Playlist
<p>Pol, a 21-year-old living with his grandmother in a coastal town in Tarragona, dreams of relocating to Miami and earning over €10,000 per month. Immersed in the world of personal development, online coaching, and cryptocurrency investments, Pol's journey reflects the aspirations and challenges of a generation seeking success in the digital age. </p>
<p>In conversation with his young son, a filmmaker wonders about time — our attempts to control it, and how it controls us. Intimate and political, poetic and scientific, the film explores the tension between objective and subjective time: from physicists tending atomic clocks, to people's daily encounters with the temporal, to the instrumentalization of time for power and commerce.</p>
<p>"Agatha's Almanac" offers a sensuous and cinematic portrait of 90-year-old Agatha, who defies modernity and capitalism by leading a simple, self-sufficient life on her ancestral farm. There, she cultivates heirloom seeds passed down through generations, tending to a large garden that provides everything she needs. Crafted over six years on analog 16mm film with a small all-female crew, the documentary immerses viewers in Agatha's handmade universe, highlighting themes of sustainability, tradition, and resilience.</p>
<p>Scientists and philosophers encounter the limits of their own vision through the eyes of animals.</p>
<p>The cherished tradition of blueberry picking in northern Canada is slowly fading beneath the relentless march of modern farming practices and shifting demographics. As young people leave the region, seasonal farm workers from Mexico have become crucial to sustaining the harvest. Forest fires threaten the land, but wild blueberries thrive in burned soil, symbolizing both destruction and renewal. Amidst the nostalgia and adversity, music rises as a unifying force, bringing together villagers, seasonal workers, and farmers in a collective symphony of resilience and hope.</p>
<p>How do you mourn a parents death while feeling liberated by it? Psychotherapist Melissa Chen confronts the contradictory truths of her mom Luhsi's recent passing.</p>
<p>Camp Widow is a gathering for widowed people by widowed people. Over the course of three days, attendees speak candidly about death, forge connections with others over shared experiences of loss, and find ways to navigate the tricky waters of grief. Founded by Michele Neff Hernandez, who suddenly became a widow at age 35, the camp offers a way to both recognize tremendous loss, while at the same time celebrating continued life. The film follows an ensemble of campers who are weary of platitudes about grief, and speak to one another from a place of radical honesty that is by turns heartbreaking and darkly hilarious, embracing irreverent humor as a cathartic means of self-expression.</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>The night flowers in Daria’s garden hide the secrets of a country that has turned love stories into routine crime scenes. A tale of patriarchal violence combined with botanical (mis)uses, told from the archives of Iranian cinema.</p>
<p>An elite group of athletes gathers under one of the world’s tallest permanent diving platforms. Guided by the gentle rhythms of training, the hum of the pool deck and a breathtaking sense for cinematography, Divers observes their training process, from careful preparation to the restless anticipation that builds before ascending the 27-meter tower.</p>
<p>Zora, the Slavic goddess of dawn appears as one figure or as a triad of sisters representing sunrise, noon, and sunset. Together, they are guardians of time.</p>
<p>Taking her dad’s job at the Olin Corporation as its starting point, Lee Anne Schmitt interweaves meditative reflections on her biography and her own body with a history of the rise and widespread influence of conservative think tanks in the United States.</p>
<p>On a quiet farm in Maine, a painter grapples with blindness and past traumas while completing the centerpiece for his first art show in years.</p>
<p>The Ensemble of Color tours the childrenâs musical, Beautiful Blackbird, around Wabanaki Land, while its founder, René Goddess, evaluates next steps for the collective.</p>
<p>As the last lighthouse keeper in America approaches retirement, Dr. Sally Snowman reflects on her spiritual and emotional connection to the country's oldest light station.</p>
<p>An artificial intelligence develops self-awareness and reflects on humanity's moral codes and social structures.</p>
<p>Don Quixote is resurrected in Marseille and sets out to fight fences, gates, private property rights and general segregation with his faithful squire, an ex-criminal pizza delivery man on a scooter.</p>
<p>In Mongolia’s remote Tsakhir Valley, Batbold faces the greatest challenge of his young life: safeguarding 1,000 horses during the deadliest winter on record. After this adventure and with the future of his community at stake, Batbold must choose between upholding the values that define his culture, or abandon them for the lure of a more appealing life in the city.</p>
<p>Forced to flee Sudan for East Africa following the outbreak of war, five citizens of Khartoum — a civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer and two young bottle collectors, re-enact their stories of survival and freedom through dreams, revolution, and civil war.</p>
<p>In the smallest, most mundane gestures, the diasporic eye searches for glimpses of home. Through mediated images of the 2019 uprising in her home country of Iraq, alongside reverberated observational echoes across the region, Ki-Bé -Giš is a portrait of filmmaker Sama Waham’s reconciliation of witnessing a homeland from afar. Through an interweaving of protest footage, fairytale storytelling, and multimedia installations, parallel narratives appear: one unfolding at home, the other in her country of residence.</p>
<p>A mining town in Morocco faces a decline in its fortunes until all mining is ceased in 2001.</p>
<p>Terry Kennedy has lived several colorful lives, including a stint as a Hell’s Angel – but, most memorably, as the unlikely friend to a giant manta ray named Willy. Now in his 80s, Terry mounts one last diving expedition to a remote island in search of his long-lost friend.</p>
<p>On the border between Morocco and Spain, a group of travelers is eagerly waiting to cross over to Europe. One failed attempt after another, they survive, while the “director” must keep the flame of hope alive for the whole group. Les Voyageurs, woven together with a camera and a couple of songs, echoes as a powerful gesture of resilience.</p>
<p>In 1983, a disabled Californian woman named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the “right to die,” igniting a national debate about autonomy, dignity, and the value of disabled lives. After years of courtroom trials, Bouvia disappeared from public view. Disabled director Reid Davenport narrates this investigation of what happened to Bouvia.</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 cyberflâneur stumbles upon a hidden corner of Google Maps, a forgotten place unfolding in the static. Shadows pace aimlessly, paths dissolve into nowhere, and figures flicker in and out of existence, fragments of untold stories.</p>
<p>After cryonically preserving his late wife, pioneer Alan dreams of reuniting with her in the future. But on discovering newfound love, he must decide what matters most.</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>Memento Mori turns the hum of a coffin factory into a lyrical call to embrace life before it slips away.</p>
<p>Ukrainian filmmaker Alisa Kovalenko documents her frontline service in the Volunteer Army through video diaries to her son Theo in France, capturing soldiers' experiences and personal moments during the 2022 Russian invasion.</p>
<p>On a clear night in Belfast, two workmen and their apprentice work methodically to change the city’s streetlights from orange sodium to white LED. Northern Ireland lags behind the rest of the UK on this transformation, reflecting the city’s complicated relationship to change. As the night progresses, a city searching for clarity starts to come into focus.</p>
<p>Armed men kill Indigenous leader Javier Chocobar during attempted eviction in Argentina, 2009. After years of protests, court case opens in 2018. community voices and trial footage amid colonial land struggles.</p>
<p>Standing on a beach in the Philippines, teenage Sita confesses to her mother that she almost drowned in these waters when she was a child. In turn, her mother admits that though she grew up by the sea, she never learned how to swim. Turning into half-fish, half-human creatures, Sita and her mother swim through their turbulent past.</p>
<p>In OBSERVER, filmmaker Ian Cheney embarks on an experiment in which he brings a series of keen-eyed observers - scientists, artists, a hunter - to a range of locations around the world, often without telling them where they are going, and asks them simply to describe what they see. What unfolds is a deep exploration and celebration of the power of observation: what happens when you find new ways to sense and perceive the world around you? With customary whimsy and a small painted red square that Cheney brings on every journey, the film is an invitation to viewers to find beauty and meaning in even the most quotidian of locales.</p>
<p>The ultimate and comprehensive documentary film about the exceptional writer George Orwell.</p>
<p>A poetic documentary exploring Abenaki ancestral memory and connection to Allen Island. The site of first contact with the English in 1605 that was bought and curated by Betsy Wyeth, the wife of American painter Andrew Wyeth, three centuries later in hopes of enticing her husbands inspiration.</p>
<p>A lifelong shy pee-er embarks on a quest to overcome his fear of public urination. Along the way, he enlists the help of experts, loved ones, and a largely invisible community of fellow sufferers.</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>As the blue sky meets the surrounding seas, the native-turned-archeologist Hassan Al-Failakawy returns to his abandoned island of Failaka, off the coast of Kuwait, after decades of displacement.</p>
<p>Powwow People is a radically immersive, durational portrait and cinematic celebration of a contemporary powwow by Sky Hopinka, one of the most vital artists working today.</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>A portrait of artists June Leaf and Robert Frank at their homes in Nova Scotia and New York City.</p>
<p>After college, a young woman returns to the off-grid home her parents built in rural Maine and reflects on family, memory, and the weight of inheritance.</p>
<p>With a haunting, original score by Lee Ranaldo, Salt Marsh explores art, climate, and solitude through the reflections of Maine artist and landscape architect Mitchell Rasor.</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>Boca Chica, Texas. Hemmed in by the Gulf of Mexico and the Rio Grande, the village is defined by the rhythmic sound of the waves. But this wild country is in the midst of irreversible change. For the swamps have been drained, the beaches closed and the homes bought out: the shadow looming over the beach is that of a 50-story rocket, being readied for launch into space.</p>
<p>Exploring the complex ways in which voice, character, and gender are continually redefined in opera, TESSITURA delves into how contemporary trans opera singers navigate the traditional categories of their art form. By intertwining personal stories with historical contexts, the film enriches the ongoing conversation about gender in opera.</p>
<p>Clickworkers in Venezuela, Kenya and the Philippines talk about their working day: they edit and label countless images of traffic on US streets to be used as training material for self-driving cars.</p>
<p>5-year-old Tako, dressed in pink, spends her summers in the gray old mud healing center in Georgia and waits for her grandmother to make time for her.</p>
<p>A portrait of award-winning, internationally acclaimed Indigenous artist and elder Dana Tiger, her family, and the resurgence of the iconic Tiger T-shirt company.</p>
<p>This fully archival journey through the 35 years of Alfredo Stroessner’s regime in Paraguay reveals unseen footage and explores one of the longest-running dictatorships in history, whose effects still resonate today.</p>
<p>Next to one of Portland, Maine’s most beautiful public parks, a dedicated, motley crew works day and night to keep the city’s wastewater treatment plant running. Comedy and catastrophe meet in this debut feature film, which witnesses plant manager Dustin Price and his team battling aging infrastructure, funding shortfalls, public apathy, PFAS “forever chemicals,” and an unending stream of putrid odors – in a valiant effort to keep the city regular.</p>
<p>Rediscovered MiniDV footage from Gaza in 2001 frames the filmmaker’s search for a former prison‑mate, accompanied by Hasan, a local guide whose fate remains unknown. As they journey from north to south Gaza, the film evokes memory, loss, and the fleeting beauty of everyday life in a place forever changed</p>
<p>Deming Chen’s Always follows eight-year-old poet Youbin Gong over five years in a mountainous Hunan province village. Living with his disabled father and grandparents while his mother is mysteriously absent, Gong represents China’s “left-behind children”—a reality Chen knows intimately, having been raised by grandparents himself. Rigorous, long takes and intimate black-and-white compositions are punctuated by poems of piercing beauty, observing the inner worlds of a childhood transitioning into adolescence.</p>