Festival Year: 2026


Trapped
Dawn Porter

Doctor Willie Parker drives state-to-state to see patients at abortion clinics where red tape is obstructing medical practice. Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers, so-called TRAP…

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True North
Michèle Stephenson

This propulsive cinematic confrontation of Canada’s anti-Black racism explores the pivotal, yet often overlooked, Canadian civil rights movement. Filmmaker Michèle Stephenson artfully weaves a haunting…

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The Way I See It
Dawn Porter

For nearly two decades, Pete Souza had a front-row seat on history as Chief Official White House Photographer for both Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama.…

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We Are Pat
Rowan Haber

We Are Pat is a tale of obsession, transness and how art ages over time told through the thickspectacles of the 1990s cult character Pat from Saturday Night Live.

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We Were The Scenery
Christopher Radcliff

The story of Hoa Thi Le and Hue Nguyen Che, who, in 1975, after fleeing the Vietnam War by boat and docking in the Philippines, were utilized as background extras in the filming of Apocalypse Now.

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When A Witness Recants
Dawn Porter

In 1983, a 14-year-old boy was shot in the hallway of Harlem Park Junior High in Baltimore. Three 16-yearolds were convicted of the murder, despite…

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Whispers in May
Dongnan Chen

In the remote Liangshan Mountains, 14-year-old Qihuo and her friends set out to find a skirt for her rite of passage. What begins as a small quest drifts into a suspended space of childhood, where time slows and the world is vast.

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