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#1 Bad Dad (2025)
Natalie Camou<p>A jaded ex-supervillain is visited by his long lost daughter and learns what being a father is all about.</p>
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<p>A jaded ex-supervillain is visited by his long lost daughter and learns what being a father is all about.</p>
<p>Prankster activists perform an elaborate hoax to improve conditions for garment workers in the Adidas supply chain. Staging a shocking runway show at Berlin Fashion Week, they use humor and mischief to make the world pay attention to labor and environmental abuses that the massive sportswear brand is trying to hide.</p>
<p>Alice-Heart is an aimless college student residing in Philadelphia. She aspires to be a famous writer but drops out of school in her last semester of senior year on a whim. Immediately cut off from her disappointed Filipino mother and dumped by her studious boyfriend, she finds that she has to pay bills on her own for the first time. Distraught, she takes solace in her neighbor Tony, a self-sufficient freelance photographer. Tony encourages her to pursue her passions and hold onto her friendships. With this in mind, Alice-Heart navigates the beginnings of adulthood and combats “adult baby” allegations along the way.</p>
<p>Asset. Everything used. All as it used to be.' takes its departure in a personal story. One day in 2020, a woman in her 80s decides to clean 7 spoons which were a gift given to her by her grandmother in the 1960s. She believes they are silver but, when she dips the first spoon into a can of silver polish, it vanishes. The woman is Hanne Ioannou, the grandmother of the film director, Sophia Ioannou Gjerding.</p>
<p>Eric, a lonely blind man, makes an unknown birthday wish. As he arrives at his monotonous call center job, he begins to realize he is hearing the audio description for the film. [For those unaware, audio description is a basic narrative audio track added to a film to describe visual activity to visually impaired audience members]. The audio describer, Duncan, is shocked by this as well, but Eric wants him gone. Duncan reveals he can’t leave until the film’s plot is completed- finding Eric a friend. The two work together to find Eric a friend. After continually failing, but having fun doing so, Eric realizes Duncan has become a good friend.</p>
<p>When sarcastic teen, Alex, is “broken up with” by her oncologists who can’t wait to get rid of her, she’s ripped out of the chaotic hospital life she finds cozy, and sent back home to her multicultural family. Despite trying to pick up where she left off one year ago, her overbearing immigrant parents, hypochondriac sister, and MIA best friend have all moved on. This is remission. But Alex doesn’t ring a bell to celebrate, throw on a cancer ribbon t-shirt, or organize a multi-million dollar fundraiser. Instead, she begs for her daily morphine drip, clings to her radiation mask as a safety blanket, reminisces about gory hospital stories, and plays heart monitor beeps in her headphones to fall asleep. Despite everyone’s high expectations of her, she can’t get herself to play the part of the inspirational survivor. She’s a bad survivor and everybody knows it.</p>
<p>After 40 years of devotion, an elderly couple faces a heartbreaking farewell—he succumbs to a heart attack, while she battles Alzheimer’s, trapped in a cycle of fragmented memories and a desperate search for her family, as love fades into unrecognition.</p>
<p>This film is a visceral response to a lifetime of medical neglect, patriarchal control, and the systemic failure to treat vaginas as vital organs essential to health and well-being. It reflects the deep frustration and loss of autonomy I have experienced over my own body. We live in a world that fetishizes controlling vaginas while denying them the care they deserve. Let this serve as a release for those victim and as a mirror for those culprit.</p>
<p>An experimental narrative film about the sexual awakening of Ming, a 15-year-old girl, at an adult film screening in 1980s Taiwan. Her sexual maturation merges with the spectacular reveries onscreen.</p>
<p>When a farmer accidentally makes a chicken human hybrid; he must decide it’s fate, and ultimately his own.</p>
<p>A paranoid germophobe becomes convinced he's been infected by a deadly virus. As his anxiety to be clean spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to rid himself of the infection take a tragic turn.</p>
<p>After dealing with the usual Trans misogyny and patriarchal nuisances, Ly finally arrives at her bestie Noah’s apartment to help them get ready for a date. When Ly opens Noah’s laptop to play “glamorous” tunes, she’s surprised by loud and sexually explicit content on the screen. Curious, Ly focuses on a specific image, the vagina, which triggers a deep feeling within her. She hesitantly asks Noah, Brooklyn’s resident “f*ckperson,” what a vagina feels like. In response, Noah gives a “vagina 101” lecture, and they are transported to a life-sized vagina—Ly’s first time encountering one “IRL.” Just as she begins to process this, they’re snapped back to reality by Ava, Ly’s other bestie. Ly admits that bottom surgery has been on her mind, but she’s unsure whether it’s her true desire or conditioning set by the patriarchy. Despite her friends' support, Ly remains uncertain of which path to take.</p>
<p>Kids with rare and complex diseases whose care is too complicated for mainstream medicine are being tossed around from specialist to specialist, abandoned and even accused of psychological disorders or of faking their illness. They often live with chronic pain and other disabling symptoms, but are unable to get the help they need because they are considered too medically complex, or financially and legally risky—or, worse, because they or their parents are accused of over-medicalizing, or simply lying.</p>
<p>Coroner to the Stars chronicles the extraordinary journey of Dr. Thomas Noguchi, the former Los Angeles County Chief Medical Examiner-Coroner whose groundbreaking autopsies forever shaped American culture. From Marilyn Monroe and Robert Kennedy to Sharon Tate and Natalie Wood, Noguchi’s outspoken expertise pushed forensic science into the spotlight—even as Hollywood elites and political adversaries sought to silence him. A Japanese immigrant who unwittingly rose to fame in a city driven by stardom, Noguchi’s fearless pursuit of truth often placed him in the crosshairs of controversy.</p>
<p>A short documentary about coyotes in New York City, this poetic film explores our relationship to wildlife in urban environments. </p>
<p>Jess is a girl who always considered herself an ally because literally, her best friends are disabled. As those friends, Imani and Marsha, help Jess pack to be closer to a questionable new job, she finds herself moving away from her friends physically and ideologically when faced with acknowledging her own disability.</p>
<p>The Mitchell family, a family of Disability Studies scholars and filmmakers, has researched The Nazi Aktion T4 program since the 1990s. Through conversations with memorial directors, disabled people, and relatives of T4 victims they uncover the horrifying truth: that the Nazi Aktion T4 program, was in fact the program where the Nazis trained killing staff and designed the apparatus of mass murder that led to the Holocaust. Disabled people were the first victims to be killed under the Third Reich and in this investigative documentary, the Mitchells reveal how this history has been covered over and erased from international public memory.</p>
<p>Dormilón lovingly cares for the abandoned cinema he’s made a home. Every night he records his dreams, in which he is the star performer of the theater, rather than its former-janitor. On a stormy night, Dormi’s carefully crafted life is challenged when his nightmares accumulate and confront him. Dormilón will have to overcome his fears and embrace his insecurities to be a more complete version of himself.</p>
<p>Between memory and dream, Mariposa’s story unfolds in the desert of Mexico. Ancestral voices guide her journey and lead her to an old friend who will accompany her on her search for water. Together, they walk the spiral path as it unfurls, blurring the lines between generations and weaving three stories into one.</p>
<p>As the day ends for a worn-out office worker, a sense of unease grips him when he encounters the mysterious gaze of a chimpanzee. Their silent exchange prompts him to make a decision that will prove irreversible. Set against a bleak, dehumanized industrial landscape, A Dying Tree reflects on how conformity can quietly erode one's sense of self.</p>
<p>Marcus Knight was born at 22 weeks old with cerebral palsy and autism. Despite the set backs he became lead in high school musicals and homecoming king. His dreams of working on Broadway were curtailed when he was accused of sexual misconduct for a fist bump and taking selfies in the cafeteria at Saddleback College in Orange County, California. A judge ruled that he had been denied the tools with which to fight for his innocence but the school appealed and won with a different judge. This is the story of how social justice initiatives can harm the very people they are supposed to help.</p>
<p>When a Palestinian filmmaker based in Scotland unearths a rarely-seen Scottish film archive of Palestinian wild flowers, he decides to reclaim the footage. This tender essay film questions the role of image-making as a tool of both testimony and violence when connected to entanglements between people and land.</p>
<p>The Hemingway is a visually striking short film that explores the complexities of living with ALS. As Patrick struggles with daily tasks, the narrative voice in his head offers insights into the peculiarities of life during his most intimate moments. Unexpected twists reveal the intricacies of relationships in the silent world of ALS. The film masterfully balances life’s beauty, dark humor, and poignant revelation, offering a touching exploration of the human experience through life, death, and shit. Directed by Patrick Sean O’Brien and Evan Mathis, and edited by Doug Pray.</p>
<p>When the Forest Service discovered a sixty-foot hole on Mount Shasta, the small community at its base immediately began to speculate. Was it simply an illegal gold mine? Was it the intrepid conspiracy theorist looking for a lost civilization? Or was it something more sinister? Will the truth come in the form of one man's harrowing coming-of-age story? Or will this become yet another urban legend like the ones used by locals to lure tourists?</p>
<p>Alan just wants to have a solo day at the beach. But when he unintentionally runs into his peripheral friend, Kevin, he is forced to face his deepest insecurities: taking his shirt off. After Alan lies to Kevin about being at high risk for skin cancer, the two share a playful moment of beach fun. Their good times quickly end when they find themselves in a violent escape from an unknown terror. Sure he's going to die, Alan apologizes to Kevin for lying about the cancer and reveals how he really feels about himself. And then they are both sucked into the sky by an unholy rapture event.</p>
<p>This film explores migration through a dreamlike lens, following a young artist from one of India’s most stigmatized communities during his disorienting first year in the "first world." Movement and glimpses of the moon connect his two worlds visually, while poetry anchors his internal journey.</p>
<p>One autumn, filmmaker Miranda Siegel experiences a bipolar mixed episode. Given her busy schedule, she chooses to ignore the episode, attempting to white-knuckle through the sleeplessness, racing thoughts, and suicidal ideation in order to keep up with schoolwork and her job.</p>
<p><em>When a storm knocks out the power to her iron lung, a polio survivor and her cartaker sister find themselves in a race against time to find a new way for her to breathe</em></p>
<p>A lonely man meets his ex-girlfriend in the park to help him pick out new shoes.</p>
<p>JUST WHITE NOISE explores people’s exposure to issues related to the environment, violence, war, and other areas—how people may react and how they may (or may not) be affected. The film visually captivates and encourages self-reflection.</p>
<p dir="ltr">An ancient lake was drained leaving behind fertile soil. Now, agricultural machinery, animals, and humans search for water in the dry valley left behind. </p>
<p>Dive into the depths of your soul with “Meditate Like a Dolphin,” a transformative VR experience that instantly calms the mind and transports you into an unparalleled state of peace. Within seconds, you will immerse yourself in the serene, fluid world of a dolphin, where every breath and movement brings you closer to a profound inner stillness. Feel the freedom of the ocean, the boundless tranquility, and experience peace as never before. Let go, dive deep, and become the dolphin.</p>
<p>Ainá Xisto, a Brazilian filmmaker and visual artist, shows us through her creation life as metamorphosis, as the possibility of transmutation or new ways of saying ‘I’. Amidst dreamlike 16mm landscapes, we approach a magical reality inhabited by real stories and characters, open to dialogue and to the other, in a more-than-human relationship.</p>
<p>building thinks thought, has realization. landscape in translation.</p>
<p>Pez is a weaponized Girl Scout in Toledo Ohio, a breeding ground of serial killers in the 70's. She and her friends are growing up before the internet is available and she must figure out how to survive when her mother, who was hunted by soldiers in World War II, refuses to believe the great American dream is corrupt. As Pez discovers her strength in the world, and her mother's weakness, she finds out why squirrels run in front of speeding cars and how that is cured by teaching them to bake a gingerbread house.</p>
<p>On a lazy weekend morning, a disconnected couple finds themselves in a heated argument. When they mute the TV to continue their fight, they find they’ve not only silenced the TV, but also themselves and the entire world.</p>
<p>MY OMAHA begins as Donald Trump is first elected president and the Black Lives Matter movement is burgeoning in Omaha. Nick, fresh out of journalism school, is determined to understand how these forces are colliding in his hometown. Along the way, he meets Leo Louis II, a fearless activist, who introduces him to the birthplace of Malcolm X in North Omaha.</p>
<p>Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at the age of two, filmmaker Alexander Freeman was raised by loving and supportive parents. But when he tells them his girlfriend is pregnant, their reaction is not what he expected.</p>
<p>No sugarcoatin’ it, you’ve got brain damage from multiple sclerosis. Your memories are fading and down the line it’s gonna get scary. So gather everything left in that noggin, like paper and ink and photos and love of course. Start with the foundation and don’t give up! Soon you’ll have a palace full of friends, pets, and love. That way you’ll never, ever forget them.</p>
<p>In the mountains of Dhadkai, a secluded himalayan village in Jammu and Kashmir, many people can't hear or speak. Dhadkai stands as the world's only village predominantly afflicted by deaf-mutism, a mysterious phenomenon that continues to baffle experts.</p>
<p>What if you lived in a coastal city never knowing that the ocean hid a deadly poison? That’s exactly what LA residents did for decades, until a scientist alerted LA Times journalist Rosanna Xia to a problem ignored by officials for years. They discover that as many as half a million barrels of DDT waste had been dumped into the ocean, and are finally able to connect the dots between sick sea lions, a poisoned ecosystem, and the legacy of health issues in all who’ve been exposed.</p>
<p>Palimpsest is an interactive documentary that traces childhood fear and anxiety from the Cold War to school shootings in America, while along the way connecting Archimedes, Choose Your Adventure books, Baseball, Ray Bradbury, Charles Dickens, Peter Pan, John Fahey, Turtles, and every demographic cohort from The Greatest Generation to Gen Z. Palimpsest scrapes at this messy history in an attempt to reveal causes and solutions for one of America's greatest public health epidemics.</p>
<p>You are invited to the Pre-game – a meditative, mixed reality experience that deconstructs the production of virtual bodies in animation and game engine workflows, set against the backdrop of American football culture. Animated virtual bodies merge fragments of reality with algorithmic abstraction. You move from a tailgate picnic to the perspective of the spectator in the sports arena, to the player on the field, and into an abstract, grotesque football pile-up. The piece was conceived in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where the directors worked as colleagues next door to the largest football stadium in the United States.</p>
<p>Promise to Stronger Days connects two different, evolving storylines. The main storyline is about Adira’s internal struggle to hook up with Jerome — an attractive man who rescued her at her friend Keke’s birthday party — after months of having no sex due to her trauma. The other storyline is fragmented at first, but her truth is pieced together: Adira was sexually assaulted by her father after being left alone with him due to marital issues. Adira becomes increasingly frustrated with her inability to connect with others due to her trauma, until she decides to take her power back. After a few failed sex attempts with Jerome, she intentionally returns to her childhood flashbacks to kill her abuser.</p>
<p>Fear takes shape when a loving grandmother is charged with the care of her young grandchild. When their bedtime routine starts to unravel, Grandma grows increasingly frustrated and her deepest fears begin to take on a physical shape. Desperate to protect her grandchild from the emerging dangers, she fights off the terrors surrounding them both with emotional consequences.</p>
<p>The Soil of the Namib: VR is a 360° series about illegal mining in Namibia. The three episodes narrate the lives and working conditions of small-scale miners in the context of colonialism.</p>
<p>Can a living person dream of ghosts’ dreams if a ghost can dream? This VR work unveils an unknown refugee camp in Indochina and a dream within another dream. The story’s protagonists are three siblings: Dung, Lien, and Phuong, during wartime in Indochina in the 1970s. They are Vietnamese born in Cambodia. This project is adapted from the unknown Vietnamese refugee camps in Penghu, Taiwan, and from a dream of an unidentified female victim in the Khmer Rouge period.</p>
<p>Standout tells the powerful story of Ben Kjar, born with Crouzon Syndrome, a rare craniofacial disorder. From birth, doctors warn that his life will be overshadowed by limitations. Ben yearns for an ordinary life free from the harsh scrutiny he faces daily. However, each experience of adversity, including relentless bullying and a series of painful surgeries, ignites a fire within him. Wrestling becomes his proving ground, a place where he learns to transform his facial difference into a source of power. Determined to succeed, he pushes himself relentlessly, breaking through physical, social, and even romantic barriers that once seemed insurmountable. But as unexpected challenges arise and ridicule resurfaces, Ben finds himself at a defining crossroads: fade into the background of a “normal” life, or fully embrace his unique path and boldly stand out.</p>
<p>Ian has suffered from psychosis for a few years, but now with a substance called Seven that gives him subconscious vision to see actual reality, He can see the faces of those voices in a hidden world within his own. He quickly becomes addicted in his pursuit to get to the bottom of what's really going on.</p>
<p>Landscapes are made distinct from environments through their artificial quality and contain recognizable traits that tell us what they are. Streets, roads, and their bastard offspring the "stroad" are characterized by long stretches of durable material that provide a clear and safe route between destinies. They may contain markings that dictate behavior or inspire feelings of existential dread. The route is not unlike a geometric line-- it is made up of a string of infinite points. Movement prevents the establishment of an unintended destination, even if it only lasts a moment.</p>
<p>In the short film "Super High: A Period Piece," Amanda battles excruciating period pain caused by fibroids. Desperate for relief, she experiments with a celebrity cannabis brand's edibles. A dosage mishap catapults her into a surreal, anxiety-filled journey until she awakens.</p>
<p>Along the shores of the Great Salt Lake, a scientist’s twilight run is upended when her dog plunges through rare lake ice, catalyzing a desperate series of choices. After an improbable rescue, she questions whether she always makes rational decisions. Told from two perspectives, the film explores how we assess risks, make decisions, and the role of chance.</p>
<p>The emerging field of computer vision turns its powers toward one of cinema’s earliest subjects: the train journey. With surprising insights and occasional poetry, software follows the human along old routes of imperial expansion, across borders of landscape and language. Blinking awake in a sleeper car, it is another passenger slowly discerning its surroundings—and another machine with which we remake our world.</p>
<p>A woman stands before the door at the end of the tunnel I wandered through. She only gives vague answers to my questions. Am I awake, or still dreaming? Faucets, birds, insects, and various images emerge and vanish on the fabric. I reach out to touch the wind, but can only grasp my own shadow.</p>
<p>A short essay film which attempts to dissect personal memories through the excavation of appropriated footage. It is an attempt to understand the difference between storage and memory, experience and archive, resolution and clarity.</p>
<p>The Wash is a short docufiction set in a gay cruising spot in an open desert area in Southern California. Through an excavation of queer artifacts, local lore and gossip, the film documents an assemblage in flux. The Wash is a mirage of sorts. Like a junkyard of vernacular installation art designed for pleasure.</p>