- Chronological
- List
- Categories
$7 - $12 Short Slot 1 - Inherited Dreams
view additional info and trailers
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.