MISS REPRESENTATION: RISING dives deep into the cultural backlash against women’s mental health, agency, and political power with technology exacerbating sexism and misogyny towards women and girls.
Stranded on a distant world, a small, worn-out robot named Helen wanders through strange, beautiful landscapes, guided only by a song and the quiet weight of an unfinished mission.
One day, Mom splits into two. They look identical — it’s impossible to tell which one is real. When her son starts saying strange things, she grows anxious and irritated. “Then get rid of one,” she tells him. But which one should he choose? Why did she divide in two? Who’s really broken — the mother, or the son?
Benson the three-legged mastiff spends his days content to watch the world pass by until one day a mysterious dog shows up at his doorstep, followed by many more. A story of friendship, loyalty and unconditional love.
Undergrowth (Maleza) is a brief exploration of one of the most destructive consequences of rural depopulation and abandonment: forest fires. It does so, specifically, by focusing on the destructive power of the undergrowth—a suffocating thicket of ‘weeds’ caused by the rural exodus—which, as the story unfolds, takes over the image itself to destroy it completely.
On April 1, 1983 at the frightening start of the AIDS epidemic, gay businessman and restaurateur Steve Harris opened the doors to the Castro Country Club as a refuge where folks could gather and find community outside of the bars and clubs in the Castro. For 40 years, the CCC has saved thousands of lives from the grips of addiction and alcoholism from its humble perch on 18th Street, one block from Castro Street. Meet Me at the Club captures the history of early trans experiences, the role that the AIDS epidemic played in addiction and alcoholism, and the miraculous recoveries from hopeless states of mind and body in San Francisco. When 295 people die every day from overdoses, the story of how this beautiful community came together to survive and thrive, there's no more important time than now to tell this story.
Every day, an aging filmmaker whose eyesight is deteriorating spends long hours in a retail park. He waits for his wife, who teaches drawing. A portrait in and of a non-place, shot on 16mm between the supermarket and the carwash, meditations and reveries.
Set in rural Ireland, For Séamus explores the silent struggles between fathers and sons, revealing a story of reconciliation, legacy, and love left unspoken.