2026 Feature Films

Two Asian American dancers try to persuade the world’s leading ballet companies to jettison Asian stereotypes, including dancing in yellowface. Georgina Pazcoguin and Phil Chan battle entrenched tradition and political pushback.

An American Storyteller: The Art of Arnold Friberg is a captivating documentary exploring the life, faith, and legacy of one of the most iconic illustrators of the 20th century.

An archaeologist’s journey deep into the remote wilderness of northwestern China in search of long-lost ancient tombs leads to the discovery of a ruthless tomb raiding operation. He infiltrates the black market unraveling a network of corrupt dealers and complicit museums to protect a priceless treasure.

The film provides access to the private exposure therapy sessions of Tiffany Jenkins – a comic and author with millions of social media followers – as she confronts her deepest fears with grit and self-deprecating humor.

Two friends, connected by family histories on opposite sides of World War II, set out to explore the lasting trauma of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. While Japanese hibakusha endure lifelong health complications and psychological scars, American atomic veterans who witnessed the bombings’ aftermath also struggle with radiation-related illnesses and PTSD.

Kinga Michalska is a Polish queer visual artist and filmmaker based in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. Their work examines issues of memory, identity, displacement, and things that haunt us.

BEFORE THE MOON FALLS was an intimate portrait of acclaimed Samoan writer Sia Figiel eight years in the making when tragedy struck. Now the film offers an in-depth and thought-provoking look at Sia’s tumultuous journey leading to that traumatic moment, illuminating the complexities of inconsistently treated mental illness and the devastating toll it can exact on individuals, families and entire communities.

Adolph Gasser contemplates the life of being a camera repairman, WWII veteran, inventor, best friend of legendary photographer Ansel Adams and owner of a business that supports local filmmakers and employees to flourish as artists and innovators. With threats of eminent domain, technology shifts and new business model challenges he fights for the survival of his San Francisco based Adolph Gasser Incorporated store.

Better Up There, a 45-minute film portrait, is the moving story of a unique life, that of Léo Slemett. Through his rise in the world of freeride skiing, Léo wages an incessant battle against adversity to pursue his dreams and push his limits. In the grandiose setting of the high mountains and the Freeride World Tour, we see Léo face incredible challenges and setbacks. We observe how the loss of his two life partners shapes Léo’s life, how he learns to live with this pain and continues to move forward.

Italy’s oldest Carnival, memories, footages, a very powerful imagery rooted over the centuries in one city: Fano. A tradition, that of papier-mâché, and its float masters who, generation after generation, have been able to blend creativity, engineering and manual skills to build those traveling stages called floats.

A documentary of speed, loss, and the angels that keep us moving. 62-year-old Vaughn Shafer comes out of retirement in a bold attempt to reclaim his title as the fastest man on a motorized skateboard. What begins as a comeback story quickly spirals into chaos as his crew battles setbacks at the track and the loss of one of their own.

Dust & Color follows nine artists from the United States, Canada, Brazil, and Bolivia as they navigate the complex intersection of creativity and meaning through vulnerability and honest questioning. From Scott Erickson’s reimagined visual language in Seattle to Paulo Nazareth’s community-building music in São Paulo, these creators demonstrate that the most profound encounters with purpose emerge from embracing uncertainty rather than proclaiming easy answers.

A daughter pieces together her father’s life — weaving the story of his remarkable journey from the streets of India with the realities of life in the United States. Using home movies past and present, she creates a visual diary to explore the American dream, love and loss, and the human capacity to survive.

The discovery of a sixty-foot man-made hole on a California mountain implicates a small town’s unusual local industry in a bizarre unsolved crime. Abandoning the conventional investigative format, THE HOLE STORY unfolds as a multi-faceted oral history, immersing us in personal mythologies and painting a haunting and unsettling portrait of a community shaped by fringe belief.

Lehi High’s theater, a creative sanctuary led by Mindy Nelsen and fueled by Randy Blackburn’s selfless dedication, faces a bittersweet farewell. How will this loss reshape their cherished community?

Against the backdrop of the sixth mass extinction, an all-woman team of biologists set out to save bats from a deadly fungal disease, but when the COVID-19 pandemic interrupts their work, they are sent down a path of discovery that illuminates the connections between bat conservation and the spread of infectious disease.

LOVING JOHN is a deeply compassionate documentary that grapples with death and dying with vulnerable honesty and splashes of humor. John Godinet is an irrepressible Pacific Islander and ultra-runner living with his husband Peter in rural Maryland. He’s outrun abuse as a teenager and discrimination as an adult, but now has a new adversary: ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease).

In April 2024, Houlton, Maine – a town of 6,000 – was the final destination in the United States to see the 2024 total solar eclipse, and the people of Houlton expected tens of thousands of visitors to descend upon their home to witness this once-in-a-lifetime astronomical event. Filmmakers Mia Weinberger and Thomas van Kalken captured the community of Houlton as they came together to host an influx of strangers and celebrate an incredibly rare privilege: living in the Path Of Totality.

A woman who decides not to have children embarks on a journey to donate her frozen eggs while documenting the personal stories of other childless women, exploring the diverse reasons behind their choices.

Award-winning journalist Jane Clayson Johnson embarks on a transformative journey across Africa to unveil a compelling narrative of faith, resilience, and triumph. “Pathway to Hope” tells the story of a groundbreaking that endeavors to bring higher education to people who once believed a university degree was beyond their reach.

Martin Greenfield learned to sew while mending shirts for the Gestapo in Auschwitz when he was fifteen, and went on to make suits for US presidents and stars. This is the story of America’s greatest tailor, and the bespoke menswear empire he left behind.

The Reformers is the behind-the-scenes documentary on the infamous Grievance Studies Affair — a provocative experiment that shook academia to its core. Convinced that the cultural studies departments of universities throughout the Western World are laundering poorly researched activism through peer review, a small team of academic outsiders devises a bold plan to expose the problem from within.

With the LA 2028 Paralympics as its backdrop, Rising Phoenix: A New Revolution positions the Games as more than just a sporting event—it’s a revolutionary platform for reimagining how the world views disability. The film explores the lives of Paralympic athletes.

An ambitious spiritual leader, Abbot Onekeo Sittivong defied convention by establishing a new school for the his country’s poor and undereducated children. But something else is happening at this school in a misty forest. The abbot and his fellow saffron-robed monks and young novices are working tirelessly to revitalize ancient Lao Theravada Buddhist practices and education almost lost to history.

Journey back to when mammoths, camels and saber-toothed cats roamed the ancient shores of Lake Bonneville and witness its transformation into Great Salt Lake, caused by one of the largest floods in history! Be immersed in a rare ecosystem where unusual creatures thrive in waters five times saltier than the ocean. Yet, the source of the Lake is freshwater!

Eritrean refugee, Shewit is just 16 when she arrives alone in Geneva. She wants to integrate herself into Switzerland to escape her past and the submissive fate that awaits her as a woman. Exile as a path towards emancipation. Yet, eight years on, she still holds no residence permit — her future hanging in the balance, caught in the hands of the Swiss authorities.

Through the lens of his own recovery, a filmmaker offers a character-driven look inside the billion dollar addiction treatment industry where young people are bought and sold for their insurance policies and ushered into a system designed to keep them sick. What begins as an investigation of a street-level scam, explodes to uncover systemic conflicts-of-interest and collusion at the highest levels of government.

A former child bride from a notorious polygamous sect in Utah escapes her painful past by creating a magical fantasy realm she calls Snowland. Within this artistic endeavor, which spans decades, is a metaphorical journey of lost innocence, survival and self-discovery.

A journey of rebirth and resilience through Japan’s wild north, surveying the landscape and inhabitants of the Michinoku Coastal Trail.

The story of Christopher Reeve is an astonishing rise from unknown actor to iconic movie star, and his definitive portrayal of Clark Kent/Superman set the benchmark for the superhero cinematic universes that dominate cinema today. Reeve portrayed the Man of Steel in four Superman films and played dozens of other roles that displayed his talent and range as an actor, before being injured in a near-fatal horse-riding accident in 1995 that left him paralyzed from the neck down.

Mounting pressures – including an unsolved family murder – test a close-knit rural community. Between the temptation to give up and the urge to hold on, the film lingers on what it means to come of age in a place left behind. “Haunting, quietly searing, hard to forget.” – Arlie Hochschild, Author, Strangers in Their Own Land

“Voices: The Danny Gans Story” is a poignant and personal exploration of a son’s journey to understand his father. Andrew Gans, son of the renowned Las Vegas entertainer, Danny Gans, embarks on an intimate exploration of his father’s inspiring, improbable life and the circumstances surrounding his untimely passing.