Panorama - Essentials
Always paints an honest, tender, and poetic portrait of the modest daily life of Youbin Gong, a young and talented poet, and his family as farmers in the mountains of Hunan.
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
This film uses the exploitation of coltan to reappropriate colonial archives, building an eloquent reflexive dialogue between the legacy of the past and the current reality.
COLTAN
- Petna Ndaliko Katondolo
- 2025
- Democratic Republic of Congo, United States
- s.t. French or English
- 37 min
Focus Taiwan: Beyond the Frame
In the form of a digital stroll, this short uses images taken from the web to map Kinmen, the Taiwanese island and childhood home of artist Erica Sheu.
DON'T BE AFRAID LET IT SHOW
- Erica Sheu
- 2021
- Taiwan, United States
- s.t. English
- 7 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Nurtured by the mythology of Zora, the Slavic goddess of dawn, and inspired by the filmmaker's grandmothers, this short film pays tribute to women warriors throughout history.
DRAGICA, DANICA, DUšKA / OR / WHEN ZORA, THE GODDESS OF DAWN, OPENS THE GATES OF HEAVEN FOR SUN TO EMERGE
- Iva Radivojevic
- 2025
- United States, Kosovo
- s.t. English
- 10 min
International Feature Competition
In a rare fusion of art and pedagogy, this compelling essay exposes the invisible hand of the John M. Olin Foundation behind the trickling down (neo)conservatism in the United States.
Focus Taiwan: Beyond the Frame
The first work in a collaboration between Erica Sheu and Tzuan Wu, this short film attempts to reconcile the emotions evoked by various images shot in Taiwan and the United States.
FUR FILM VOL.1: I DON'T OWN A CAT
- Tzuan WU, Erica Sheu
- 2021
- Taiwan, United States
- s.t. English
- 8 min
New Visions Competition
Between wildfire and pointillist landscapes, In the Manner of Smoke traces the delicate rhythms of seeing, where images linger, shift, and dissolve like drifting smoke.
IN THE MANNER OF SMOKE
- Armand Yervant Tufenkian
- 2025
- United States, United Kingdom
- s.t. French
- 90 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Freely exploring a fragmented reflection on identity, family, and belonging, this touching, playful film weaves together an intergenerational family memory.
LANDSCAPES OF LONGING
- Alisha Tejpal, Mireya Martinez, Anoushka Mirchandani
- 2025
- India, United States
- s.t. French or English
- 15 min
Panorama - Essentials
Little, Big, and Far follows Karl, a 70-year-old astronomer, as he journeys from Vienna to a Greek island, seeking dark skies to reflect on stars, memory, love, and the ties that bind life.
LITTLE, BIG, AND FAR
- Jem Cohen
- 2025
- Austria, United States
- s.t. English
- 121 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Marratein, Marratein lingers between Beirut and Detroit, weaving memory and reflection into a meditation on belonging, heritage, and the echoes of diaspora.
MARRATEIN, MARRATEIN
- Julia Yezbick
- 2025
- United States, Lebanon
- s.t. Français et arabe
- 25 min
Panorama - Against the Grain
Sky Hopinka’s Powwow People reveals the powwow in a cinematic space, capturing a vivacious celebration where dance, music, and testimony embody Indigenous community and presence.
POWWOW PEOPLE
- Sky Hopinka
- 2025
- United States
- 88 min
International Short and Medium-Length Competition
Through experiments bridging film and wood engraving, craftswoman Chen Meiqi's anecdotes tell the story of this Chinese art form.