Dir: Scott Faris
16:47
United States

Decades after leaving Appalachia, a daughter returns to eastern Kentucky to excavate her father’s remarkable filmmaking legacy - as the founder of Appalshop - and examine the pull home still has on her.

Dir: Ted Stenson
13:17
Canada

A look into the career of Richard Reeves, an animator committed to using physical film instead of modern digital animation techniques. He teaches a workshop that he hopes will inspire creativity and nonconformity within the medium of animation. 

Dir: Emma Masters, Dean Munuggullumurr Yibarbuk
18:0
Australia

Conservationist Dean Yibarbuk and the indigenous Bininj Nawarddeken people narrate their conservation efforts and history in their native land of Kuwarddewardde. They combine western science and their great traditional ecological knowledge to enrich and preserve the territory for the sake of the land and the people, preventing events like devastating wildfires. 

Dir: Lucia Lambarri Barberis
9:00
Peru

This visual essay combines animation and live-action footage to guide the audience through the Andean mountains and snowy peaks of Cusco, Peru. The film reflects on the director’s walking as a means to embrace life’s fragility and constant transformation.

Dir: Florian Rudolph, Kyrylo Alferiev, Yueqi Wu
11:11
Germany

A Chinese, a Ukrainian and a Swiss walk into a small town in East Germany. They are doing location scouting for the construction of a post-apocalypse shelter. However, they soon find out that the apocalypse is different from what they have been informed about.

Dir: Yoontaek Hong
13:53
United States

An 89-year-old Korean immigrant volunteers at a senior center and reflects on his life’s journey with his beloved wife.