The Next Right Thing (United States) by Bill Wells

In a small Georgia city, the lives of four people are brought together by the opioid crisis. A compassionate firefighter saves the life of a young woman looking for purpose, while the parents of an overdose victim set out to provide the recovery support their son struggled to find. But the challenges are significant – from surviving an overdose to staying in recovery – and plenty of people ask how many times you should revive an addict. "The Next Right Thing" is a moving documentary about a community coming together to support the people who need it most.

Running time: 00:55:33

Island of Dreams (Colombia, United States) by Alvaro Jimenez, Cliff Orloff

Island of Dreams delivers an intimate portrait of Cuba in a time of crisis. What makes someone leave everything and everyone they know and love, and forego their familiar culture, to make their way into an unknown future in an unknown land? What makes someone stay where they live despite hardship and deprivation?  This documentary follows several Cubans from different walks of life who love their country but struggle with the conflict to stay or leave an increasingly dysfunctional government and rapidly collapsing economy. Their characters are Cuban, but their voices are universal. Orloff and Jimenez bring a human face to the international crisis of migration. Island of Dreams shows a Cuba whose people have little hope for the future.

Running time: 00:52:00

Shiringa. Genocide and Resistance in the Amazon (Peru) by Wilton Martinez

An Amazonian artist descended from a nation massacred by rubber tappers meets the granddaughter of one of those caucheros. They share their traumatic memories and look for ways to heal and reconcile with a past that will not cease to disturb them.

Running time: 01:29:03

60 Pounds of Home (Germany) by Michael Eibl

Christl Eibl, born in 1940 in Chodský Újezd (Heiligenkreuz) in the Czech Republic, tells of loss. A traumatic experience – especially for a six-year-old child: the loss of familiar surroundings, of home. In the film "60 Pounds of Home" (30 Kilo Heimat), she, the grandmother, tells her grandson, the director, about her fate as a displaced person from the Sudetenland. She was born there and lived in the small town with her German family. Six years later, she was expelled with her parents, grandparents and little sister. However, Christl not only talks about the expulsion, but above all about the traces that the loss of her homeland left on her. She talks about reconciliation, but also about letting go and remembering.

Running time: 01:08:59

Anchor Points (Canada) by Victor Quijada, Samuel Greffe

Anchor Points is a 24-minute documentary-style art film by RUBBERBAND that retraces the trajectory of Victor Quijada from street dancer to contemporary choreographer. Through archival footage and visual effects, it examines his personal and artistic evolution and introduces the foundational RUBBERBAND Method as described by company members. The film blends documentary elements with experimental visuals to offer insight into Quijada’s creative journey and the development of his influential choreographic practice.

Ujvala Jupalli: Asterisk Athlete (United States) by Josephine Harrison

A meditative documentary following the story of Ujvala as she details what being an athlete means to her and the first time she realized she wasn't just an athlete but a female athlete. We see aspects of her training, and also more reflective moments as she tells her story. 

Running time: 00:09:00

Dowsing (United States) by Tim Feeney

Ten repetitive sonic interventions within the eroded landscapes of the Burren, County Clare, Ireland. These occur at sites of local “anti-monuments:” a kilometers-long, natural limestone pavement high above Galway Bay; stone farm walls and remnants of circular structures on hillsides; cairns near a shoreline; a field of glacial boulders interrupted by a road smashed from the surrounding stone formations, in forced public work by the starving during the Great Hunger of 1845 to 1852. These structures speak to both the passage of geologic time, and the care and efforts of human survival beginning in the Neolithic period and tended through the present, though local history at each site may be lost, or unrecorded.

Running time: 01:38:30