Film Category: NEW DOCS

Seeds
Brittany Shyne

Seeds is a portrait of Centennial farmers in the geographical south. Using lyrical black-and-white imagery, this meditative film examines the decline of generational Black farmers and the significance of owning land.

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Selena y Los Dinos
Isabel Castro

Selena Quintanilla—the “Queen of Tejano Music”—and her family band, Selena y Los Dinos, rose from performing at quinceañeras to selling out stadium tours. The celebration of her life and legacy is chronicled through never-before-seen footage from the family’s personal archive.

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The Shepherd and the Bear
Max Keegan

Set high in the majestic French Pyrenees, “The Shepherd and the Bear” explores a conflict provoked by the reintroduction of brown bears amid a traditional shepherding community. The film follows an aging shepherd who struggles to find a successor as bears prey on his flock, and a teenage boy who becomes obsessed with tracking the bears. Through its breathtaking cinematography and immersive storytelling, “The Shepherd and the Bear” is a modern folktale about tradition, community, and humanity’s relationship with a vanishing natural world.

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Songs of Slow Burning Earth
Olha Zhurba

An audiovisual diary of Ukraine’s immersion into the abyss of the first two years of Russia’s full invasion, made up of places, occasional characters, rare dialogues, intraframe sounds and silences which, when put together, capture the chronology of how the war became normalized. Against the backdrop of this (meta)physical landscape of collective disaster, a new generation of Ukrainians aspires to imagine the future.

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I’m Not Everything I Want to Be
Klára Tasovská

After the Soviet invasion of Prague, a young female photographer strives to break free from the constraints of Czechoslovak normalization and embarks on a wild journey toward freedom, capturing her experiences in thousands of subjective photographs.

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Speak.
Jennifer Tiexiera, Guy Mossman

Five top-ranked high school oratory students spend a year crafting spellbinding spoken word performances with the dream of winning one of the world’s largest and most intense public speaking competitions.

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Light Memories
Misha Vallejo Prut

Photography, fractured memories, and family secrets converge in a visually poignant exploration that delves into the effects of absent father figures throughout a family tree.

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The Spectacle
Yasmin van Dorp

The Spectacle is a short reflective documentary that explores the world of modern tourism. Filmed in various locations across Europe, the documentary unveils the transformation of serene landscapes into tourist attractions. What remains truly seen and felt amidst the curated snapshots of our adventures?

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The Long Valley
Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, Robert Machoian

A meditation on humans’ difficulty accepting reality, while still finding room to dream. It documents the people and landscapes of the Salinas Valley, one of the most productive agricultural regions in California.

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The Perfect Neighbor
Geeta Gandbhir

A minor disagreement between neighbors in Florida takes a lethal turn, with police body camera footage and interviews probing the aftermath of the state’s controversial “stand your ground” laws.

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