Festival Year: 2026


The Lady Bird Diaries
Dawn Porter

The Lady Bird Diaries is a groundbreaking documentary film about one of the most influential and least understood First Ladies in history, Lady Bird Johnson, told in her own words from 123 hours of her riveting audio diaries.

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The Lake
Abby Ellis

An environmental nuclear bomb looms in Utah. Two intrepid scientists and a political insider race the clock to save their home from unprecedented catastrophe.

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The Last First: Winter K2
Amir Bar-Lev

The Last First: Winter K2 takes us to the icy heights and unpredictable weather of K2 and reveals a surprising and layered story—one of strategy and determination, class and caste, money and power—all under life and death circumstances.

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Life of an American Fireman
Edwin S. Porter

Released in 1903, Edwin S. Porter’s Life of an American Fireman is one of the earliest American films. The groundbreaking silent short portrays a firehouse…

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Life Without Dreams
Jessica Bardsley

Jessica Bardsley’s Life Without Dreams contemplates the intersections between insomnia, the natural world, and the unrelenting pace and pressures of a capitalist society. Through voice-overs…

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Luther: Never Too Much
Dawn Porter

Few icons can be identified by their first name alone. Dawn Porter’s engaging film Luther: Never Too Much pays homage to one such rare figure…

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Man of Aran
Robert J. Falherty

Robert Flaherty spent nearly two years recording life on the Aran Islands, three remote landmasses off the western coast of Ireland. Here, islanders brace for…

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Militantropos
Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova, Simon Mozgovyi

Militantropos captures the human condition through the fractured realities of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The film pieces together everyday lives transformed by war—those who flee, those who lose everything, and those who stay to resist and fight—tracing both the instinct to survive and the need for closeness.

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Mother Lidia
Juan Bautista Tagle, Joaquín Nercasseau

Mother Lidia is an immersive and unsettling portrait of Lidia Fuentes, a Chilean healer with a divine gift for breaking curses. In her home, we see her receiving patients seeking to be cured of ailments with dark origins. Between exorcisms and moments of daily life, a universe is revealed where a complex balance exists between the magical and the earthly.

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No Mean City
Ross McClean

Two workmen and an apprentice drive through Belfast at night, replacing old sodium streetlights with LED. Beneath their glow, the city grapples with change, as progress marches on

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Not a Pretty Picture
Martha Coolidge

As a high school student, Martha Coolidge was raped by a classmate while they were on a date with friends in New York City. Years…

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Nuisance Bear
Gabriela Osio Vanden, Jack Weisman

A polar bear is forced to navigate a human world of tourists, wildlife officers, and hunters as its ancient migration collides with modern life. When a sacred predator is branded a nuisance, it becomes unclear who truly belongs in this shared landscape.

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The Oldest Person in the World
Sam Green

A decade-long global odyssey chronicles the ever-changing record holders of the title of oldest person alive. What begins as a portrait of longevity becomes a poignant meditation on the passage of time, the randomness of fate and the joy and profound human experience of being alive.

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Once you shall be one of those who lived long ago
Alexander Rynéus, Per Bifrost

In a small mining town in the north part of Sweden we witness a melancholic, humorous and sometimes absurd last epoch of a place. Personal stories of farewell, change, and the impermanence of life unfold above one of the world’s largest underground iron ore mines.

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an open field
Teboho Edkins

One of two Boeing airplane crashes six years ago, caused by a software failure, killed 157 people, including my brother Max. I travel with my father to the crash site in search of something tangible in our grief. Here, we met people for whom mourning is a profound part of their culture – a humanity contrasting with the manufacturer’s calculated stance.

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Procession
Robert Greene

Procession documents a collaborative filmmaking project where six survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic clergy confront their trauma by creating films about…

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Punishment Park
Peter Watkins

Set during the Nixon administration, Punishment Park depicts a dystopian parallel reality in which detained political dissidents face an obscene decision. After being convicted of…

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The Rehearsal
Nathan Fielder

So what exactly does it mean to be prepared? Commissioned to make a comedy show but troubled by a serious problem, Nathan Fielder combines the…

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