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A woman sits in the back of a truck smoking a cigarette with her eyes closed, she has bright red hair and wears a light pink tank in the early evening framed by a tree and a stone wall.

September 17, 2026

Marie Madeleine

Following up her acclaimed debut Freda, Haitian filmmaker Gessica Généus directs and stars in Marie Madeleine, tracking the sensual interior life of a fiercely independent sex worker in Jacmel. When her path crosses with Joseph, a young man trapped under the thumb of his fanatical father and an a...

Shot upside down, a man in a heavy fur lined coat lies solemnly in the snow with his eyes closed.

September 17, 2026

A Long Winter

1950s, Colorado: Mike lives and works with his brother and his parents high above an isolated mountain town. Recently returned from a stint away from home, Mike has a renewed appreciation for their provincial existence on the mountain. When his brother leaves for war, the veneer of peaceful famil...

In black-and-white animation two people embrace in a backyard garden, in front of them vegetables and flowers grow, behind them stands a fence obscuring homes and trees, a cloudy sky with streaks of light.

September 17, 2026

Tangles

In 1990s San Francisco, Sarah is living her best gay life—her illustration career is taking off, and she’s just started dating a badass new girlfriend—when a trip back to her conservative hometown reveals that her mother Midge has Alzheimer’s. Midge’s vibrant and headstrong personality begins to ...

A man in head-to-toe snow gear faces away towards a vast stretch of snow-covered mountains near dusk. He wears a red coat and harness and carries walking gear as he walks down a snowy road flanked by the mountains.

September 17, 2026

The Ultra Runner

Romanian athlete Tiberiu Uşeriu competes in some of the toughest contests in the world, running, most famously, in the 6633 Arctic Ultra, a 380-mile race that takes its name from its high latitude across Canada’s icy northern terrain. But The Ultra Runner is no extreme sports documentary. While m...

September 17, 2026

Black Perspectives Shorts: Love with No Place to Go

Crashing into the Montreal jazz scene, newly immigrated Koffi must navigate a new city and his father’s legacy in Jazz Infernal. In Speechless, a man spirals over his place in the family after his best-man speech gets stolen. Tell Me When You Get Home unearths poignant family lore using bold, col...

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