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DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS

Koko & Brody VanDernoot FINDING HOPE (USA, 10 minutes)
Mitali Mishra WHERE KNOTS ARE UNDONE (USA, 18 minutes)
Travis Elio GROW A GARDEN (USA, 31 minutes)
Donna Hacohen & Firas Rubi ACRE WALL JUMPERS (Israel, 56 minutes)

LGBTQ DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILMS

Susan Thomson GHOST EMPIRE & MAURITIUS-CHAGOS (Ireland, 71 minutes)
Ghost Empire § Mauritius-Chagos (2025) is a hybrid documentary film which explores layers of colonialism. For LGBTQ+ people in formerly colonised countries, the ghostly presence of the British Empire is often all too real. Susan Thomson’s award-winning Ghost Empire project series explores the legacy of British colonialism on LGBTQ+ rights around the world.

Patricia Silva BRIGHT VIGNETTES: HOW ASTOIA GOT ITS PRIDE (USA, 80 minutes)
The first film about Astoria’s Queer culture begins outdoors in the playful sensorium of a historical cruising site from the 1800s onward, and ends in a Queer club with a call to action for the most vulnerable, five months before the 2024 presidential election in the U.S. New York City is home to The Stonewall Inn, the site of a protest in June of 1969 that galvanized the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the U.S. In this same city, there are neighborhoods celebrating their first public Pride events into the 2020s. This is the story of one of those neighborhoods.

SHORT FILMS

Michael Gaiso & Oisin Cunningham THE WHISPERS OF THE WENDIGO (USA, 7 minutes)
Patricia Holihan PLEASE, STOP! (USA, 15 minutes)
Anthony Mulcahy OFF THE RECORD (USA, 16 minutes)
Helene Sevaux FOUR HANDS (France, 17 minutes)
Carsten Fuhrmann ECHO (Germany, 20 minutes)
Jawanza Bakari & Carleton King TOP VIEW FROM THE BOTTOM (USA, 26 minutes)
Daniel Cinema DERAILMENT (USA, 30 minutes)

FEATURES

Isabel Diaz Novo LADY EVEREST (Spain, 59 minutes)
Fifty years ago, on May 16, 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei achieved what no woman had ever done before: she set foot on the summit of all summits, Mount Everest. She arrived twelve days after nearly dying in an avalanche at 6,300 meters while she was sleeping.

Luz Maria Mansilla Perez HACIA LE INVISIBLE (Chile, 65 minutes)
Samuel, a low-profile literature teacher—solitary and devoted to books—is engaged in a search for meaning. By mistake, he receives a book titled The Sculpture of the Void, which triggers a personal quest through the art of sculpture. Determined to become an apprentice, and with the support of his friend Sofía, who acts as his ally, Samuel places himself under the guidance of a wise master.

Bishop Stevens BLOOD IN BATON ROUGE: VOL 1 DERRICK TODD LEE (USA, 92 minutes)
A historic narrative feature inspired by real events — the first true-crime film centered on an African American serial killer. This motion picture is inspired by real events..