Panorama - Against the Grain
Driven into exile by far-right paramilitary forces, the inhabitants of a Colombian village return 20 years later to the place they once called home.
LA BONGA
- Sebastián Pinzón Silva, Canela Reyes
- 2023
- Colombia, United States
- s.t. French or English
- 78 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
In a consciously fragmentary film, Cleo Keahna and Terry Running Wild share their perspectives on the resistance movement at Standing Rock.
DISLOCATION BLUES
- Sky Hopinka
- 2017
- United States
- 17 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
Through this experimental short film and densely wrought sensory experience, we are exposed to a myth imagined for Xawiska, a plant used by the Ho-Chunk to recover from a fainting spell.
FAINTING SPELLS
- Sky Hopinka
- 2018
- United States
- 11 min
New Visions Competition
Terra Long’s experimental documentary is a hypnotizing, sensory, and evocative look at how date palms have forged the Coachella Valley’s identity.
FEET IN WATER, HEAD ON FIRE
- Terra Long
- 2023
- United States, Canada
- s.t. French or English
- 90 min
Panorama - Horizons
An intimate portrait of a woman whose unsettling candor has made her one of the most influential voices in the movements for social justice and equality in the United States.
GOING TO MARS: THE NIKKI GIOVANNI PROJECT
- Joe Brewster, Michèle Stephenson
- 2023
- United States
- 102 min
Panorama - Horizons
In this coming-of-age pop tale, two friends enjoy summer in Laredo, Texas, trying to overcome their anxieties around an uncertain future.
HUMMINGBIRDS
- Silvia Del Carmen Castaños, Estefanía "Beba" Contreras
- 2023
- United States
- s.t. English
- 78 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
A meditation on death and reincarnation, this visually and sonically rich film stands as a compelling tribute to Indigenous poet Diane Burns.
I'LL REMEMBER YOU AS YOU WERE NOT AS WHAT YOU'LL BECOME
- Sky Hopinka
- 2016
- United States
- 13 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
On the winding road of a father-son relationship, this personal short weaves a timeless dialogue between the two, narrowing the distance separating them.
JÁAJI APPROX.
- Sky Hopinka
- 2015
- United States
- 8 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
Perspectives, images, music, poetry, and personal stories are layered and intertwined in a complex reflection on traditions and possible futures.
JUST A SOUL RESPONDING
- Sky Hopinka
- 2023
- United States
- 17 min
Sky Hopinka: Redefining potential territories
In this touching intergenerational story, the filmmaker’s great-grandmother giving a language lesson to his grandmother in 1972 is a starting point that sparks reflection around knowledge transmission.
KICKING THE CLOUDS
- Sky Hopinka
- 2021
- United States
- 16 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Bridging science and fiction in the most inventive of ways, this medium-length film is a unique exploration of evolution, extinction, and the future from the point of view of minerals.
LAST THINGS
- Deborah Stratman
- 2023
- United States, France, Portugal
- s.t. French or English
- 50 min
Panorama - Horizons
Using her mother's testimony and Super 8 footages, the filmmaker draws us into the memory of an illegal abortion in Mexico City in the 1960s.
LESSER CHOICES
- Courtney Stephens
- 2022
- United States, Mexico
- s.t. French
- 9 min