Mari is a former rural midwife, Maricielo is a hairdresser, and Iker is a six-year-old boy. Though they appear to share little in common, a gossamer web quietly binds their lives through heartbreak, failure, and unexpected moments of respite.

On an equal footing, voices enter into dialogue with nature. They speak of sustenance, emotional bonds and of how there is no future without a past.

A subtly textured self-portrait of Soraya—an Afghan free-spirited 16-year-old artist in Iran who has been trying for five years to make her way to Europe—who chillingly captures everything on her phone while pouring all her fears and worries into extraordinary works of art.

As childhood memories are made and fade in the same instant, siblings Lily and Bodhi diverge at the dawn of life beyond their home, a Colorado alligator sanctuary. Their bond, forged by the exotic nature of their remote landscape, begins to change as Lily enters her teenage years. Bodhi contemplates friendship and family beyond his reptilian counterparts.

When a puzzle-obsessed grandfather refuses to discuss his past, his granddaughter travels to photograph the Hungarian castle where he grew up and turn it into a puzzle. What starts as a simple mission becomes a deeper exploration of displacement and home.

The Great Experiment reflects on this nation once dubbed “the last great experiment in democracy,” by documenting one four-year period of political upheaval from 2017 to 2020 to create a deeply affecting portrait of our nation and its people.

Born in a cave and now in her old age, a Rục woman navigates memory and daily life, passing on her disappearing language to her grandchildren.

A collision between the macro-collapse of ecosystems and the minutiae of cellular colonies, in a story about entropy, unrestrained growth, waltzing mice, earlier-onset cancers, programmed death, and the bacteria that made Earth rich in oxygen—opening up space for life today.

Jaripeo journeys to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos. What starts as a celebration of tradition descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing—a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.

A boy discovers he can control the global telephone system by whistling a magic tone. Born blind and yearning for connection, his early obsession with the telephone sparks a subculture that shapes the future of hacking and technology.

Panos, now grown, returns to a childhood ritual—flying a kite with his father, a tradition marking the start of Lent in Greece. But memories are never simple. Sounds and images, fragments of the past, weave together to reconstruct their bond. A documentary about the fragile father-son relationship and the restless power of memory.

During a summer of grief and fear brought on by immigration raids in Los Angeles, one small act of bravery gives a community hope.