
Genre: Environmental
Below the Clouds (Sotto le nuvole)
From the Oscar-nominated director of Fire at Sea comes an immersive and impressionistic portrait of communities living in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.
A Brief History of Chasing Storms
A road-trip through “tornado alley” yields an evocative cinematic essay mapping the natural disaster as destructive event and iconic American symbol.
Bugonia
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.
Cotton Queen
In a matriarchal cotton-rich Sudanese village, teenage Nafisa is at the nexus of a power play that will determine the community’s future.
Lanawaru
Seeds
This lyrical portrait of legacy Black farmers in the American South celebrates their tenacity and resolve, presenting a timeless vision of a waning way of life.
Shorts 2: Animation
Some worlds can only truly be conjured outside of physical reality. These eight thrilling shorts unfold in an inventive array of visual and narrative styles that come together to form a vibrant snapshot of contemporary animation.
Shorts 7: Documentary
These films showcase the richness of the documentary form. Through observation, testimony, and poetic reimagining, six different complex corners of the world come into view.
Shorts 10: Outré
The creators of these shorts unabashedly follow their own singular visions into wildly new and weird territories.
Silent Friend
A majestic ginkgo tree connects three characters across a century in this thoughtful, winsome meditation on the mysterious power of nature.
The Tale of Silyan
From the Oscar-nominated director of Honeyland comes a heartwarming story of family, storks, and sustainability in North Macedonia.
This is not your Garden (Este no es tu jardín)
Water Sports
Whitetail
As poachers encroach on the wilderness she supervises, Irish park ranger Jen must reconcile past trauma with new threats in this white-knuckle thriller.
















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