Film Category: NEW DOCS

Agent of Happiness
Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó

Amber is one of the many agents working for the Bhutanese government to measure people’s happiness levels among the remote Himalayan mountains. But will he find his own along the way?

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All We Carry
Cady Voge

All We Carry follows a young Honduran family as they flee persecution—migrating in cargo trains across Mexico, claiming asylum at the US border, and enduring separation in detention before being released in Seattle. There, a local synagogue sponsors the family for two years while they await the final decision on their asylum case. As the family tries to settle into their new home, we witness their everyday moments—both sorrowful and joyful—along the way.

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American Seams
Carly Jakins

The stories of three quilters combine to reveal an intimate portrait of rural women in the American West. 

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The Silent Shore
Nathalie Giraud, Timothée Corteggiani

In a house and garden full of memories, Aline and Pierre Dubois move through spaces—both visible and invisible—filled with traces of their long life together.…

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To Know Her
Natalie A. Chao

At the age of 14, Natalie Chao lost her mother to clinical depression. Traces of her exist in old miniDV camcorder footage, some of which…

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ᎤᏕᏲᏅ (What They’ve Been Taught)
Brit Hensel

In this cinematic and poetic short documentary, filmmaker Brit Hensel, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, looks at notions of tradition, nature, art, language, and…

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Aftershock
Paula Eiselt, Tonya Lewis Lee

Maternal health care in the United States is in crisis: American women are more likely to die during childbirth today than they were 25 years…

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Move Me
Kelsey Peterson, Daniel Klein

Taut muscles that ripple underneath skin, joints that move fluidly: The motions of the human body are so instinctual, until they aren’t. Dancer and director…

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Paper City
Adrian Francis

In March 1945, the U.S. firebombed Tokyo, destroying a quarter of the city and killing 100,000 people. Among the survivors were Hiroshi Hoshino, Michiko Kiyooka,…

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Soldat Ahmet
Jannis Lenz

Who is Ahmet Simsek? As indicated by the film’s title, he is a soldier in the Austrian Federal Army who lives in Vienna with his…

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