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<p>A poem follows the struggle of Native Americans enduring a world that doesn’t accept difference and has turned indifferent and "cold". As they search for meaning in a society that has left them behind, they encounter "Grace."</p>
<p>Noori, a Pakistani-American teenager, feels out of place at her predominantly white high school in Palos Verdes. When her crush Jeff rejects her, she makes an impulsive 11:11 wish to be his “type.” To her shock, the wish goes awry, and instead of changing Jeff’s type to Noori, it transforms her into a white, blonde version of herself. Urged on by her best friend Jasmine to use this second chance for her dream first kiss, Noori heads to Jeff’s party. There, the ignorance and casual cruelty of his friends reveal how shallow the world she thought she wanted really is, and Noori learns that true belonging can’t come from becoming someone else.</p>
<p>It's 1981 in suburban Long Island, New York. The mullets are long, the metal is heavy and 14-year-old Douglas gets a birthday surprise that will change life forever. 1981 is a psychedelic coming-of-age story that captures the beauty and terror of teenage desire.</p>
<p>On July 4th in East New York, Tomiwa, the 13-year-old son of a Nigerian immigrant mother, ventures out in search of fireworks against her wishes. But when he crosses into a white neighborhood with two other boys, he learns the value of community the hard way.</p>
<p>Jake Watson has been on the road for ten years since his wife passed away. When his grown son dies, he comes home to a life he walked out on. A stranger in his own house, he takes a job driving a limo to help his daughter-in-law pay the bills. One rainy afternoon he picks up Catriona Walsh, a Nashville singer with her own secret. One ride becomes a two week road trip. Catriona sets his poems to music, and Jake begins to heal, as they both find their way home.</p>
<p>A Grieving Heart is an animated short film about an immigrant woman examining her past in the wake of her American ex-boyfriend’s death. Wendy Cong Zhao’s film explores how love and loss impact the ways she confronts her identity, memories, insecurities, and regrets.</p>
<p>Marine biologist Dr. Edie Widder goes on a journey to the ocean depths hoping to capture the phenomenon of bioluminescence like it’s never been seen on camera before, from director Tasha Van Zandt and the production company behind Fire of Love.</p>
<p>A lone wanderer finds enlightenment at the end of the road.</p>
<p>Morgan, a 17-year-old with a sheltered suburban life, struggles to define herself in a college essay. With a question so large and looming, she decides to stay home for the summer when a rare family crisis brings her decades older half siblings home. Through shared generational trauma and familial love the four siblings learn to navigate some of life's hardest challenges while relying on each other and their fractured relationships. A special indie that is filled with heart and hijinks reminds us seeking human connection and "figuring it out" is all we can really do. Starring Aya Cash (You’re the Worst), Betsy Brandt (Breaking Bad), Ella Rubin (Anora), and Thomas Sadoksi (The Newsroom), Adult Children makes you feel like one of the family. – Sierra Slaugher</p>
<p>When Mikhael brings his giggling Norwegian girlfriend Mona to meet his Ghanaian family for the first time, he is convinced they will embrace her. Things start badly, however, when Mikhael’s mother brings out a lasagna – “white people’s food”, as an auntie at the table sneers – but go from bad to worse when Mona greets everyone in Swahili – not their language – and tries to entertain everyone with a frantic pan-African dance. She couldn’t get it more excruciatingly wrong if she tried</p>
<p>Adnan Al Rajeev stuns with this utterly singular, fantastical drama set in a remote Bangladeshi community where a high-stakes singing competition leads to young Ali and his mother resorting to some bodily modifications to hide his true pitch.</p>
<p>When award-winning documentarian Ondi Timoner left her Altadena, CA home for a shoot in Rome on Jan. 4, 2025, she could not have predicted that she would be leaving it for the last time. Returning to the ruins left by the Eaton Fire, Ondi finds her neighbors, many of whom had their generational wealth wiped overnight, now at risk of being displaced from the only place they’ve ever called home. But the community, led by community activist Heavenly Hughes, is bonded by fire in solidarity, determined to protect one another. All The Walls Come Down shares a personal story of a community ravaged by climate catastrophe and the remarkable resilience that rallies in its wake.</p>
<p>Convicted of murdering her husband, Tahereh served her sentence and now faces a ticking clock to negotiate with her in-laws who, under Sharia law in Iran, have the legal right to either execute her or forgive her- for a price.</p>
<p>Arco, 12 years old, lives in a far future. During his first flight in his rainbow suit, he looses control and falls in the past. Iris, a little girl his age from 2075, saw him fall. She rescues him and tries by all means to send him back to his era.</p>
<p>Unemployed Ava has planned a fun bachelorette party weekend in Miami for her picture-perfect best friend, Kendall. But when Kendall’s party and Ava’s job prospects come in conflict with each other, Ava tests just how far she is willing to go for her friend to have a good time.</p>
<p>A burned-out private detective embarks on a lone odyssey through both a kaleidoscopic haze of memories and an endless industrial sprawl, seeking a child who has long-since disappeared. As he journeys deeper and deeper into the bottomless fractal maze of factories and retrograde rail interchanges, the more the lines between his case and a nameless unrequited love in his past blur and fade in the polluted smog. Driven by the specter of absent people and voices, the detective begins to realize that far more than the missing girl needs to be found before everything can be resolved.</p>
<p>In the heart of a rural Amish and Mennonite enclave, a dramatic chain of events unfolds as several trusted midwives are arrested—one after the other. These shocking arrests leave their community stranded in a healthcare desert, and reignite a centuries-old battle between time-honored tradition and industrialized medicine. Set against the backdrop of the US’ severe maternal mortality crisis and the erosion of women's reproductive rights, this David and Goliath story follows a group of renegade Amish and Mennonite women as they break with tradition, and become unlikely activists fighting for change. With rare intimate access, "Arrest the Midwife" tells a powerful story of collective action.</p>
<p>“The personal is political” is an essential tenet of feminism, but advice columnist E. Jean Carroll didn’t set out to become a feminist icon. After going public with rape accusations against Donald Trump, her steely courage and conviction became a beacon of hope in post-#MeToo America. In Ask E. Jean, director Ivy Meeropol offers a riveting, deeply personal exploration of Carroll’s rape and defamation cases, deftly weaving righteous outrage with the fizzy humor of her ’90s Ask E. Jean advice show. Carroll’s quick wit and level-headed takes on love crackle – until Trump’s attack in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room forces her to confront the collision of her public voice and private trauma. Through years of trial drama — and Trump’s grotesque “she’s not my type” defense — Carroll emerges victorious, the only woman to have beaten him in court, twice. Ask E. Jean is a galvanizing, vivid portrait of a singular woman and a bold meditation on speaking truth to power. – Jessica Edwards</p>
<p>During a weekend vacation with her best friend’s family, 17-year-old Azi gets caught up in an unexpected game with another guest.</p>
<p>In October of 2023, an influencer disappears in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland while shooting a DIY craft video in this horror comedy Blair Witch-inspired microshort.</p>
<p>A portrait of one crucial night in the melancholy life of legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart (played by Ethan Hawke, in a tour de force), Blue Moon is a surprising yet entirely fitting addition to the Richard Linklater canon.</p>
<p>Emmy, an overworked assistant who moonlights at a lap dance party, is thrown when her day job boss comes into the club one night. With the help of her co-workers (boisterous manager Clark, eccentric dancers Samantha and Rebeca, and a shy newbie), Emmy attempts to one-up the person who's made her life a living hell. As her worlds collide, the two are caught in a delightfully awkward game of social chicken and an unspoken power struggle that begs the question – who’s really in charge?</p>
<p>Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.</p>
<p>Carol panics and argues with her girlfriend Ray after an unexpected proposal. The situation gets worse when she wakes up in an apocalyptic reality and terribly discovers that Ray has transformed into a butterfly. Ray's transformation, the invasion of the outside world into their home, and the growing tension between the two threaten their relationship. Carol is afraid of losing Ray... but devoting herself to her girlfriend could come at a price.</p>
<p>An animated documentary about a woman who bravely escaped an abusive arranged marriage. She finds healing in a painting program in a long-term shelter for survivors of domestic violence.</p>
<p>When an overwhelmed, single dad pig moves his piglets into a rundown trailer park, he fears he’s failed his family. But soon his kids create a wildly imaginative game from a simple cardboard box, and Dad must make a choice…</p>
<p>Reuniting after last year’s Between the Temples, director Nathan Silver and star Carol Kane shift focus to the actress’ 98-year-old mother, Joy Kane—a music teacher and former dancer who lives with Carol on the Upper West Side, and who regales them (and us) with fascinating cultural histories and piano performances over the course of a single afternoon. Carol & Joy is a documentary replete with love, pain, and texture: a close-quarters view of artistic vocation, mother-daughter bonds, and two women’s journeys through one century and into another.</p>
<p>Tells the story of Christy Martin, the most successful female boxer of the 90s.</p>
<p>An award-winning history professor leads a transformative course with a unique group of students: half incarcerated, half free, exploring The History of Crime and Punishment in the United States. Through themes like masculinity, prison abolition, and mercy, the class challenges the invisibility of incarcerated people and reveals the far-reaching consequences of mass imprisonment. The course emphasizes the vital role of programs that bring together the incarcerated and free, fostering mutual understanding and connection.</p>
<p>Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi creates a personal and political one-woman show about the struggle for equality in Israel/Palestine. When the elusive coexistence she’s spent her life working toward starts sounding like a bad joke, she challenges her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter.</p>
<p>In a world where the dead must atone for their sins by collecting souls in Purgatory, Mauve – a weary Collector – arrives at the home of Raymond, a blind man nearing death. Disguised as a vacuum saleswoman (a choice eerily tied to Raymond’s past), Mauve prepares to carry out her task. But Raymond isn’t fooled – he’s felt Death’s presence before. What begins as a routine collection spirals into a profound conversation on guilt, fate, and what it means to truly see someone. As Mauve confronts her own trapped existence and Raymond confronts the memory of a lost lover, the line between duty and empathy begins to blur. Collectors is a lyrical, unsettling meditation on grief – asking whether redemption is possible for the living, and even for Death herself.</p>
<p>Two poets, one incurable cancer diagnosis. Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley go on an unexpectedly funny and poignant journey through love, life, and mortality.</p>
<p>In 2017, 41 young girls from a Guatemalan state-run children's home were killed in a fire when their police guards refused to release them from a locked schoolroom. The event is emblematic of the wider epidemic of gender-based violence in Guatemala, and the spark that drives sisters Lesli and Lupe to action. Told from the perspective of young women who have survived and whose lives have been shaped by violence, the film documents efforts to rally the community to collective protest through art and performance, culminating in a vivid, raucous festival through the streets of Ciudad Peronia. Conveyed through a series of sensitive portraits of girlhood and creativity, Vickie Curtis and Doug Anderson’s film is an powerful ode to the plight, power and resilience of girls.</p>
<p>As the beloved Royal Alamo Cinema closes its doors for good, jaded staff, eccentric patrons, and an unhinged manager stumble through one last night at the movies — grappling with busted dreams, bad popcorn, and hard goodbyes. Featuring Michael Madsen in one of his last roles.</p>
<p>Set in the small rural town of Fairfax, Oklahoma, Country Doctor tells the story of a community fighting to save its only hospital. Fairfax Community Hospital, a lifeline for a town of 1,263 and the surrounding countryside, went bankrupt in 2019. Staff worked without pay to keep it alive until the hospital was sold at auction to a California physician for 2.1 million dollars. At the heart of the film is Dr. James Graham, one of only two doctors serving the hospital, three clinics and the nursing home. Beloved by patients, he still makes house calls while urgently seeking help to keep the doors open, even traveling to the state capitol. Alongside him are Joe and Carol Conner, publishers of the local newspaper, and new hospital owner Dr. Elizabeth Pusey. Filmed over three years, Country Doctor captures resilience, small-town spirit and the struggle for rural health care.</p>
<p>An investigative documentary that follows journalist Seymour Hersh as he uncovers and exposes significant politically sensitive stories—continuing Poitras’s acclaimed engagement with high‑stakes investigative journalism and governmental power.</p>
<p>As the first elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. When accusations arise questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the girls, her identity is put in turmoil.</p>
<p>An unexpected incident reunites two estranged brothers, urging them to revisit their past and rethink their future, in a single day spent together.</p>
<p>A lonely gallery docent consults the imaginary creatures in her head when she learns that a fellow docent is getting fired. Should she talk to him? Or remain solitary forever?</p>
<p>A mother surprises her kids with a trip to the place she wants to be buried. When they get there, the kids disagree with her decision.</p>
<p>A struggling vintage shop owner grapples with a distressing call from her landlord as a new customer walks in. After overeagerly offering her services, the customer reveals that he’s looking for the outfit he’ll wear when he kills himself. Despite being thoroughly put off by one another, they decide to explore the store together. As the strangers become closer, a heated moment forces the pair to confront their unspoken tension.</p>
<p>A friendship is threatened by an unexpected culprit; baseball practice.</p>
<p>Jim Cummings and Victoria Ratermanis hit it out of the park in Blake Rice’s singular spin on the hookup trope, in which an intimate crisis involving a feminine hygiene product brings two strangers closer than they ever imagined.</p>
<p>Don’t Tell Mama opens with Chloe, a 16-year-old interracial teenager sitting with a quiet anticipation in her apartment building lobby, ripping holes in her tights. The blare of a car horn makes her glance up. She's greeted by her father, Vasco, a Montenegrin immigrant with a larger-than-life persona. He's late, disheveled, and critical of her appearance. Tension builds when he inquires about Chloe’s mother, revealing that the parents are in the midst of a divorce. The pair have a heated conversation that ultimately ends in disjointed spirits. As Chloe’s world blurs, the question remains of how their relationship will be moving forward.</p>
<p>A 10-year-old girl procures the services of a hit man (Mads Mikkelsen) to kill the monster under her bed in this whimsically macabre feature debut from acclaimed television showrunner Bryan Fuller (Pushing Daisies, Hannibal).</p>
<p>Handsome, upstanding Phil Carroll (Tim Daly at his charming best) knocks on the door of his 20-something daughter Jessie’s (Alex Sgambati) ramshackle home. He hasn’t seen her in a decade, yet somehow he believes she’ll be glad to talk to him, mend their estrangement, and join him on a road trip. He has another thing coming. Jessie isn’t there. She’s spending a bit of time in the local county jail – the first hint of just how broken their relationship is, and just how far they’ll both have to journey to find forgiveness. Set hard against Phil’s naivete comes Jessie’s long-simmering anger at her father, at the breakup of her parents' marriage, at herself… all delivered in a fiery performance by The Walking Dead’s Sgambati. There are historical revelations and comic misunderstandings, but the fissures in this family run deep. It’s treacherous territory, but writer-director Stephen Ward navigates it with grace and generosity.</p>
<p>When her Iron Age village’s well mysteriously dries up, only Éiru is small enough to descend into the belly of the earth to bring the water of life back to her people.</p>
<p>Wedding dress shopping with her eccentric family pushes nervous bride Eloise to the brink.</p>
<p>In the Depression-ravaged countryside of 1930s America, adolescent girls are expected to fulfill a long-standing rite in which they hunt and slay a mythical beast of their mother’s choosing.</p>
<p>In a time when the federal government is actively tearing apart the makeup of American culture and society, the people of Kingston come together to speak out against the targeting of immigrants and Sanctuary Cities.</p>
<p>Blending rock documentary and musical memoir, Everywhere Man tells the extraordinary life story of Peter Asher – pop star, producer, manager, and confidant to legends from Paul McCartney to James Taylor, Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, and many more – across six decades at the heart of rock and roll history. From his early years as a child actor in 1950s London to the Swinging Sixties, Asher emerges as a Zelig-like figure in the culture of the era. Featuring intimate interviews with such cultural icons as McCartney, Taylor, Ronstadt, King, Nathalie Merchant, Lyle Lovett, Marianne Faithful, Steve Martin, Eric Idle, Twiggy and others, Everywhere Man weaves a vibrant portrait of a unique individual as well as a classic soundtrack as unforgettable as the story itself.</p>
<p>Dead men tell the ocean’s secrets. Four marine observers vanish at sea under suspicious circumstances. This gripping investigation uncovers why. Traveling from Fiji to Ghana, Spain to the US, this powerful film reveals the dark underbelly of the global tuna trade, where profit outweighs human life and environmental destruction is buried beneath the waves. Through exclusive footage and unprecedented access, a team of international investigators exposes the rampant criminality, cover-ups, and violence tied to industrial overfishing. As the ocean’s silent guardians’ risk everything to document the truth, their stories demand action. This is a high-stakes exposé on the hidden cost of the seafood on our plates.</p>
<p>Fir Traders follows George and Illan Kessler, a father-son duo who might be the least likely purveyors of holiday cheer: observant Jews running New Hampshire’s busiest Christmas tree lot. The film unfolds over the most hectic weekend of the season. As the holiday approaches and customers line up, George, Illan and their eccentric team are knee-deep in everything evergreen.</p>
<p>Two 20-something women just trying to navigate big-city life together, a sugar daddy, a jealous boyfriend, a professional cuddler, and a gay cabaret performer collide in this fresh, NYC-set sexy dramedy. In their striking directorial debut, Yale alum actresses Lucy Powers and Delilah Napier deliver a brutally honest and sharply funny kaleidoscope of modern relationships shaped by desire, power, money, and daddy issues. The film blends rising talent with veteran performers like Dylan Baker (Happiness), Jessica Hecht (Friends), Catherine Curtin (Stranger Things), and Michael Cyril Creighton (Spotlight), creating an ensemble-driven gem that feels like a bold, contemporary version of Sex and the City – funny, messy, sarcastic and unapologetically reflective of our confusing times. – Amir Bogen</p>
<p>An orphaned bear cub finds a home with a fatherly evergreen tree, until his hunger for trash leads him to danger.</p>
<p>On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, eight-year-old Lele visits his grandmother, who suffers from Alzheimer’s, together with his parents. Their sudden arrival disrupts the quiet routine shared by the grandmother and her caregiver. As lunchtime approaches, the caregiver offers to cook extra dishes, but Lele’s mother insists on ordering takeout. Lele’s father, though concerned for his ailing mother, remains absorbed in work from the moment he enters. The rushed meal turns tense, with the grandmother left isolated and ignored at the table. With her illness causing an embarrassing moment, will anyone step in to help?</p>
<p>Toggling between past and present, the latest from filmmaker Agnieszka Holland is a masterful tour de force portrait of legendary writer Franz Kafka, who remains celebrated worldwide for his books, short stories, fables, and aphorisms.</p>
<p>Leonard Peltier, one of the surviving leaders of the American Indian Movement, has been in prison for 50 years following a contentious conviction. A new generation of Native activists is committed to winning his freedom before he dies.</p>
<p>Freeman Vines built his first guitar when he was a teenager. Now 82-years-old and battling multiple myeloma, he's desperately trying to make a guitar that can reproduce an elusive sound the instrument made decades ago. The search and his artwork took on even more significance a few years ago when Freeman acquired a stack of lumber from a tree used in the lynching of a young Black man named Oliver Moore. In a sprawling storefront shop in Fountain, a town of 130 souls in eastern North Carolina, Vines lives and hand-carves guitars (as well as other objects) that speak to his lifelong conflict with racism in this region. A portrait of a true fine artist, Freeman Vines has found a way to create while surviving in a complex world.</p>
<p>Girls Night Out is a digital collage freak feast that follows the girlies as they descend deeper into the chaos of a night on the town. It is a mixed-media, highly detailed ride that careens through the discomforts of the body, and the consequences of having too much Cuervo.</p>
<p>Gloria, a Chinese woman in her 70s living alone and struggling with her memory, finds newfound purpose in teaching herself Span...</p>
<p>City lovebirds Benjamin and Suki journey to a remote goat farm where Suki discovers she's been deceived; this isn't the romantic getaway she expected. Watched over by a towering Mugumo tree and a strange assortment of farmyard residents, vegetarian Suki is horrified to witness the brutal slaughter of a goat, triggering visions of an ancestral debt and a race to escape what her bloodline owes.</p>
<p>Godzilla, King of the Monsters, Destroyer of Worlds! His very name sends shudders of fear throughout the planet! But could there be a side to this ancient Beast of Death and Destruction that no one has ever seen? Do you dare venture to his lair deep in the jungle to find out?</p>
<p>Academy Award–winning director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland, TIFF ’20 People’s Choice Award) helms this lush and tender drama about William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) and his family, as seen through the eyes of his thoughtful wife Agnes (a luminous Jessie Buckley).</p>
<p>Transplanted to mid-century England, Candyman director Nia DaCosta’s bold reimagining of Henrik Ibsen’s play features a magnetic lead performance from Tessa Thompson (Passing) in a fresh, feminist game of power.</p>
<p>Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, killed by the NYPD on Staten Island in 2014, channels her grief into a yearslong fight for justice, drawing international media attention. When the news cameras go away, she surrounds herself with photos of lost loved ones in her home to restore her strength through memories. Her fight challenges the NYPD and former New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, demanding accountability for the officers involved in her son’s death. Along the way, she forms deep bonds with other "Mothers of the Movement," women who have also lost family to police violence – the “club no one wants to be a part of.”</p>
<p>A chronicle of the power and complexity of the relationship between Corinne and Tiana, two Queer Black womxn who experience cycles of life’s joys and pains together in the home they share.</p>
<p>Liat is one of the hostages taken on October 7th. The film follows her relatives from right up close, with a focus on her father, as he tries to stay on the path of pacifism and humanity amidst war, trauma and diplomacy.</p>
<p>Holy Smokes follows best friends and Catholic school survivors, prudish Emma and “corrupted stoner” Lauren. Indebted to her friend, Lauren drives Emma across the state to meet her online boyfriend, Johnny, a “pastor’s son” she met on HolyHookup.net. Upon arriving to Johnny’s house, the girls discover that not only is he not a pastor’s son, but he isn’t the age he claimed to be either. And when they meet Mommy, Johnny’s step-mom who cares way too much about his sex life, things start to get… weird.</p>
<p>Over the course of the pandemic, a mass exodus took place as people left cities for less populated, more remote areas. Kingston, New York saw one of the largest influxes in the country. Soon after, local musician Connor Kennedy had the idea to start a weekly Honky Tonk – every Wednesday – as a form of community building, with his band as the regular headliner. What was meant to last a summer is now going on its third year. Honky Tonk Wednesdays has featured a rotating cast of renowned musicians – including Cindy Cashdollar, John Sebastian, Brian Mitchell and many others – and has become a wildly popular event, helping to unite the community.</p>
<p>Wilson, a restless 16-year-old, is stuck in Woodstock with his transplant father Mick, and Mick’s younger model girlfriend Nora. A former city dweller turned wannabe property flipper, Mick is convinced he can turn a prefab shack into a lucrative Airbnb. Wilson, however, just wants to party with his friends for spring break. Across the property line sits Virgil, a local with deep roots in Woodstock, not just as a generational landowner, but as a notorious and convicted arsonist with little patience for newcomers. When Wilson accidentally provokes him, tensions between the two households spiral into a quiet war of petty acts and veiled threats. But as Wilson and Virgil begin to find common ground in their shared contempt for Mick, their small acts of rebellion escalate.</p>
<p>16-year-old Iris finds out she has a 60% chance of dying; she’s gotta live it up. Chasing a wild bucket-list, she makes unexpected discoveries along the way.</p>
<p>A short film that invites a surreal and poetic exploration of presence and absence through the concept of filming the unseen. At 27 minutes, it presents a philosophical meditation on memory, visibility, and the act of documenting what may not be there.</p>
<p>A man commits a terrible crime and the consequences are not what you’d expect.</p>
<p>This year’s Short Film Palme d’Or winner, Tawfeek Barhom’s heartbreaking drama about two brothers coming to terms with the ghosts of their past is as emotionally charged as it is cathartic in its probing of deeply buried wounds.</p>
<p>Icarus Too is a soaring journey of flight in late afternoon sun soaked sky and crashing dark seas, where animated birds of prey and humans descend in an endless loop. The film captures the free fall feeling filmmaker Mike Enright was experiencing at the beginning of 2025, both in a global and individual sense. Its production marked a return to making art after an absence due to personal challenges.</p>
<p>Margarita (Anna Baryshnikov) doesn’t just break the fourth wall – she tears it down, stitching her own legend from scraps of family drama, high‑stakes hustle, and West Hollywood flair. A Depop “seller” with fabulous taste and too‑tight quarters, she enters an on‑camera reality competition to try to save her family from eviction, and herself from mediocrity. Cameras roll as she exploits everything in pursuit of a $100,000 prize, guided (and goaded) by a slick producer (Camila Mendes) and an eccentric panel of judges (Julia Fox, Saweetie, Benito Skinner).</p>
<p>The journey of two storks on an ordinary workday reveals the urgent crisis in maternal health care in the United States. One stork has a relatively safe trip to deliver her baby, while the other faces significant dangers, risking her life; each obstacle serves as a metaphor for various forms of violence or obstetric complications. Throughout her journey, the protagonist visually deconstructs herself, just as she does the idealization of motherhood. A layer of reality begins to take over the screen through experimental manual painting. Upon reaching the maternity ward, the stark difference between the two storks becomes clear: the one who barely survived is the one delivering a Black baby.</p>
<p>With the need for resilience during a difficult time in our culture and daily news updates, "In the Morning," a song by Nora York and Jamie Lawrence, is the perfect antidote.</p>
<p>Every summer for over a decade, artist Pete Mauney ventures into the middle of nowhere, alone, in the dead of night. Where most see only desolate darkness, he finds peace and inspiration. Through patient observation, the landscape slowly comes alive, sparkling with fireflies. Armed with cameras and tripods, Pete performs his ritual: setting up, syncing shutters, and calibrating timelapses in pursuit of an elusive ideal. But in this process, he confronts everything beyond his control—and that’s where the magic happens.</p>
<p>Will Arnett and Laura Dern play a couple whose separation leads to unpredictable midlife self-reckonings, most dramatically in Alex’s wild career pivot to become a confessional stand-up comic. Director Bradley Cooper’s beautifully lived-in third feature is both lacerating and sweet-souled, funny and tender.</p>
<p>Famous movie actor Jay Kelly and his devoted manager Ron embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey. Both are forced to confront choices they've made, their relationships with loved ones and the legacies they'll leave behind.</p>
<p>Kain, a charming and outgoing man on the autism spectrum, longs to prove he can live independently and be accepted as “normal” in society. He starts taking driving lessons as a way to prove his worth. There he meets Fré, a free-spirited young woman drawn to his honesty and sincerity, qualities rare in her polished world. Their bond deepens, and when Fré becomes pregnant, Kain seizes the chance to build the “normal” life he has always imagined. Defying his father’s warnings, Kain leaves his care home, saying goodbye to his autistic roommates who are like family. But the demands and judgments of the outside world soon push him to a breaking point. Kain realizes he cannot force himself into society’s mold and must learn a lesson of self-acceptance, while Fré learns that “normal” is never what it seems.</p>
<p>Danni is a lonely girl who has just lost her closest confidant, her grandmother. After her passing Danni was gifted a pair of her grandmother’s knitting needles. She brings them with her everywhere, even into the NYC subway system. Seconds into her journey one needle is lost and then the other. Danni faces unexpected obstacles as she searches the subway car for her needles and is unknowingly receiving help from the last person she would have expected.</p>
<p>When a South Florida trailer park is slated for closure by its owner, the evangelical TV network TBN, residents have until the end of the year to fight the eviction or find new homes. Last Days on Lake Trinity chronicles this struggle, while painting an intimate portrait of friendship between three colorful older women who are longtime residents of the park. The film captures the profound loss of a singular community amid a growing affordable housing crisis that increasingly threatens older adults with homelessness.</p>
<p>Animator Emmett Goodman creates one second of animation every day for a whole year, resulting in a visual stream-of-consciousness that is funny, colorful, and whimsical.</p>
<p>A mysterious rabbit with a set of magic keys summons a host of strange creatures to entertain a wicked king and his decadent court in this dark fantasy inspired by the works of Ladislas Starevich.</p>
<p>Lydia, a retired Broadway actress now in her 90s, is locked in a tense debate with her son Joshua and granddaughter Casey, as they urge her to leave her small house in the woods for somewhere more reasonable. When a strange young man crashes their dinner, claiming to be lost, an uncomfortable encounter soon becomes a bizarre performance, and Lydia is forced to use her theatrical wisdom, talent, and ego to diffuse the situation. It slowly becomes clear that this entire night may just be an opportunity for Lydia's one final show, her very independence at stake.</p>
<p>A little shrew searches for Hope as she makes her way across a bombed-out city.</p>
<p>In a Post-Roe America where theocracy reigns, a renowned butcher meets the political predator responsible for the killing of her daughter and exacts bloody revenge, setting the stage for a revolution.</p>
<p>Oscar winners Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (Free Solo, TIFF ’18) turn the camera on Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer Lynsey Addario as she documents the war in Ukraine and looks back on her career.</p>
<p>Katie Aselton directs and stars in Magic Hour where she plays Erin, who is on a weekend retreat in the desert with her partner Charlie (Daveed Diggs). The couple has chosen to escape their L.A. life and work through some major relationship issues. There have been transgressions in their past, and as the story unfolds, so too does a much more complicated situation of unexpected loss, and things may be different than they seem.</p>
<p>Tensions arise amidst a busy British Pakistani takeaway.</p>
<p>For over 20 years, Morgan Neville has made documentaries, including the Academy Award®-winning 20 Feet From Stardom, the Emmy Award®-winning Best of Enemies, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, and Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Neville has been nominated for five additional Grammys for films including Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story, Muddy Waters: Can’t Be Satisfied, Johnny Cash’s America, and The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. For television, Neville directed and executive produced the series Ugly Delicious, Abstract: The Art of Design, Chelsea Does, Shangri-La, and Song Exploder.</p>
<p>Reuniting Elisabeth Subrin with the Lebanese-French actress Manal Issa (a collaborator on Subrin’s award-winning short film Maria Schneider, 1983 and gallery installation The Listening Takes), this pendant work thrums with tension and political urgency as the artists react to the devastating crisis of the Middle East and to the experience of being silenced.</p>
<p>Laila visits her grandmother in her new apartment during a powerful storm, ostensibly to help her unpack. However, her ulterior motives gradually come to light as they delve deeper into that fateful night. They spend the evening together enjoying maqluba, reading Turkish coffee grounds, and confronting past traumas. Award-winning Palestinian-American filmmaker Mike Elsherif’s film presents a darkly comic, macabre Palestinian fable about two generations of immigrants grappling with trauma, displacement, and life in the diaspora.</p>
<p>Jaap and Maartje have been together for almost 50 years. Grumpy old Jaap is no longer terribly interested in doing much, but Maartje, despite her occasional confusion, is still keen to embrace everything life has to offer. When the couple receives a letter from an old dying friend, Maartje manages to convince her reluctant husband to visit him in Southern Europe. After many years, the pair get into their old car to go on a journey through a completely changed Europe – bickering all the way but also stirring up old memories. During their trip, Jaap reaches the painful conclusion that his wife is showing increasing signs of dementia. Realizing that everything is about to change, they rediscover just what it is they love about each other.</p>
<p>When her cat goes missing, a Hasidic teen leaves the gates of Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter for the first time. Out in the city at night, she meets a street girl with nowhere to go, who offers to help. They move through alleys and backstreets – one tied to tradition, the other already outside it. The search for the cat turns into something else: a bond, a first love, and the sense of what’s missing in their lives.</p>
<p>Lawrence just wants to drum his depression away in his hardcore band with his best friend. The only problem? He's introverted. They haven't booked a single show yet. And his girlfriend wants them to leave the only town he's ever known. A town where he struggles with the complicated, co-dependent relationship with his parents, who both live with cerebral palsy. Mildlife is a coming-of-age film that follows Lawrence, as he navigates every (not so?) simple decision... one scream at a time.</p>
<p>In the snowy oak hall at the end of the lane, Loved Lovell his Lady of baroness fame, with a promise they wed amongst family and friends, on this dark Christmas eve where our story begins. Mistletoe tells the holiday horror story of the Baron, his new Lady wife, and a game they play to a terrible end.</p>
<p>The unflaggingly vital American cinema legend gets the definitive portrait his epochal career deserves in Rebecca Miller’s five-part documentary, told through Scorsese’s own words and new interviews with creative collaborators and family members.</p>
<p>Avia is a kind, understanding teenage girl who lives with her single mother and baby sister. Normally very helpful and shy, she suddenly comes out of her shell when she meets Kali. Kali is everything Avia is not – confident, cool, and not afraid to take what she wants. But Kali's influence on Avia turns her into someone she doesn't recognize. Finding herself is the only way to get rid of this persona she has created.</p>
<p>After thousands of mysterious packages sow the seeds of a xenophobic conspiracy, we track its growth through local news, internet detectives, and online shopping history.</p>
<p>Lamb Chop is a regular guy who wakes up to his dog eating his brains… again. Looking to replace his chewed up brain with a shiny new one, he ventures to the Brain Store where he tries on a series of 10 peculiar brains. Each one distorts Lamb Chop's perception of the world in a uniquely twisted way. After it becomes clear that Lamb Chop is very picky, Horace, the store clerk, pulls out a trick that only special customers get to see.</p>
<p>Featuring powerhouse performances from Oscar winners Russell Crowe and Rami Malek, this gripping historical drama from writer-director James Vanderbilt (TIFF ’15’s Truth) chronicles the events that brought the Nazi high command to justice in the wake of World War II.</p>
<p>Nwa is a candid, emotional, coming-of-age film about Frantz, a first-generation Haitian-American boy, torn by the decision to get the haircut he knows his strict immigrant father would approve of, or a trendy cut connecting him to the Black American culture he's warned him not to embrace.</p>
<p>The story of the iconic electronic music group Yello and the phenomenon of their 1980's hit song, exploring the song’s cultural impact and its enduring place in the American psyche.</p>
<p>Based on the heroic true story, On The End is an inspiring tale of what it means to fight against greed and power in the rapidly changing town of Montauk. A curmudgeonly Montauk mechanic local, Tom, effortlessly played by Tim Blake Nelson (O Brother, Where Art Thou?), finds love with an equal outsider named Freckles, played by the ever-charming Mireille Enos (The Killing). A mechanic with a bit of a hoarding problem, Tom's beachfront property has been in his family for generations, when suddenly a power-hungry realtor, played by Anna Chlumsky (Veep), wants to strip him of everything to turn a profit. Tom and Freckles are quickly turned into the town outcasts during a smear campaign while fighting their quickly declining health. Featuring a memorable supporting performance by Lois Smith (Minority Report), On The End is ultimately a love story about standing up for your family in the midst of losing everything. – Sierra Slaughter</p>
<p>2025 marks 100 years of the Grand Ole Opry, but what about the show park that saved the Opry? Nashville has seen a meteoric rise in tourism over the past 25 years, with the city welcoming 17.1 million visitors in 2024 alone. While many factors have contributed to this boom, Opryland USA: A Circle Broken sheds light on what might be a more significant part of this growth than many people today remember or realize: the “show park” that started it all.</p>
<p>After decades of lies, resentments and stolen identities, a Muslim mother confronts her drag-queen son for her long overdue moment in the spotlight. Mother's husband and Son's father has just died. Mother is losing everything; her house, her glamour, her visibility. Son is profiting from grief; a drag queen who wins the applause his mother has never received. Whilst he has the spotlight, she is erased. He exaggerates stories of his mother, bartering in Islamophobic tropes to win white peoples’ sympathy. Her life is being re-written by her Son – and he does it dressed as her. Like Medea before her, Mother decides to claim what is hers – her voice, her identity, her story, her trauma. She confronts her son backstage for a show. A tragic Greek confrontation ensues, where intergenerational curses are finally broken, and Mother claims what she feels is rightfully hers. Her womanhood, her spotlight, her moment.</p>
<p>For years, two couples have shared the perfect holiday home in the Alps and enjoyed each other’s company every summer. But when their teenage daughters are involved in a shocking accident, their long-standing friendship is put to a new, unthinkable test. As each couple works to uncover the truth and save the life of their own daughter, long buried tensions and uncomfortable truths erupt, forcing them to abandon any pretense of decency and to question all of their certainties as spouses, parents and friends. When it comes to saving your child, is there any line you wouldn’t cross, or is it true that anything goes? A gripping, razor-sharp new film from Academy Award® winning director Mike van Diem.</p>
<p>The story of Sandra Perron, Canada’s first woman infantry officer, yields a compelling drama that’s as tenacious as its subject.</p>
<p>Outdoor School is a survival story: the tale of how 12-year-old Melvin Shambry survived his own childhood. It’s Portland, Oregon, 1994. Racial tensions are high. Melvin’s mother, needing to escape yet another domestic-violence episode, brings Melvin and his little sister, Miaya, to the shelter of a huge pine tree in a city park for at least one night of silent sleep. As always in such stories, the lack of financial resources delivers a heavy burden, but what’s remarkable about the telling of this tale is how it focuses on emotional resources, and how Melvin’s experience during a single week of the real-life Outdoor School – a week in the wilderness, a week where Melvin can just be a child – transformed his life.</p>
<p>Charlotte (Katherine Waterson) and her mother Kit (Fiona Shaw) both live their own sets of lies. Upset in her marriage, Charlotte flees her ranch and husband in Alberta, Canada to stay with her mother in their family’s Park Avenue apartment. Secrets are bound to come out, such as: Why is Kit suffering from dizzy spells? Why did Charlotte’s parents smuggle masks out of China? Who is Johnny Johnson? How did Charlotte’s father die? Where have Charlotte and the doorman gone, and why are the walls shaking? Directed by Gaby Dellal, Park Avenue shows there’s more to the Upper East Side than class and glamour – there’s also family tension.</p>
<p>A recently discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974 reveals a glimpse into New York City’s downtown art scene and the personal struggles and epiphanies that define an artist’s life.</p>
<p>Phantasmagoric is a visually immersive short film that reimagines sports and physical activity through the lens of video feedback and analog distortion. Merging kinetic footage with experimental techniques, the film dissolves the boundaries of time, space, and form – transforming familiar movements into dreamlike abstractions. Through layered textures and shifting rhythms, Phantasmagoric invites viewers into an otherworldly meditation on motion, memory, and the surreal nature of perception.</p>
<p>An unlucky dude encounters a sticky situation after accidentally swallowing bubblegum.</p>
<p>A fabulous, queer Muslim beauty entrepreneur must figure out how to compete in a Shark Tank-like product pitch contest after suffering an untimely allergic reaction.</p>
<p>“This land I was raised on…it feels heavy.” Nevadan track star Kutoven Stevens runs with the weight of his ancestors on his shoulders. His great-grandfather Franklin ran away from the Stewart Indian School three times, escaping an abusive boarding school that sought to erase Indigenous culture through re-education. As Ku trains for scholarships and accolades, he wrestles with the legacy of colonialism, searching for a response to his family’s enduring pain.</p>
<p>Oscar winner Brendan Fraser stars as an American actor in Tokyo who suffers a colossal case of impostor syndrome when he becomes a professional surrogate in this wise and whimsical dramedy from director HIKARI (TIFF ’19’s 37 Seconds).</p>
<p>In 1934-35, two young American artists, Philip Guston and Reuben Kadish, painted a visionary 1,000-square-foot mural titled The Struggle Against Terrorism in the courtyard of a former imperial palace in Morelia, Mexico. Commissioned with the support of the Mexican government and executed at just 21 years old, the mural foretold the horrors of war and fascism on the eve of WWII. Its unique voice, distinct from Mexican muralism, led to its concealment for over 30 years beneath layers of lime. Rediscovered in the 1970s, the mural was eventually restored thanks to the initiative of The Guston Foundation and the collaboration of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History. This documentary follows the extraordinary restoration process and reflects on how this powerful, surreal, Renaissance-inspired work became a conceptual matrix for Guston’s lifelong</p>
<p>A charismatic young boy who lives on a rubbish dump in Zimbabwe convinces a reclusive boxing coach to teach him to fight in a world that has left him behind.</p>
<p>River of Grass is a poetic meditation on the Florida Everglades's fugitive past, present, and future inspired by the late feminist environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas's 1947 book of the same title .</p>
<p>An inspired young filmmaker who witnessed a disturbing incident at school looks inside Juvenile Hall and Court, through the moving account of a juvenile offender and his parents, as well as the insights of the judge, attorneys and probation officer. Second Chance takes a step towards better understanding, compassion and ultimately, hope for juveniles who are some of the most vulnerable in our society, and who are also part of its future.</p>
<p>An exploration of Black generational farmers in the American South reveals the fragility of legacy and the significance of owning land.</p>
<p>Selena Quintanilla — the “Queen of Tejano Music” — and her family band, Selena y Los Dinos, rose from performing at quinceañeras to selling out stadium tours. The celebration of her life and legacy is chronicled through never-before-seen footage from the family’s personal archive.</p>
<p>An intimate and moving exploration of family, memories, and the reconciliatory power of art.</p>
<p>Rose, a little girl in Tehran, lives with her mother and her dog. She discovers that her neighbours are killing sheep. Her mother explains that the animals are being sacrificed in a traditional ritual where their meat is cooked and distributed among people. Rose considers it foolish to follow this old tradition in modern life. She decides to save the remaining sheep.</p>
<p>“There is a saying, ‘God willing,’ but on the island you say ‘Island willing,’ as if the island was an entity...” Si la isla quiere (Island Willing) is a portrait of Chile’s Robinson Crusoe Island. Home to more endemic species per square kilometer than the Galápagos, the community defends its culture of stewardship against outside pressures – with the Island emerging as both setting and protagonist.</p>
<p>A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.</p>
<p>Kanika, insecure about her dark skin, seeks a consultation for skin lightening at Markandeya Aesthetics. Her sister Ria, a skin tone positivity makeup influencer, vehemently opposes Kanika's decision. While Kanika is at the consultation, Ria discovers Markandeya's sinister true purpose during a Livestream. Now, Ria must rush to save her sister before it's too late.</p>
<p>Aaron Blaise is a living legend in animation, capturing the beauty and complexities of the natural world in his work for more than 30 years. From the start of his career at Walt Disney Feature Animation, he brought to life iconic characters in films that include Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Lion King (1994), and Pocahontas (1995). He made his feature directorial debut with Brother Bear (2003), a film that displayed his special bond with animals and received a Best Animated Feature Oscar® nomination. For the last 12 years, he has shared his wisdom with the next generation of artists and storytellers at his renowned online art school, Creature Art Teacher. Snow Bear, a gorgeous 2D hand-drawn passion project that he created over three years almost entirely on his own, is Aaron’s latest project. Along with screening the short, he will also offer a behind-the-scenes look at his filmmaking process, answer questions, and lead us in a drawing activity inspired by the film. —Keith Zwölfer</p>
<p>A young girl tries to jump on a train out of town, escaping her current life. An old acquaintance happens to watch this and chase after her. The two have a conversation on the train about life and their troubles, before deciding that running away from home is not the best decision.</p>
<p>Edith is a curiosity-driven journalist (40) who decides to embark on single motherhood by help of sperm donation. However, the challenges of solo parenting prove to be more daunting than anticipated, and she fears that she is not enough for her son. When the identity of the donor unexpectedly surfaces, Edith decides to seek him out under the false pretence of doing a feature interview of him and his tech company, thereby shaking up not only her own life and emotions but also those of everyone around her.</p>
<p>When every school in the area but one has a snow day, a student tries to focus, but is distracted. He can't stop daydreaming about skiing. He dozes off during class and starts to vividly imagine being at the ski slopes.</p>
<p>A "Where's Waldo" of characters engage in a choreographed ballet of routine socialization.</p>
<p>St. Joe’s Hoes is character-driven documentary about four women from different parts of the world navigating art, identity, and survival in a former convent turned women’s hostel in New York City. Lior, a French-Gabonese dancer, arrives seeking a fresh start and a chance at Alvin Ailey. Fatema, a painter from Mumbai, confronts pregnancy and the pull of responsibility in London. Shreya, a Delhi-born photographer, battles self-doubt and pressure to succeed. Christine, a Korean-American writer, struggles to reconcile her parents’ expectations with her own creative ambitions.</p>
<p>When Alex and Julie learn that they’ve been cheated on by the same man, they agree to do the mature thing: meet up and trauma bond. What begins as a bizarre support group in a grungy women’s bar bathroom, snowballs into an unconventional meet-cute that leaves them both enamored with each other. Unable to state the obvious, they joke, “Same time, next year?” Except it’s not a joke. Because one year later, both of them show up. And again, the year after that. We follow them in the same bar bathroom until a final moment of intimacy reveals that they can’t stall any longer. After four years, it’s time to face the elephant in the (bath)room – can they see each other beyond the hurt that brought them together? Or is all of this just a really, really bad idea?</p>
<p>Legendary NASA robotics engineer and best-selling science fiction author, Gentry Lee, has spent a lifetime seeking an answer to the ultimate cosmic question: Are we alone in the universe? At age 82 he has come to a revelatory conclusion.</p>
<p>With shrinking newsrooms, media monopolization, weaponized social media, and a president deliberately eroding public trust in truth and reality, STEAL THIS STORY, PLEASE! offers an intimate counterpoint, showing how independent media is essential to a functioning democracy. Set against some of the most consequential stories of our time—from the war in Gaza to the global climate catastrophe—the film follows the intrepid independent journalist Amy Goodman over 30 years. As she becomes a leader in the movement for independent media that amplifies voices excluded from the mainstream, she faces off against forces trying to silence her.</p>
<p>A middle-aged American tourist finds herself alone in Mexico City. When she encounters a group of young Americans, she jumps at the opportunity for a little adventure.</p>
<p>A girl attempts to swipe her way to happiness. After an exhaustive search, and astronomical body count, she resorts to assembling her dream boy from left over parts.</p>
<p>As their own marriage falls apart, Gracie and Stewart take their family on a Midwest road trip to convince Gracie’s stubborn, ailing father that he needs help.</p>
<p>Teaching America chronicles the community of students and teachers who championed the inaugural Advanced Placement African-American Studies classes in Arkansas, when the state threatened to shut down the classes entirely. Anurima Bhargava’s film aptly captures a story of wisdom, deep curiosity and an unflinching desire to learn that extends across boundaries and generations, at a time of deliberate erasure of African-American history, culture, literature, and testimony.</p>
<p>How do young people find their voice? In Teenage Wasteland, Emmy®-winning filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine revisit a gripping chapter of local history, revealing a high-stakes story of civic awakening. In the early 90s, in Middletown, NY, a group of high school media arts students and their fearless teacher, Fred Isseks, uncover a disturbing secret: toxic waste is being dumped near their school. As the students investigate with cameras rolling, they expose a wider web of municipal corruption. Their documentary Garbage, Gangsters and Greed became a local sensation, showcasing the students’ dogged pursuit of truth with the force of veteran filmmakers.</p>
<p>In 2022 in eastern Ukraine, Zhenya and Anatoly Pilipenko, along with their young children, were considering their future lives in the modest rural homestead they saw as their refuge from city life… and then Russia invaded. The nature of that future was instantly recast, but not at all as they imagined. A soldier on his way to the front asked them to take care of his goats. Other local animals soon came their way: cows and sheep, cats and dogs, ducks and chickens. Even the Ukrainian military brought animals abandoned in the fighting, and so the animal refuge of Green Grove Farm was born.</p>
<p>Over four decades, filmmaker Robb Moss has returned to document the same friend circle—first as free-spirited river guides in the ’70s (Riverdogs), then as middle-aged adults in The Same River Twice (2003). Now, in The Bend in the River, he revisits them in their seventies, reflecting on paths shaped by love, loss, and resilience. An exceptional example of longitudinal filmmaking and executive produced by Joel Coen and Frances McDormand, the film feels like sitting with old companions and confronting memories of marriages, illnesses, and deferred dreams. Everyday moments take on quiet poetry, but none more lyrical than their time together on the river. As they look back at old footage and forward to their final chapters, the juxtaposition of youthful idealism and present-day fragility lands with unexpected power. A moving meditation on aging, The Bend in the River captures the current of life itself.</p>
<p>After the death of her beloved husband, a grieving widow chooses to participate in a program called The Dream Machine, a technology that renders our deepest fantasies a reality. While confident at the outset, the effect of her decision yields unexpected consequences.</p>
<p>The Fault Line is a hybrid short documentary exploring the fracture between a queer daughter and her mother, featuring the filmmaker’s own personal archive. Through directing an actor to play her mother and fill in the widening gaps over time, O’Connor now attempts to sculpt her mother.</p>
<p>We’ve all had the unfortunate experience of getting kicked out of a group by so-called “friends”. And what’d we do about it? We went back to summer camp of course! In Rachel Israel’s The Floaters, struggling musician Nomi (Jackie Tohn) takes a last-resort job from her overachiever best friend Mara (Sarah Podemski): supervising misfits at their childhood Jewish summer camp. With the camp’s survival in the balance as it ramps up for a drama competition with a longtime rival, the clashing friends and campers must overcome their differences to save the camp.</p>
<p>New York’s Hudson River stars in Jon Bowermaster’s environmental documentary about America’s “first river.” The Keeper follows patrol boat captain John Lipscomb who has been the eyes and ears of the environmental watchdog group Riverkeeper. Lipscomb’s job entails reporting environmental issues, both natural and, historically, mostly manmade ones. We learn that while the River might look more beautiful and cleaner than it has in many decades, the news isn’t all that great. Polluters like General Electric have terrible track records abusing the waters, and still standing dams disrupt the migration patterns of fish.</p>
<p>The Last Resort follows the lives of residents at Shanti Niketan, the first Indian-American retirement community in the United States, where a generation of immigrants is entering a new stage of life. Many arrived in the 1960s and 70s, building careers, raising families, and creating lives that bridged continents. Now, they navigate the slower pace of aging, the challenges of illness and loss, and shifting relationships with their adult children – while quietly asking what “home” means at this stage in life. Blending Indian traditions with American life, they laugh, debate, reminisce, and rely on each other – shaping a vision of aging that is both deeply rooted in culture and the place they now call home.</p>
<p>A man survives alone in a sealed glass house. His days follow a strict pattern: chess against himself, a can of sardines, and humming Chopin into the silence. He reads, remembers, and lives among flickering visions of his wife and child – ghosts of a happy life. The only thing pulling him from these waking dreams is changing the oxygen filters. It keeps him alive, but reminds him of all he’s lost. One day, a light appears on the horizon. Silent. Steady. Is it real, or just madness? And with the light, his wife and child vanish. Now that he’s truly alone, is life in the glass box a sanctuary or a tomb? Then the light begins to blink. Morse code? A call? He rises, steps into a small boat, and rows toward it. The Light is a wordless meditation on memory, grief, and what might await when we let go</p>
<p>When 11-year-old Juliet stubs her toe on a loose floorboard, she unwittingly sets off a series of mysterious events. A faint noise and an unusual glow seeping through the cracks capture her curiosity. But as she investigates, Juliet finds herself pulled into a chilling, otherworldly encounter.</p>
<p>This is the story of one of the largest marches and movements that the world has yet to know about where Rahul Gandhi, India's opposition leader, walked 4000 kilometers – from the Southern tip of the country to the North over 141 days. And millions of every day Indians participated.</p>
<p>This stop motion animation mystery is set in the attic of a long shuttered vintage emporium populated by a chosen family of cast aside dolls. The attic hums with fun and camaraderie, but also secrets and danger. Detective-in-residence Frances Faraday, a Victorian-era porcelain doll, and her sidekick Midge, a sixties-era plastic doll, are called into action when a bereaved baby doll arrives with a missing person case: her 8-year-old human playmate Lily hasn't been seen in over one hour! Is Lily just playing hide and seek? Or is something more sinister afoot? Solving this case will take these private eye dolls on a wild ride through the spellbound attic.</p>
<p>In 1960, Bronx couple Dan and Toby Talbot transformed a struggling Upper West Side theater into the influential New Yorker Theater—launching careers, exposing audiences to international auteurs, and reshaping U.S. film culture. The New Yorker Theater: A Talbot Legacy chronicles their six-decade journey as revolutionary exhibitionists of cinema art</p>
<p>Elliot is staying with her ex’s new girlfriend while attending a medical trial for her recent, unexplained loss of hearing. As she reconfigures her relationship with her (sonic) environment and herself, an intimate connection sparks between the two women. With captivating performances by Victoria Pedretti and Maya Hawke, this loose adaptation of director Eliza Barry Callahan’s semi-autobiographical novel The Hearing Test captures the uneasy process of letting go and embracing change with sensitive warmth.</p>
<p>A seemingly minor neighborhood dispute in Florida escalates into deadly violence. Police bodycam footage and investigative interviews expose the consequences of Florida’s “stand your ground” laws.</p>
<p>A socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiraling into psychological turmoil over the summer.</p>
<p>When a young boy goes missing, two teenagers take matters into their own hands to find him. Along the way, they discover more than they thought they would inside an abandoned building.</p>
<p>Against the threatening specter of 1977 Brazil, we meet Marcelo, a man in his 40s who has recently moved to Recife to escape a violent past, but finds himself becoming an agent of chaos.</p>
<p>Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.</p>
<p>The Whole Wide City is a short documentary about how childhood evolves within a changing city. We focus on this subject through the city of Kingston, and how children are affected by such a rapidly changing city and changing politics within it. There is less public space for children, fewer opportunities for face-to-face communication, and youth programs being eliminated from recent budget cuts. Ada Wilson and Aoife’s documentary stresses the importance of the preservation of childhood through changing times and giving light to our future generation.</p>
<p>When the lead of an erotic Othello adaptation fails to get erect, a PA volunteers to double-in but discovers that rising to the occasion is harder than he thought.</p>
<p>After her sister Tama’s untimely passing, Birdie learns that the bond between them is stronger than life and death. In between states of memory and heartbreak, Tama and Birdie show how we can continue on in a different way if we are willing to listen.</p>
<p>The untold story of Ganienkeh, a Mohawk community fighting to regain its traditional culture.</p>
<p>A group of students, mainly from China, are asked the question: “What do you think it means to be an American?”</p>
<p>Robert Grainier is a day laborer building America’s railroads at the start of the 20th century as he experiences profound love, shocking defeat, and a world irrevocably transforming before his very eyes.</p>
<p>Los Angeles, 3036 A.D. Humans are on the verge of extinction and the world is now run by... Trash. Tuna Tartare is a bombastic can of tuna fish who runs Throats karaoke bar with her BFF Susan, a fake Louis Vuitton purse with crippling anxiety. Upon hearing of the death of the last surviving human, Tuna is reminded of an old brush with fame that ended in embarrassment, sending her on an internal journey to battle her own insecurities and build herself back up again to do what she does best: karaoke.</p>
<p>Join Eden and Dula on an awe-inspiringly animated journey toward belonging and self-acceptance, based on the powerful poem by Dean Atta.</p>
<p>Beth and her girlfriend Kayla are enjoying a relaxing night at home when suddenly their best friend Lucy, teary-eyed and in shock, barges through their front door. Lucy explains that while driving back to campus from work, her car suddenly came to life and tried to strangle her. While Kayla does her best to be supportive and sympathetic, Beth opts for pragmatism, casting doubt on Lucy’s story. With the arrival of their other friend Suze throwing chaos into the mix, the girls debate what to do, and against Beth’s wishes they ultimately decide to go confront the car. Now, face to face with Lucy’s car, the four girls must decide whether or not they will believe their friend and destroy it.</p>
<p>Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) faces his most dangerous mystery yet in the latest entry in Rian Johnson’s beloved Knives Out series.</p>
<p>After fleeing Vietnam for the Philippines, Hoa Thi Lê and Hue Nguyên Chế recount their experiences as background extras during the filming of Apocalypse Now (1979).</p>
<p>The title is taken from maritime folklore about a whale that’s been labeled the “loneliest whale on the planet” because he can only emit sounds at 52 Hertz, a frequency that no other whale can hear. It’s believed that “Whale 52,” as he’s known, travels the oceans of the world desperately searching for other whales like himself. Some believers even suggest that the sounds he makes are cries for help. Animated by two-time Oscar® nominee Bill Plympton, Whale 52 tells the story of Enam, a third-grade student who's selectively mute. When his school assigns him to Mr. Kaufman, a lonely 80-year-old volunteer who’s mourning the death of his male partner, Enam and Mr. Kaufman embark on a poignant journey by means of a magical journal which enables them to hear – and heal – each other’s silent cries.</p>
<p>Aney, a New York–based healthcare worker, returns to rural India after her mother dies from lack of medical care. Driven by grief and resolve, she sets up a clinic for village outcasts, hoping to change the system. There she meets Farida, a wise and resilient teenager from a nomadic tribe. Aney's work with the village helps her heal from her mother's death, but Farida's life takes a tragic turn when her father dies because he can no longer afford his hospital stay. As Farida's life unravels, Aney discovers that her utopian dreams are no match for harsh reality. Filmed over seven years, this deeply personal East-meets-West story of mutual healing shows how the sufferings and joys of the human experience blurs borders and boundaries, countries and caste.</p>
<p>Ibironke is a Nigerian-American woman who is stagnant in her life and she engages in self-destructive behaviors to cope. Her concerned sister calls her one day and poses that she join her on a family trip to Nigeria for spiritual assistance. Ibironke is totally against this, and continues to engage in her bad habits. One vice includes a casual relationship with an engaged prospective business partner who has a baby on the way. Ibironke invites him over to get to the bottom of this issue and their post-sex discussion accelerates into a fight. In the midst of the argument, an ancestor who has dropped Easter eggs all throughout her day makes an appearance in her mirror, terrifying Ibironke. She immediately knows this climatic sighting is a radical call for change.</p>
<p>A father and son's hunting trip turns into a nightmare when the boy reluctantly kills a strange animal, activating a curse.</p>
<p>In Women Laughing, longtime New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly sets out to explore her lifelong passion for humor and cartooning by speaking, laughing, and drawing with a diverse group of remarkable women who create cartoons for the iconic magazine. Featuring intimate conversations with some of the most celebrated and groundbreaking cartoonists at The New Yorker including Roz Chast, Emily Flake, Liana Finck, Sarah Akinterinwa, Amy Hwang, and Bishakh Som, the film also journeys back in time to the earliest days of celebrated magazine. Women Laughing is a joyful celebration of women, art, and the creative spirit, as well as a look at the state of women’s humor over the last century through the perspectives of the pioneering cartoonists, then and now, who have wrestled with some of the central social issues of our time.</p>
<p>A jazz musician and his dancer wife Jasmine offer their artistic talents to help their nation after the October 7 attacks, with the musician tasked with composing a new national anthem.</p>
<p>American teen Neelu feels like a fish out of water amidst preparations for her sister’s wedding in Delhi until she forges a brief and unexpected connection with Zeyb, a quiet sari store clerk who moonlights as an internet drag queen.</p>