SXSW 2026

<p>#Skyking tells the story of 28-year-old Horizon Air ground service agent Richard &ldquo;Beebo&rdquo; Russell, who, to the shock of all who knew him, clocked into work wearing a shirt that said &ldquo;the sky&#39;s no limit,&rdquo; stole a 33-million-dollar plane, and took off into the skies of the Pacific Northwest&mdash;embarking on a white-knuckle flight that would come to embody the hopes, dreams, and despair of the American working class, and offer a timely look into the U.S. mental health crisis.</p>

<p>#WhileBlack is an urgent documentary that centers on one of the most viral videos of our time: George Floyd&rsquo;s murder, seen 1.4 billion times in 12 days, sparking protests in over 2,000 cities worldwide. With exclusive access to Darnella Frazier and others like Diamond Reynolds, who livestreamed Philando Castile&rsquo;s killing, the film reveals how social platforms and corporations profit from viral Black trauma, while survivors endure lasting psychological and physical danger. #WhileBlack is a powerful meditation on modern witnessing, exposing the human cost of viral footage while asking urgent questions about race, technology, and accountability.</p>

<p>&quot;A Deception of Senses&quot; is a narrative experience exploring humanity&rsquo;s enduring fascination with the deception of perception as a gateway to alternate understandings of reality. Beginning in AR with subtle shifts in the user&rsquo;s space, it moves into VR where a narrative presence&mdash;born of the synthetic world&mdash;guides us through playful and poetic twists. Historical objects appear not as relics but as narrative devices, embodied and animated to reveal how easily perception can be led astray. The experience culminates in an abstract, generative environment where forms and sounds evolve in real time. Neither game nor film, it invites visitors not to win or solve, but to look, listen, and simply be.</p>

<p>A Long Goodbye tells the story of Ida, a 72-year-old pianist living with dementia. In this animated, interactive VR experience, we walk in Ida&rsquo;s shoes. We experience a day in her life, as her reality is fading. The apartment, where she spent a lifetime with her beloved husband Daniel, first feels empty and undefined. When we interact with objects and play the tape recordings of her husband, her playful world gradually comes to life, as if drawn in paint before our eyes.</p>

<p>&quot;A New Inferno&quot; is a v&eacute;rit&eacute; short documentary set during Phoenix&rsquo;s historically hottest month, July, when record-breaking heat turns deadly, especially for the unhoused. In 2024, 608 people in Maricopa County died from heat-related illness, representing a staggering increase over the past decade. The film follows the crew at Arizona&rsquo;s busiest firehouse, as they race to save heatstroke victims using a radical new treatment. Against the backdrop of rising global temperatures, urban heat islands, and under-resourced services, Phoenix has become a climate canary. A NEW INFERNO offers a visceral, street-level view of the climate crisis as it unfolds in one of the hottest major cities on Earth.</p>

<p>Every summer, veteran volunteers Helen (67) and Peggy (64) dedicate themselves to Art at Sea. This year, they scan tickets for a controversial and prize-winning work. Helen tries to enjoy her favourite day, but her husband keeps calling, demanding she come home. At day&rsquo;s end, the women can finally have a go at the installation: a shooting point with a paintball gun aimed at a penis through a glory hole. No one has hit the target yet. It&#39;s much too far away. Just as Helen takes her turn, her husband rings again. Shaken and frustrated she makes a decision that takes a dramatic turn. The situation spirals completely out of control... but who was actually crossing the line here?</p>

<p>A woman&#39;s sexual fantasy is fulfilled -- with surprising ramifications.</p>

<p>Welcome to Mississauga where lawns are clipped, neighbors are watchful and no blade of grass dares misbehave. Except at Wolf Ruck&rsquo;s place. His lawn grows wild, and so does the trouble.</p>

<p>When overachiever Alexa suddenly can&rsquo;t reach orgasm after starting antidepressants, she refuses to accept defeat. With the same grit she&rsquo;s applied to every challenge, she launches a spreadsheet-driven quest to &ldquo;achieve,&rdquo; experimenting with positions, partners, and kinks like they&rsquo;re items on a to-do list. But when Alexa&#39;s plan fails and she meets self-proclaimed &quot;watcher&quot;, Garth, she discovers that intimacy isn&rsquo;t something you can hack or optimize&mdash;it&rsquo;s something messier, stranger, and more human. &quot;Achiever&quot; is a sharp, heartfelt comedy about pleasure, perfectionism, and learning to let go in a world that demands constant achievement.</p>

<p>&quot;Adam&#39;s Apple&quot; is an intimate, collaborative documentary told through the dual perspectives of Adam, a transgender teen, and his mother, visual artist Amy Jenkins, that offers an authentic and tender counterpoint to the hostility facing trans youth today. Adam&rsquo;s journey balances the milestones of gender transition with the rhythms of adolescence. As Adam asserts his identity and steps out into the world, his parents grapple with the challenges of raising a teen while learning to let go. Through a visually poetic approach, the film transforms a deeply personal archive, collected over two decades, into a powerful, joyful testament to the beauty and difficulty of reckoning with profound change.</p>

<p>Top-level show jumping horses are treated like pop stars, zigzagging all over the world from one show jumping competition to the next, awaited by hordes of enthusiastic fans. They travel aboard a specially equipped airplane. In this &ldquo;flying stable,&rdquo; every effort is made to ensure the prize horses arrive at their destination with as little stress as possible.<br /> <br /> In a short documentary Lasse Linder follows the travel schedule of Legacy, a fifteen-year-old mare ranked among the very best in the world. Linder shows the constant care and personal attention the horse receives, but also the problems that can arise from incorrect paperwork at customs.<br /> <br /> Much of the film is shot from the horse&rsquo;s perspective, with the world constantly framed by the bars of stable doors or the forecful motion of a treadmill. When Legacy returns to her home base in Florida, her owner claims that her &ldquo;girl&rdquo; leads a privileged life.</p>

<p>From her crumbling estate on the Potomac, Yolanda Signorelli von Braunhut is engaged in a David-and-Goliath battle to wrest control of her late husband Harold&rsquo;s iconic toy Amazing Live Sea Monkeys! back from the corporate men who stole them from her. Harold von Braunhut and Yolanda Signorelli worked together for forty years before Harold - a genius magician, scientist and inventor &ndash; passed away and left his iconic novelty toy in Yolanda&rsquo;s care. Yolanda alone possesses the true Sea-Monkeys secret formula and she alone must free them, not only from their captors, but also from the stain of her husband&rsquo;s dark legacy.</p>

<p>A woman inherits her childhood home, seeking solace from a chaotic city life marked by addiction and debt. Unbeknownst to her, a psychotic neighbor becomes disturbingly obsessed with her due to a haunting resemblance to the neighbor&rsquo;s deceased mother. As the fixation turns violent, her friends begin disappearing one by one, drawing her into a perverted, blood-soaked Christmas nightmare she may not survive.</p>

<p>Mor Cohen and Polaris Banks did the impossible, made a movie with just two people, while camping, with a script based on their real arguments. Most couples would kill each other under those conditions. They were no exception.</p>

<p>After a bat bites Jack (30s), transforming him into a vampire, he comes to the front door of his home, asking his wife Laura (30s) to let him back inside. Per vampire rules, Jack now needs an invitation to reenter his home, an invitation that Laura withholds. This man looks and sounds like her husband, he makes her laugh and cry like her husband, and still she doesn&#39;t know if she can trust him. As the two reconcile and reconnect over the course of the night (Jack always outside the house, Laura always inside), Laura wrestles with the impossible choice, and the stakes ratchet as the clock ticks and daybreak draws near.</p>

<p>&quot;Ascended Intelligence&quot; is an emotionally responsive XR experience set in a 2030 Smart City. Where Consensus Gentium, (previous SXSW XR Jury Award award winner) revealed the pressure of being watched, this work explores what happens when the system begins to listen. Participants use their voice&mdash;tone, breath, and presence&mdash;to shape a branching cinematic journey in real time. As control gives way to reflection, AI shifts from directing behavior to mirroring the human. The experience offers a lived prototype for futures beyond extractive technology, where agency, authorship, and inner sovereignty become the true intelligence in the system.</p>

<p>When Lola&rsquo;s best friend goes missing, she refuses to wait around for the authorities. Determined to uncover the truth, she throws herself into a relentless search across Los Angeles. Along the way, she meets David, a stranger who claims to have seen her friend just before she vanished. Desperate for answers, Lola decides to trust him&mdash;but the deeper they dig, the murkier the trail becomes.</p>

<p>Having quit her corporate job to become a birth doula, chronic people-pleaser Maya quickly discovers that NYC birthwork is nothing like she expected. Her first day is full of surprises: she assists with an at-home IUD removal where she sees her first cervix, lands her first official client&mdash;provided she keeps their precarious secret&mdash;and nervously agrees to cover a birth in the Bronx for a fellow doula. After a rocky start, she helps single mother Celeste through a long night of labor, learning to let go of perfection and embrace the chaotic, beautiful mess of supporting birth. Just as the sun rises and she finally heads home, her phone rings: her next client is in labor.</p>

<p>From the flickering screens of Hollywood horror, to the haunted cane fields of colonial Haiti, &quot;Black Zombie&quot; unearths the buried origins of the zombie, reclaiming it as a symbol of survival and spiritual resistance.</p>

<p>&quot;Body Proxy&quot; speculates that AI&rsquo;s coming instrumentalization of the world will necessitate human embodiment. The installation is framed as corporate onboarding - part casting call, part IPO (&ldquo;Initial Person Offering&rdquo;) in which recruits enter a market where their physical agency is the asset. Assessed by AIs treating the body as a peripheral device, participants enact algorithmic choreographies where props are test vectors and compliance is a site of improvisation. Collapsing the gig-economy and agentic tool-use, the piece questions a future in which the human is not a user, but an interface - wetware executing commands the software cannot.</p>

<p>It sucks to be Brian. He&rsquo;s smart, funny, and capable, but his mental health issues make it hard for anyone to see it - especially when compared to his effortlessly cool older brother. At school, Brian harbors an unrequited crush on Brooke: she&rsquo;s smart, kind, pretty&hellip; and very much his teacher. A disastrous drama club audition leads to yet another one of Brian&rsquo;s trademark public meltdowns. Thus begins Brian&rsquo;s search for his new &ldquo;thing&rdquo;. On paper he&rsquo;s chosen the worst possible fit: running for class president. With help from his therapist and the new kid, Justin, Brian launches his high-stakes campaign and sparks a messy, exquisitely awkward journey toward self-acceptance.</p>

<p>A raw glimpse into disillusion, where music, memory, and chaos meet through striking characters and visual landscape.</p>

<p>In a time and place where abortion is illegal, a pregnant woman&rsquo;s repeated attempts to end her pregnancy fail until she crosses paths with a strange bus driver.</p>

<p>Campe&oacute;n Gabacho tells the story of Liborio, an endearing and mischievous young migrant whose only talent is taking punches. He crosses the Rio Grande to escape a harsh reality in Mexico, looking for a better life in the United States, and settles in a Latino barrio in New York City. Through his fists, his love, and his words, he faces cultural walls and prejudices that threaten his hopes, and becomes a hero in an unknown land.</p>

<p>Matthew and his girlfriend Dangmo dream of starting a life together in the U.S., but when her visa is unexpectedly denied, their future is thrown into limbo. Struggling with the cold reality of immigration barriers, Matthew seeks help from his lawyer, only to be left &ldquo;on hold&rdquo; as his world unravels. Blending grounded drama with surreal visual storytelling, Can I Put You On Hold explores the pressures of long-distance love, the excessive weight of bureaucracy, and the sacrifices people make to be together.</p>

<p>On October 20, 1967, Roger Patterson captured 60 seconds of film showing a creature walking through the Northern California woods&mdash;footage that became the most analyzed and debated in history. Fifty-seven years later, a reel of 16mm film discovered in a safe changes everything. Capturing Bigfoot reveals the untold story behind the world&#39;s greatest mystery, told for the first time by Patterson&#39;s own son and the people who were there. This is a story about family legacy, broken friendships, and belief itself.</p>

<p>When the ooligan vanishes from Bella Coola, its absence remains like a scar, pointing to a history that reaches far beyond the river. From ramshackled Nuxalk Radio, voices rise through crackling airwaves to trace the forces no one was meant to uncover. What begins as a local broadcast becomes an awakening as testimony, watercolour animation and rare archival weave a story of survival, return and the quiet revolution of a Nation that refuses to disappear.</p>

<p>A glam-pop heartbreak unfolds underground as fantasy and desire collide on a neon-lit subway ride.</p>

<p>Quirky LA twins Tristan and Max get fired on the same day. Tristan curses out a TV writer, while Max leaks his boss&#39; script to a gossip site. Their type A friend Jane, who hates her corporate film job despite her recent promotion, tells Tristan to apply for her old job. Max has a lead in NYC that he agrees to pursue, while Tristan applies for the Jane job. They betray their twin pact and land interviews for the NYC job. They fly there only to learn it was a Zoom interview. Max gets offered Jane&rsquo;s old job, while Tristan remains jobless. Afraid of messing it up and leaving his twin behind, Max proposes a risky plan: they will share the job by trading off and pretending to be one person.</p>

<p>Stick to the script and Howl will keep you safe. This is the mantra of the Ergons, a cult of office workers convinced the only way to return to their home planet and its benevolent leader Howl is by cold calling Humans and scamming them out of their credit card information. Penny is the office&rsquo;s highest-performing, most devoted member &ndash; until an unprecedented interaction with a Human disrupts her winning streak. When her best friend Carl is disappeared by sinister office manager Boss, paranoia and secrecy spread throughout the office and Penny&rsquo;s faith in the mission begins to fracture. Is she willing to break the cardinal office rule and go off script, unraveling the world as she knows it?</p>

<p>Cinematic, super stylized and tongue-in-cheek irony. A performance music video that follows a loose narrative, Con Man and Jade meet in a dodgy dive bar. Everyone inside is a cloned version of themselves, all doing debaucherous things, in different corners of the room. In between choreographed dance sequences, a game of Russian Roulette sees the fired bullet ricochet around the room, picking them all off, one by one. Inspired by a blend of western and mafia type movies BUT living in its own distinct world. Colour is rich, everything is to the beat and our camera moves between static, crash zooms and dollying. We will shoot each person in their cloned state and comp them together in post.</p>

<p>Solitary teen ANI (15) is intensely devoted to her glamorous older sister, Casey (18). But when Ani stumbles on Casey&rsquo;s fake, AI-generated OnlyFans-like account, she&rsquo;s unsettled to discover Casey has cloned the voice of a real woman for the persona. Ani, however, has her own internet side hustle. As the girls test their boundaries online, they&#39;re drawn into the murky morals and strange thrills of hypercontemporary digital life.</p>

<p>&quot;Crafting Crimes&quot; is an immersive and interactive podcast series that lets you reconstruct some of the most famous crime scenes in history. In this new episode, piece together one of the most world-shaking art heists of all time: the theft of the Mona Lisa. In the summer of 1911, the masterpiece vanishes from the Louvre&rsquo;s Salon Carr&eacute;. No alarm. No trace. For two years, the world wonders where the Mona Lisa has gone. The truth? She never left Paris.</p>

<p>Alone. We repeat. Endlessly. You&rsquo;re invited to arrange these three acts into an order that resonates with you. This collaboration between 3D artist Matunda Groenendijk and dancer/choreographer Amit Palgi reflects on the cyclical nature of existence through motion and momentum, touch and trace. The virtual space allows you to explore life&rsquo;s patterns through presence and embodiment. How do you choose to engage with your cycles?</p>

<p>In a world where sexuality often lurks in the shadows, Dark Rooms invites you to step into the realm of unspoken desires and intimate exploration. Through immersive VR storytelling, you&rsquo;ll follow our protagonists&rsquo; real stories as they navigate their own sexual awakenings, confront societal taboos, and embrace their true selves. With Dark Rooms, we invite you to uncover not only the protagonists&#39; truths but also your own, in a virtual safer space where you can explore various forms of sexual encounters without the need for real-life participation.</p>

<p>Daughters of the Forest is a story of entanglements: between humans and mushrooms; the visible and the invisible; generational knowledge and modern science. This sci-fi documentary invites us to reconsider the experiences of both human and non-human inhabitants of our world. We follow Lis and Juli, two young scientists from indigenous communities that have long lived in symbiosis with the many mushrooms in their regions. The world they know is changing, and their pursuits are threatened by deforestation, lack of opportunity, and loss. Still, they share how mushrooms show us different possibilities of coexistence, helping them overcome obstacles to reshape their lives and futures.</p>

<p>Butch Meily has been separated from his wife for 8 years. They live in the Philippines, where divorce remains illegal. Mired in legal and emotional limbo, an unlikely loophole presents a way out.</p>

<p>Do You Love Me is a playful and personal journey through Lebanon&rsquo;s audiovisual memory, composed entirely of archival footage. It is a love letter to Beirut, spanning 70 years of film, TV, home videos and photography, exploring the Lebanese collective psyche&mdash;marked by joy and intimacy, destruction and loss. Through the eyes of citizens, filmmakers and artists, the film pieces together a fragmented history in a country without a national archive, celebrating creative expression as a form of resistance and renewal, and as a means of preserving memory.</p>

<p>A bold, fast-paced descent into mental chaos, where Doechii turns anxiety into art through explosive visuals.</p>

<p>Down-on-his-luck drummer Mauro flees a trail of bad decisions and lands on his sister Isa&rsquo;s couch in Boston. With no money and nowhere to go, he begins busking as a bucket drummer. As playing on the streets brings small wins, he falls back in love with the freedom and pounding momentum that made him chase music in the first place. But Mauro pushes his luck pursuing a secret relationship that endangers his bond with Isa, and bit by bit draws everyone else into his own feral shortcomings.</p>

<p>Two sisters with a contentious relationship decide to rob a rural home in upstate New York. The simple robbery turns into a nightmare when one of them throws out her back and becomes immobilized on the second floor. The night spirals out of control as they embark on a painful journey to make it out before the homeowner returns.</p>

<p>Isaac &ldquo;Drift&rdquo; Wright, a self-taught photographer and Army veteran haunted by trauma, finds healing through breathtaking, illegal climbs of the world&rsquo;s tallest structures. But his pursuit of art sparks a high-stakes battle with law enforcement in this intimate portrait of risk, resilience, and freedom in modern America.</p>

<p>In rural Taiwan, during her mother&rsquo;s funeral, A-Hsien, the eldest daughter, grapples with grief, resentment, and the quiet burden of tradition. As patriarchal rituals unfold, a silent resistance emerges, unsettling the roles she was expected to fulfill.</p>

<p>What if GIFs existed in real life? In this surreal music video, Dzs&uacute;dl&oacute; rides on top of a rally car, passing through a world where people are trapped in tiny looping moments. It&rsquo;s a real-life GIF safari but the loops aren&rsquo;t harmless. As time ticks on, the people inside them start to age, their bodies subtly warping and shifting in strange ways, like the loop is wearing them down. Repetition meets rhythm, with a weird, haunting twist.</p>

<p>Ed Sheeran is thrown (literally) into a fever dream Persian Wedding. He gets swept up by a whirlwind of poor boundaries, a lot of kisses, and way too much food. Will he survive the chaos? This is baptism by rice.</p>

<p>Timid Catholic school dork Edie Arnold is dragged to a punk show where a mishap lands her on stage behind the drums. She&#39;s mortified... but a natural. Convinced by her best friend, she secretly forms a band called The NunDead. Her newfound confidence leads to a date with the altar boy but also a fight that gets her suspended. Thinking she bailed on their first gig, her bandmates bust her out of the house just in time to win a Battle of the Bands. But when she faces expulsion and her mother&#39;s wrath at a disciplinary hearing, footage of her kick-ass performance has an unexpected effect on her mom.</p>

<p>Kaylee is an insanely loud burper. The world record for loudest female burp is currently set at 107.3 decibels, which is louder than a hair dryer, a lawn mower, and a leaf blower. But it&#39;s a number that Kaylee routinely beats on her own&mdash;her loudest belch to date is 110 decibels as recorded on her decibel reader app. In this documentary short, we follow her as she prepares to go for the record.</p>

<p>American filmmaker Pete Ohs observes the combustible chemistry between a Polish florist (Lena G&oacute;ra) and a British tourist (Charli xcx) in this charming postcard of sapphic synchronicity.</p>

<p>The internet is in shambles - and it&#39;s time to leave it for good. You and the audience around you play a group of internet refugees escaping the A.I. slop apocalypse in this interactive experience. Your objective? To reach the Island of Sanctuary, a safe haven rumoured to be the last good place on the internet. From legendary creative director Lucas Rizzotto, &quot;Escape The Internet&quot; is the first game designed for a movie theater, where audience members come to life on the big screen using their phones. A new genre of live entertainment, it blends cinema, gaming and theater to make you laugh, cry, and ultimately reveal who you (and the ones around you) truly are.</p>

<p>You&rsquo;re imprisoned in a cage at the center of a medieval town, moments from being dropped into the monster pit for your alleged crimes. The King will arrive at any moment to pass judgment, but what crime have you committed, anyway? Well... that is up to you. Your backstory, your sins, your secrets. Every detail is shaped by your imagination. The townsfolk circle around, buzzing with curiosity and absurd demands. From the lovestruck executioner to the knight carrying a terrible burden, each character wants something from you. All you can do is try to sway them, hoping they&rsquo;ll plead your case to the king. And because no two players say the same things, no two journeys ever unfold the same.</p>

<p>The Smiths have gathered once again on their quaint family farm to make the latest in a string of low-budget horror movies. No, the movies aren&#39;t particularly &quot;successful.&quot; Some might even call them &quot;bad.&quot; But at least the family is together, and that&#39;s what matters to Jack and Ellen. Their adult children, on the other hand - Trent and Ula - are working up the courage to leave this particular family tradition behind. Simmering family dysfunction turns to pure chaos when a real dead body shows up on set. Can they come together to keep the movie on track, or will this be the Smith family&#39;s final act?</p>

<p>Set in Mexico City, Fifteen reimagines the iconic quincea&ntilde;era as a chaotic mix of comedy and creature horror. Through Mayte and Ligia&rsquo;s unbreakable bond, the film explores class divides, the illusions of adolescence, and the fear of growing up&mdash;wrapped in kitsch aesthetics, blood-soaked humor, and biting social critique.</p>

<p>Sabucedo, Galicia (Spain), is home to the Rapa das Bestas. A tradition dating back five centuries where herds are gathered to clean the horses, cut their manes, and deworm them before returning them to the bush. This documentary follows the wild horses of the region and the community&rsquo;s fight to preserve a centuries-old festival that defines their identity. As the modern world&#39;s expansion of wind farms, the stakes grow higher. Featuring intimate interviews with villagers, such as aloitadores like Carlos and his daughter Alba, and experts like Jorge, a horse whisperer, and Laura. an animal conservationist. A Rapa captures raw energy and emotional struggle to protect land and tradition.</p>

<p>A bold and sensual visual poem exploring gender, power, and self-expression through movement and myth</p>

<p>At a mall store, Apple leads a secret witch cult with coworkers Cherry and Fig. New hire Pumpkin questions their sisterhood, forcing them to confront inner darkness or meet violent ends.</p>

<p>Dan and Doris both find themselves single in their 70s after their spouses of decades have passed away. After using an online dating service during the pandemic for older singles, they talk on the phone for three months and fall in love before meeting in person. Now living in Austin, Texas, and married for three years, the two wear lavish matching outfits, go out dancing several nights a week, and have an active sexual life rooted in both fantasy and intimacy. With a deep awareness of their mortality guiding their choices, Dan and Doris are not afraid to show up in the world as their true selves, disregarding cultural norms for how older people should look, love, and move through the world.</p>

<p>In Texas, new legislation aims to criminalize those who help others access abortion&mdash;even across state lines. This film follows a determined network of activists confronting the legal and financial risks of &ldquo;aiding and abetting&rdquo; abortion care. In the wake of a critical vote on the ballot, they push back against Prop A and the growing trend of punitive laws, revealing the emotional toll and the grassroots resistance that continues to hold strong in Texas. &quot;Freedom At Stake&quot;, shines a light on the resistance to the escalating assault on abortion care and access in small-town Texas&mdash;and the sweeping national consequences could follow.</p>

<p>Trainman is a first-person anti-utopian adventure set entirely aboard a surreal Eastern European night train. Trapped in his carriage for decades, a weary conductor relives a single crime he once chose to ignore. As the train stretches into an endless labyrinth, the player explores shifting spaces, scavenges, solves environmental puzzles, and uncovers fragmented memories that blur dream and reality. The experience follows the logic of fear itself &mdash; a looping, uneasy journey through guilt, survival, and distorted time.</p>

<p>Funny Weather is here to steal your time. You&#39;ll never get it back, it&#39;s gone for good.</p>

<p>During her first year at a conservative, elitist college residence, Marta is driven into a desperate search for the morning-after pill by the sexual taboos around her. As community pressure builds, her peers prepare an initiation ritual no one will forget.</p>

<p>When a trans college student learns the girl she idolizes is sleeping with their teaching assistant, she takes drastic steps to emulate her.</p>

<p>For three weeks, modular synthesis composer Colloboh makes music from field recordings in Iceland&rsquo;s remote Sn&aelig;fellsnes Peninsula. What begins as an exploration of sound evolves into a meditation on ecological collapse and the dilemma it poses for humanity.</p>

<p>Haunted by the trauma of his childhood, a man relives a dream that seems frozen in time. As he dives deeper into the subconscious world he&rsquo;s forced to confront past mistakes until he finally finds a cathartic forgiveness that frees him from his guilt.</p>

<p>This horror anthology tackles the modern work landscape through four timely perspectives &ndash; the hustle culture of an MLM, the endless repetitiveness of a food delivery driver, the online horrors of a content moderator, and the unionization of a familiar-feeling coffee shop. &quot;Grind&quot; shows what it means to be a worker in a world defined by wealth inequality and ruled by endlessly greedy oligarchs, one not so far removed from our own.</p>

<p>Our story begins with our heroine breaking up with her obnoxious boyfriend; what should be a moment of liberation instead transforms her from a regular thirty-something into a hag with snakes for hair. Hag battles society pressures, inner longings, and the tick of her own biological clock. She searches for love and meaning in a hellscape of waning fertility, dating apps and the rotten stench of the patriarchy. In this surreal South London, Hag&#39;s journey becomes mythical as her despair crystallises into a quest for answers, and she must face the ultimate test! In a world where being true to yourself makes you monstrous, what is the cost of compromise and repressing your authentic self?</p>

<p>Years ago, Devin, who has special needs, became enthralled by Bigfoot after watching the long-running reality TV series Mountain Monsters. When his mom took the opportunity to foster her son&rsquo;s passion, daily hunts for Sasquatch grew into something more than a pastime. He&rsquo;s Out There tells the story of&mdash;in Devin&rsquo;s words&mdash;the proudest week of his life.</p>

<p>A whimsical glimpse into the lonely world of an aging Tokyo crossing guard who has diligently devoted his entire life to his humble occupation. As he takes to the vibrant, busy streets, his passion transcends into a surreal and infectious dance party joined by his co-workers and a mysterious geisha.</p>

<p>In 2021, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long kills 8 Asian women in massage parlors in Atlanta, Georgia as a way to suppress his uncontrollable sexual desire. Dutch-Japanese filmmaker Kiriko Mechanicus writes letters to the young murderer to find out what his killings have to do with her sexual life. What do our racial fetishes tell us about our hidden human desires?</p>

<p>&quot;I Got My Brother&quot; is a darkly comedic exploration of the foster care to prison pipeline through the eyes of formerly incarcerated Jarrett Harper and his younger brother Baylon. Through a conversation-style interview, the brothers reminisce about their time spent in a Los Angeles foster home where they were routinely abused and neglected. Though the candid memories are rooted in unimaginable trauma, they are laced with wry humor and an unbreakable brotherly bond that is put to the test when 17-year-old Jarret is sentenced to life in prison for murdering their abuser.</p>

<p>A crew of professional shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven. It&rsquo;s like community service.</p>

<p>Kai, a genderqueer Chinese-American, and their mother, Li, deal with the effects of a heavy storm on their basement apartment in Queens. Zhou, Kai&rsquo;s grandfather, is dying in Northeast China. During this sleepless night, a familiar spirit visits Kai and mistakes them for Li.</p>

<p>After a long illness, Shari learns that she won&rsquo;t recover &mdash; she has only a few months left to live. Overwhelmed, she doesn&rsquo;t know how to face her family. In an attempt to escape reality, the sky collapses above her, and she finds herself drifting through space. There, she meets the cosmonaut dog Laika, who guides her on a spiritual journey through the universe. Like Laika, Shari is approaching her final rocket launch. In the silence of space, she realizes how fragile the Earth is &mdash; and how precious time can be. She wants to spend her remaining days with her family. Preferably in a car. With mixtapes. And toast.</p>

<p>Ana Sanchez and her mother Silvia share a very Latina bond, warm, playful, and steeped in guilt. But Silvia suffers from a rare illness that&rsquo;s slowly turning her into a giant silverfish. As Ana bends to her mother&rsquo;s escalating needs, her own life begins to unravel. The longer she avoids setting boundaries, the closer she comes to doing something she&#39;ll regret.</p>

<p>After a couple&rsquo;s baby boy is taken, the desperate mother learns of a way to bring him back. However, her husband begins to suspect that what she returned with isn&#39;t their son.</p>

<p>Desperate to live up to his father&rsquo;s expectations, a talented but inconsistent minor league baseball player turns to steroids, igniting a dangerous transformation of body and mind.</p>

<p>Tonally absurd and colourful, &quot;In the Beginning&quot; features three true stories about humans shaping narratives on animals in their attempt to make sense of the absurdities of the world. One features the doomed space probe Beresheet that aimed to deposit a backup of human civilisation on the moon but ended up releasing microscopic tardigrades; another explores how legless specimens of Birds of Paradise exported to Europe in the 16th Century were widely believed to be otherworldly beings that lived forever aloft; and the last depicts Covid-era Hong Kong, where many hamsters were abandoned after authorities announced a cull as a precaution against animal-to-human transmission.</p>

<p>In a quiet Toronto apartment, an immigrant mother finds comfort in her Alexa&mdash;weather updates, love songs, and the time back home become a lifeline to the Philippines, reminding her of the family she left behind. In the Morning Sun is a gentle portrait of aging, migration, and memory. Inspired by the filmmaker&rsquo;s desire to preserve the warmth of his parents, the film reflects on the quiet sacrifices of immigration and the rituals that keep love alive across distance. As his nieces and nephews begin to face their own life choices, their reflections echo the journey his mother once made, revealing the duality of her experience&mdash;the little girl she was, and the woman she became to survive.</p>

<p>&quot;Insider-Outsider&quot; is an interactive virtual reality musical experience created by Philippe Cohen Solal, inspired by the work of Henry Darger (1892&ndash;1973). This pivotal figure in American outsider art depicted the struggle of seven young heroines, the Vivian Girls, against the cruelty of adults.</p>

<p>&quot;Inter(mediate) Spaces&quot; is a modular program and mixed-reality installation asking how AI might be repurposed toward care and connection in an age of disconnection. Two participants begin at opposite ends of a shared room and move through spaces where physical objects remain visible alongside a shifting virtual layer. Conversation and proximity reshape what unfolds as they navigate a living archive built from Living Lab contributions&mdash;paired audio interviews, images, and reflections&mdash;before meeting in the center.</p>

<p>Vasilly has become painfully jealous of his best friend, Luke. But things aren&rsquo;t going so well for Luke. Every time he shares some good news, he starts to suffer from strange and violent repercussions. Disturbed by the uncanny timing, Vasilly recalls his Yiayia&rsquo;s warnings about the Greek superstition of the evil eye - and starts to believe his own envy might be to blame for Luke&rsquo;s bad luck. Jealous People Are Ugly People is a darkly comic psychological thriller about male jealousy, inherited superstition, and the corrosive power of repressed ambition.</p>

<p>&quot;Luther&quot;, directed by Karena Evans, reimagines the music video as a cinematic meditation on Black love, vulnerability, and emotional connection. Set within minimalist, symbolic environments &mdash; from hotel rooms to reimagined everyday spaces &mdash; the film follows Kendrick Lamar and SZA through parallel moments of intimacy with individual partners. Through restrained performances, deliberate pacing, and visual symmetry, the film explores emotional distance and closeness, culminating in a shared space that reflects quiet unity. Eschewing spectacle in favor of stillness and mood, Luther offers a poetic, emotionally grounded visual experience that mirrors the song&rsquo;s introspective core.</p>

<p>Sonja has no memory of the crucial moment in her childhood that saved her life: the separation from her parents in 1943. A true story that leads you from Paramaribo to Amsterdam and into a psychiatric facility called Het Apeldoornsche Bosch. Combining conversations with Sonja, mesmerizing 3D modelling, animation and personal footage, you accompany her through skewed memories, elusive images and re-imaginations towards one moment of loss and grief during the Second World War.</p>

<p>Through a co-creative process with the community, Austin transforms into a platform for multidimensional, pluralistic inquiry, delving into themes such as racial justice, historical memory, memorialization, environmental stewardship, and the impact of technology on civic life. The importance of plurality is central, presenting six perspectives on different concepts and viewpoints. In a world that is increasingly polarized and lacking in nuanced perspectives, Layers of Place emphasizes the collective experience. By expanding &ldquo;public space&rdquo; to include both the tangible environment and the virtual layers accessible through AR, we create a new form of communal experience.</p>

<p>Lesbian Simulator is shown as an installation in the DocLab Exhibition and is part of the VR Gallery.<br /> <br /> For lesbians looking for recognition, but more particularly for anyone who would like to get a sense of what their queer family, friends, colleagues and acquaintances experience, both negative and positive, here&rsquo;s Lesbian Simulator.<br /> <br /> Mix your own lesbian avatar in the magic cauldron (with a few body parts, a dash of fashion sense, and a few more secret ingredients); choose the hairstyle and outfit that best suit your alter ego and set off in search of your first lesbian rave, date and partner, with a little help from the heavenly Lesbian Goddess (voiced by Hanna van Vliet). But along the way&mdash;because, sadly, that&rsquo;s still the world we live in&mdash;you&rsquo;ll have to come out more than once in different situations, fend off toxic male harassers and face public disapproval.<br /> <br /> In a cheerful, cartoonish form, with infectious danceable music and an ironic tone, this colorful VR game playfully navigates both serious and light-hearted topics. You flirt, fight and knock back another negroni sbagliato, while scoring as many carabiners as you can, on your way to a collective, loving Pride experience.</p>

<p>&quot;Lionia Is Leaving&quot; is a mixed-reality immersive drama based on the true story of Lionia, a retired engineer from Okhtyrka, Ukraine, who survived the bombing of his home. The tale unfolds through photogrammetric fragments of a Ukrainian house, where characters appear only as animated shadows and voices. Navigating the space reveals scenes from before and at the invasion&rsquo;s start&mdash;family dinners, hurried packing, breaking news, a neighbor at the window. In a pivotal interaction, you try to move stubborn Lionya from his sofa to avert the inevitable. After the strike, pulled from the ruins, he stands in the snowy night and calls his family, offering fragile hope as he realizes what truly matters.</p>

<p>&quot;Los Lobos Native Sons&quot; is the definitive, authorized chronicle of one of America&rsquo;s most enduring, genre-defying bands. Tracing Los Lobos&rsquo; rise from East L.A. streets to global acclaim, the film offers unprecedented access to their archives and an intimate look at the brotherhood driving their journey. Through electrifying performances and candid interviews&mdash;with Linda Ronstadt, Rub&eacute;n Blades, Tom Waits, Dolores Huerta, Danny Elfman, Jackson Browne, Cheech Marin, Edward James Olmos, Peter Frampton, George Lopez, Bonnie Raitt, and more, the film celebrates their legacy as cultural trailblazers blending rock, roots, and Mexican traditions into a sound uniquely their own.</p>

<p>&quot;loss&middot;y&quot; presents three split-seconds of a motion-captured female-female pas de deux: each moment is suspended in a vignette that overlaps projection and 3D prints encapsulating the dance in sculpture, with spoken-word poetry and spatial sound design. The installation&rsquo;s audioscapes blend cold technical facts, accounts of digital dysmorphia and surveillance, and computer-generated sampling, creating an elegy to the vital body that is at once human and digital.</p>

<p>&quot;Lost Love Hotline&quot; blends immersive storytelling with audience participation. Guests are invited into a phone booth to leave a message for their heartbreak&mdash;lost, forgotten, or imagined. Guided by dream-based prompts, each participant records a confession, closes their eyes, and receives a personally curated playback of messages from strangers. Drawing on cinematic language, the project creates a reverent archive of heartbreak where speculative musings, emotional truths, and cultural memory converge, pushing the boundaries of audio narrative and inviting connection, vulnerability, and reflection through technology-driven intimacy.</p>

<p>Welcome to &quot;Love Bird,&quot; the reality dating show competition where YOU are the star! It is your job to win and break the hearts of an eccentric cast of characters who think, feel, and scheme just like you. But it&#39;s not just about romance&mdash;in the world of reality TV, love comes second to good drama, and the producers are always watching. Love reality television? Good. Hate it? Even better. This is your chance to step into the spotlight. Will you go down as the most beloved star of Love Bird or its most infamous villain? Either way, the cameras are rolling.</p>

<p>Set in a dystopian laboratory basement, the story follows a girl and her botched clone as they are welcomed to their new family - their &lsquo;parents&rsquo; (masochistic scientists) and their &lsquo;siblings&rsquo;, (the previous creations). In seeing this dark place through their na&iuml;ve child-like eyes, for a fleeting moment they bring joy to their new home. Inspired by the works of Terry Gilliam and Yorgos Lanthimos, the film plays with science fiction, body horror and dark comedy. The goal was to create a story with a cruel sense of humour, and build a world that pays homage to 70s B movies by shooting 16mm and using stylised VFX.</p>

<p>Mallory, plagued by fears of being unremarkable, joins her playwright boyfriend Sam on a retreat to coastal Maine. When she learns he once brought his glamorous ex, Louise, there, she&rsquo;s struck with an obsessive curiosity about his past. As her jealousy takes hold, Mallory becomes convinced she&rsquo;s being haunted by the ghost of Louise herself... Pulled into a journey that slips between past and present, rivalry and affection, melancholy and creativity, Mallory drifts further from her old life and toward something essential. &quot;Mallory&rsquo;s Ghost&quot; is a psychological and playful exploration of envy, and the strange path it can lead back to the Self.</p>

<p>After falling in love with Vietnamese cuisine during a life-changing trip abroad, Jerald&mdash;a self-taught chef from small-town Texas&mdash;arrives in New York City with one goal: to open his own restaurant. Juggling odd jobs and secretly perfecting recipes in a basement kitchen, he&rsquo;s running out of time and money. When he meets Nhung, a sharp-witted Vietnamese waitress, their unlikely alliance sparks a bold culinary journey. From improvised street hustles to a hidden speakeasy, they fight to turn Jerald&rsquo;s dream into reality. A story of passion, resilience, and unexpected friendship in the heart of the city.</p>

<p>A dying man seeks comfort in a mysterious sex worker whose monstrous anatomy offers not just pleasure&mdash;but the ultimate release.</p>

<p>Craig proposes to his girlfriend on her praying mantis themed livestream and subsequently chokes to death on an egg, live on the internet. The paramedics, police, and Craig&#39;s own mother performatively try to &quot;help&quot; as Craig slowly chokes to death in front of them, and the world begins to unravel around them at the seams.</p>

<p>In the wake of Selena Quintanilla&rsquo;s murder, Marga&rsquo;s life takes an unexpected turn at 21 weeks pregnant during a surprise visit to Mexico City.</p>

<p>&ldquo;Margo&rsquo;s Got Money Troubles&rdquo; is a bold, heartwarming and comedic family drama following recent college dropout and aspiring writer, Margo (Elle Fanning), the daughter of an ex-Hooter&rsquo;s waitress (Michelle Pfeiffer) and ex-pro wrestler (Nick Offerman), as she&rsquo;s forced to make her way with a new baby, a mounting pile of bills and a dwindling amount of ways to pay them.</p>

<p>Mickey spends the last ten years reflecting on her transitioning process within the conservative context of Sinaloa, Mexico. Through performance, re-appropriation, and lots of play, the film explores Mickey&rsquo;s search for self alongside the journeys of those who grew up with her. An exploration of self-perception and the non-punitive confrontation with the past.</p>

<p>&ldquo;Mike &amp; Nick &amp; Nick &amp; Alice&rdquo; is a hilarious, stylized, R-rated action-comedy about two gangsters and the woman they love trying to survive the most dangerous night of their lives. As if that wasn&rsquo;t enough, there&rsquo;s one wild ingredient added to the mix: a time machine. The film, which will premiere March 27, 2026, exclusively on Hulu, stars Vince Vaughn, James Marsden, Eiza Gonz&aacute;lez, Keith David, Jimmy Tatro, Stephen Root, Lewis Tan, Ben Schwartz, Emily Hampshire, and Arturo Castro, and is written and directed by BenDavid Grabinski, produced by Andrew Lazar, p.g.a., and executive produced by Richard Middleton and Vanessa Humphrey.</p>

<p>In the fairytale land of Brooklyn NY, Cinderella is grieving the death of his father. Tortured by his evil step-family, Cinderella longs for the freedom the city&#39;s rats enjoy. When he learns the local Prince is throwing a birthday party, he escapes the clutches of his family with the help of his Fairy Godmother and his favorite rat. Little does he know, this rager will change the course of his life.</p>

<p>Maggie works as a content moderator for VueQ Moderation Services, spending her days filtering the internet&rsquo;s darkest content, driven by guilt over her sister&#39;s suicide. When Maggie blocks a cryptic video uploaded by an anonymous user, she and her team begin to be hunted by an insidious entity that haunts them through every screen in their lives.</p>

<p>Walk into any zoo in America and you&rsquo;ll see the legacy of a billion dollar criminal enterprise that spanned six continents over 50 years. Director Eric Goode (&quot;Tiger King,&quot; &quot;Chimp Crazy&quot;) follows his first love, reptiles, into the dark underworld of exotic animal smuggling. He begins with the industry&rsquo;s legendary founders, Hank Molt and Tommy Crutchfield, who sold some of the world&rsquo;s rarest reptiles to America&rsquo;s biggest zoos. After an epic smuggling trip goes wrong, Hank lands in prison, clearing the way for Tommy to monopolize the industry. But when Hank gets out, his bitterness over Tommy&rsquo;s success prompts a gruesome revenge that will change the reptile world forever.</p>

<p>The unsolved murder of Billy London, a gay adult film performer brutally killed in West Hollywood, was an urban legend for 33 years. A documentary intended to honor his life took an unexpected turn when members of the community joined forces to uncover overlooked clues, and seek a resolution to the mystery of who killed him. Drawing on a rare trove of VHS and personal footage, the film reveals a chilling overlap between the victim and some of the suspects who were captured on camera in films made in the narrow window of Billy&#39;s death.</p>

<p>Three people bound by non-disclosure agreements face extreme personal risk to expose how a simple intellectual property contract is weaponized to silence, manipulate and control.</p>

<p>A wandering medium, Airi spends her life guiding restless spirits out of the world of the living. Summoned to an isolated country house, she comes face to face with a grotesque apparition with powers that defy Airi&rsquo;s experience. As she digs deeper into the house&rsquo;s past, a secret comes to light &mdash; and Airi finds herself hunted by a far more unpredictable force. For the first time, her greatest adversary is not the supernatural, but the living.</p>

<p>Turning the camera on her family and surroundings in Beirut during the recent Israeli bombings of the city, Isabelle Mecattaf captures the jarring coexistence of regular life with the relentless shock and grief of living on the periphery of war.</p>

<p>When a hopeless romantic makes a wish that his long-time crush falls in love with him, a sinister enchantment ensues in writer-director Curry Barker&rsquo;s freaky and frightening feature debut.</p>

<p>The video explores expanding love through dancing mirrors precision-driven robots and playful movement through space. Robots maneuver mirrors with exact control, while fabrics and bouncing balls add a kaleidoscopic surge of color that matches the bright tempo. During filming, bassist Tim Nordwind wore Ray-Ban Meta Glasses to capture the intricate single shot process for the official BTS footage.</p>

<p>Out of Nowhere gently explores how preserving alluvial forests, marshes and wetlands can help us face the challenges of an ever angrier, unpredictable climate.</p>

<p>A dysfunctional couple head to a remote cabin to supposedly reconnect, but each has secret plans to kill the other.</p>

<p>A life, seen through paper.</p>

<p>A talent show hosted by an inappropriate, washed-up principal takes an unexpected turn when the quiet/awkward kid in school performs a surprisingly good dance routine. The performance comes to a halt when sparklers start an accidental fire, forcing everyone to evacuate. They&rsquo;re met outside with chaos, riots, fighting, all only to come back to the talent show dance, led by the same boy who ignited it all. Was the chaos a reality? Or was it all in his head&hellip;</p>

<p>In 2010, reports began surfacing of a masked vigilante in a black-and-gold supersuit stopping crime on the streets of Seattle. His name is Phoenix Jones. Armed with pepper spray, a taser, and a team of costumed crime fighters, he quickly becomes an international media sensation. But when his true identity is exposed by the Seattle Police, the heroic image begins to unravel and his team abandons him. Ten years later, as protesters seize six blocks of Seattle and declare a no cop zone, Phoenix reemerges amid legal trouble and public skepticism. Is he a hero, or a con-artist hiding behind a mask?</p>

<p>It&rsquo;s a Friday night and college students Jack and Montgomery have got big plans: They&rsquo;re going to do drugs and order pizza. But when the home-made drug they ingest turns out to be MUCH wilder than they thought, the simple journey down two flights of stairs to retrieve their pie becomes a mind-bindingly transformative quest. Still though, how hard can it be? The only thing in their way is a broken elevator, Montgomery&rsquo;s social anxiety, the fact that everybody in the school hates Jack, a sociopathic RA, a vengeful butterfly, a robot with a dream, and this insane drug that has absolutely no regard for the basic laws of reality.</p>

<p>An offbeat comedy about friendship, purpose, and trying to grow something real in a city built to keep people apart. Cory is a lonely, doomscrolling thirty-something whose most consistent relationship is with his Instagram algorithm. His apartment? An emotionally vacant, sterile, void. His fridge? Mostly Celsius. And his idea of connection is dodging calls from the one person who still tries: Fox, a soft-hearted, ex-con with terrible advice rooted in institutional paranoia and his love of films. Everything shifts when Cory has a run-in, literally, with Plantman, a rogue horticultural crusader armed with a mysterious dossier of negligent plant owners.</p>

<p>When Rick (Paul Rudd), a past-his-prime wedding singer, meets fading boy-band star Danny (Nick Jonas) during a gig, the two bond over music and a late-night jam session. But when Danny turns one of Rick&rsquo;s songs into the hit that reignites his career, Rick sets out to reclaim the recognition he believes he deserves - even if it means risking everything he cares about. From writer-director John Carney (Sing Street, Once), POWER BALLAD is a feel-good story about music, self-respect, friendship, and the price of ambition.</p>

<p>A praying mantis mutant seduces and preys on men out of desperation to save her child. A failed mission led to revelations of her past and dark secrets as the story unfolds.</p>

<p>After an unexpected return to her hometown for the day, Juli must confront unresolved feelings for her childhood best friend Maya&mdash;their unspoken chemistry still lingering after years apart.</p>

<p>Moments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace discovers she&rsquo;s reached the next level of the nightmarish game &mdash; and this time with her estranged sister Faith at her side. Grace has one chance to survive, keep her sister alive, and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the world. Four rival families are hunting her for the throne, and whoever wins rules it all.</p>

<p>An exploration of the everyday mysteries of quantum mechanics, in which the state of particles is only certain when observed, and split d&eacute;j&agrave; vus imply parallel realities.</p>

<p>What does it mean to be a woman in a country where abortion is banned in all circumstances? In this lyrical documentary, women and girls speak about the challenges and consequences regarding unsafe abortion in the Dominican Republic.</p>

<p>Nola, a sous chef searching for stability after a stay in a mental health facility, is barely holding her life together. After a brutal Friday night shift, she crashes her bike and wakes to find her estranged father, Cyrus, now unhoused, standing over her. Taking him in forces long-buried wounds to the surface. As past and present collide, Nola is pulled into a reckoning with grief, forgiveness, and the fragile possibility of repair.</p>

<p>With the help of his family, a comedy writer battles PTSD after the tragic death of his sister.</p>

<p>Kayla Bachman, an author who struggles with emotional connection, Zach Bachman, a lawyer who dreams of being a folk singer and Wes Bachman, a graphic novelist / gambling &amp; pill addict, meet to discuss their younger sister Scarlett who joined a cult in Kentucky. Zach and his dysfunctional and absent parents have hired cult deprogrammer Rick Delacroix to help them rescue Scarlett. They embark on a roadtrip to save their sister, and bring their family together.</p>

<p>Julia was fired three weeks ago. She also got sober three weeks ago. She&rsquo;s starting over in a suburban rental, and doing a lot of online shopping to help make the space her own, fast. When packages she didn&rsquo;t order start showing up at her door &mdash; a blender, a corkscrew, her signature shade of lipstick &mdash; they feel so unnervingly tied to her past that it starts to feel like someone is watching her. The shopping site Smirk denies responsibility. But increasingly paranoid, Julia tumbles down a rabbit hole to find the identity of her anonymous sender.</p>

<p>Five Black musicians from Austin, reflect on art, identity and the need to create in a world that is quick to silence black men. The film features members of: Fuck Money, Urban Heat, Black Mercy and Chief and TheDoomsDayDevice.</p>

<p>Raag, a mild-mannered office worker whose entire personality is hot yoga, watches his life collapse when sexual assault allegations against his idol, Bikram Choudhury, turn him into the office punchline. That same day, his mother dies in a tragic accident, and leaves him with a devastating truth: Bikram is his father. With little hope left, Raag desperately searches for answers.</p>

<p>Summer, 2008. Keira has spent the last two weeks holidaying with her family and girlfriend Zoe on a tropical resort up the coast. Although both deep in the closet, the girls take any opportunity to hook up around the resort; Keira is hungry for Zoe&rsquo;s attention. But during the heat of sex, Keira is startled by a flash, she finds Zoe taking photos of her with her digital camera. Zoe urges Keira to let her continue and she reluctantly agrees. In the aftermath, Keira is unsettled. Unable to articulate what&rsquo;s happened and struggles with Zoe&rsquo;s tenderness and charm. But as her family gathers at a beach bonfire for a final drink, Keira decides to finally break Zoe&rsquo;s hold over her.</p>

<p>True to his practice of blending tradition with experimentation, the artist opens a new chapter with Spectacular: Jonathan Yeo&rsquo;s Art in Augmented Reality. In this immersive Spectacles experience, his work comes to life - transforming and responding to visitors, and shifting the act of contemplation into active participation. The journey culminates in a personal surprise: before leaving the exhibition, each visitor departs with a unique creation, a lasting extension of their encounter with Jonathan Yeo&rsquo;s universe.</p>

<p>A woman&rsquo;s life unravels after she becomes addicted to throwing herself down flights of stairs.</p>

<p>Four Mexican-American middle school boys in a Texas border town have developed an unusual obsession: Joseph Stalin. When their teacher tells them about the Texas State History Fair, they write a play about the Soviet dictator - and his efforts to destroy all who opposed him. As the boys write and rehearse their play about Stalin, they are forced to confront their own relationship with power and control.</p>

<p>Step inside the eye of the storm. &quot;Stormbound&quot; thrusts audiences into the heart of the world&rsquo;s most powerful hurricanes with breathtaking, never-before-seen footage captured from within. As wind, water, and land collide, the film follows storm chaser Jeff Gammons, who for more than thirty years has pushed closer than anyone else to document every major hurricane to strike the United States. Now tested by a near fatal disease , Gammons continues his pursuit&mdash;revealing the personal cost of chasing nature at its most extreme and the larger environmental forces shaping our world. &quot;Stormbound&quot; is a high-stakes, immersive experience that places audiences face-to-face with nature at its most powerful.</p>

<p>In the summer of 2000, four pre-teen friends formed a band called X-Cetra and burned a homemade album onto a few CD-Rs. The following year, consumed by adolescent concerns of boys and drug store shoplifting, their labor of love was quickly forgotten.... Until 20 years later, when someone uploaded it online. At first, it garnered a small base of outsider-art fans, but soon it was discovered by record labels, sampled by mainstream artists, and eventually the subject of a Rolling Stone article. With their teen dreams of pop stardom coming true decades later, X-Cetra reunites to see if they can rekindle the unselfconscious girlhood they&rsquo;d captured in the album those many years ago.</p>

<p>&quot;Supper&quot; is a character-driven thriller that explores themes of identity, loneliness, voyeurism, and the unsettling intimacy between obsession and connection. The film follows Aleena, a Black woman who struggles with her racial identity and how it fits in the world around her. When an obsessive man, Ivan, confronts her in her home, she is forced into a terrifying hostage situation. Supper examines the blurred boundaries between performance, consumption, and the need to be seen.</p>

<p>In a world where speech is a forbidden form of intimacy, a local outsider stumbles from a loveless marriage into true connection with a stranger in Joecar Hanna&rsquo;s remarkably fresh take on the norms of relational engagement.</p>

<p>Fifteen year-old Honest Cardamom hasn&rsquo;t seen her mother since she was four, but at a crowded family party she begins to feel her presence in ways she can&rsquo;t explain. When Honest senses the presence of her mother she finds the courage to ask her uncle about the woman she barely remembers and, in doing so, begins to uncover pieces of herself. Set in the space between Honest and her Uncle O, Tell Me When You Get Home unfolds as a long conversation between two people who have both lost a loved one. This short animated film is a testament to love and a testament to family.</p>

<p>A father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with the AI insanity, exploring the existential dangers and stunning promise of this technology that humanity has created. There&rsquo;s something deeply compelling about art born out of acute anxiety &mdash; perhaps because it stems from vulnerability and a need for clarity. The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist grew out of co-director Daniel Roher&rsquo;s profound unease about the future, especially the role artificial intelligence will play in shaping it. Together with Charlie Tyrell, Roher explores both the dazzling possibilities and risks of these fast-evolving tools, along with the price they may carry. Combining expert interviews, home videos, and animations, the film meets this pressing AI discourse with curiosity and heart, clarifying complex ideas while acknowledging how much remains uncertain and deeply human. Rather than claiming to have all the answers, The AI Doc offers a conversation that feels urgent, hopeful, and impossible to ignore.</p>

<p>&quot;The Ascent&quot; is the inspiring true story of Colorado Springs bilateral-amputee climber Mandy Horvath&rsquo;s record-breaking attempt to crawl to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro on her hands. At 21, Mandy lost both of her legs under mysterious circumstances&mdash;an event that shattered her trust in the world around her. As she pushes her body to its limits on Africa&rsquo;s tallest mountain, Mandy must reckon with the unanswered questions of her past and learn to trust again in order to succeed.</p>

<p>Set inside the bubble of Silicon Valley, The Audacity takes on the warped dreams, outsized egos, and ethical lapses of the self-styled inventors of the future. In a world of jaded billionaires, psychiatrist-gurus, bio-hacked tech bros, AI labs and disillusioned teens being optimized in elite private schools, an audacious data-mining CEO (Billy Magnussen) strives to turn insight and influence into profit and power. The darkly comedic drama confronts reality, privacy, and the delusions fueling our ever-changing world.</p>

<p>TBFIC is a 20 minute single-player immersive VR experience that places users inside the body of Zoraan, a British-born Sikh woman navigating menopause amidst climate collapse and the ruins of colonial medicine. You breathe with her. You scream with her. You dance your way out of sedation. Blending real-time visuals, bio-haptic feedback and diasporic sound, this work reframes menopause not as decline but as volatile power; closing &lsquo;The Baby Factory&rsquo; to ignite a cultural revolution. Using gesture, voice and biometric feedback, audiences become co-conspirators in a volatile act of embodied rebellion. This is not a metaphor. This is an insurgency.</p>

<p>The story follows Guan, a lawyer, whose life takes an unexpected turn when his wife loses her life in a random act of violence. Guan unexpectedly discovers a half-finished novel left by his wife, which is about the story of the endangered Formosan clouded leopard. He never knew his wife could write novels, nor did he understand the mountains of Taiwan. This leads him to set out on a journey to find the leopard and form a strong connection with it.</p>

<p>&quot;The Dollhouse&quot; is an unfolding paper world where 9-year-old Juniper untangles feelings of guilt around how her family treated Magnolia, a woman who came from far to work as a cleaner in their house. This animated interactive VR tale explores how power dynamics are born within the intimacy of our homes. While reenacting memories with her dolls, Juniper grows ashamed of her actions and finds the courage to disagree with her parents and follow her heart. Will you help her ask for forgiveness?</p>

<p>In June 1950, the United Nations decided to send military forces under American command to the Korean Peninsula to support the South Korean army attacked by North Korea and China. Through the testimonies of various protagonists and an interview with the last Korean veteran who took part in the conflict alongside the French troops, Hayoun Kwon brings the spectator on a journey through a daily life shaped by battles, but also by the solidarity and friendship forged between the French troops and the Korean soldiers.</p>

<p>Historical speeches that shaped our world&mdash;MLK, JFK, Emma Goldman, Mandela&mdash;remain frozen in grainy footage and fading photographs. They&#39;re housed away, rarely seen, difficult to relate to. But what if AI could help us embody history rather than just observe it? What if you could stand where they stood, speak their words, and feel the weight of that moment? This installation makes history personal, visceral, and urgent. It transforms archives from artifacts into living experiences.</p>

<p>An AI-born former TV preacher, known as The Great Orator, guides visitors through a nonlinear VR world shaped by shifting memories and current events. As you explore, her consciousness evolves through your interactions, questioning the nature of reality and identity. Spaces like a preserved house, mainframe storage, and an infinite parking lot serve as allegorical backdrops to her speeches. She speaks poetically about ordinary objects, inviting intimacy yet maintaining eerie detachment. Ultimately, the experience probes populism, misinformation, and the fragility of truth in a synthetic society.</p>

<p>Sixty years &amp; a million records ago, Robert Christgau invented Rock music criticism. Anyone who has ever read or written a Pop music review has been influenced by Christgau, who canonized legends from The Ramones to Public Enemy &amp; infuriated icons from Lou Reed to Billy Joel. Now in his eighties, Bob is still at it&mdash;amazingly with the same vigor, wit, concision and craft that has defined his expansive career. But in a world where albums are irrelevant, where print is dead &amp; where algorithms have eclipsed critics we are forced to ask: What happens next&mdash;for Bob, but also for all music criticism? Is this the end of something? Is Robert Christgau the last critic?</p>

<p>When Washington state became the first in the world to legalize human composting, entrepreneur Micah Truman puts it all on the line to build the world&#39;s first large-scale terramation facility. But when the conventional deathcare industry resists, he is forced to pivot, and must learn to care for the grieving while transforming his business. Alongside Funeral Directors, Brie Smith and Katey Houston, he begins to understand the double bottom line is the only way to truly profit. What begins as an ambitious venture becomes personal as they rediscover human connection, ritual, and legacy.</p>

<p>In 1975, Italian director Enrico Januzzi began filming a giallo set in Rome - a feverish tale of a blind violinist who rises to first chair of the symphony, only to find herself stalked as a black-gloved killer murders her fellow musicians one by one. The only witness: her seeing-eye dog. Production collapsed after a week, and the footage was presumed lost, until its rediscovery in 2025. Painstakingly restored by WBAZ Films, this surviving fragment is presented here for the very first time.</p>

<p>When Jamie, ungovernable 40 something wild child collides with her venomous mother Anne, her life blows up spectacularly leaving her evicted and single. This sends Jamie on a pig in a hurricane journey for &ldquo;home&rdquo;; breaking into her Nana&rsquo;s house to prove it should be hers, a rejected bid to move in with her van dwelling punk rock ex, and a stint in her best friends pied a terre, which ends with Jamie hooking up with her husband.</p>

<p>Wendy&#39;s life is thrown into chaos when her boyfriend, Jack, who is older and divorced with children, insists they take space to evaluate the relationship. During their break, Wendy unexpectedly runs into her ex, Chuck, forcing the three of them into a confusing and volatile triangle.</p>

<p>THE WAY WE MOVE is a feature-length documentary about Amber Galloway, a star ASL (American Sign Language) interpreter who specializes in live music interpretations. Amber teaches her art to share her life&rsquo;s mission : making music accessible to the Deaf community. Armed with her astounding teaching skills, she will take her struggling new recruits on a one-of-a-kind journey, hoping they have what it takes to join her at Austin City Limits music festival. As the film unfolds, we learn about Amber&rsquo;s painful past and about the lives of her recruits, Julian Ortiz and Angela &quot;AV&quot; Vilavong, as they come together and forge life-long bonds. A film about music, Deaf culture, connection and resilience.</p>

<p>When Abby&rsquo;s boyfriend drops out of the high school play, she finds herself helping a school outlier step into the role opposite her. They spend a long night wandering around their town, examining their futures and unearthing surprises from their past.</p>

<p>The film follows Drea, a down-on-her-luck poet navigating her grandmother&rsquo;s passing among a distant family unwilling to bridge her world as a Deaf, queer artist. When her father, temporarily released from prison to say goodbye to his late mother, arrives at the gathering, Drea is forced to confront buried tensions and find connection.</p>

<p>They Will Kill You unleashes a blood-soaked, high-octane horror-action-comedy in which a young woman must survive the night at the Virgil, a demonic cult&#39;s mysterious and twisted death-trap of a lair, before becoming their next offering in a uniquely brazen, big screen battle of epic kills and wickedly dark humor.</p>

<p>Blue For You is a haunting meditation on longing and obsession. The film follows Consuelo, a legendary actress who seems to share a tender, dreamlike love with the mysterious Carzio, until unsettling signs reveal a shadow closing in on her world. In the final turn, we learn we were never in Consuelo&rsquo;s perspective but in Carzio&rsquo;s: an obsessed paparazzi who built a fantasy romance to feel close to her. The shadow is him. There was never a relationship, only delusion spiraling into danger.</p>

<p>After enduring her husband&#39;s incessant chatter, a wife finally decides to cut out his tongue.</p>

<p>An experimental music video interpreting the meaning of Tyler, the Creator&#39;s song &quot;Sugar On My Tongue&quot;, while keeping in line with the album rollout&#39;s unique aesthetics.</p>

<p>The hottest summer on record left Austin ablaze and terrified, a city where heat hits hardest in at-risk neighborhoods and communities of color. In the aftermath, the Casta&ntilde;&oacute;n family walks into the woods, asking: What is heat? At a city-run heat-mapping event, they trace invisible threats and exercise small acts of agency, exploring how conversation&mdash;at home, with neighbors, with scientists and policy-makers&mdash;shapes the way we live in a world remade by heat.</p>

<p>A young woman in the throes of early pregnancy starts to question her own reality when strange things begin to happen to the people closest to her.</p>

<p>Aja and Lior were once junkie lovers (and parents of a beloved pet ferret), but they&#39;ve since split up. Aja is newly sober and getting her shit together, working hard as a live-in home health aide for a dying old man. Lior, on the other hand, has doubled-down on an escalating run towards trouble. Tonight their worlds will collide again in explosive fashion. Who will leave with their life? Better yet, who will leave with the ferret?</p>

<p>Step into the worn-out sneakers of a child growing up in the forgotten edges of 1990s Watsonville - teetering on the cusp of Silicon Valley&#39;s transformation. In this immersive VR horror experience, memory becomes a maze, and the everyday is laced with the surreal. Haunted by generational echoes, unseen fears, and the slow erosion of place and identity, you&#39;ll navigate a world where the monsters are as much in your home as they are in your imagination.</p>

<p>As exam season consumes her, a perfectionist university student ignores a growing ear infection to focus on her studies. But the infection worsens. Pus oozes constantly, sleep becomes impossible, and her grip on reality begins to unravel. One night, driven by a haunting nightmare, exhaustion, and mounting anxiety, she becomes convinced something is alive inside her ear. A body horror short about the cost of perfection, where the pressure to succeed becomes a breeding ground for something far more terrifying.</p>

<p>Three sisters from rural New Hampshire formed a band in the late 1960s, but not by choice. Betty, Dorothy, and Helen Wiggin had no interest in playing music. In fact, they had no musical abilities at all. It was their father Austin, inspired by a prophecy, who became convinced that his girls would become rock stars. He pulled his daughters out of school, bought them a pair of cheap guitars and a drum kit, dubbed them The Shaggs, and basically commanded them to make music. In 1969, he brought the girls to a storefront recording studio outside of Boston, and the result is one of the most head-scratching and polarizing albums ever committed to vinyl. &quot;We Are The Shaggs&quot; is their story.</p>

<p>In an old town in India, convinced that technology is replacing them, three retired men threaten to take over the jobs of household appliances. But when one of their children lands a job at an A.I. company, it rattles their crusade and makes them wonder if they have already been left behind. What happens when the future arrives and no one tells you? And what do you do then, to remind the world that you were here?</p>

<p>Dan&#39;s mysterious neck wound won&#39;t heal. Unable to recall or discuss why, he returns to his dark childhood grounds to recover a lost piece of himself-the key to becoming whole again.</p>

<p>A long-divorced Chinese couple reunites in Texas for their daughter&rsquo;s college graduation. The mother stays in the daughter&rsquo;s small apartment, while the father returns each night to a hotel room of his own. The daughter drifts between her parents and her own thoughts. At times, they appear to be a family. After years of absence, what remains between them goes unspoken, as the father keeps his distance, lingering nearby.</p>

<p>The year is 2049 and you are Natalie Ramirez, a member of a mission to Mars that&rsquo;s so fruitless, it could signal the end of space exploration. Shockingly, days before your scheduled return to Earth, you discover a reservoir of subsurface water that resurrects your mission. But when you tell your daughter you have to stay on Mars indefinitely, she goes into hiding, leaving a trail of alarming clues. With your dream and your family pulling you in opposite directions, which path will you choose?</p>

<p>Julia and Charlie, a volatile couple in Portland, Oregon, are at a loss for how to repair their broken relationship. Julia, an ambitious game designer, and Charlie, a struggling musician working in sound design to pay the bills, are pushed by Julia&#39;s friend into attending a couples-therapy seminar run by twin healers, the Tillies, who claim to fix relationships through energy work. The session triggers a karmic universal system that makes the state of their relationship affect the world around them. With earthquakes, the stock market, and entire nations at risk, Charlie and Julia must confront whether their love can survive amidst so much destruction.</p>

<p>Music video portraying doubt, sorrow, and passion toward love through a cyclical, reincarnated visual framing. Relationships that unfold across different ages and circumstances dissolve the boundaries between past, present, and future, posing a single, haunting question: If you vow to never love again, can you truly keep that promise? Through the use of match cuts, the film conveys the inevitability of love and the universal resonance of human emotion that transcends time, identity, and generation.</p>

<p>Two naive, well-meaning outsiders in Lisbon discover (or are chosen by) a pair of glowing, sparkling fanny packs filled with a gift for the city: &quot;muy bien&quot; stickers. As they explore with their newfound accessories and upbeat tempo, their infectious good cheer and desire to connect with others draw a diverse and joyful crowd. But not everyone welcomes this movement: anti-muy-bien demonstrators stage a dramatic clash, even as they struggle against the temptation to join the fun and attain a joyfully inclusive future. Is this video about embracing different people and ideas, or is it about two guys wearing fanny packs getting their 10,000 steps in? No right answer.</p>

<p>Celebrating exciting, out-of-the-box ways artists are using technology to bring their art to life.</p>

<p>A filmmaker seeks to reconnect with his roots through his fading ancestral language and discovers hope and resilience within his community, led by a small Navajo radio station.</p>

<p>In A Cowboy in London, filmmaker Jared Christopher captures a rare portrait of Charley Crockett on the verge of global stardom. Shot in the verite tradition, the film follows Crockett during a whirlwind week in London: 3 sold-out solo shows at historic Hoxton Hall, candid tv, radio &amp; newspaper interviews, tourist wanderings, and intimate moments with fiancee Taylor Grace, whose camcorder diary intertwines with professional footage. Between forgotten lyrics and celebrity cameos, Crockett confronts the state of America, Ai in music, and the music industry itself, revealing a vulnerable, defiant artist unafraid to speak truth while chasing greatness.</p>

<p>American Doctor is a v&eacute;rit&eacute; non-fiction film following three prominent physicians&ndash;Palestinian, Jewish and Zoroastrian&mdash;friends who couldn&rsquo;t be more different but are bound by their shared oath to save lives. Dr. Thaer Ahmad is measured and strategic, Dr. Mark Perlmutter is blunt and wears his heart on his sleeve, and Dr. Feroze Sidhwa is media-savvy and prolific. Filmed in unfolding, on-the-ground scenes, the story follows them from a Gazan hospital under siege, to the halls of Congress. Together they fight to keep a promise to their Palestinian colleagues and patients, to continue the struggle where it matters most: the United States.</p>

<p>After being let go from her robotic companion start-up, Beck, an anti-social engineer, finds herself in the offices of a new company claiming to preserve a person&#39;s consciousness inside a cloud system. Her first assignment: drive the company&#39;s most valuable client, Paul, a lonely button manufacturer, to his final appointment.</p>

<p>&quot;Apolo&quot; follows the journey of a family formed by a transgender couple, revealing the nuances of love, daily life, and the constant struggle for recognition and respect. The documentary offers an intimate look into their family dynamics, inviting us to rethink our notions of affection, care, and society itself. As we accompany Apolo&rsquo;s pregnancy, we are led to reflect on the challenges and dramas faced by the couple &mdash; Isis Broken and Lourenzo Gabriel. The father is the one giving birth, and society is not yet ready for that reality. The feature-length documentary marks the directorial debut of actress Tain&aacute; M&uuml;ller and trans woman and musician Isis Broken.</p>

<p>Carroll&rsquo;s worldview is dominated by the threat of catastrophe and the decline of morality in the face of human extinction. Then he steps on a rusty nail. He stumbles through the modern world, searching for romance, shedding toxic friendships, and fighting for truth... all while struggling to maintain his deteriorating health and sanity.&nbsp;</p>

<p>After Gloria and Nick break up, Gloria takes us through Nick&#39;s dating history, untangling his web of ex-girlfriends through details she can find online. But when she discovers Kaylinn, the hottest most basic ex-girlfriend to ever exist, Gloria not only loses herself, she loses control of the story she&#39;s been telling. Basic is a comedy that blends the magical-realism of jealous paranoia with the magic of falling in love.</p>

<p>Sometime in the future, Rio de Janeiro lies in ruins&mdash;its society fractured by class warfare, its people consumed by a brutal spectacle known as the Beast Race. In this high-stakes competition, masked runners tear through a devastated city while the elite wager on their lives. Every runner must pledge a collateral: a human life condemned to the mysterious, dreaded Coast of Hell if they lose. Mano leads the Death Perimeter, a rebel zone devoted to dismantling the race. But when he discovers his younger sister has been offered as collateral by her boyfriend, Mano is forced to do the unthinkable: enter the race he&rsquo;s spent his life resisting.</p>

<p>In 1979, David Greenberger, a recent art school grad became activities director at a Boston nursing home. David began interviewing the residents, rejecting pat questions with the unexpected: &quot;Which do you prefer &ndash; coffee or meat?,&quot; &ldquo;What is embarrassment?,&rdquo; and &ldquo;How close can you get to a penguin?&rdquo; The result was The Duplex Planet, an early &lsquo;zine characterized by humor, warmth and sincerity. Today David&rsquo;s work takes the form of spoken word shows and recordings. Beyond the Duplex Planet explores notions of aging and its intersection with art and community. It&rsquo;s also a slightly ironic look at the life of an artist devoted to documenting the elderly who is himself in his senior years.</p>

<p>A brave girl and her friends must escape a kids television show.</p>

<p>When Jessica Lipki discovers a severed human finger in her bowl of chili, she recognizes an opportunity to seize control of her stagnating life. Jess blackmails the regionally-beloved fast-food chain for $100,000 in return that she and her blissfully ignorant husband, Ron, keep quiet about the incident. Unbeknownst to Jess, her stunt has caught the attention of &quot;the&quot; Blake Junior, the plutocratic founder behind the &quot;Blake Junior&rsquo;s&quot; food empire. He recruits his ex-marine buddy, Dave, to investigate Jess and discover the truth behind the chili finger.</p>

<p>The unbelievable true story of the Cornbread Mafia, a group of Kentucky farmers who built the largest domestic marijuana syndicate in U.S. history. Sons of tobacco farmers, moonshiners, and bootleggers, they turned to pot to keep their families fed. What followed was straight out of Kentucky folklore: lion cubs on the farm, backroad police chases, and a code of silence that baffled prosecutors. Part true crime and part cartoon, the film blends community, the War on Drugs, and a whole lot of weed with the humor and heart of the folks who lived it.</p>

<p>Lance, Clay, and Darby have spent their childhoods drinking, wreaking havoc, and filming crude stunts in their small town. Everyone hates them. Wanting to finally prove their lives have meaning, the boys set out to make a &ldquo;real movie&rdquo; and in the process are forced to confront emotions and experiences they&rsquo;ve never considered: love, loss, and ultimately, what it means to grow up.</p>

<p>Sean and his fianc&eacute;e, Grace, enter a remote forest to find Sean&rsquo;s missing father, Paul, who vanished after the death of his youngest daughter, Lilly. Returning to the site of Lilly&rsquo;s death forces Sean to confront his inner demons, which begin to materialize externally. Their search takes a terrifying turn, revealing Paul&rsquo;s secret. He&rsquo;s been conducting cloning experiments, aimed at resurrecting Lilly. The forest is now inhabited by cannibalistic mutant girls, each a clone of Lilly, battling to prove their identity as the &#39;real&#39; Lilly. As Sean and Grace uncover the grim truth, they face terrifying creatures and grapple with unsettling questions about life and death.</p>

<p>Set in the not so distant future when poor air quality leads to people living mostly virtually lives. Carol is a dissatisfied career mother, struggling to find connection within her marriage to Gary and her child. With the day to day familiarity of their home and lives feeling increasingly claustrophobic, and worried she could be heading towards divorce, Carol leaps at the chance to get her life back on track by signing up for &quot;DreamQuil&quot;, an avant-garde digital wellness retreat. When Carol returns home however, she discovers her family has been living with &quot;Carol 2&quot;, a robot the corporation sent designed to help in her absence, and things take a mysterious and sinister turn.</p>

<p>On January 6, 2023, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis enacted a right-wing takeover of a public university called New College of Florida, targeting both its culture and unique academic program for an ultra-conservative makeover. Resistance is immediate, but the campus descends into chaos as powerful political actors make sweeping changes. Caught up in the mix are a group of intellectually curious young people from all sides of the political spectrum intent on completing their studies at New College, which has suddenly become ground zero in the culture wars.</p>

<p>After learning his brother&rsquo;s death may be murder, Ethan returns to Las Vegas to uncover the truth, and confront the violent past he buried. Once a street kid, he&rsquo;s now living the good life in L.A., engaged to his dream girl and working for her father&rsquo;s real estate firm. But when he gets a text saying his brother overdosed, the promise he made to never return home shatters, pulling him back into the world he thought he&rsquo;d escaped.</p>

<p>When novelist Ohm Bauman retreats to a remote inn to scatter his parents&rsquo; ashes, he is consumed by tales of a witch haunting the honeymoon suite. Disturbing visions and a shocking disappearance forces him to confront dark corners of his past.</p>

<p>The documentary traces Jack Johnson&rsquo;s rise from making surf videos with friends on Oahu&rsquo;s North Shore to becoming one of the most recognizable voices in modern music. Before his chart-topping career, Johnson was known as a promising surfer and filmmaker, capturing his friends, many of the world&rsquo;s best surfers, on 16mm film in Thicker Than Water and The September Sessions. These surf films helped redefine modern surf culture. What began as a visual study of the ocean and friendship evolved when Johnson started recording songs for his soundtracks. Those songs struck a chord far beyond surfing, launching a music career rooted in creativity, community, and the rhythm of the sea.</p>

<p>Jimmy wakes up in a bathtub filled with his own blood, his wrists slit and his life rapidly nearly completion. This would be a textbook failed suicide attempt, only&hellip;Jimmy didn&rsquo;t do it? At least, he&rsquo;s pretty sure he didn&rsquo;t. Alongside Margot, the 911 operator who took his call that faithful night, Jimmy begins an amateur-hour murder investigation, desperate to prove that this is a whodunnit and not a hedunnit. The list of suspects who might be happy if Jimmy wasn&rsquo;t around anymore is fairly long&mdash;angry ex-girlfriends, frustrated siblings, exasperated psychiatrists, and resentful stepfathers. But the prime suspect is Jimmy himself.</p>

<p>Two star-crossed teenage boys must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most &mdash; each other.</p>

<p>&quot;Manhood&quot; follows Dallas entrepreneur Bill Moore as he attempts to make penis enlargement as commonplace as Botox. Along the way, an OnlyFans star and a father of five put their bodies&mdash;and their insecurities&mdash;on the line. Blending dark humor with unexpected empathy, &quot;Manhood&quot; examines shame, addiction, and the fragile myths of American masculinity.</p>

<p>I Like Movies director Chandler Levack&rsquo;s Mile End Kicks is a bright romantic comedy starring Barbie Ferreira as Grace, a young music critic who moves to Montreal to figure out life and love.</p>

<p>As a career-defining chapter propels him into global stardom, musician Noah Kahan stands at a crossroads. In the wake of the breakout success of Stick Season&mdash;an album born from the quiet of rural Vermont and embraced around the world&mdash;Noah begins work on his follow-up album while facing the mounting pressure of what comes next. Over a whirlwind year of sold-out tours and unprecedented acclaim, he returns to his Vermont roots and family. Buoyed by his uncanny wit, he searches for a sense of home and creative inspiration as he confronts the deeply personal struggles that have left him out of sync with himself.</p>

<p>Director Ben Wheatley and John Wick creator Derek Kolstad pit a provisional sheriff (Bob Odenkirk) against his constituents when the exposure of a small town&rsquo;s sordid secret sparks a rip-roaring firefight.</p>

<p>Sometimes it takes the end of something to know what is really at stake. Joe, Giorgia, and Lorri are all grappling with the possible end of an intimate friendship at vastly different stages of life: a cross-country move, a mental health crisis, and a shift into empty-nesting have forced them each to reevaluate the support they need from those closest to them. Chronicling three different friendships over the course of three years, &quot;One Another&quot; brings together verite with a wealth of personal archives to intertwine their journeys as they search for what it really means for us to care for each other. The result is a story of change, heartache, and connection in this ode to platonic love.</p>

<p>Blurring the line between performance and personal crisis, comedian Maria Bamford turns her mental health journey into material that&rsquo;s riotously funny and ultimately inspiring. What emerges is a portrait of an artist transforming vulnerability into creative strength through honesty.</p>

<p>In a world devastated by a contaminated water supply, Kai, a lost soul, finds herself living out of her car after a bad breakup. Each day is a struggle until fate intervenes and leads her to a hidden utopian lake, where the water is pure and life flourishes. At this secret haven, Kai encounters a band of eccentric misfits each with their own stories of loss and hope. Among them is Mallory, an enigmatic and wealthy pregnant woman living out an escapist fantasy. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Kai and Mallory are drawn to each other, and a sudden, passionate romance ignites. As their bond deepens, Kai begins to uncover the layers of Mallory&rsquo;s life and the secrets she harbors.</p>

<p>Maude Apatow&rsquo;s debut feature, the hilarious and generous college comedy Poetic License, focuses on the unlikely friendship between two college seniors and a mature woman auditing their poetry course. It&rsquo;s the perfect fall movie &mdash; when optimism and excitement rule and finals are months and months away.</p>

<p>An action-packed thriller where five ballerinas, stranded in a remote forest, take shelter at an unsettling roadside inn. They must weaponize years of brutal training, turning grace, discipline, and even pointe shoes into tools for survival.</p>

<p>After the death of her father, a grieving young girl moves to an isolated house in a new town with her mother and grandmother, only to discover there is something monstrous hidden in the town&rsquo;s history and the woods behind their new home.</p>

<p>When Rana&rsquo;s visa application is denied, she faces the reality of returning home to Iran. That is, until Adam &ndash; her wealthy boss&rsquo;s son and her summer fling &ndash; proposes a green card wedding. Wrestling with the implications of his offer, Rana enlists help from a questionable shaman, Adam&rsquo;s pure-hearted mom, and most importantly her two Iranian best friends Nadia and Setareh, who arrive on Cape Cod for a wedding weekend full of opinions, chaos, and drama with their own American boyfriends. Just as total disaster approaches, the three women come together in a transformative moment of acceptance, growth, and coming of age &ndash; evolving this weekend into one that will change them all forever.</p>

<p>&quot;Serling&quot; is an immersive first-person journey exploring the life and legacy of one of television&rsquo;s most visionary storytellers, Rod Serling. Told almost entirely in Serling&rsquo;s own words, drawn from never-before-heard recordings and personal dictations, the film captures the man behind &quot;The Twilight Zone&quot; in all his complexity. The film weaves archival material with atmospheric recreations that echo the eerie visual language Serling made iconic. As his unmistakable voice guides us, Serling emerges not only as a master of storytelling, but as a man grappling with the trauma of war, the moral compromises of fame, and the hope that America might one day live up to its own ideals.</p>

<p>Cleo is new to Sparks, Nevada when she discovers a cigarette vending machine that inexplicably produces a book on Jean-Luc Godard. When she meets the Crop soon after, Cleo&rsquo;s morphed into a cinephile, and when she learns of the Crop&rsquo;s reservoir visits, she&rsquo;s certain that she could time travel and meet Godard in 60s Paris. Crop leader Antoine is enamored with Cleo but rankled by her insinuations that Crop life is boring. When Cleo disappears at the reservoir, Antoine calls into question his own sense of purpose, before unexpected adventures materialize&mdash;a shootout, a dreamy gay barbecue&mdash;until Cleo returns to Sparks and the Crop must figure out where she&rsquo;s been and if she&rsquo;s lost her mind.</p>

<p>&quot;Summer of &rsquo;94&quot; reveals the wild rise of the U.S. Men&rsquo;s National Team on the road to the 1994 World Cup&mdash;and the history they were never meant to make. With no league and no roadmap, a ragtag group of players and an unlikely coach endured a grueling two-year training camp, hoping simply not to embarrass their nation at the first-ever World Cup on American soil. Armed with camcorders, the players documented it all, capturing raw moments as underdogs grew into future legends. Featuring never-before-seen footage and new interviews with Alexi Lalas, Cobi Jones, Tony Meola, and coach Bora Milutinović, the film shares how chaos, chemistry, and grit forged a brotherhood that changed US soccer forever.</p>

<p>Katharina, Ricky, Malou, and Victoria live in a self-made anarchist group home - no parents, no school, no rules. Under the loose watch of social worker Ballack, things are going pretty well. But Katharina doesn&rsquo;t want to live past 18, and her birthday is two weeks away. Her friends scramble to hide her suicide attempts, afraid the truth will destroy the only &ldquo;home&rdquo; they&rsquo;ve ever had. In this darkly comedic tale of rebellion, abandonment, and surviving the absurd, &quot;Thanks For Nothing&quot; is the kids&#39; collective FU to the adults who&rsquo;ve abandoned or failed them.</p>

<p>20 years after the first season debuted in 2005, and 10 years after season two, the HBO original comedy series &quot;The Comeback,&quot; from Michael Patrick King and Lisa Kudrow, will return again for a third and final season.</p>

<p>Six fathers of diverse backgrounds gather for a weekend of fishing, and sharing ideas of how to better support their beloved trans children. &nbsp;<em>&ndash; Samah Ali</em></p>

<p>An unflinching portrait of Dean Potter, the world&rsquo;s most influential and controversial climber, base jumper and highline walker, who achieves jaw-dropping feats while battling his inner demons.</p>

<p>A decade-long global journey chronicles the ever-changing record holders of the title of oldest person alive. What begins as a portrait of longevity becomes a meditation on the passage of time, the randomness of fate, and the joy and profound human experience of being alive. The oldest human being on the planet is not someone you encounter suddenly, nor someone you know for long. As the years go by, and Sam Green meets the next, and the next, oldest person in the world, his personal fascination with what the title means becomes entangled with his own experience of time, and the joys and pains of his own life. Green&rsquo;s work has been a cornerstone of documentary filmmaking for a generation of artists. With one of his most intimate films yet, he returns to the Sundance Film Festival with his unique mixture of wry wit, earnest feeling, and formal play. In The Oldest Person in the World, the profound and silly experience of being alive is articulated in a way only film can do.</p>

<p>Jim Baitte, a layabout sound designer desperate to prove himself, is working on a new horror flick from the tyrannical yet lauded b-movie director P.W. Griffin. Accused of lacking vision and creative courage, Jim is sent to the remote island where the film was shot to capture a sound powerful enough to elevate the film&#39;s finale. Once there, eerie local fables surface: for years, ambitious and headstrong youth have lost their souls to a ghostly sea captain for his spectral crew. As Jim entangles himself further into the bizarre locals, scenery, and prophecy, he can&rsquo;t help but ponder the ever-confirming legend, and if recording it might just cost him more than his career.</p>

<p>An in-depth look at the gritty formative years of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the singular vision of original guitarist Hillel Slovak. Featuring interviews with bandmates Flea and Anthony Kiedis and others close to Slovak, the film explores the band&rsquo;s early evolution on the LA music scene and the deep bond of their childhood friendship.</p>

<p>Sean and Kim Harrison are a suburban couple about to divorce. By renting their guest house to a quiet Middle Eastern brother and sister, Amir and Jahan Razi, they find a perfect solution: raise money to fix and sell their house, then separate. But when bizarre occurrences begin to add up &ndash; mysterious lights, missing animals, glimpses of unexplainable tech &ndash; in the days before the President&rsquo;s upcoming visit to town, their guests&#39; strange behavior starts to seem suspicious and potentially dangerous. As Sean and Kim investigate their new tenants, they rediscover the emotional connection they once shared. But reconciliation may come at a significant cost in this timely and provocative thriller.</p>

<p>When two unqualified bozos are hired to transfer a rich teen to rehab, their straightforward gig quickly spirals into dangerous mayhem. Macon Blair makes a welcome return to the Sundance Film Festival following his acclaimed U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize winner &mdash; I don&rsquo;t feel at home in this world anymore. (2017) &mdash; with this raucous and wildly entertaining descent into madness. Dave Franco and O&rsquo;Shea Jackson Jr. are perfectly (mis)matched as Mark and Davis, the fumbling circumstantial chaperones in charge of transporting the increasingly psychotic Sheridan (a brilliant Mason Thames). Phenomenal supporting turns from Nicholas Braun, Peter Dinklage, and Kiernan Shipka round out the ensemble cast, each more unexpected and bizarre than the last. Blair treats us to his signature absurdist sense of humor and douses it with gasoline and psychedelics, crafting an uncanny world where the worst intentions net the highest yields and the open road is full of Shitheads.</p>

<p>An intimate, arresting portrait of cyclist Moriah Wilson&mdash;raised by a fierce, loving family&mdash;whose singular drive becomes her superpower, carrying her to athletic brilliance and, devastatingly, toward a life cut short by murder.</p>

<p>What happened in Austin and in Nashville in the late 60s and early 70s was nothing less than a tectonic shift in country music. From Tennessee to Texas, musicians were breaking rules and flouting tradition in what the industry would come to label - Outlaw Country. Featuring over 120 recording artists, songwriters and producers; including the legends that created the sound and the scene and the current stars and emerging artists that are taking it forward.</p>

<p>Facing the death of his country&rsquo;s glaciers and the loss of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Sn&aelig;r Magnason turns his archives into a time capsule to hold what is slipping away &mdash; family, memory, time, and water. How do you say goodbye to what you never thought you could lose? That&rsquo;s the question Magnason grapples with in Sara Dosa&rsquo;s ambitious new project following her 2022 Sundance Film Festival breakout Fire of Love. Tasked to write the eulogy for Okj&ouml;kull, the first glacier to be declared dead due to climate change, Magnason reflects on how glaciers create an archive of deep time within their ice over millions of years. Likening this idea of the depth of time to intergenerational memory, he sets out to pass along the stories of his grandparents for future generations, before they too vanish. Drawing from an evocative mix of photographs, home movies, myths, songs, and folk tales, Time and Water is at once an elegy for what we&#39;ve lost and an attempt at cinematic time travel to retain it.</p>

<p>When Delaney&#39;s boyfriend leaves town to shoot a splashy zombie movie, she becomes obsessed with a character she&rsquo;s auditioning for after she learns the producers think she has an &quot;ugly cry.&quot; But when she tries to make her cry prettier, her performance suffers. Can she contort herself, and her face, to have the perfect cry? Her attempts to change herself cause Young Delaney to haunt her, catapulting present day Delaney deeper down the rabbit hole. She isolates herself and grows increasingly delusional, and interested in physical fixes to her acting problem. How can she make the world see her as she sees herself? How can she become and become and become? She will become famous. Or die trying.</p>

<p>A new generation of parents, teens, and reformers are fighting back against Big Tech&rsquo;s agenda to define the future of human connection. From Kristin, a mother pursuing legislative reform after losing her son, to Trisha, a young programmer building technology to stop cyberbullying, the film reveals how deeply the attention economy is reshaping us. Blending intimate human stories with insights from leading experts in tech reform and digital wellbeing, &quot;Your Attention Please&quot; asks some of the most urgent questions of our time: Can we reclaim our autonomy? Can technology be redesigned to serve humanity? And what does a healthier relationship with the digital world look like for us and our kids?</p>