Dir: Scott Faris
16:47
United States

Decades after leaving Appalachia, a daughter returns to eastern Kentucky to excavate her father’s remarkable filmmaking legacy - as the founder of Appalshop - and examine the pull home still has on her.

Dir: Ted Stenson
13:17
Canada

An intimate look into the career of beloved camera-less animator Richard Reeves.

Dir: Emma Masters, Dean Munuggullumurr Yibarbuk
18:0
Australia

Ngarridurndeng Kured (We Going Home Now) follows Dean Yibarbuk, his family and and the Indigenous Fire Rangers he leads into the heart of Kuwarddewardde. Here ancient rhythms and traditional practices combine with western science to create a unique relationship to guard against devastating wildfires and support the return of Binninj Nawarddeken to their traditional homelands and ways of living in the bush.

Dir: Lucia Lambarri Barberis
9:00
Peru

This visual essay combines animation and live-action footage to guide the audience through the Andean mountains and snowy peaks of Cusco, Peru. The film reflects on the director’s walking as a means to embrace life’s fragility and constant transformation. It revisits Andean relational animism, rituals, miniatures, and pilgrimage to question modernity and our place in an era of melting glaciers, while celebrating the shared journey with others.

Dir: Florian Rudolph, Kyrylo Alferiev, Yueqi Wu
11:11
Germany

A Chinese, a Ukrainian and a Swiss walk into a small town in East Germany. They are doing location scouting for the construction of a post-apocalypse shelter. However, they are soon to find out that the apocalypse is different from what they have been informed.

Dir: Yoontaek Hong
13:53
United States

An 89-year-old Korean immigrant volunteers at a senior center and reflects on his life’s journey with his beloved wife.