American Doctor
When three American doctors — Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian — enter Gaza to save lives, they find themselves caught between medicine and politics, risking everything to expose the truth.
Babi Yar. Context
Nazi troops massacre 33,771 Jews in Kyiv over a two-day period in September 1941.
Certain Women
Triptych of stories about women in small-town America.

D

Donbass
In the Donbass, a region of Eastern Ukraine, a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by separatist gangs.
First Cow
A cook with a group of fur trappers strikes up a connection with a Chinese emigre in the Old West.
From Dawn To Dawn
Observes a man torn between criminal heritage, familial duty and a search for moral clarity.
Heat
After envisioning a near future in which climate change disrupts lives and relationships in Don’t Let the Sun, Zünd seeks out that same dystopia in the real world.

I

The Illusion Of A Quiet Night
Filmed during one night in July 2025 by forty filmmakers and hundreds of citizens, The Illusion of a Quiet Night paints a vast collective portrait of war-torn Ukraine.
The Invasion
Life in Ukraine under the shadow of war.
Jaripeo
A journey to Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos descends into the subconscious of memory, queer desire, and longing, leading to a reckoning with the wounds and beauty of a home left behind.
The Kiev Trial
A forensic reconstruction of the trial of 15 people which took place in January of 1946 in the Soviet Union, and was one of the first post-war trials convicting German Nazis and their collaborators.

M

Maidan
A documentary about the unrest in Ukraine in 2013 and 2014.
The Mastermind
In a quiet corner of Massachusetts circa 1970, JB Mooney, an unemployed carpenter turned amateur art thief, plots his first major heist. But when things go south, his life is turned upside down.
Meek's Cutoff
Drama tracks a wagon train on the 1840s Oregon Trail.
Nuisance Bear
A polar bear is forced to navigate a human world of tourists, wildlife officers, and hunters as its ancient migration collides with modern life. When a sacred predator is branded a nuisance, it becomes unclear who truly belongs in this shared landscape.
Old Joy
Two friends go camping in Oregon. They take the dog. They have a hot bath in the woods. They come home.

R

Sirât
A father arrives at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco with his son, looking for his daughter who has been missing for months.
To Hold A Mountain
In the remote highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and daughter proudly defend their ancestral mountain from the threat of becoming a NATO military training ground, stirring memories of the violence that shattered their family.

V

Wendy And Lucy
Drama about a young woman's attempts to find her lost dog.
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