Silent Trees
After her mom’s tragic death on the Polish-Belarusian border, 16-year-old Kurdish girl Runa has to become a mother for her 4 younger brothers. A partially animated coming-of-age story in the times of a global refugee crisis.
Toy Hospital
In Edinburgh’s Toy Hospital, a “toy doctor” brings childhood memories back to life, restoring beloved, worn-out toys with care and dedication.
Standing Above the Clouds
When the massive Thirty Meter Telescope is proposed to be built on Mauna Kea, an uprising of kiaʻi (protectors) in Hawaiʻi and around the world dedicate their lives to protecting the sacred mountain from destruction. Through the lens of mothers and daughters in three Native Hawaiian families, Standing Above the Clouds explores intergenerational healing and the impacts of safeguarding cultural traditions.
All Quiet on the Westlake
The film conveys the theme of “love” through the life story of a blind-deaf couple. Facing all kinds of dilemmas, the couple maintain each other between light and darkness.
Preconceived
Preconceived explores the pervasive presence of crisis pregnancy centers throughout the US, and their role in furthering the anti-abortion movement.
Agent of Happiness
Amber, a happiness agent, travels the Bhutanese Himalayas surveying people’s happiness. On his remote mountain journey, he searches for fulfillment.
Razing Liberty Square
Miami is ground-zero for sea-level-rise. When residents of the historic Liberty Square public housing project learn about a $300 million revitalization plan for their neighborhood, which has long suffered from disinvestment, they know that this sudden interest comes from the fact that their neighborhood is located on the highest-and-driest ground in the city. Now they must prepare to fight a new form of racial injustice – Climate Gentrification.
The Home Team
New immigrants leave big cities and hot climates to live in a tiny, remote community in Northern Canada. This is a story about fitting in, finding connections, and the magic that happens when different worlds come together.
No Other Land
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israel’s occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight.
