Film Category: NEW DOCS

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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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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La Tierra del Valor (The Home of the Brave)
Cristina Costantini

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

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KITE
Thanos Psichogios

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.

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Joybubbles
Rachael J. Morrison

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.

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Jaripeo
Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig

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.

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Ideas of Order
Erin Espelie

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.

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Hair, Paper, Water…
Nicolas Graux, Trương Minh Quý

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.

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The Great Experiment
Stephen Maing, Eric Daniel Metzgar

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.

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The Grandfather Puzzle
Ora DeKornfeld

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.

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