A Body to Live In

Dir. Angelo Madsen // 2025 // USA // 98 min

An exploration into the life of Fakir Musafar, a monumental and controversial figure in the queer art of body modification.

A Want in Her

Dir. Myrid Carten // 2024 // Ireland // 81 min

A filmmaker turns the camera on her mother in this formally shapeshifting portrait of addiction and familial love pushed to their limits.

Abo Zaabal 89

Dir. Bassam Mortada // 2024 // Egypt, Germany // 83 min

A filmmaker excavates his family history to better understand the intergenerational wounds he has carried for years.

Blue

Dir. Derek Jarman // 1993 // United Kingdom // 76 min

Against a static blue screen, a soundtrack of voices and music paint a portrait of the filmmaker’s experiences with AIDS. Screening on 35MM. Part of the True Vision Award program.

Deaf President Now!

Dirs. Nyle DiMarco & Davis Guggenheim // 2024 // USA // 100 min

Over eight intense days in 1988, a student protest at the world’s only deaf university changed the course of history.

Family Album

Dir. Laura Casabé // 2024 // Argentina // 73 min

A fervent ode to Claudia Pía Baudracco told through community reflections and precious archives of Argentina’s trans rights movement.

How Deep Is Your Love

Dir. Eleanor Mortimer // 2025 // United Kingdom // 100 min

Scientists explore the mysterious deep sea to collect and name undiscovered species in this whimsical and mesmerizing oceanic odyssey.

How to Build a Library

Dirs. Maia Lekow and Christopher King // 2025 // Kenya // 103 min

Two fearless women take on the colossal task of transforming and revitalizing a formerly colonial library in downtown Nairobi.

John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office

Dirs. Michael Almereyda & Courtney Stephens // 2025 // USA // 89 min

An archival recitation of John C. Lilly’s controversial scientific legacy tells a tale of animal experimentation, counterculture, and human consciousness. 

Kouté vwa (Listen to the Voices)

Dir. Maxime Jean-Baptiste // 2024 // Belgium, France, French Guiana // 77 min

A family attempts to reconcile its complex grief in this coming-of-age story exploring loss, friendship, and healing in community.

Land With No Rider

Dir. Tamar Lando // 2025 // USA // 76 min

A verité portrait of cattle ranchers in southwestern New Mexico as they ruminate on what might be the end of a generation.

Light Memories

Dir. Misha Vallejo Prut // 2024 // Ecuador, Germany // 80 min

A tribute to the art of photography, this carefully crafted family portrait illustrates the importance of preserving the archive.

Make It Look Real

Dir. Danial Shah // 2024 // Pakistan, Belgium and Netherlands // 68 min

A photographer in Pakistan sells two-dimensional fantasies to his clients and allows his own dreams to develop in his studio.

May the Soil Be Everywhere

Dir. Yehui Zhao // 2024 // USA, China // 96 min

A filmmaker journeys to her family’s remote Chinese village to unearth the multigenerational story of its relationship to the land.

Middletown

Dirs. Jesse Moss & Amanda McBaine // 2025 // USA // 111 min

In the ’90s, a high school teacher transforms his classroom into an investigative journalism unit in pursuit of environmental justice.

Mountain Village

Dir. Hu Sanshou // 2013 // China // 70 min

An intimate portrait of the filmmaker’s ancestral village interwoven with the community’s testimony about their memories of the Great Famine. Part of the True Vision Award program.

Predators

Dir. David Osit // 2025 // USA // 96 min

A provocative deep dive into the complicated legacy of To Catch a Predator and the world of vigilante justice.

Requiem for a Tribe

Dir. Marjan Khosravi // 2024 // Iran, Spain, Qatar // 70 min

A 55-year-old family matriarch from the nomadic Bakhtiari tribe in Iran is forced to abandon her home and begin anew.

Resurrection

Dir. Hu Sanshou // 2024 // China // 113 min

A filmmaker returns to his hometown where villagers honor the deceased by excavating and transporting the bodies to their new resting grounds.

River of Grass

Dir. Sasha Wortzel // 2025 // USA // 83 min

A lyrical journey traversing the Florida Everglades through the stories of those who live to protect the delicate ecosystem.

Sally

Dir. Cristina Costantini // 2025 // USA // 103 min

An immersive portrait of American astronaut Sally Ride told from the perspective of her life partner, Tam O’Shaughnessey.

Seeds

Dir. Brittany Shyne // 2025 // USA // 122 min

With stunning black-and-white cinematography, Seeds is a tender verité portrait of Black farmers in the U.S. South.

Shorts: Autumn

Various directors

The year’s waning months bring change, but also bounty. This program presents a set of films reflecting on relationships as they shift into a new phase.

Shorts: Autumn

Various directors

The year’s waning months bring change, but also bounty. This program presents a set of films reflecting on relationships as they shift into a new phase. In “Correct Me If I’m Wrong” (dir. Hao Zhou; 22 min) a filmmaker searches for reconciliation between their gender identity and their family’s beliefs. In “I Love You Șo Much But You Are So Difficult” (dir. Berenice Brino; 13 min) intergenerational trauma is confronted with care. “Hope Chest” (dir. Lily Franck; 4 min) and “Your Harvest May Be Delayed” (dir. Ahmad Al-Zu’bi; 15 min) bring us two attempts to excavate meaning from childhood archives that end in distinctive results. In “Entre le Feu et le Clair de Lune” (dir. Dominic Yarabe; 18 min) a filmmaker co-creates their father’s unfinished book, while in “David (for now)” (dir. Humberto Flores Jáuregui; 15 min) a young boy writes a farewell letter to his friends. (AL)

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Shorts: Spring

Various directors

Spring is for birdsong, budding flowers, and adoration. If you’re seeking a bit of sweetness, this selection of shorts spans enduring melodies and the unwavering support of loved ones.

Shorts: Spring

Various directors

Spring is for birdsong, budding flowers, and adoration. If you’re seeking a bit of sweetness, this selection of shorts spans enduring melodies and the unwavering support of loved ones. We’re invited into the shared space of queer Black love in “Hold Me Close” (dirs. Aurora Brachman & LaTajh Weaver; 19 min). In the home of two jazz legends, we see their utter devotion to each other in “Sunset and the Mockingbird” (dir. Jyllian Gunther; 29 min). With “Tessitura” (dirs. Lydia Cornett & Britt Fryer; 18 min) trans opera singers harness their vocal talents in a long lineage of gender fluid performances, while in “Expression of Illness” (dir. Bryn Silverman; 20 min) a filmmaker and their caregiver empower themselves in the labyrinthine healthcare landscape. Spring brings a set of stirring films that signal warm days are just ahead. (AL)

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Shorts: Summer

Various directors

The sun is shining, and its warmth invites you to indulge in life’s exquisite amusements. This collection of quixotic quests and inquiries into pop culture all feature a playful charm and deep heart.

Shorts: Summer

Various directors

The sun is shining, and its warmth invites you to indulge in life’s exquisite amusements. This collection of quixotic quests and inquiries into pop culture all feature a playful charm and deep heart. Hopeful musicians chase distant dreams in “TRAPSTARZ” (dir. Gonçalo Loureiro; 23 min), theme park goers cosplay the American West in “How the West Was Fun” (dirs. Sarah Garrahan & Sue Ding; 14 min), and UFOs lead us into the nature of belief in “Psychedelic in the Sky” (dir. Matthew Salton; 11 min). “Piñata Prayers” (dir. Daniel Larios; 24 min) brings us a filmmaker tracing the proliferation of the piñata alongside their family history, while in “My Exploding House” (dir. Liberty Smith; 17 min) a filmmaker wonders whether their childhood home might have disappeared in a burst of fireworks. (AL)

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Shorts: Winter

Various directors

Temperatures drop, cycles come to a close, we hibernate and recenter. We analyze the world, possibly repeatedly. We might avoid our feelings only to collect our thoughts.

Shorts: Winter

Various directors

Temperatures drop, cycles come to a close, we hibernate and recenter. We analyze the world, possibly repeatedly. We might avoid our feelings only to collect our thoughts. In “No se ve desde acá (You Can’t See It From Here)” (dir. Enrique Pedraza-Botero; 19 min) capitalistic systems are questioned as we come to realize that the unchecked use of technology oppresses, while “Biir” (dirs. Tahir Mahamat Zene & Bentley Brown; 6 min) reveals the harm we have waged against the natural world and ultimately ourselves. With “Razeh-del” (dir. Maryam Tafakory; 28 min) an artist studies Iranian media through a Feminist lens. In the atmospheric “Lanawaru” (dir. Angello Faccini; 16 min) through a community collaboration, one surrenders to the harmony needed for co-existence. Finally, “Animal Eye” (dir. Carlo Nasisse; 12 min), where curiosity is embraced and the moving image serves to expand our sense of wonder and experimentation. (AT)

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The Dating Game

Dir. Violet Du Feng // 2025 // USA, UK, Norway // 90 min

Three men look for love in contemporary China, where, in the aftermath of the One Child Policy, men far outnumber women.

The Silence of My Hands

Dir. Manuel Acuña A // 2024 // Mexico // 80 min

Rosa and Sai are committed to one another despite distance separating them in this sensory journey spoken entirely in sign language.

The Track

Dir. Ryan Sidhoo // 2025 // Canada, Bosnia // 91 min

A coming of age story of three teen boys chasing their Olympic dreams, set against the backdrop of post-war Sarajevo.

The Undergrowth

Dir. Macu Machín // 2024 // Spain // 72 min

Three sisters reunite to divide up their family’s inheritance in this poetic and tender portrait set in the Canary Islands.

The Wolves Always Come At Night

Dir. Gabrielle Brady // 2024 // Mongolia, Australia // 96 min

A poetic docufiction portrait of a family cast out of the Mongolian grasslands it calls home.

Valentina and the MUOSters

Dir. Francesca Scalisi // 2024 // Switzerland, Italy // 80 min

A young woman in rural Italy yearns for a different future amidst imposing military satellites and familial pressures.

Wishing on a Star

Dir. Peter Kerekes // 2024 // Italy, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Austria, Croatia // 99 min

An astrologer dispatches clients on birthday trips to be reborn under a different star sign and to change their fate.

Writing Hawa

Dirs. Najiba Noori and Rasul Noori // 2024 // France, Netherlands, Qatar, Afghanistan // 85 min

A story of three generations of women in an Afghan family as the U.S. withdraws from the country and their hopes for the future are overshadowed by politics.

WTO/99

Ian Bell // 2025 // USA // 100 min

A chronicle of the Seattle World Trade Organization protests in 1999, told entirely through firsthand archival video.

Zodiac Killer Project

Dir. Charlie Shackleton // 2025 // USA, United Kingdom // 92 min

A speculative essay about an abandoned Zodiac Killer film that unravels into an exploration of our cultural obsession with true crime.