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All Festival Films

Explore all narrative and documentary features and short films in this year’s Festival. Use the filters to find the films and screenings you’re looking for.


ARCHIVAL, Cinema For Students Program, Human Rights Spotlight, Human Ties, Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition, Spotlight on Inspiration Documentary Competition, The Immigrant Experience

Come to See Me at Oglala

Film Come to See Me at Oglala Directed by Mary Heather Carver, William T. Horner This is a 1987 interview of William Horn Cloud, a renowned traditional Oglala Lakota singer, historian, philosopher, and…
Cinema For Students Program, Environmental Focus, Fine Arts Spotlight, Human Ties, International Spotlight, Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition, Spotlight on Inspiration Documentary Competition, Women In Film Spotlight

Couture To the Max

Film Couture To the Max Directed by DORI Berinstein COUTURE TO THE MAX" shines a light on an extraordinary young designer who inspires us to dream boldly…
Animation Spotlight, Cinema For Students Program, Human Ties, Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition

Creature Mountain

Film Creature Mountain Directed by Loring Weisenberger Creature Mountain is the first chapter of a feature film (currently in production) that tells the tale of…
Human Rights Spotlight, Leon & Mary Strauss Documentary Spotlight

Crime & Parody

Film Crime & Parody Directed by Will Thwaites After an amateur comedian is thrown in jail for political satire, The Onion joins his fight for free…
American Indie Spotlight, Fine Arts Spotlight, Human Ties

Crystal Cross

Film Crystal Cross Directed by Richie james Follin A quirky Christian singer and a suicidal dad drive cross-country, forging an unlikely bond through bad decisions, bizarre…
Human Rights Spotlight, Human Ties, Leon & Mary Strauss Documentary Spotlight, Race In America: The Black Experience, Women In Film Spotlight

Cycle

Film Cycle Directed by Laura Dyan Kezman, William Howell CYCLE pierces the silence surrounding police violence through the death of Ty’rese West, a Black teenager killed by…
1992, American Indie Spotlight

Daughters of the Dust

Film Daughters of the Dust Directed by Julie Dash In 1902, a Gullah family on the Sea Islands off South Carolina decide whether to migrate to the...
Animation Spotlight, Cinema For Students Program, Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition, Women In Film Spotlight

Dear Upstairs Neighbors

Film Dear Upstairs Neighbors Directed by Connie He A young woman desperate for a good night’s sleep is kept awake by her exceedingly noisy neighbors. As…
Environmental Focus, Human Rights Spotlight, International Spotlight, Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition

Degree of Certainty

Film Degree of Certainty Directed by Simon Schneider It’s 1982, and Jackson Miller, a young risk analyst at one of the biggest US oil companies, fears…
Animation Spotlight, Cinema For Students Program, Human Ties, International Spotlight, Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition

Dog Ear

Film Dog Ear Directed by P√©ter V√°cz After witnessing his parents' violent fight, eleven-year-old Berci struggles with his anger and emotions, finding a way to…
Human Ties, Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition

Dropping Off

Film Dropping Off Directed by Ian Scott McGregor, Will Mayo Shot almost entirely on security cameras and iPhones, Dropping Off follows Thom, an aspiring musician gigging as a…
American Indie Spotlight, Cinema For Students Program, Human Rights Spotlight, Human Ties, Race In America: The Black Experience, Women In Film Spotlight

Dust

Film Dust Directed by Swisyzinna Dust explores how one tragic event reverberates through the lives of several people across generations. When a young…
Cinema For Students Program, Human Rights Spotlight, Human Ties, International Spotlight, Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition

Echoes Beneath The Hill

Film Echoes Beneath The Hill Directed by AIME OCTAVE Set in 1994 Rwanda, on the verge of the genocide against the minority Tutsi. Jeanne, 10, a daredevil…
American Indie Spotlight, Cinema For Students Program, Fine Arts Spotlight, Human Ties, Women In Film Spotlight

Edie Arnold is a Loser

Film Edie Arnold is a Loser Directed by Kade Atwood, Megan Rico Timid dork Edie accidentally takes the spotlight when she starts a punk band with her fellow “turds”, becoming…
Asian Focus, Human Ties, Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition, Women In Film Spotlight

Eight Walls Two Doors

Film Eight Walls Two Doors Directed by Miaochun Zhang As protests erupt back home, a Chinese woman living in a New York hospital travels between her past…
Studio Spotlight

Elsinore

Film Elsinore Directed by Simon Stone The fight of his life. The triumph of a lifetime.
Asian Focus, Human Rights Spotlight, International Spotlight, Leon & Mary Strauss Documentary Spotlight, Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition, Spotlight on Inspiration Documentary Competition, The Immigrant Experience

Enver

Film Enver Directed by Hsi-lun Chen, Will Wen-jeng Chen A Uyghur surgeon in exile in the UK turns a long-buried secret into public testimony, yet one question…
Human Ties, Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition

Eternal

Film Eternal Directed by Joshua Jeffrey Miller Eternal is an allegorical tale about a man who, in his grief, seeks out death and the ability…
Fine Arts Spotlight, International Spotlight, Leon & Mary Strauss Documentary Spotlight, Spotlight on Inspiration Documentary Competition, Women In Film Spotlight

Every Line Becomes A Circle

Film Every Line Becomes A Circle Directed by Christopher Leete, Lynnette Luis, Ottilie Maters Every Line Becomes A Circle is a powerful documentary about 94-year-old German artist Inge Besgen. Her life and…
International Spotlight

Everytime

Film Everytime Directed by Sandra Wollner A tragedy brings a mother, daughter, and teenage boy together. Struggling with blame and forgiveness, the unlikely trio...
Animation Spotlight, Human Ties, International Spotlight, Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition, Women In Film Spotlight

Flamingo in the Garden

Film Flamingo in the Garden Directed by Xinhui Ma A young Chinese woman recovers from a traumatic injury in a Moroccan hospital, where isolation, pain, and morphine-induced…
Human Ties, International Spotlight, Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition

Flodni

Film Flodni
Human Ties, Oscar-Qualifying Shorts Competition, Show-Me Cinema, Women In Film Spotlight

Forget Me Not

Film Forget Me Not Directed by Danielle Herrera Boivin, Michelle Bucci When a fracture in the multiverse tears them from their parallel lives, a guarded go-go dancer and a…
Environmental Focus, Leon & Mary Strauss Documentary Spotlight, Race In America: The Black Experience, Women In Film Spotlight

Fork in the Road

Film Fork in the Road Directed by Jonathan Nastasi, Vivian Sorenson Through compelling stories from independent farmers across the United States, from Alaskan kelp harvesters to dairy farmers in…