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2026 FEATURE FILMS

A Place of Absence

Marialuisa Ernst // 2025 // USA, Bolivia // 86 min
Amidst organized movements across the Americas, a filmmaker examines grief shaped by unresolved loss, while unpacking her uncle’s disappearance during Argentina’s Videla dictatorship.

Aanikoobijigan [Ancestor / Great-grandparent / Great-grandchild]

Adam Khalil & Zachary Khalil // 2026 // USA, Denmark // 85 min
As one Michigan tribal organization works to repatriate ancestral remains, the filmmakers probe the role of cultural institutions and archival collections, while holding space for collective mourning.

Always

Deming Chen // 2025 // USA, China, France,Taiwan // 87 min
Amidst the mountains of China’s Hunan region, a young boy finds magic in poetry and then watches it disappear with time.

American Doctor

Poh Si Teng // 2026 // USA, State of Palestine, Malaysia, Qatar // 90 min
VĂ©ritĂ© follows three physician friends—Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—from a besieged Gaza hospital to the halls of Congress, fighting to save lives.

Barbara Forever

Brydie O'Connor // 2026 // USA // 102 min
A dreamlike portrait of lesbian experimental pioneer Barbara Hammer, making use of Hammer’s own films and personal archive to explore her work, loves and legacy.

Broken English

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard // 2026 // United Kingdom // 96 min
Genre defying portrait of Marianne Faithfull, made with her full involvement and led by Tilda Swinton; celebrates six decades of fearless reinvention and enduring artistry.

Bucks Harbor

Pete Muller // 2026 // USA // 98 min
The fishermen of Bucks Harbor in Downeast Maine share vulnerable reflections on their harsh upbringing in this ode to lives lived on the margins.

Closure

MichaƂ Marczak // 2026 // Poland // 108 min
After his teenage son vanishes, Daniel searches Poland’s Vistula River, suspended between fear of a fatal leap and stubborn hope his son survives.

Cuidadoras (Care)

Martina Matzkin & Gabriela Uassouf // 2025 // Argentina // 80 min
Set in Argentina, Cuidadoras (Care) follows three transgender women caring for the elderly senior residence. Deep bonds grow and a model of empathy and connection emerges.

Eyes of Ghana

Ben Proudfoot // 2025 // USA, Ghana, United Kingdom // 90 min
90-year-old filmmaker, Chris Hesse, recounts his career and, through it, recovers and resurrects the history of Ghanaian cinema.

First They Came for My College

Patrick Xavier Bresnan // 2026 // USA // 105 min
As conservatives take over the leadership of New College of Florida, a group of students join hands with their professor to resist and reclaim their alma mater. ⍟ World Premiere

Hair, Paper, Water

TrÆ°ÆĄng Minh QuĂœ & Nicolas Graux // 2025 // Belgium, France, Vietnam // 71 min
In a quiet and poetic film, a grandmother imparts wisdom to her many grandchildren. Ultimately, arming them with language to understand life itself.

How to Clean a House in Ten Easy Steps

Carolina Gonzalez // 2026 // USA, Colombia, MĂ©xico // 80 min
A mother and daughter create a shared fantasy to explore their intertwined experiences of immigration, labor, and womanhood. ⍟ World Premiere

Jaripeo

EfraĂ­n Mojica & Rebecca Zweig // 2026 // MĂ©xico, USA, France // 67 min
Neon-lit nights and rodeos pulsing with norteño rhythms frame a complex portrait of masculinity as the filmmaker traces an intimate journey with their own identity in Michoacån.

Landscapes of Memory

Leah Galant // 2026 // Germany, USA // 77 min
As a Jewish American filmmaker studies her past in Berlin, she grapples with the reality of her trauma being weaponized to inflict violence on Palestinians. ⍟ World Premiere

Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World

Sasha Waters // 2026 // USA // 91 min
Portrait of Mary Oliver, Pulitzer-winning poet and private queer icon, whose plainspoken wonder for woods, dogs, and living reaches readers across every divide. ⍟ World Premiere

Nuisance Bear

Gabriela Osio Vanden & Jack Weisman // 2026 // USA, Canada, United Kingdom // 90 min
In Manitoba, we see the world through the perspective of a polar bear and question who deserves to be in the icy port town—the bears or the tourists?

Phenomena

Josef Gatti // 2025 // Australia // 86 min
Partnering with his physics teacher father, the filmmaker embarks on a fantastical journey where the universe opens up in all its glory and magic. ⍟ World Premiere

Pinball

Naveen Chaubal // 2026 // USA // 86 min
In this contemplative coming of age portrait, Yosef, a spirited athlete, is becoming more aware of his family history, after being displaced from their Iraqi homeland. ⍟ World Premiere

Powwow People

Sky Hopinka // 2025 // USA // 88 min
An immersive vérité portrait of contemporary Native powwow culture and a vibrant celebration of community and culture captured from inside the circle.

Remake

Ross McElwee // 2025 // USA // 116 min
Ross McElwee assembles decades of footage of his son Adrian, confronting time, grief, and authorship; while a stalled Sherman’s March remake haunts the margins.

School for Defectors

Jeremy Workman // 2026 // USA, SOUTH KOREA // 97 min
In a school in Busan, teenagers come of age bearing the weight of their parents’ decision to risk their lives and escape North Korea. ⍟ World Premiere

Seized

Sharon Liese // 2026 // USA // 92 min
A newspaper in Marion, Kansas, becomes the microcosm mirroring the nation-wide fight between democracy, the free press, and repression.

Sons of Detroit

Jeremy Xido // 2025 // USA // 104 min
A filmmaker looks back at the Detroit he called home and questions the social forces that made him move far away.

Soul Patrol

J.M. Harper // 2026 // USA // 99 min
After fifty years, the Vietnam War’s first and only Black special operations team reunites, revealing a hidden history and seeking peace through reckoning.

TCB – The Toni Cade Bambara School of Organizing

Monica Henriquez & Louis Massiah // 2025 // USA, Canada, France, Senegal, United Kingdom // 105 min
An archival-rich biography of writer-activist Toni Cade Bambara, whose novels, essays, and filmmaking galvanized movements, illuminated by testimonies from Toni Morrison, Nikky Finney, and Haile Gerima.

The Bend in the River

Robb Moss // 2025 // USA // 82 min
Robb Moss completes his Riverdogs trilogy, returning to five friends in their 70s as lifelong friendship meets the sharp edges of memory, loss, and mortality.

The Great Experiment

Stephen Maing & Eric Daniel Metzgar // 2026 // USA // 100 min
A collage of stunning black and white vignettes chronicle everyday political life from 2017 to 2020 in the United States. ⍟ World Premiere

The Oldest Person in the World

Sam Green // 2026 // USA // 87 min
A ten-year quest to meet the world’s oldest living people by record becomes a meditation on time and life itself.

The Queen and the Smokehouse

Iga Lis // 2025 // Poland // 65 min
In Ɓeba, Poland, Miecia, lovingly referred to as the “Queen,” serves legendary fish, revealing the quiet power of locally owned institutions.

Time and Water

Sara Dosa // 2026 // Iceland, USA // 90 min
Illuminating a family’s shared memories with Iceland’s first melted glacier caused by climate change, Time and Water portrays a writer trying to preserve his connection to the natural world.

To Hold a Mountain

Biljana Tutorov & Petar Glomazić // 2026 // Serbia, France, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia // 105 min
In Montenegro’s remote highlands, shepherd Gara and her daughter Nada defend their ancestral mountain from a NATO training ground, driven by love for their land and way of life.

Tropical Park

Hansel Porras Garcia // 2025 // USA // 85 min
In one single take, a pair of siblings talk about racism, transphobia, past lives and, somehow, also fit in a driving lesson.

True North

MichĂšle Stephenson // 2025 // USA, Canada // 96 min
A deep archival dig tells us about 1969’s Black student protests at Montreal’s Concordia University. In teaching us history, it teaches us about our presents.

What Comes from Sitting in Silence?

Sophie Schrago // 2026 // France, South Korea, Switzerland, USA // 76 min
Within the quiet confines of a small courtroom—the first Islamic-law court in Mumbai—Judge Khatoon and her team guide families and empower women to speak out against violence. ⍟ World Premiere

Who Moves America

Yael Bridge // 2026 // USA // 87 min
Across America, UPS workers come together to demand better working conditions as they go about criss-crossing the world, delivering packages and connecting lives. ⍟ World Premiere

SHORT FILMS

An Impossible Address

Suneil Sanzgiri // 2025 // USA, India, Angola // 38 min
An essay on Afro-Asian solidarity highlights the importance of interconnectedness in a rapidly changing world, through digital animation, 3D scanning and archival material.

Ancestral Knowledge

Ruby Chasi // 2025 // Ecuador // 18 min
We accompany Napuruna midwives in the Ecuadorian Amazon as they assist a birth.

Auto Queens

Sraiyanti Haricharan // 2025 // India // 31 min
In Chennai, India we follow a tender and intimate friendship between two drivers from their state’s first women-led rickshaw union.

Born Secret

Riley Fitchpatrick // 2025 // USA // 19 min
Having grown up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a filmmaker digs into the legacy of a town founded on the prospect of nuclear war.

Buckskin

Mars Verrone // 2025 // USA // 17 min
A filmmaker looks to their grandfather, a forester inside academia and the U.S. Forest Service, asking how one life resists, survives, and protects community within institutions that reject you. ⍟ World Premiere 

Division

Paul Dallas // 2025 // USA // 14 min
Spring, 2025. Brooklyn, New York. One chapter closes and another begins. ⍟ World Premiere

Endlings

MarĂ­a Luisa Santos // 2025 // USA // 16 min
A filmmaker wanders churches, DNA labs, and ghostly archives, asking what endures when what we love is vanishing. ⍟ World Premiere

Escalation

AJ Schnack // 2026 // USA // 36 min
Over a dozen U.S. journalists recount being targeted by police while covering protests, revealing escalating state efforts to suppress a free press. ⍟ World Premiere

Fred’s Basement Bijou

Michael T. Vollmann // 2025 // USA // 13 min
In Racine, Wisconsin, a former insurance agent builds a surreal and alternate reality in his home’s basement—a fully functioning 1920s movie palace. ⍟ World Premiere

Gatorville

Freddie Gluck // 2025 // USA // 19 min
As young siblings grow older, they contemplate a future that lies beyond the limits of their home—a tilapia farm turned into an alligator sanctuary.

High Rise Pigs

Ang Siew Ching // 2025 // Finland // 15 min
In a massive pig farm in China, a dystopia unfolds; not in blood and gore but in a quiet and disarming way.

In Exchange for Flesh

Corey Devon Arthur & Sandro Ramani // 2025 // USA // 15 min
Through recorded calls, smuggled footage, and state archival, this unflinching record exposes a violent state-sanctioned prison practice known as “strip frisk”.

Jism (Body)

Husain Qaizar & Saad Zuberi // 2025 // Pakistan // 13 min
When aspiring male models get photographed in Pakistan, they end up pushing the limits of socially-decreed gender roles and taboos.

L’mina

Randa Maroufi // 2025 // France, Morocco, Qatar // 26 min
In Jerada, Morocco, retired miners pose for a portrait, then reenact the dangerous underground work that still continues—clandestinely—because no other livelihood exists.

Land of Cold

Hervé Demers // 2025 // Canada // 17 min
Immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa have chosen to start their lives over north of the 49th parallel. Here, in the vast expanses of Northern Canada, they reflect on the challenges and splendors of a season they’ve never yet experienced: winter. ⍟ World Premiere

No Mean City

Ross McClean // 2025 // United Kingdom // 15 min
The switch from sodium-vapor street lights to LED street lights reveals an Irish community holding onto tradition while technology changes daily life.

One Last Order

Lauren DeFilippo & Sam Soko // 2025 // USA // 21 min
On her final shift at a Gainesville drive-thru, a beloved cashier is surprised with the day’s earnings, as a town lines up to say goodbye. ⍟ World Premiere

PĂĄa’tenehu (Wait for Me)

Thiago Zanato // 2025 // MĂ©xico // 11 min
As a storm batters Southeast MĂ©xico, a family shelters in their butcher shop, listening to their grandmother tell stories, and clinging to hope for their missing father. ⍟ World Premiere

Pass Time

Jj Measer // 2025 // USA // 16 min
Set against one of the most contentious U.S. elections, PASS TIME reflects on how news and political rhetoric seep quietly into everyday life. ⍟ World Premiere

Same Water

Martine Granby // 2025 // USA // 21 min
Archival footage and research come together to resurrect the memory of Florida’s Paradise Park, a waterpark that was a site for Black middle class leisure in Jim Crow America. ⍟ World Premiere

Sole (얌)

Haneol Lee // 2025 // USA // 12 min
An observational portrait of a Korean American cobbler in Nashville, revealing how pride in craft becomes a way of being. ⍟ World Premiere

Sudakas

Ricardo Betancourt // 2025 // USA // 13 min
Ricardo shares the realities of working a low-wage job in the U.S. through the lived experiences of his mother, a college-educated immigrant from Venezuela.

The Boys and the Bees

Arielle Knight // 2025 // USA // 19 min
A farm in Georgia paints a picture of pastoral idyll as little boys learn lessons in life and love from their beekeeping parents.

The Hotline

Ricki Stern & Jesse Sweet // 2026 // USA // 36 min
Portrait of an anonymous overdose hotline where people call before using, and volunteers stay on the line, racing against time, forging collective hope amid addiction.

You Do Not Exist

Dwayne LeBlanc // 2026 // USA // 8 min
As planes fill and empty the sky above, a man lies in his garden letting his mind wander and collect memories.

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