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$7 - $12 Magic Hour
Directed by Jacqueline Christy
Narrative Feature
United States | 94 min | 2025
Harriet, a once-promising filmmaker, is stuck in the suburbs of New Jersey. Alienated from her cheating husband and spurned by her teenage daughter, she secretly enrolls in film school. She leads a double life and loves the grueling yet exhilarating world of student filmmaking. But, when she gets fired off her own film and found out by her daughter, Harriet must decide if her life’s ambition is pure folly or a dream worth saving.
$7 - $12 The Inner Sea
Directed by Kate Stapleton
Documentary Feature
United States | 52 min | 2024
The Inner Sea is a documentary about adoption, music, a bright blue 40 foot long school bus, and the journey of a lifetime.
Postman
Directed by Faizan Anees Bazmee
Narrative Short
India | 25 min | 2025
The film follows the journey of a Postman living in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK), trapped in a life shaped by political unrest and personal struggles. One fateful day, he receives a mysterious letter destined for him. Which changed his life in ways he could have not imagined.
$7 - $12 My Son
Directed by Vyacheslav Klevtsov
Narrative Feature
Russian Federation | 90 min | 2025
Katya is a successful businesswoman who is willing to go to any lengths for her career, even if it means breaking the law. She is so focused on her work that she doesn't realize damaging it is for her relationship with her stepson. Her son commits a crime as a form of protest against his mother's workaholic lifestyle. For Katya, this is a turning point - her ambition turns against her and threatens her stepson's future. Katya takes responsibility and begins to change after realizing the consequences of her actions. She discovers the importance of being a mother and the need to correct her mistakes. She learns to balance her career and family life, and finds a new sense of purpose.
$7 - $12 Short Slot 1 - Inherited Dreams
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A MARY CAN DREAM
Directed by Shin-Fei Chen
Narrative Short
United States | 21 min | 2025
A Taiwanese immigrant mother and her Americanized daughter collide with their conflicting dreams.
I WISH I WERE PRETTY
Directed by Hanah Chang
Narrative Short
United States | 20 min | 2025
‘I Wish I Were Pretty’ explores how Korean beauty standards affect our protagonist’s ability to love herself. Areum (“beautiful” in Korean) is monolidded and, therefore, “average”. Which is fine – she’s always managed to deal with being compared to her gorgeous best friend, Jane (as in plain Jane). But when a man humiliates Areum in front of Jane, Areum has to finally face this long-festering wound or let it control her forever.
LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS
Directed by TJ Hill & Travis Agnew
Documentary Short
United States | 10 min | 2025
A healing art and music project created by students, parents, and teachers in response to the December 16, 2024 shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin—tracing a journey through grief toward hope and healing.
OLD GIRL IN A TUTU: SUSAN RENNIE DISRUPTS ART HISTORY
Directed by Cheri Gaulke
Documentary Short
United States | 8 min | 2025
Feminist scholar and artist Susan Rennie uses her iPhone to insert her queer, octogenarian body into masterworks of art, disrupting the male gaze. This playful short follows a gallery exhibition of Rennie’s work, blending humor and sharp critique into an exuberant celebration of feminist art, aging, and identity.
THEM THAT'S NOT
Directed by Mekhai
Narrative Short
United States | 19 min | 2025
At her grandmother’s repass, Drea, a Deaf, queer poet estranged from her family, seeks refuge in quiet corners of her childhood brownstone. When her father arrives on prison furlough to mourn his mother, the two must confront their shared grief and fractured bond before he returns to prison.
$7 - $12 Harvest
Directed by Paul Kampf
Narrative Feature
Serbia | 118 min | 2025
Harvest is based on an astonishing true story of Johan Von Wagner, a German Baron who is in desperate need of a heart transplant. Being too low on the transplant list, he buys his way up the black market into a position to receive a heart that will save his life.
But when confronted by the wife of the man who rightfully should receive the transplant, Johan has a literal change of heart and decides to live up the rest of his shortened life traveling, starting in Italy. But in the process, he’s kidnapped and a significant ransom is demanded or else he and his best friend will be killed. Johan agrees to pay it, but only if his friend is set free to return to Germany so he can arrange the ransom payments. Yet when his friend is safe and ready to make the payment, Johan confesses his terminal condition to his captors, fully expecting to be killed. However, this is when the story really starts.
Johan wakes up days later on a boat surrounded by people recovering from various operations. This is when he finds out that he’s had a perfectly matched heart placed into his chest and now his captors demand the ransom plus the cost of the heart transplant. After paying their demand and returning to Germany, he begins to have unexplainable dreams about a place he’s never been and people he’s never met, speaking a language he does not know.
Through investigation and due diligence, he realizes that the place he’s dreaming about is Serbia, right after the Kosovo war. With preparation and bodyguards hired, he travels to this place to try and find the man responsible for kidnapping him. In the process of searching in Serbia, his nightmares meet his reality when he finds the beautiful cottage and the woman from his dreams. He’s known her, the land, and the young boy who calls him ‘papa.’ Overwhelmed, he comes to learn that this boy’s father was killed so that Johan could have his matching heart. Moreover, this man is now a part of him and guided him back to the family from which he was taken.
Now driven by a spiritual purpose, he finds the man central to the black market operation and orchestrates his demise. But in the process, the woman in his dreams is killed as a warning to Johan to leave the world of organ harvesting and profit well enough alone. Undaunted, he presses on and actuates a plan that takes out the man responsible for Johan being alive at the expense of so many other people.
However, the young boy has now lost both his parents and only has his aging grandmother to take care of him. Through this woman’s blessing, Johan takes responsibility for the impact on their lives and adopts the boy and gives him a life in Germany as his own son, where they both still live to this day.
Harvest reveals the darkest corners of man’s soul, while also demonstrating the power of our indomitable human spirit. There are few journey’s like the one Johan takes in this story, but it is a profound opportunity to shine a light on real events that will touch the hearts of a worldwide audience.
The book is a Serbian literary treasure and has been translated into fifteen languages and continues publication around the world.
$7 - $12 Love Chaos Kin
Directed by Chithra Jeyaram
Documentary Feature
United States | 97 min | 2025
An unexpected pregnancy leads an Indian immigrant mother to help her adopted twin daughters reconnect with their struggling White birth mother and estranged Native American father, forcing her to confront class divides and challenging her daughters’ sense of identity and belonging.
$7 - $12 Valley of Exile
Directed by Anna Fahr
Narrative Feature
Lebanon| 107 min | 2024
Two sisters arrive in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley at the onset of the Syrian war, embarking on a journey into exile that tests their loyalty to their country, their family and each other.
$7 - $12 Orna and Ella
Directed by Tomer Heymann
Documentary Feature
Israel | 54 min | 2025
Twenty-six years after the iconic “Orna and Ella” restaurant opened in Tel Aviv, having become a celebrated culinary institution, Orna Agmon and Ella Shine decided to close their shared life’s work. During the restaurant’s final week, director Tomer Heymann—who worked there for six years and for whom it was much more than just a workplace—documents the intense dynamics of the last days. Farewells to customers, recipes, and staff spark intimate and once-in-a-lifetime conversations. The film reveals the complex relationship between these two groundbreaking women through a spectrum of powerful emotions: love, dependence, conflicting desires, and fears. It boldly raises questions about self-fulfillment, the cost of freedom, and nostalgia for an era that will never return.
$7 - $12 Alamesa - Everyone Has a Seat
Directed by Pablo Aulita
Documentary Feature
Argentina | 46 min | 2025
Can a group of neurodiverse young people carry out a first-class gastronomic project? In ALAMESA, the participants will challenge their own limits, facing the challenge of not using fire, knives, or scales.
The Third Child
Directed by Serna Amini
Documentary Short
Iran | 25 min | 2025
Mehdi is the only hearing child in a completely deaf family. His mother, father, sisters, and brother are all deaf. Since childhood, Mehdi has struggled with pronunciation and speech due to his family’s circumstances. Now, he is striving to become a professional voice actor and dubbing artist on his new path.
$7 - $12 The Distance We Drift
Directed by Sonnie Lee
Narrative Feature
Hong Kong, United Kingdom | 91 min | 2026
The Distance We Drift is a romantic drama that follows YING, a Hong Kong immigrant who has recently moved to the UK with her husband and son. Far from the life she once imagined, Ying feels increasingly lost in her new surroundings. When she unexpectedly reunites with her ex-boyfriend HONG—now an exiled photographer working in a supermarket—long-buried emotions resurface.
Together they embark on a quiet journey through time and memory, reflecting on love, identity, and the unspoken sorrow of the Asian immigrant experience. The Distance We Drift is a quiet, poetic exploration of longing, resilience, and the emotional cost of displacement.
$7 - $12 Portraits of the Apocalypse
Directed by Fabian Forte, Nicanor Loreti & Luca Castello
Narrative Feature
Argentina | 75 min | 2024
Four interconnected stories unfold the beginning and evolution of a zombie apocalypse in Buenos Aires. Seen through the eyes of various characters, we experience the initial confusion, the ensuing chaos, and the fight for survival in a devastated world. From a family trying to reunite to individuals confronting their own demons, this film explores how the end of the world redefines what it means to be human.
Dead Weight
Directed by Virginia Root
Narrative Short
United States | 15 min | 2025
Grace (ALEXANDRA RENZO), a solo female backpacker, unwittingly survives an apocalyptic event while in the wilderness. She resolves to live out the rest of her numbered days in peace until she encounters Aaron (GRIFFIN NEWMAN), a fellow survivor with a very different philosophical take on the end of the world.
$7 - $12 96 lbs. of Dynamite
Directed by Loren Goldfarb
Documentary Feature
United States | 78 min | 2025
Diagnosed at birth with a rare condition doctors believed would kill him, Chad “Shorty” McDaniel defies expectations with humor, grit, and relentless drive, shattering assumptions about disability while living a life few thought possible.
$7 - $12 The Green Mill: A Real Chicago Joint
Directed by Paul L. Carr
Documentary Feature
United States | 57 min | 2025
The Green Mill is known as an old hangout for Al Capone and where Billie Holiday sang, and as a swinging jazz joint for generations of Chicagoans. For more than a century, this legendary nightclub was a melting pot of humanity and the music never stopped. In 2024, owner Dave Jemilo and five longtime employees gathered to talk about working till dawn, about playing the music, pouring the drinks, and living the nightlife. “The Green Mill: A Real Chicago Joint,” shares stories profane, profound, absurd, and often hilarious, as told by a group of people who are clearly reverent of the special place that brought them together.
The Luminous Life of Franklin Boggs
Directed by Nate Sheppar
Documentary Short
United States | 12 min | 2025
A WWII combat artist. A Fulbright scholar. A celebrated painter and muralist of the American experience. A father to seven. Franklin Boggs lived an extraordinary life—across oceans, through history, and deep into the hearts of his students. This film brings his luminous, quintessentially American story to light. We are currently in the process of garnering support for this project. If you would like to learn more, head to www.natesheppard.com/boggs.
$7 - $12 Short Slot 2 - Searching for Home
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A WILDERNESS ACT
Directed by Nisogaabokwe Melonee Montano & Tom Deschenes
Narrative Short
United States | 12 min | 2024
What does “wilderness” mean to you? Guided by the wisdom of college professor Evan Larson and Anishinabe student Melonee Montano, we learn how the very definitions penned to protect our country’s most precious landscapes can destroy them instead. United by their desire to preserve the Red Pine forests of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area, the two join together to educate upcoming generations on how returning fire to the land, and returning the land to its people, can be healing for all.
BLACK SOIL RISING: An Alabama Family's Fight for a Legacy Stolen by Oil & Gas
Directed by Raya Salter
Documentary Short
United States | 13 min | 2025
100 family members, led by lawyer, activist, and fellow family member Raya Salter, return to the Alabama farm where there ancestors picked cotton to fight for a legacy stolen by oil and gas.
THE ILLEGAL
Directed by Amir Kiani
Narrative Short
United States | 15 min | 2024
A young asylum seeker must find a way to avoid deportation before his court hearing, as his new arrangement turns out to be an unexpected and unraveling affair.
ISRA'S INTERVIEW
Directed by Seung-hyun Kim
Narrative Short
Korea | 15 min | 2025
Feminist scholar and artist Susan Rennie uses her iPhone to insert her queer, octogenarian body into masterworks of art, disrupting the male gaze. This playful short follows a gallery exhibition of Rennie’s work, blending humor and sharp critique into an exuberant celebration of feminist art, aging, and identity.
SOMETHING IN THE WATER
Directed by Nateya Taylor
Documentary Short
United States | 12 min | 2024
Five water justice advocates discuss how Milwaukee’s Black communities are disproportionately being lead poisoned, and the debilitating effects it has on residents’ health, with hopes to see equitable change that will heal the water and Black resident’s relationship with it.
ZASTAVA BROTHERS
Directed by Pep Stojanovic
Documentary Short
United States | 22 min | 2025
Zastava Brothers is a documentary about the cars of former Yugoslavia and a group of immigrants now living in America who transcend their different backgrounds to form a bond over their love for those cars. As night falls on their first ever Sunday drive, they must spring to action when one of the cars begins to smoke.
$7 - $12 If You Should Leave Before Me
Directed by J. Markus Anderson & B. Robert Anderson
Narrative Feature
Unites States | 120 min | 2025
Mark and Joshua, a long-term couple, discover a mysterious door hidden in their wardrobe. In this new realm, they encounter an elderly couple who have recently passed away and seek guidance to move on. Meanwhile, Joshua, who is already deceased, fears that his own door may never appear. As more doors materialize, and more souls receive the help they need to move on, a troubling truth emerges: Mark has secretly concealed Joshua’s door out of his deep-seated fear of losing him forever. This shocking betrayal shatters Joshua, plunging him into the haunting realm of lost souls. Now, Mark must confront his grief and face the unknown with courage, while recovering the enduring spirit of Joshua.
$7 - $12 Rice & Sugar
Directed by Phillip O’Leary
Documentary Feature
United States | 61min | 2025
Tenzin Zopa’s life began in the Himalayas of Nepal, where towering mountains and unspoiled nature formed the backdrop to a childhood that was anything but serene. In Rice & Sugar, Tenzin Zopa returns to his home in the Tsum Valley to recount in rare detail the brutal reality of his past and his fraught relationship with his father. At six, he was thrust into grueling child labor, working as a porter and hauling heavy loads for weeks through steep mountain paths. His home offered no refuge. His father ridiculed him without mercy, and only showed love to Zopa’s younger brother. Hunger was a constant companion. For three years, his only sustenance was the milk he sucked directly from the family cow. The one thing that gave him hope—his dream of becoming a monk—was crushed under his father’s strict prohibition. By the age of eight, despair had driven him to the brink of suicide. Then came a lifeline: a Master Buddhist teacher, living in a nearby cave offered Zopa unconditional love and mentorship. Under his Master’s guidance, Zopa broke free from his family’s grip and the bleak future it promised. Now, on his journey back home, he recounts his emotional story and attempts to understand, and make peace with, the pain inflicted upon him by his father.
The Last Puestero
Directed by Belle Casares
Documentary Short
United States | 28 min | 2025
THE LAST PUESTERO is a short documentary that tells the story of Adonai, a gaucho -or Argentine cowboy- who spends most of his days alone in a remote Patagonian outpost, protecting cattle from poachers and pumas. While deeply proud of his work and the skills it demands, he struggles with the loneliness of being away from his wife and children in town. As he hopes his son will carry on the puestero tradition, he faces the painful reality that changing times may bring an end to this way of life.
$7 - $12 We are Migrants
Directed by Cristina Cardin
Documentary Feature
Spain | 103 min | 2025
A tour of several European nations reveals the impact of hate speech and racism promoted by the extreme right. Through meetings with groups dedicated to defending the rights of migrants and refugees, we examine ways to counteract this growing wave of intolerance.
$7 - $12 Cycle
Directed by Laura Dyan Kezman & William Howell
Documentary Feature
United States | 95 min | 2025
CYCLE pierces the silence surrounding police violence in America through the story of Ty’rese West, an 18-year-old Black teenager killed by police in Racine, Wisconsin. Developed in close collaboration with Ty’rese’s family, CYCLE reframes his legacy–not as a statistic, but as a beloved son whose case was left in the shadows when body cameras were off and headlines never came.
Following the trail of closed courtrooms, misidentification, and unanswered questions, CYCLE confronts the “cycle” of systemic whitewashing and law enforcement immunity–especially when incidents aren’t captured for the world to see. Interviews with national legal experts and rare access to sworn testimony dig into the raw unseen fight for accountability, exposing the exhaustion and courage required to challenge official narratives.
CYCLE invites audiences to break the endless loop of silence and complicity–demanding that justice becomes more than a fleeting hashtag, and that every store truly matters. Timely yet enduring, investigative yet intimate, CYCLE resonates with audiences as both a mirror and a tool, opening space for reckoning, language, and forward motion.
$7 - $12 Matter of Time
Directed by Jeremy Snead
Narrative Feature
United States | 106 min | 2024
Charlie Fleck, a 29-year-old aspiring videogame designer, is given the opportunity of a lifetime with a time-stopping device given to him by his friend, an eccentric Toy shop owner Gibbs.
$7 - $12 She Dances
Directed by Rick Gomez
Narrative Feature
United States | 93 min | 2025
Forced to reconnect on the road to her final dance competition, a father and daughter must confront their fractured relationship. As they navigate a shared tragedy, the whirlwind of the Young Miss Southeast Regional Dance Finals becomes the backdrop for their journey toward healing. She Dances is a story about rediscovering family and finding yourself—about accepting what is, letting it shape you, and recognizing who you are through the memories of those you love most.
$7 - $12 Zoe
Directed by Emanuela Galliussi & Dean Ronalds
Narrative Feature
Italy |101 min | 2025
Zoe, an Italian woman, has all the things that should make a person happy, unfortunately she’s not. On Mardi Gras a little boy dressed as a wizard grants her a wish at three chances to live the life she’s always yearned for. If she doesn’t find it, she’ll be stuck with him forever. In the following three days Zoe discovers herself living in Ibiza, London and Paris experiencing three new lifestyles, new lovers and completely different Zoes. Although she doesn’t find exactly what she’s looking for, she’ll soon realize she has found much more.
On this magical journey she’ll reconnect with her inner child finding a balance between body, mind and spirit. On returning home from her magical adventure of “what if”, this Zoe begins to live anew. She, once again, meets the little wizard only to discover his magic was much more than she could have ever imagined. Free for the first time, Zoe starts this new chapter of her life quite possibly stuck with the little wizard forever
$7 - $12 Short Slot 3 - Bodies in Crisis
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BECALMING
Directed by Shelby Slager
Narrative Short
United States | 9 min | 2025
Cleo and Wes are ready to move into the next chapter of their lives: expanding their family. Thinking that her breast pain is a sign that she’s pregnant, Cleo is surprised by her negative pregnancy test and the diagnosis that follows. becalming is a short film bringing awareness to Inflammatory Breast Cancer, an atypical presentation of Breast Cancer that is very aggressive and fast growing.
FIRELINE
Directed by Robin Takao D'Oench
Narrative Short
United States | 13 min | 2024
FIRELINE tells the story of an inmate firefighter desperately trying to call home while battling a wildfire with his crew.
Today, 30% of CalFire Fire Dept. is supplemented by prison labor despite no clear pathway to employment upon release. FIRELINE is a tribute to the unsung heroes on the frontlines in the battle against climate change.
The film stars Bobby Soto (The Tax Collector, Flamin’ Hot) and is produced by Lena Waithe’s Hillman Grad and Indeed’s Rising Voices Program.
HUMAN RESOURCE
Directed by Henry Chaisson
Narrative Short
United States | 19 min | 2025
A desperate HR manager will do anything to save her staff from termination during a brutal hostile takeover.
MALIGNANT PRACTICE
Directed by Kristin Catalano
Documentary Short
United States | 34 min | 2025
MALIGNANT PRACTICE is an animated short film based on the medical misfortune of a young woman whose breast cancer was missed by a doctor and a mammogram. This true story emphasizes the flaws within our healthcare system and the importance of being one’s own healthcare advocate.
MANIFEST
Directed by Andrew Gibbs
Narrative Short
United States | 14 min | 2025
A struggling woman joins a research study hoping for quick money, but buried past trauma drags her into a nightmare she can’t wake up from. The deeper she falls, the more reality starts to bend.
$7 - $12 On the End
Directed by Ari Selinger
Documentary Feature
United States | 114 min | 2025
Tom, a down-on-his-luck Montauk mechanic falling in unexpected love with Freckles, a fellow outcast, is blindsided when the town of East Hampton conspires to forcibly remove him from his beachfront home and auto repair shop. Inspired by true events, the tale of Tom and Freckles is a love story that evolves into a David vs. Goliath battle against greed and power in the rapidly changing town known locally as “The End.”
$7 - $12 Tight & Nerdy
Directed by Jeff Nucera & Jonathan Ruane
Documentary Feature
United States | 82 min | 2025
Tight & Nerdy follows the world’s first burlesque troupe devoted to “Weird Al” Yankovic. This hilarious, heartfelt documentary celebrates the unique friendship of four women as they bare it all to food-based song parodies.
$7 - $12 All of the Above
Directed by Allison Walsh
Documentary Feature
United States | 85 min | 2025
Students from different faith backgrounds come together for an epic World Religions class in a public high school. With the help of their teacher, the mild-mannered suburbanites confront the preconceived notions of their peers’ faiths.
$7 - $12 A Break in the Rain
Directed by Don Scardino
Narrative Feature
United States | 111 min | 2025
Jake Watson has been on the road for ten years since his wife passed away. When his grown son dies, he comes home to a life he walked out on. A stranger in his own house, he takes a job driving a limo to help his daughter-in-law pay the bills. One rainy afternoon he picks up Catriona Walsh, a Nashville singer with her own secret. One ride becomes a two week road trip. Catriona sets his poems to music, and Jake begins to heal, as they both find their way home.
$7 - $12 Shambhala Story
Directed by Toshio Sekine
Narrative Feature
Japan, United States | 109 min | 2025
In the Himalayan town of Darjeeling, India, the devout Tibetan monk, Tashi, is sent to Japan for further studies. There, he befriends a violent elderly man and his parolee granddaughter, Emi, who are both struggling to make ends meet. As the loneliness they all share brings them closer to Tashi, forbidden feelings between him and Emi emerge. Can Tashi avoid losing himself in the impossible choice between his love for a woman and his promise to his religion?
$7 - $12 Normandy - A Bridge to History
Directed by Stephen Pickering
Documentary Feature
United States | 52 min | 2024
Set in Normandy, this documentary follows four young adults as they accompany World War II veterans Gene and Bill back to the beaches and battlefields where they fought. Along the journey, they meet French locals—both those who were children during the war and today’s students—who express enduring gratitude for their liberation. Confronted by how young these soldiers were when thrust into combat, many barely out of high school, the young travelers begin to grasp the true human cost of freedom. Through this shared journey across generations and cultures, the film reflects on remembrance, gratitude, and the human cost of freedom.
VetsRoll 2025
Directed by Stephen Pickering
Documentary Short
United States | 25 min | 2025
Celebrating America’s senior Veterans by transporting 220 WWII, Korea & Vietnam Era Veterans through 1975, for four days on eleven charter coaches, to visit their Memorials in DC. Hear their stories as we follow them on this trip.
$7 - $12 Short Slot 4 - Working under Pressure
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AD/BREAK
Directed by Walter Banasiak
Narrative Short
United States | 17 min | 2025
The same woman appears in multiple advertisements, pitching wildly different products from different eras. But something’s amiss about these chipper promotions that soon compound into a threatening chase through surreal spaces.
DASHER
Directed by Alexander Bocchieri
Narrative Short
United States | 25 min | 2025
A down-and-out food delivery driver and a wayward restaurant worker team up for a chaotic night of deliveries on Christmas Eve in Honolulu.
EMMANUEL
Directed by JA Williams
Narrative Short
United States | 36 min | 2025
A man’s fate is determined at a crossroad, where mercy and revenge are in the hands of another.
QUICK FIX
Directed by Will Smart
Narrative Short
United States | 8 min | 2025
A man’s fate is determined at a crossroad, where mercy and revenge are in the hands of another.
$7 - $12 Divia
Directed by Dmytro Hreshko
Documentary Feature
Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine | 78 min | 2025
War is primarily a human tragedy, but we should not forget that nature typically suffers with us. The documentary film Divia is a darkly immersive meditation which brings to light Russia’s unprecedented aggression on Ukrainian soil and its grievous impact on places that issue their indictments in silence: forests turned to ash, fields ravaged by explosions, flooded towns, or rusted hulks of military hardware in devastated regions, where life has faded away.
Divia, the ancient Slavic goddess of nature and all living things, is opposed to war, destruction and death. Deminers, body searchers, ecologists, animal activists… are doing everything to measure the scale of the tragedy and restore lost natural resources. Nature tries to heal from its injuries by absorbing and transforming the remains of the war.
Divia will screen four times at the 2025 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. It is also scheduled for the Odesa International Film Festival, which will be held in Kyiv, Ukraine, this year.
$7 - $12 Beau Ideal
Directed by Patrick D. Green & Edd Blott
Narrative Feature
United States | 109 min | 2026
In the stillness of a remote town, a troubled writer intervenes in a neighbor’s abusive household—testing the limits of truth, heroism and his own fractured sense of self.
$7 - $12 Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution
Directed by Bill Haney
Documentary Feature
United States | 98 min | 2024
Cracking the Code, narrated by Mark Ruffalo, is an inspiring story of vision, perseverance, and the power of science to change the world. Phil Sharp’s journey from a Kentucky farm boy to Nobel laureate embodies the American Dream and the triumph of entrepreneurial spirit. His 1977 groundbreaking discovery of RNA splicing rewrote the rules of molecular biology and ignited a life-saving scientific revolution, laying the foundation for an industry that has become a cornerstone of global innovation and economic growth – and transformed the health of billions of patients worldwide.
$7 - $12 Byeeee
Directed by Chell Stephen
Narrative Feature
Canada | 88 min | 2026
After getting busted for defrauding her investors, tech girlboss entrepreneur Andy is heading to her family’s abandoned lakeside cottage for one last weekend before she kills herself.
$7 - $12 Scandinavia - Into the Darkness
Directed by Mi-Yong Brehm & Verena Feige
Documentary Feature
Germany | 52 min | 2024
At the end of June, the longest day of the year is celebrated throughout Scandinavia with festivals and bonfires – it is the night when the sun does not set. After months of darkness, the midnight sun lights up the north of Europe. The documentary travels through Finland, Norway and Sweden from 21st of June, shows people who deal with light in different ways and how animals and plants adapt to the challenge of the polar day until the sun finally disappears behind the horizon again for a long time in winter.
Scandinavia - Into the Light
Directed by Mi-Yong Brehm & Verena Feige
Documentary Feature
Germany | 52 min | 2024
Winter in Scandinavia is characterised by the polar night: months in which the sun is barely visible. The documentary shows how people, animals and plants adapt to these extreme conditions, because a lack of light affects all organisms. It is a journey through the north of Scandinavia, starting in absolute darkness on 21st of December and ending with the arrival of the midnight sun in early summer.
$7 - $12 The Legend of Juan Jose Mundo
Directed by Michael Walker
Narrative Feature
United States | 92 min | 2025
Set in suburban NY in 1984. Julie Gornick hosts a charismatic, larger than life Spanish exchange student. As he starts hooking up with the girls in her class, Julie falls in love with him. Or what she thinks is love.
$7 - $12 Sunset Somewhere
Directed by Christopher Jarvis
Narrative Feature
United States | 85 min | 2025
After leaving her job, throwing a going away party, and packing up her belongings to spend the summer finishing her book in northern Michigan, Casey learns that her publisher has gone out of business and her book deal is off. Unable to face everyone and with nowhere else to go, she decides to hit the road anyway. Along the way she meets a group of artists that challenge her worldview and propel her on a journey of self discovery and reckoning.
$7 - $12 Adult Children
Directed by Rich Newey
Narrative Feature
United States | 100 min | 2024
Morgan (Ella Rubin) is a sheltered 17-year-old, struggling to define who she is in order to write her college entrance essay. When a crisis provides her the rare opportunity to spend time with her 3 significantly older half-siblings (Betsy Brandt, Thomas Sadoski, Aya Cash), she hopes they’ll be able to shed some light on what it means to be an adult, only to be disappointed when she discovers they’re all faking it.
$7 - $12 Theater is Dead
Directed by Katherine Dudas
Narrative Feature
United States | 86 min | 2024
An earnest engineering student begins to sense that her true calling is the theater, but when she lands the lead in a prestigious production, she realizes there may be a demonic dark side to this fantastical dream.
$7 - $12 Everything We Need Is Here
Directed by Katharina Stieffenhofer
Documentary Feature
Canada | 86 min | 2026
Tiffany forages the forests of Manitoba on a quest for culinary mushrooms and peace of mind.
She connects with Indigenous and Settler land defenders, who seek to protect intact Nature for our collective well-being.
Gradually her story of trauma and resilience is revealed, and united resistance wins the day.
$7 - $12 Freeing Juanita
Directed by Sebastian Lasaosa Rogers
Documentary Feature
Guatemala, Mexico, United States | 74 min | 2024
Juanita has been unjustly detained in Reynosa, Mexico for over seven years, accused of a crime she didn’t commit and forced to confess in a language she didn’t understand. This intimate portrait follows Ana and Pedro, Juanita’s aunt and uncle, on their thousand-mile journey from the highlands of Guatemala.
With the help of their Maya Chuj community and a network of Maya interpreters, they fight for Juanita’s freedom and demand justice from the Mexican authorities, a cause that became internationally recognized for its defense of migrants’ rights and language justice.
$7 - $12 Do Us Part
Directed by Reed Arnold
Narrative Feature
United States | 93 min | 2024
When Rose—Ryan’s college best friend and unrequited love—crashes his wedding with a change of heart, years of buried emotions threaten to shatter his world. As Ryan reels, his best man must navigate a minefield of secrets to get his friend to “I do” before the past rewrites the future.
$7 - $12 A Moment In The Sun
Directed by Mia Weinberger & Thomas van Kalken
Documentary Feature
United States | 77 min | 2025
In April 2024, Houlton, Maine – a town of 6,000 – was the final destination in the United States to see the 2024 total solar eclipse, and the people of Houlton expected tens of thousands of visitors to descend upon their home to witness this once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event.
Filmmakers Mia Weinberger and Thomas van Kalken captured the community of Houlton as they came together to host an influx of strangers and celebrate an incredibly rare privilege: living in the Path Of Totality.
$7 - $12 Etched In Pavement
Directed by John Sippel
Documentary Feature
United States | 88 min | 2024
Etched In Pavement is a feature length documentary examining the idea of legacy. The legacies we inherit the moment we’re born into our circumstances, the legacy we create throughout our time on this earth, and ultimately how our legacy is kept alive by those we impact after we’re gone. This is all explored through the weaving paths of two young men from SW Detroit who set out to uplift their worlds in the best way they know how: FIGHTING.
The journeys of Dwane and DMike immerse us in their worlds of youth combat sports, professional boxing, and their Guns Down, Gloves Up street fighting movement. As these intimate paths confront the complexities of family, mentorship and being remembered, we are reminded of the power of legacy and the importance of fighting for something far greater than ourselves.
$7 - $12 The 3100
Directed by Mark Fisher
Documentary Feature
United States | 49 min | 2025
The 3100™ is a cinematic exploration of Idaho’s 3,100 miles of navigable whitewater, the most found anywhere in the Lower 48. This film showcases the state’s most rugged and revered whitewater river systems while highlighting the power of experiencing wild places at any age. Through the voices of those who know these rivers best, this film reveals the transformative power of Idaho’s whitewater rivers
Beyond Our Senses: Bank Swallows
Directed by David Busse
Documentary Short
United States | 27 min | 2025
Beyond Our Senses explores the intersection between life and perceptions. Each spring, thousands of Bank Swallows return to the Lake Michigan bluffs to build colonies, mate, and raise their young. Guided by extraordinary perceptions like tetrachromatic vision, magnetic senses, and aerial mastery, they navigate predators, rivals, and the relentless demands of survival in a hidden world beyond human perception.
$7 - $12 Enongo
Directed by Kevin Schreck
Documentary Feature
United States | 92 min | 2025
“Enongo” is an award-winning, feature-length, animation-documentary hybrid and the inspiring story of rapper/producer/Ph.D. candidate, Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, a.k.a., Sammus. With her autobiographical and afrofuturism-inspired music, Enongo tackles various subjects including (but certainly not limited to) mental health, growing up, and relationships. Through a combination of actuality and animation, “Enongo” tells a universally-relevant, intimate, empowering story of identity, artistic creation, and survival. Notably, “Enongo” is the first feature-length film of any genre in history to have an all-Black women animation team.
$7 - $12 25 Cats From Qatar
Directed by Mye Hoang
Documentary Feature
United States | 95 min | 2025
Every country in the world grapples with animal welfare, and the feral cat overpopulation crisis is especially grim. Given the universal lack of government resources, the burden falls upon volunteer rescuers to deal with the uphill battle of caring for the ever growing population of cats.
The crisis has reached a breaking point in Doha, capital city of Qatar. The oil-producing nation is one of the world’s wealthiest. However, the luxurious surface and rapid growth are powered by migrant workers who comprise 89% of the population, and end up volunteering their resources to help alleviate the suffering among the nation’s many street cats who struggle to survive the extreme heat, diseases and traffic.
One such volunteer is Umair Khan, a construction manager from Pakistan who secretly harbors 50 cats in a makeshift shelter at his workplace and spends his nights caring for cat colonies all over the city. He and his fellow volunteers keep running up against the same problem: in a transient population, it’s almost impossible to find local adopters for these animals.
7,000 miles away in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, veteran flight attendant and cat cafe operator Katy McHugh becomes aware of the crisis in Doha via social media. Katy hatches an unsanctioned rescue plan with Umair and his fellow volunteers to fly 25 cats back to Wisconsin, where the cat cafe provides a pipeline for easy adoption.
Upon arrival, Katy has just 4 days to meet the Doha rescuers, select the cats from their makeshift shelters, and get the cats cleared for customs. Katy is forced to make difficult and heartbreaking choices to select the final 25 felines, all the while learning more about the culture and history of Qatar, and how the crisis built to this inflection point.
Presenting Qatar as a microcosm of a global crisis, 25 Cats from Qatar asks searching questions about the role of public and private players in animal welfare, all within a ticking-clock narrative about the nuts and bolts of a rescue mission. From the filmmakers behind the award winning CAT DADDIES, the film is both an urgent wake-up call and a heartwarming portrayal of strangers overcoming international barriers to reach a common goal.
$7 - $12 Powwow People
Directed by Sky Hopinka
Documentary Feature
United States | 88 min | 2025
Powwow People is a vérité-style documentary grounded in the rhythms, relationships, and lived experience of a contemporary Native gathering. Rather than entering as outside observers, the filmmakers organized the powwow itself, inviting dancers, singers, vendors, and community members to participate in the making of this film. Structured around the arc of a single day, the film follows four central figures: Gina Bluebird, who frames the powwow’s shape and guides its setup; Ruben Little Head, the MC whose presence anchors the present moment; Jamie John, a non-binary dancer imagining the future of these traditions; and Freddie Cozad, a singer and drummer who considers the past. The film culminates in a 30-minute unbroken shot of a Northern Traditional dance special, drawing the viewer into the textures, movement, and collective presence of the powwow. It is both a reflection of a beloved and complicated community and a gesture toward the continuities of Native life.