two deaths that…

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Bree Wayy: Promise Witness Remembrance
Dawn Porter

Dawn Porter’s uplifting short film examines how the art world responded to the death of Breonna Taylor by using art not only as a form of protest, but as a space to heal.

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Buckskin
Mars Verrone

An experimental portrait of the filmmaker’s grandfather, Carroll B. Williams Jr., a ground-breaking African-American forester, that reflects on his work and legacy in the twilight of his life.

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Bushman
David Schickele

With Bushman, director David Schickele intended to make a narrative film based on the experiences of his friend Paul Eyam Nzie Okpokam, who had come…

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A Child of My Own
Maite Alberdi

The profound desire to become a mother and the pressure from her surroundings drive Alejandra to fake a pregnancy. What begins as a simple lie turns into a complex charade to sustain for months before a hopeful husband and family. It unleashes a media scandal that won’t allow her to continue lying.

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The Cloud Factory
Hannes Lang

“The Cloud Factory” is an cinematic exploration of the sky above the Rhenish coal mining region, where emission-enriched air masses ascend into the atmosphere to transform the climate. What can these human-made clouds tell us about our future? And what kind of castles can we build in this air?

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Concepto de Ciudadano
Sharon Quintana Ortiz

In Concepto de Ciudadano, a man recounts his journey crossing the border with his mother as a three-year-old and growing up in Los Angeles. After…

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Cookie Queens
Alysa Nahmias

It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and four tenacious girls strive to be a top-selling “Cookie Queen,” navigating an $800 million business in which innocence and ambition collide.

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The Cool World
Shirley Clarke

The Cool World centers on Duke Curtis, a member of the Harlem youth gang the Royal Pythons, who believes that finally owning a gun will…

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