A short experimental documentary that interrogates how the modernization of parks and playgrounds in Long Branch (a neighbourhood in South Etobicoke in Toronto, Canada) both reflects and contributes to the overall rise in the cost of living in the area by exploring children's relationships to the community spaces around them. The film includes footage from four local parks and playgrounds, personal archival materials, interviews with five South Etobicoke locals, and an art-based workshop at a local junior middle school.
The Last Caucus is a mockumentary that follows an ensemble cast through the year leading up to the most important part of the Democratic presidential process. Instead of solely focusing on the presidential candidates who are vying for the White House, The Last Caucus follows an ensemble cast of fictionalized campaign staffers, DNC representatives, and plenty of local Iowans leading up to the eventful day.
Broken Courage is a film about memory, history and reconciliation. It's about how trauma has touched us all, the interconnectivity of stories and their power to heal. Meet Suon Rottana, a teenage Khmer Rouge rebel, a soldier with the Cambodian army, a prisoner of war and a landmine amputee. Suon is now a wounded man looking for redemption and reconciliation. His journey of reflection led him to share his story as a tour guide at several memorial war museums just outside the majestic temples of Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia.
For Estonian-based filmmaker Volia Chaikouskaya, the 2020 Belarus uprising was not just news – it was personal. While thousands in Minsk rose up against the brutal regime of Alexander Lukashenko and rallied behind opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Volia felt the same pulse across borders. Unable to return home, she became both observer and participant, organising solidarity actions in Tallinn and gradually stepping into her own film as a subject. At the heart of the story are three women – Sviatlana, Nadzeya, and Masha – whose husbands were jailed as political prisoners and who themselves emerged as central figures of the movement. Their fearless defiance against dictatorship mirrored Volia’s own struggle to break free from the inherited fear of silencing, repression, and exile.
The wolves are returning to a barren region in the Croatian-Dalmatian hinterland. Though the tourist destinations of the Adriatic coast are less than half an hour away, people in the deserted villages of Bukovica believe that "Brussels" represents evil and flies the wolves over by helicopter. Ana, a dedicated veterinarian, attempts to refute these theories and engage with the people on the ground.
Come and meet the achievements of the biological corridor between the Susua and Maricao forests of the "Puerto Rico Joint Chiefs' Landscape Restoration Partnership"
After Myanmar’s military coup attempt in February 2021, a young transgender woman joins the pro-democracy movement. Her activism leads to imprisonment, where she endures torture and harassment at the hands of soldiers. Yet, even behind bars, she refuses to surrender, continuing her fight against the regime to the very end.
Ultramarathon open water swimmer and painter Katie Pumphrey hopes to become the first person to swim 24 miles from the Chesapeake Bay Bridge to Baltimore's newly swimmable Inner Harbor. As she trains for and promotes this difficult swim, Pumphrey must face a public who thinks she’s crazy to swim in the historically polluted waters.
From Courtroom to Capital: Lincoln’s Path to the Presidency is a short film about Abraham Lincoln’s time as a lawyer in Illinois. The film examines how Lincoln’s legal career helped launch him to the Presidency in 1860 and how he utilized his legal training as President. The film was created by the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area in collaboration with the Abraham Lincoln Association.
Ski mountaineer Andrzej Bargiel becomes the first person to climb Mount Everest and ski back to Everest Base Camp without supplementary oxygen. After nearly 16 hours climbing in the high altitude “death zone” (above 8,000m where oxygen levels are dangerously low), Bargiel clipped into his skis on the summit of the tallest mountain on earth and started his descent via the South Col Route. He reached Camp II that night and rested - the summit ridge and Hillary Step had taken longer than planned, meaning darkness made it dangerous and difficult to navigate further that day. The next morning, he skied through the treacherous Khumbu Icefall - guided by a drone flown by his brother, Bartek - before safely arriving at Base Camp to become the first person to ascend and descend Mount Everest on skis with no supplementary oxygen.
A whisper in the white. A reckoning in silence. Where stillness is louder than words. Where the mountain speaks – and you listen. A descent through fear and forgiveness. The new short film by the FFF audience favorites should not have been made this way, but sometimes life takes over. And it wouldn’t be our Weger Brothers if they hadn’t accepted this invitation from life and shared their reflections on a life-changing experience with us.
A lifelong resident of a small Oklahoma town desires to revitalize his dying community by erecting a giant 50-foot-tall leg lamp in the heart of main street. What started out as a holiday tourist trap would ultimately unleash a conflict that would nearly tear the small town apart. From city council outbursts to accusations of objectification and fraudulent spending, viral news coverage to Warner Brothers cease-and-desist, this is a dramatic yet hilarious documentary all based around a five story "major award."
A young woman leaves for New York to collect the belongings of her deceased great aunt Gea Koenig, slowly growing to understand the art and meaning of preserving moments through photographs.