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$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 Short Slot 5 - The Ties That Shape Us
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BIJUPIRA
Directed by Eduardo Boccaletti
Narrative Short
Brazil | 14 min | 2025
Tomé, a young boy who lives with a fisherman at sea, questions his own origins after learning about the remora, a fish that clings to the giant whale shark. In an impulsive act, he unties the rope and gets lost in the ocean. When rescued, Reinaldo carries him on his back, just like the whale shark carries the remora, revealing the bond between them.
FUNDBOX - A LOVE STORY
Directed by Miles Merritt & Gail Kempler
Narrative Short
Austria | 27 min | 2025
As his 50th wedding anniversary approaches, an elderly man returns to Vienna to honor a promise he and his wife made when they were first married. Sadly, while in Vienna, he experiences a distressing loss. Far from home, his frustration grows until he encounters a sympathetic city employee.
OCTOPUS
Directed by George Dogaru
Narrative Short
Romania | 12 min | 2025
A young boy’s imagination begins to blur the lines of reality, leaving the adults around him uncertain about what’s real. As his uncanny abilities begin to grow, they’re forced to ask: is it a gift—or a curse?
THE PERFECT TOMATO
Directed by Cristobal Abugaber
Narrative Short
Mexico | 18 min | 2024
An aging farmer refuses to leave his longstanding way of life behind at the risk of losing what truly matters to him.
WORN AND REBORN
Directed by Mykhailo Bogdanov
Documentary Short
United States | 9 min | 2025
Worn and Reborn follows a vibrant woman named Shelly who brings new life to secondhand clothes through bold colors, playful shapes, and handmade jewelry. As she reflects on her journey as a teenage mother and the joyful bond she shared with her son Lyndale, she reveals how creativity has helped her transform grief into joy. Within the aisles of resale shops, she finds not just style and self-expression but also a deep sense of resilience, community, and healing. Her story is lovingly pieced together through memory and imagination, showing that even what feels worn can be renewed with purpose and care.
$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 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 Short Slot 6 - Defiant Grace
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BERTHE IS DEAD BUT IT'S OK
Directed by Sacha Trilles
Narrative Short
France | 20 min | 2025
Berthe, my grandmother, wants to end her life. Nothing can stop her or convince her to stay with us. So instead of resisting, why not try to support her? Let’s help Berthe go, but let’s do it with flair. On June 6, 2023, Berthe chose to end her life with the help of a suicide assistance organization. So, for our final moments together, we decided to create a film, like a grand finale. A short film where anything goes, where I turn my grandmother into a giant piñata, a cowboy, or a mob boss, a film where I playfully take shots at her… In essence, A celebration of life through death, where the only rule I followed was not to make a sad film.
IZIDOR
Directed by David Kappe
Narrative Short
Romania | 30 min | 2025
Izidor is a disabled orphan trapped in a world of animation. He lives in a hidden asylum where “defective” children are banished and abused in 1988 communist Romania. Izidor spends his days staring out the window at a world he is not allowed to touch. That is, until the day nanny Onisa takes him home for the night. Once they step outside the asylum gate, the world transforms into live action – it’s real! Izidor is spellbound by the sights and sounds of village life. He delights in the beauty of love and belonging in Onisa’s family. But all too soon, Izidor remembers where he really belongs. Was Onisa’s courageous act of kindness a terrible mistake?
SEEDS FROM KIVU
Directed by Néstor López & Carlos Valle
Narrative Short
Spain | 30 min | 2025
In Kivu (Democratic Republic of Congo), one of the most violent regions in the world, a group of women arrives at Panzi Hospital after being gang-raped by the guerrillas in the area who control the mineral resources. Their psychological treatment before reintegration confronts them with the dilemma of accepting the babies they have given birth to as a result of the rapes, finding in the question of motherhood a way to resist.
$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 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 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 Driven by Angels
Directed by Brett Buescher & Nick Costello
Documentary Feature
United States | 95 min | 2025
A documentary of speed, loss, and the angels that keep us moving. 62-year-old Vaughn Shafer comes out of retirement in a bold attempt to reclaim his title as the fastest man on a motorized skateboard. What begins as a comeback story quickly spirals into chaos as his crew battles setbacks at the track and the loss of one of their own.
$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.
$7 - $12 Bleed Out
Directed by Steve Burrows
Documentary Feature
Unites States | 88 min | 2018
After a routine partial hip replacement operation leaves his mother in a coma with permanent brain damage, what starts as a son’s video diary becomes a citizen’s investigation into the future of American Health Care. Shot over the course of ten years, using archival footage, vérité scenes, undercover spy cams, courtroom testimony and interviews with family and experts, the award-winning, critically acclaimed BLEED OUT goes deep inside a flawed healthcare system. Part medical mystery and legal thriller, part investigative journey and meditation on family, this harrowing personal story is a cautionary tale that reveals medical error is the third leading cause of death in America.