This Year's Films

Subtly textured self-portrait of Soraya, an Afghan free-spirited 16-year-old artist in Iran who has been trying for five years to make her way to Europe—chillingly capturing everything on her phone while pouring all her fears and worries into extraordinary works of art.

When Alexa finds she can no longer orgasm due to her new antidepressants prescription, she embarks on a desperate journey to get off by any means possible, only to find herself “getting close” through an unexpected connection.

When a mystery tide of poisoned sea life washes ashore on England’s NE coast, grief gives way to a turbulent quest for answers, led by the unlikeliest of rebels

After a bat bites Jack, transforming him into a vampire, he comes to the front door of his home, asking his wife Laura to let him back inside.

Two mountain bikers find community in rural Vermont through a grassroots movement to build the world’s first completely adaptive trail network in the world.

The love story of London-based Lebanese journalist and Syrian activist/cameraman as told through thirteen years of personal archives across revolutions, war and exile.

From the flickering screens of Hollywood horror, to the haunted cane fields of colonial Haiti, BLACK ZOMBIE unearths the buried origins of the zombie, reclaiming it as a symbol of survival and spiritual resistance.

The family that slays together, stays together.

A daring artist tackles shame and societal expectations in her mission to paint 100 nude portraits of breasts from the female gaze, redefining beauty and empowering Irish women to reclaim their bodies.

For the first time in a century, fearless young cowgirls battle broncs and their own personal demons on a perilous rodeo circuit, risking it all to claim the first-ever women’s world title at Cheyenne Frontier Days.

In a Guatemalan barrio silenced by fear, teenage sisters lead a luminous rebellion —unleashing giant puppets, fire, and performance in an epic fight for survival.

The world record for loudest female burp is 107.3 decibels. Kaylee wants to beat it.

One family and the Tibetan nation are bound together by love, courage and their fight to resist erasure.

Through the transformative power of art, survivors of sexual abuse reclaim their voices, rebuild their lives, and find healing together in this intimate and deeply personal documentary.

“Free Joan Little” tells the story of the 1975 groundbreaking case of Joan Little,who was the first woman in U.S history to be acquitted for using deadly force to resist sexual assault. Her landmark trial drew international attention and catalyzed a conversation about the intersection of sexual assault, racial justice, and prisoners’ rights that has reverberations to this day.

A rural Iowa schoolteacher becomes a national voice against racism after leading a controversial 1968 lesson in discrimination with her all-white third-grade class. Now nearly 90, she refuses to hold back amid today’s fights about race, history, and power after a lifetime of speaking out.

Ukrainian soldiers wounded in war come to America for a chance to rebuild their lives and limbs, before returning home to rejoin the resistance.

When a teenage burglar stumbles into an old man’s suicide attempt, he offers her a deal: he won’t call the police if she helps him die.

Love Apptually follows a French journalist’s journey from early fascination with Tinder to uncovering how a multi-billion-dollar tech industry is quietly reshaping the most intimate of human pursuits: love.

Set during the aftermath of Selena Quintanilla’s murder in 1995, Marga’s life and future take an unexpected turn at 21 weeks pregnant during a surprise visit to Mexico City.

If poetry had a pop icon, it would be Mary Oliver – celebrated bestseller, Pulitzer Prize-winner, lover of dogs and the beauty of nature.

Modern Whore is a hybrid documentary that reimagines popular portrayals of sex work to stylishly explore the experiences of Toronto sex worker Andrea Werhun.

After Monty is assaulted at the strip club where she works, she weaponizes public art to exact justice against a system’s refusal to act.

A girl’s long-distance romance with an older Norwegian man promises to pull her and her mother out of their austere life in Cuba, but her dreams are shaken when she realizes he isn’t as idyllic as he seems.

In 1970, a schoolteacher crashes into the violent world of pro football, daring to break its gender barrier.

“Help me help those that I might hurt.” Veronika, a priest, loving mother and devoted friend struggles with this adage.

The inspiring journey of the Jamaican women’s soccer team, on and off the pitch, on their way to the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023.

In Baltimore, a master carpenter rebuilds a block of abandoned row houses into a community of Black women homeowners, but rising tensions in the group and a suspicious fire threaten to burn her dream down.

Balancing the absurdity of small-town politics with the gravity of a constitutional crisis, the small town of Marion, Kansas is thrust into the international spotlight after a police raid on the Marion County Record and the death of its 98-year-old co-owner.

Hollywood icon Marlee Matlin traces the story of bodybuilder Shelley Beattie, a fellow Deaf woman whose life mirrored hers.

STATE of FIRSTS is an all-access documentary following Sarah McBride’s historic run to become the first transgender member of Congress.

Amy Goodman takes on soldiers, politicians, and corporate media in a fearless pursuit of truth.

When male legislators in South Carolina refuse to repeal a sexist state tax on menstrual hygiene products, the only women in the South Carolina State Senate cross party lines to fight back.

At a hotline for baking emergencies, a small team fields calls from strangers in crisis, only to discover that behind each kitchen catastrophe lies a tender, messy slice of someone’s life.

A clever American team competes for first place at France’s Mondial du Fromage cheese competition.

As anti-trans legislation and hostility escalate in the United States, a group of dads, building a nascent movement to support their trans and gender expansive kids, are forced to make an impossible choice: stay and fight or flee the country.

On the edge of life, on the frontlines of crisis and conflict, women are still giving birth and midwives are risking everything to help them.

In a place where girls and sport rarely mix, THE GYMNASTS OF FISHERMAN COLONY is a coming-of-age documentary where joy, ambition, and quiet rebellion take root as three teenage girls carve out space for themselves, one somersault at a time.

As ICE agents wait to arrest their targets outside of courtrooms, their banal conversations clash with the severity of their actions.

After a 14-year-old is murdered in a Baltimore middle-school hallway, three innocent teenagers are sentenced to life—until a witness’s recantation decades later exposes the devastating legacy of coerced testimony on the accused, the witnesses, and an entire community.

Romania is home to 70% of Europe’s last primary forests. ‘Wild East’ is an urgent, gripping portrait of a Romanian environmentalist as he risks everything to expose IKEA’s destruction of these ancient forests.

Anna spends a decade obsessively building a detailed 1/3-scale version of her friend’s house after losing her. It’s just big enough for Anna to squeeze through the door, and inside lives a puppet of her friend Yo.