Trapped in the middle seat, singer-songwriter Rae Isla spirals into an existential crisis that transforms airplane anxiety into a surreal question of "what if?"
Four years ago, I visited Yakutat, the northernmost town in Southeast Alaska. There, I followed uncle Geeneeneik, an elder of the Tlingit Humpback Salmon Clan, through pristine forests and seas. In the fall of 2023, I visited Yakutat again, and I began to record the beautiful world they dreamed of. A flower of hope is blooming in the land where only despair and ruins were thought to remain.
In The Second Spring, Oakland dancer, teacher, and choreographer Sarah Crowell redefines her relationship with her body and her craft as she moves through menopause, confronting what it means to age as a female athlete.
A young woman, Elowyn, is thrown into the re-education centre for breaking the Marriage Act. She must endure Officer Killian’s brutal lessons at the centre and find hope in unlikely places, although her cellmate Hannah warns her to do nothing. When escape is not an option, how can Elowyn remain unbound?
In a voice message, a non-binary person talks about the healing process after a mastectomy. A drawn room becomes a playful setting in which memories, role models, and friends are present through small details.
A young man stops at a gas station to buy a bottle of Gatorade before continuing to an empty school late at night. What begins as an ordinary night for him turns out even worse.
Song of No is a short animated documentary that traces people’s stories of street protests as vital spaces for learning, invention, and collective exchange.
After the world premiere of Being John Smith at the Toronto Film Festival a strange experience in the filmmaker’s hotel causes him to ponder the nature of reality.
A fictional documentary following the exploits of Hank, a Los Angeles plumber going through a bitter divorce who decides he's going to clean up his city... by killing every homeless person he can find.
Modern medicine treats diseases one-by-one, but what if aging itself is the root cause? The A-Word: The Future of Aging follows visionary scientists racing to extend lifespan and the rescue dog whose bond with an 87-year-old widower demonstrates the stakes of life extension.
Depicting the passage of the four seasons in a single year, this contemplative documentary reveals the tragic yet magnificent decline of a world in agony.