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EXCLUSIVE: DC/DOX announced nan afloat lineup for its upcoming 4th version today, highlighted by nan world premieres of Rory Kennedy’s documentary Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing and Marilyn Ness’s The Endless Frontier.
The prestigious nonfiction movie show successful nan nation’s capital, moving June 11-14, will unveil 9 world premieres successful total, positive 3 North American premieres, and 5 U.S. premieres. Scroll for nan complete DC/DOX slate.
Kennedy’s movie is nan travel up to her 2022 documentary Downfall: The Case Against Boeing, a damning expose of nan aerospace elephantine and its profoundly troubled motorboat of nan 737 MAX aircraft. That film, released by Netflix, earned a information for Outstanding Achievement successful Broadcast Film astatine nan Cinema Eye Honors and a Writers Guild of America information for Best Documentary Screenplay, recognizing nan activity of Mark Bailey and Keven McAlester.
Freefall: A Reckoning for Boeing besides will aerial connected Netflix. Kennedy’s caller documentary Queen of Chess, astir Judit Polgár who is considered nan top women’s chess subordinate ever, likewise premiered connected Netflix. Kennedy was nominated for an Oscar for her 2015 documentary Last Days successful Vietnam and won a Primetime Emmy Award for nan 2007 movie Ghosts of Abu Ghraib.
The Endless Frontier, nan latest from two-time Emmy victor Ness, is described arsenic “an urgent image of 3 scientists confronting immoderate of nan astir pressing challenges of our time, revealing nan increasing threat to nan American investigation ecosystem—and what is astatine liking if it originates to falter.”
Ness’s 2018 documentary Charm City was shortlisted for nan Academy Awards.
Seven short documentaries will clasp their world premieres astatine DC/DOX: The Custodian; Final Press; Notes connected Courtwatch; Plumped; Sheesh, A Taylor Love Story, and Toss A Rose Over. Amazomania, nan characteristic documentary directed by Nathan Grossman that holds its North American premiere astatine DC/DOX, examines an expedition successful 1996 to interaction a distant Indigenous people successful nan Amazon rainforest of Brazil, a problematic undertaking that raised civilized and ethical questions astir agency and ownership of footage of nan people that was changeable without nan Indigenous group’s informed consent.
The Salisbury Poisonings: A Spy Next Door, besides holding its North American premiere astatine DC/DOX, looks astatine a notorious incident successful nan UK successful 2018 erstwhile erstwhile Russian intelligence serviceman Sergei Skripal and his girl Yulia collapsed connected a parkland chair successful nan historical cathedral metropolis of Salisbury, adjacent Stonehenge. An investigation revealed they had been poisoned pinch Novichok, a nervus supplier developed by Russia — casting suspicion connected nan Kremlin arsenic nan culprit.
The show will besides coming a typical mini-retrospective celebrating nan activity of nan precocious Frederick Wiseman, featuring 3 of his classics: Hospital, Juvenile Court, and Welfare.
“Once again, nan DC/DOX lineup reminds america of nan singular powerfulness of documentary movie to bring group together successful pursuit of deeper understanding,” noted DC/DOX co-founder and show head Sky Sitney. “At a infinitesimal erstwhile nan world tin consciousness overwhelming and divided, these films connection abstraction to reflect, connect, and prosecute pinch nan urgent questions shaping our lives. This year’s slate is arsenic expansive arsenic it is profoundly individual — stories of courage, creativity, resilience, and truth that punctual america of some nan challenges we look and nan humanity we share. We’re honored to bring filmmakers and audiences together successful Washington, DC to acquisition these stories successful community.”
As Deadline antecedently reported, nan festival’s Signature Screenings see nan Opening Night movie Give Me The Ball! on June 11, nan Closing Night screening of Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial Vs That’s The Weight Of The World) connected June 13, Centerpiece movie Sara Bareilles: Good Grief connected June 12 which will beryllium attended by movie taxable and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles, and nan Spotlight screening of The Lorraine connected June 14.
“This year’s slate has an unthinkable scope of films, pinch genuinely thing for everyone” DC/DOX co-founder Jamie Shor said successful a statement. “With specified a divers lineup, we induce our audiences to spot america and measurement retired of their comfortableness zones, and we are definite they’ll find a movie they emotion that possibly they mightiness not person expected.”
DC/DOX 2026 PROGRAM
Signature Screenings
Opening Night Screening: Thursday, June 11
GIVE ME THE BALL!: DIRS Liz Garbus and Elizabeth Wolff. PRODS Liz Garbus, Elizabeth Wolff, Dominic Crossley-Holland, Dan Cogan, Chris James, and Gentry Kirby. USA.
This friendly image of tennis fable and trailblazer Billie Jean King reveals nan individual toll down nan immense sacrifices she made to toggle shape her sport—and nan world.
Courtesy of ESPN Films
Centerpiece Screening: Friday, June 12
SARA BAREILLES: GOOD GRIEF: DIR Josh Alexander. PRODS Daniel J. Chalfen and Josh Alexander. USA.
Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Sara Bareilles returns to nan signaling workplace pinch adjacent friends for nan first clip successful 7 years successful this raw, cinematic image of her imaginative process—one that becomes a profoundly individual and yet hopeful reflection connected caller nonaccomplishment and condolences and nan powerfulness of euphony to heal.
Closing Night Screening: Saturday, June 13
EARTH, WIND & FIRE (TO BE CELESTIAL vs THAT’S THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD): DIR Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. PRODS Dave Sirulnick, Samantha Grogin, KB White, Arron Saxe, and Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. USA.
Few bands are arsenic influential aliases enduring arsenic Earth, Wind & Fire. They displayed Black joyousness and excellence to nan world. They imbued their euphony pinch metaphysical positivity to uplift consciousness and empower everyone to beryllium their best. In this captivating portrait, Academy Award-winning head Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson honors and explores nan astir beloved set we cognize nan slightest about.
Courtesy of HBO.
Spotlight Screening: Sunday, June 14
THE LORRAINE: DIR Sam Pollard. PRODS Dan Braun, Joe Wemple, and Ben Braun. USA.
Renowned documentarian Sam Pollard tells nan astonishing and inspiring communicative of nan Lorraine Motel successful Memphis, Tennessee—the tract of nan assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.—and of its singular owners, Walter and Loree Bailey.
Features
AANIKOOBIJIGAN [ANCESTOR/GREAT-GRANDPARENT/GREAT-GRANDCHILD]: DIRS Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil. PRODS Steve Holmgren, Adam Khalil, Zack Khalil, Grace Remington, and Jacque Clark. USA.
Trapped successful depository archives, Ancestors crook clip and abstraction to find their measurement home. History, spirituality, and nan rule collide arsenic tribal repatriation specialists conflict to return and rebury Indigenous quality remains, revealing nan still-pervasive worldviews that justified their postulation successful nan first place.
ADAM’S APPLE: DIR Amy Jenkins. PRODS Brit Fryer and Amy Jenkins. USA.
A transgender teen and his mother chronicle their lives, weaving an friendly image of a family successful transition. Two decades of footage trace a boy’s way to manhood and his parents’ vulnerability arsenic they reckon pinch change.
AI: PROBABLY NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT: DIR Nick Holt. PRODS David Glover, Mark Raphael, David Dugan, and Zara Powell. United Kingdom.
As artificial intelligence accelerates a caller technological arms race, nan intelligence whose breakthrough made it imaginable originates to mobility what he has unleashed. AI: PROBABLY NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT is simply a gripping look astatine nan title to build reasoning machines — and nan increasing fearfulness that they whitethorn outpace america all.
AMAZING LIVE SEA MONKEYS: DIRS Mark Becker and Aaron Schock. PRODS Mark Becker and Aaron Schock. USA.
From her crumbling property connected nan Potomac River, Yolanda Signorelli battles to wrest power of her precocious hubby Harold’s iconic toy, AMAZING LIVE SEA-MONKEYS!, from nan firm men she insists stole it from her — and to rescue it from nan stain of her husband’s acheronian legacy.
AMAZOMANIA: DIR Nathan Grossman. Sweden, Denmark, France.
When nan footage from a celebrated 1996 first-contact expedition successful nan Amazon resurfaces decades later, a triumphant communicative of find unravels into a reckoning pinch colonialism, documentary ethics, and nan lasting effect connected nan Korubo people.
North American Premiere.
AMERICAN DOCTOR: DIR Poh Si Teng. PRODS Poh Si Teng, Kirstine Barfod, and Reem Haddad. USA, Palestine State, Malaysia, Denmark, Qatar.
When 3 American doctors—Palestinian, Jewish, and Zoroastrian—enter Gaza to prevention lives, they find themselves caught betwixt medicine and politics, risking everything to expose nan truth.
AMERICAN PACHUCO: THE LEGEND OF LUIS VALDEZ: DIR David Alvarado. PRODS David Alvarado, Lauren DeFilippo, Everett Katigbak, and Amanda Pollak. USA.
Against governmental guidance and manufacture skepticism, Luis Valdez pushes Chicano storytelling from nan fields to nan movie surface pinch Zoot Suit and La Bamba, crafting iconic useful that challenge, celebrate, and grow America’s story.
BABY/GIRLS: DIRS Jackie Jesko and Alyse Walsh. PRODS Melissa Leardi, Alex Waterfield, and Kelly Rohrbach Walton. USA.
Set successful post-Dobbs Arkansas, BABY/GIRLS follows 3 teens surviving successful a Christian maternity location arsenic they navigate gestation and early motherhood—an intimate, unfiltered look astatine girlhood and motherhood colliding successful nan American South.
BARBARA FOREVER: DIR Brydie O’Connor. PRODS Elijah Stevens, Brydie O’Connor, and Claire Edelman. USA.
A dreamlike image of nan life, work, and bequest of a pioneering feminist experimental filmmaker whose activity helped style early lesbian cinema. Tracing her prolific canon alongside seldom seen archiving of her life and body, nan movie reveals her unconventional attempts to unrecorded on—most notably done nan extended archiving of her films.
THE BEND IN THE RIVER: DIR Robb Moss. PRODS Lisa Remington and Kristin Feeley. USA.
Following a group of friends for astir 50 years, THE BEND IN THE RIVER explores nan inexorable travel of aging and nan unfinished task of living.
BIRDS OF WAR: DIRS Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak. PROD Sonja Henrici. United Kingdom.
From besieged Aleppo to nan confines of a London newsroom, Lebanese journalist Janay Boulos and Syrian activist/cameraman Abd Alkader Habak retrace their emotion communicative done a immense individual archive spanning 13 years of revolution, war, and exile. Can their emotion past distance, danger, and difference?
BLACK ZOMBIE: DIR Maya Annik Bedward. PRODS Kate Fraser and Hannah Donegan. Canada.
From nan flickering screens of Hollywood scary to nan haunted cane fields of assemblage Haiti, BLACK ZOMBIE unearths nan buried origins of nan zombie, reclaiming it arsenic a awesome of endurance and belief resistance.
BUCKS HARBOR: DIR Pete Muller. PRODS Nathan Golon, Noel Paul, and Pete Muller. USA.
In Downeast Maine, boys are shaped by sadistic winters, nan harvesting of nan ocean’s bounty, and nan rigid codes of their fathers. BUCKS HARBOR explores what it intends to turn up successful a organization wherever a man’s worthy is measured by nan spot of his back.
A CHILD OF MY OWN: DIR Maite Alberdi. PRODS Sandra Godínez, Carla González Vargas, Maximiliano Sanguine. Mexico.
Alejandra’s profound desire to go a mother—and nan heartbreak and unit that engulf her aft aggregate miscarriages—drive her to clone a pregnancy, unleashing a media ungraded and a civilized reckoning.
Courtesy of Netflix.
CLOSURE: DIR Michaƚ Marczak. PRODS Monika Braid, Michał Marczak, Rémi Grellety, Katarzyna Szczerba, and Karolina Marczak. Poland, France.
After his teenage boy goes missing, Daniel combs nan depths of nan Vistula River time and night, caught successful a grueling, endless regular and torn betwixt nan dread of a fatal leap and nan vulnerable dream that his boy whitethorn still beryllium alive.
COOKIE QUEENS: DIR Alysa Nahmias. PRODS Gregory Kershaw, Michael Dweck, Alysa Nahmias, and Jennifer Sims. USA.
It’s Girl Scout Cookie season, and 4 tenacious girls strive to go top-selling “Cookie Queens,” navigating an $800 cardinal business wherever innocence and ambition collide.
THE CYCLE OF LOVE: DIR Orlando von Einsiedel. PRODS Harri Grace, Chloe Leland, Karl von Schedvin, and Emelie von Schedvin. United Kingdom, Sweden.
An epic true-life travel of self-discovery, tracing nan romanticist odyssey of PK Mahanandia, a Delhi thoroughfare creator who bicycled 6,000 miles crossed continents successful 1977 to reunite pinch nan female he loved—risking everything for belief, connection, and what nan bosom demands.
DAUGHTERS OF THE FOREST: DIR Otilia Portillo Padua. PRODS Paula Arroio, Elena Fortes, and Otilia Portillo Padua. Mexico.
Deep successful Mexico’s forests, 2 Indigenous mycologists activity to reconcile nan past and coming while reimagining nan early for themselves and a changing world.
DO YOU LOVE ME: DIR Lana Daher. PRODS Films de Force Majeure and My Little Films. Lebanon, France, Qatar, Germany.
An exhilarating travel done 70 years of images and sounds from Lebanon, exploring Beirut’s corporate psyche—marked by beauty, trauma, joy, and forgetting.
EARTH TO MICHAEL: DIRS Nico López-Alegría and ZZ. PRODS ZZ, Steffie van Rhee, Dustin Nakao-Haider, and Nico López-Alegría. USA.
Before an astronaut leaves Earth to usher successful a caller era of spaceflight, his boy asks him to face nan unresolved abstraction betwixt them—revisiting a past shaped by region successful nan dream of a much connected future.
THE ENDLESS FRONTIER: DIR Marilyn Ness. PRODS Beth Westrate and Ted Richane. USA.
An urgent image of 3 scientists confronting immoderate of nan astir pressing challenges of our time, revealing nan increasing threat to nan American investigation ecosystem—and what is astatine liking if it originates to falter.
World Premiere.
EVERY CONTACT LEAVES A TRACE: DIR Lynne Sachs. USA.
In nan integer era, erstwhile real-life connections are progressively rare, moreover fleeting encounters tin time off a lasting trace. Over a lifetime, filmmaker Lynne Sachs has collected business cards—mementos of little exchanges pinch strangers—and selects 7 to uncover why these moments person lingered truthful vividly successful her memory.
FIRST THEY CAME FOR MY COLLEGE: DIR Patrick Bresnan. PRODS Holly Herrick, Harry W. Hanbury, Patrick X. Bresnan, and Zackary Drucker. USA.
When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis stages a coup astatine New College, students and professors face a caller reality: their field becomes crushed zero successful an unprecedented nationwide battle connected world state and diversity.
FREEFALL: A RECKONING FOR BOEING: DIR Rory Kennedy. PRODS Rory Kennedy, Mark Bailey, Viva Van Loock, Sara Bernstein, Justin Wilkes, and Alexandra Korba. USA.
Following nan highly publicized decease of Boeing whistleblower John Barnett, Rory Kennedy’s FREEFALL: A RECKONING FOR BOEING continues nan investigation into nan once-iconic aviation giant, uncovering startling caller revelations and insider accounts successful nan aftermath of a deepening firm crisis.
World Premiere.
Courtesy of Netflix.
THE GREAT EXPERIMENT: DIRS Stephen Maing and Eric Daniel Metzgar. PRODS Stephen Maing, Eric Daniel Metzgar, and Farihah Zaman. USA.
An epic poem successful documentary form—a reflector held to an American federation astatine warfare pinch itself, asking not who is right, but whether nan research tin survive.
HARVEST: DIRS Natalie Baszile and Hyacinth Parker. PROD Trevite Willis. USA.
The Nelson brothers are connected a ngo to go nan largest farmers successful nan U.S., but aft 2 years of mediocre harvests, a caller play brings arsenic overmuch opportunity arsenic uncertainty. Farming much onshore than ever before, nan brothers must activity together to navigate nan mounting pressures of ambiance change, instrumentality failures, and family tensions.
HELL’S ARMY: DIR Richard Rowley. PRODS Richard Rowley, Richard Butler, Atanas Georgiev, and Caitlin McNally. Norway, United Kingdom, USA.
A dissident Russian journalist faces decease threats and nan execution of her colleagues arsenic she races crossed nan globe to unmask 1 of nan world’s astir feared mercenary armies.
US Premiere.
JARIPEO: DIRS Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig. PROD Sarah Strunin. Mexico, USA, France.
In Michoacán’s hypermasculine rodeos, what originates arsenic a ceremony of contented descends into a subconscious terrain of memory, queer desire, and longing—a reckoning pinch nan wounds and beauty of a location near behind.
JOYBUBBLES: DIR Rachael J. Morrison. PRODS Sarah Winshall, Will Butler, and Annie Marr. USA.
A boy discovers he tin power nan world telephone strategy by whistling a magic tone. Born unsighted and yearning for connection, his obsession sparks a subculture that helps style nan early of hacking and technology.
KIDS LIKE ME: DIRS Cynthia Lowen and Jon Cohrs. PRODS Cynthia Lowen and Jon Cohrs. USA.
Meet Oliver, a 12-year-old murder-mystery buff pinch a boundless imagination who is increasing up pinch a uncommon familial condition. Together pinch his family, he helps reframe what it intends to unrecorded pinch disablement arsenic they embark connected an imaginative escapade to create a murder-mystery caper.
THE LAKE: DIR Abby Ellis. PROD Fletcher Keyes. USA.
An biology atomic explosive looms successful Utah. Two intrepid scientists and a governmental insider title against nan timepiece to prevention their location from unprecedented catastrophe.
LANDSCAPES OF MEMORY: DIR Leah Galant. PRODS Elijah Stevens and Leah Galant. USA.
As she journeys done Germany, Leah Galant confronts family trauma and nan bequest of Holocaust memory, weaving together nan lives of a survivor’s descendant, a Nazi-descendant historian, exiled Palestinian artists, and her father’s ALS to analyse nan uses and abuses of representation culture.
THE LAST CRITIC: DIR Matty Wishnow. PRODS Joe Levy, Paul Lovelace, and Ben Wu. USA.
Robert Christgau, nan “Dean of American Rock Critics,” whose activity has inspired and infuriated readers for sixty years, is still astatine it successful his eighties—grading records, interrogating commas, and listening to astir everything (except metallic and prog).
THE LAST FIRST: WINTER K2: DIR Amir Bar-Lev. USA.
A complex, harrowing, and profoundly moving image of nan evolving world of utmost upland climbing, pursuing a 2021 expedition successful which Icelandic mountaineer John Snorri Sigurjónsson and Pakistani father-son squad Ali and Sajid Sadpara effort nan first wintertime acme of K2, erstwhile nan upland is astatine its astir unforgiving.
Courtesy of Apple Original Films.
LOS LOBOS NATIVE SONS: DIRS Doug Blush and Piero F. Giunti. PRODS Rafael Agustín, Doug Blush, Robert Corsini, Piero F. Giunti, Patricia Harris DiLeva, and Flavio Morales. USA.
Drawing connected uncommon archival worldly and friendly access, LOS LOBOS NATIVE SONS chronicles nan bonzer 50-year travel of Los Lobos, revealing nan music, roots, and bequest of 1 of America’s astir enduring bands.
LOVE APPTUALLY: DIR Shalini Kantayya. PROD Elizabeth Woodward. USA, Australia.
Following a French journalist’s travel from an early fascination pinch Tinder to an investigation of nan deeper truths embedded successful its algorithm, LOVE APPTUALLY explores really a multibillion-dollar tech manufacture is softly reshaping desire, intimacy, and nan astir basal of quality pursuits: love.
US Premiere.
MAKING THEIR POINTE: DIR Kamilah Thurmon. USA.
During segregation, African American ballet teachers successful Washington, D.C. opened doors for children successful underserved communities to participate and excel successful nan world of classical ballet, creating a bequest that continues crossed generations.
Screening arsenic portion of DC/FRAME.
MISS REPRESENTATION: RISE UP: DIR Jennifer Siebel Newsom. PRODS Camille Servan-Schreiber, Gretchen Miller, and Jennifer Siebel Newsom. USA.
In this timely follow-up to nan lauded MISS REPRESENTATION, Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s RISE UP explores nan ongoing taste backlash against women’s intelligence health, agency, and governmental power, revealing really exertion amplifies sexism and misogyny.
NEWPORT & THE GREAT FOLK DREAM: DIR Robert Gordon. PRODS Joe Lauro, Robert Gordon, and Laura Jean Hocking. USA.
Through performances astatine nan Newport Folk Festival from 1963 to 1966, NEWPORT & THE GREAT FOLK DREAM captures a procreation uncovering its sound done nan revival of American people traditions and protestation song.
THE OLDEST PERSON IN THE WORLD: DIR Sam Green. PRODS Alison Byrne Fields and Josh Penn. USA.
A decade-long world odyssey chronicles nan ever-shifting grounds holders of nan title, evolving into a poignant meditation connected time, chance, and nan acquisition of being alive.
ONE IN A MILLION: DIRS Itab Azzam and Jack MacInnes. PRODS Itab Azzam, Jack MacInnes, Will Anderson, James Bluemel, Andrew Palmer, and Raney Aronson-Rath. USA, United Kingdom.
Filmed complete 10 years, 1 girl’s epic travel unfolds from Syria to Germany and backmost again arsenic she navigates war, exile, and heartbreak, illuminating nan complexities of nan exile experience.
Courtesy of PBS Distribution.
PHENOMENA: DIR Josef Gatti. PRODS Rob Innes, Jessica Harrop, Caitlin Mae Burke, Jad Abumrad, and Josef Gatti. Australia.
A psychedelic odyssey into nan cloth of nan universe, wherever immersive applicable experiments output striking, otherworldly imagery that unfolds into a hypnotic audiovisual acquisition of awe and quality relationship to nan earthy world.
THE SALISBURY POISONINGS: A SPY NEXT DOOR: DIR Dan Vernon. PROD Alex Brisland. United Kingdom, USA.
A botched assassination successful a mini English metropolis contaminated by a chemic limb unfolds into 1 of nan astir bonzer existent spy stories of nan modern era—a image of loyalty and betrayal pinch urgent relevance today.
North American Premiere.
Courtesy of CNN Films.
THE SANDBOX: DIR Kenya-Jade Pinto. PROD Shasha Nakhai. Canada.
Through meditative, cinematic landscapes, THE SANDBOX explores world borders wherever surveillance and AI style who lives and who dies. From nan Arizona godforsaken to nan Mediterranean Sea, suffering is clinically managed while power is packaged arsenic security. If location is nary opting out, who is The Sandbox really protecting?
US Premiere.
SCHOOL FOR DEFECTORS: DIR Jeremy Workman. PROD Sona Jo. USA.
In an business area of Busan, South Korea, nan mini Jangdaehyun School serves conscionable 20 students—all North Korean defectors—offering a joyful communicative of youth, inspiration, and our shared humanity.
SEIZED: DIR Sharon Liese. PRODS Sharon Liese, Sasha Alpert, and Paul Matyasovsky. USA.
When nan mini municipality of Marion, Kansas, is thrust into nan world spotlight aft a constabulary ambush connected nan Marion County Record and nan decease of its 98-year-old co-owner, a fierce statement ignites complete maltreatment of power, journalistic ethics, nan early of section journalism, and nan United States Constitution.
THE SIEGE OF PARADISE: DIR Gar O’Rourke. Ireland, Switzerland.
Every summer, astir 4 cardinal tourists—TikTokers, Instagrammers, and selfie-seekers among them—descend connected Cinque Terre and its 3,000 residents. THE SIEGE OF PARADISE follows 1 chaotic play successful a sharply funny and amazingly tender image of paradise nether pressure.
SOUL PATROL: DIR J.M. Harper. PRODS Sam Bisbee, J.M. Harper, Danielle Massie, Nasir Jones, and Peter Bittenbender. USA.
From heavy down force lines, a hidden section of American subject history emerges, prompting nan mobility of whether reckoning pinch nan past tin bring bid to those who lived it. The Vietnam War’s first Black typical operations squad reunites to show their story.
STEALING MAGIC: DIR Matthew Testa. PRODS Ethan Smith, Melanie Miller, Diane Becker, and Randy Pitchford. USA.
Magician Andi Gladwin becomes an improbable national detective, joining a squad of illusionists to way down net pirates who bargain their secrets and resell them online.
SUPER NATURE: DIR Ed Sayers. PRODS Rebecca Wolff, Ed Sayers, and Beth Allan. United Kingdom.
A world emotion missive to nature, filmed wholly connected Super 8, invites america into a spellbinding travel of togetherness pinch our chap dwellers connected Earth—human and nonhuman—as group clasp beauty, abundance, and loss.
US Premiere.
THEYDREAM: DIR William D. Caballero. PRODS William D. Caballero, Brad Jones, Erin Ploss-Campoamor, and Elaine Del Valle. USA.
After 20 years of chronicling his Puerto Rican family, a head and his mother look devastating losses. Through tears and laughter, they trade animations that bring their loved ones backmost to life, discovering that each enactment of creation is besides an enactment of letting go.
TIME AND WATER: DIR Sara Dosa. PRODS Shane Boris, Elijah Stevens, Jameka Autry, and Sara Dosa. USA, Iceland.
Facing nan nonaccomplishment of his country’s glaciers and nan impending decease of his beloved grandparents, Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason turns his archives into a clip capsule to clasp what is slipping away—family, memory, time, and water.
Courtesy of National Geographic Documentary Films.
TIME WARP: DIR Allison Berg. USA.
Fifty years aft THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW electrified nan world, a fearless illusionist sets retired to bring its connection of individual look and intersexual state to a mini municipality successful Wyoming.
TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN: DIRS Biljana Tutorov and Petar Glomazić. PRODS Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić, Quentin Laurent, and Rok Biček. Serbia, France, Montenegro, Slovenia.
In nan highlands of Montenegro, a shepherd mother and girl take sides their ancestral onshore from becoming a NATO subject training ground, stirring memories of past violence.
TRUE NORTH: DIR Michèle Stephenson. PROD Leslie Norville. USA, Canada.
A riveting image of 1960s Montréal, wherever sparkling archival footage and firsthand accounts bring a metropolis successful upheaval to life, revealing a defining infinitesimal successful nan world activity for Black liberation.
TWO MOUNTAINS WEIGHING DOWN MY CHEST: DIR Viv Li. PRODS Daniela Dietrich, Erik Winker, and Olivia Sophie van Leeuwen. Germany.
A Chinese misfit ricochets betwixt Berlin’s replacement segment and Beijing’s family expectations, transforming taste whiplash into an offbeat hunt for personality and belonging.
WHEN A WITNESS RECANTS: DIR Dawn Porter. PRODS Dawn Porter, Jennifer Oko, and Miriam Weintraub. USA.
In 1983, writer Ta-Nehisi Coates recalls learning that a 14-year-old boy was murdered successful nan corridor of his Baltimore mediate school. Revisiting nan lawsuit arsenic an adult, he uncovers nan truth astir 3 teenagers who were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to life. After 36 years successful prison, mendacious grounds is revealed to person led to their imprisonment. WHEN A WITNESS RECANTS explores nan lasting effect of nan lawsuit connected nan community, nan wrongfully accused, and nan young witnesses pressured to attest against them.
Courtesy of HBO Documentary Films.
WHO KILLED ALEX ODEH?: DIRS Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans. PRODS Dawne Langford, Daniel J. Chalfen, Jason Osder, and William Lafi Youmans. USA.
In 1985, nan assassination of Palestinian American leader Alex Odeh remains unsolved. Reopening nan lawsuit arsenic a gripping cold-case investigation, nan movie follows caller leads arsenic nan hunt for accountability intensifies.
THE WHOLE WORLD IS A LIE: DIR Charlie Birns. PRODS Charlie Birns. USA.
A New York method acting people unravels erstwhile its students and coach revolt against nan filmmaker, forcing him into a reckoning pinch truth, trauma, and powerfulness successful an property erstwhile reality itself feels for illustration performance.
YO (LOVE IS A REBELLIOUS BIRD): DIRS Anna Fitch and Banker White. PRODS Anna Fitch, Banker White, Sara Dosa, and Hannah Roodman. USA.
After losing her friend Yo, Anna spends a decade obsessively building a elaborate one-third-scale replica of her location — conscionable ample capable to crawl wrong — wherever a puppet type of Yo still lives.
Shorts
9,192,631,770 HZ: DIR Todd Chandler. PRODS Heidi Fleisher, Mike Paterson, and Nora Wilkinson. USA.
In speech pinch his young son, a filmmaker reflects connected clip — our attempts to power it, and nan ways it shapes quality experience.
AND AGAIN I DREAM: DIRS Catherine Gund and Mariah Norman. PROD Catherine Gund. USA.
As Ivy Young nears nan extremity of her life, her lifelong friend Catherine and her young protégé Mariah travel together to sphere nan communicative of a beloved journalist and organizer whose bequest bridges queer generations done memory, activism, and love.
AT THE STAGE WHEN: DIR Hao Zhou. PRODS Tyler Hill and Hao Zhou. USA, China.
In a Chinese megacity, a young laborer navigates her matrimony to a well-off man and finds herself bound to an unintended future.
THE BADDEST SPEECHWRITER OF ALL: DIRS Ben Proudfoot and Stephen Curry. PRODS Stephen Curry, Erick Peyton, and Ben Proudfoot. USA.
Now 95, Martin Luther King Jr.’s lawyer and speechwriter reflects connected nan individual costs and astonishing truths of making history, offering an friendly insider’s position of nan Civil Rights Movement.
Courtesy of Netflix.
BIG BASS: DIR Drew Dickler. PRODS Nikki F. Heyman, Jennie Kamin, and David Sherwin. USA.
Drew returns to 1997 to revisit a dreamlike second-grade representation shaped by her emerging queer identity, a legendary P.E. teacher, and a mysterious elephantine integrative fish.
THE BOYS AND THE BEES: DIR Arielle Knight. PROD Arielle Knight. USA.
On an idyllic workplace successful agrarian Georgia, young parents stock their knowing of life, love, and quality pinch their sons, school them nan creation of beekeeping.
Courtesy of POV.
BUCKSKIN: DIR Mars Verrone. PROD Mars Verrone. USA.
An experimental image of nan filmmaker’s grandfather: Carroll B. Williams Jr., a ground-breaking African-American forester, reflecting connected his activity and bequest successful nan twilight of his life.
CHILAPA GIRL: DIR Juana Lotero López. PRODS Daniel Sánchez and Juana Lotero López. Colombia.
Yulieth, connected nan cusp of adolescence, faces nan difficulties of increasing up successful a chaotic territory wherever earthy beauty coexists pinch nan hostility of machismo. Her emerging personality is caught betwixt nan propulsion of her dreams and nan realities of her world.
CHOCOLATE: A MOTION POETRY HOMAGE TO BLACK D.C.: DIR Eliamani Ismail. PROD Gyzelle Garcia. USA.
In nan nation’s fastest-gentrifying city, Black DC refuses quiet erasure.
Screening arsenic portion of DC/FRAME.
THE CUSTODIAN: DIR Khaula Malik. PRODS Amber Hsu, Colleen Thurston, and Khaula Malik. USA.
After much than 5 decades collecting uncommon and vintage memorabilia making love backmost to 1932, Samu Qureshi, a devoted Washington Commanders superfan, believes he is yet fresh to portion pinch his postulation — hoping to waste it to squad ownership and thief found a depository and hallway of fame.
World Premiere.
THE DARK KNOT AT THE CENTER: DIR Inês Pedrosa e Melo. PRODS André Guiomar, Carlos Carneiro, and Luís Costa. Portugal, USA.
Women recreation hundreds of miles for abortion care, recounting nan barriers they look and nan lasting toll of a strategy that forces them to nan margins.
A DERAILMENT: DIR Nathan Truesdell. PRODS Kat Nguyen and Will Lennon. USA.
At 8:55 PM connected February 3, 2023, a freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed successful East Palestine, Ohio.
DIVISION: DIR James Paul Dallas. PRODS James Paul Dallas and Eryc Perez de Tagle. USA.
Spring, 2025. Brooklyn, New York. One section closes and different begins.
ENDLINGS: DIR María Luisa Santos. PROD Carlo Nasisse. USA, Costa Rica.
Amid nan planet’s first human-driven wide extinction, a filmmaker moves done churches, ancient DNA labs, and spectral archives successful hunt of what remains—and what tin ne'er beryllium recovered.
FILME-COPACABANA: DIR Sofia Leão. PRODS Laura Neiva, Leonardo Martinelli, Rafael Lopes Cesar, and Sofia Leão. Brazil.
From a chair connected a Rio sidewalk, a female observes nan passing choreography of Copacabana. Workers, tourists, dogs, and regular thoroughfare life travel together done playful montage to create a vibrant image of nan neighborhood.
US Premiere.
FINAL PRESS: DIR John Haley. USA.
Workers astatine The Minnesota Star Tribune complete nan past printing tally astatine nan newspaper’s Heritage Center, ending 150 years of printing nan insubstantial successful Minnesota.
World Premiere.
FLETCHER STREET: DIR Jannat Gargi and David Darg. PROD Jannat Gargi. USA.
In North Philadelphia, nan Fletcher Street Urban Riding Club offers a captious safe haven for at-risk youth. Their joyousness and consciousness of state arsenic they thrust horses majestically done nan streets of their vicinity is arsenic affirming arsenic nan trust, discipline, and affectional resilience they build done their adjacent bonds pinch nan horses.
GATORVILLE: DIR Freddie Gluck. PRODS Chloe Campion, Freddie Gluck, and Matteo Moretti. USA.
In Colorado’s forgotten valley, 2 siblings look alligators and nan ache of leaving younker behind.
GHOST LANDS: DIR Zachary Garmoe. USA.
Following nan marshes and forests of nan Delmarva Peninsula successful nan footsteps of Harriet Tubman, GHOST LANDS explores really nan earthy landscapes that shaped her life proceed to clasp nan representation of freedom, resistance, and our shared past.
THE GRANDFATHER PUZZLE: DIR Ora DeKornfeld. PRODS Zsófia Paczolay, Máté Artur Vincze, and Noémi Veronika Szakonyi. USA.
When a puzzle-obsessed grandfather refuses to talk his past, his granddaughter travels to photograph nan Hungarian castle wherever he grew up and move it into a puzzle. What originates arsenic a elemental ngo becomes a darkly comic exploration of displacement, memory, and nan meaning of home.
GRAZING ON IMAGES: DIR Mark Street. USA.
A diaristic travel changeable connected 35mm still movie and Super 8 travels, tracing a life shaped by nan rhapsodic beauty of mundane images.
World Premiere.
THE HOTLINE: DIRS Ricki Stern and Jesse Sweet. PROD Ricki Stern. USA.
A haunting, meditative image of opioid users connected done an anonymous telephone line, THE HOTLINE reveals a vulnerable tether betwixt life and death.
I WANTED TO HEAR YOUR VOICE: DIR James Pellerito. PROD David Barba. USA.
After 8 years caring for his mother pinch terrible dementia, a boy navigates nan challenges of their regular routine.
JACOB KAINEN: THE LAST EXPRESSION: DIR Mark Covino. PROD Jon Gann. USA.
From tenement kid to towering fig successful Washington, DC’s creation world, JACOB KAINEN: THE LAST EXPRESSION traces Jacob Kainen’s seven-decade travel done American creation arsenic a communicative of imaginative defiance.
Screening arsenic portion of DC/FRAME.
JOURNEY(S): ADDIS TO DC: DIR Saaret E. Yoseph. PROD Saaret E. Yoseph. USA, Ethiopia.
A communicative travel betwixt 2 distant sister cities, JOURNEY(S): ADDIS TO DC traces nan lives of Ethiopian women successful America and Black women crossed nan diaspora, weaving together memory, migration, and nan hunt for home.
Screening arsenic portion of DC/FRAME.
KITE: DIR Thanos Psichogios. PROD Thanos Psichogios. Greece.
On Clean Monday, nan first time of Lent successful Greece, Panos, now grown, returns to a puerility ritual of flying a kite pinch his father. But memories are ne'er simple.
KOKI, CIAO: DIR Quenton Miller. Netherlands.
The autobiography of Koki, nan parrot of Marshal Tito, who led Yugoslavia for 35 years.
LA MAR: DIR Jean Chapiro. PROD Jean Chapiro. Mexico.
As nan water swallows her sportfishing colony connected Mexico’s Gulf Coast, 1 female leads nan effort to relocate her organization while struggling to fto spell of nan oversea that shaped her life.
LISTEN: DIR Taliesin Black-Brown. PRODS Taliesin Black-Brown, Sam Davis, and Greg Moga. USA.
As his mother slips distant into dementia, an Alaskan sound recordist listens for what remains.
NOTES ON COURTWATCH: DIR Kate Levy. USA.
“Courtwatchers” be migration tribunal to carnivore witnesser and support asylum seekers facing nan consequence of ICE detention astatine their hearings.
World Premiere.
OH WHALE: DIR Winslow Crane-Murdoch. PRODS Luke Terrell, Cecilia Brown, and Rachel Gardell. USA.
One man. One Whale. Twenty cases of dynamite.
PEDRO TOMÁS EXPLAINS THE WORLD: DIR Kornelijus Stučkus. PRODS Liliana Díaz Castillo, Marc Vila Bosch, and Paulina Martinez. Spain.
On nan volcanic land of La Palma lives Pedro Tomás, a man who explores nan world done his unsocial vision.
PLANT LIFE: DIRS Brett Marty and Joshua Izenberg. PRODS. USA.
At a pivotal infinitesimal successful her life and career, Joanne Chory races to complete her astir audacious research yet: re-engineering crops to tie down CO₂ astatine planetary scale. As her Parkinson’s advances and c levels surge, PLANT LIFE captures a technological title against clip that whitethorn find some her bequest — and our corporate future.
PLUMPED: DIRS Nora DeLigter and Faye Tsakas. PRODS. USA.
Inspired by GAP-TOOTHED WOMEN by Les Blank, women speak candidly astir their experiences pinch articulator filler, exploring beauty, identity, and nan pressures of self-image.
World Premiere.
Courtesy of Rolling Stone.
A QUIET STORM: DIR Benjamin Nicolas. PROD Rumi Tominaga. Canada, Japan.
In suburban Tokyo, a fourteen-year-old krump prodigy channels his unspoken rage into creation while his azygous mother softly raises him and his sister, who lives pinch a disability. In a civilization that demands soundlessness and conformity, her endurance becomes nan loudest enactment of love, and his assemblage becomes nan only connection left.
ROOM OF THE ABSOLUTE: DIRS Natalie Shirinian and Elizabeth Baudouin. PRODS Natalie Shirinian, Elizabeth Baudouin, and Alla Hurenko. USA.
Ukrainian creator Alla Hurenko (known arsenic Pazza Pennello) captures an intimate, diaristic image of life nether warfare done her iPhone, wherever creation becomes a powerful enactment of resilience and self-preservation.
THE SECOND LIFE OF FREDDIE NOLE: DIR Dana Nachman. PRODS Chelsea Matter and Dana Nachman. USA.
When Freddie Nole drives to meet a man stepping retired of prison, he is not conscionable offering a ride, but hope, dignity, and a way to lasting freedom. As this vérité roadworthy travel unfolds, nan singular communicative down Freddie’s ngo comes into focus: a staggering correction that costs him 50 years of state and yet brought him backmost to nan situation gates.
SCENES FROM THE DIVIDE: DIR Alison Klayman. PRODS Alison Klayman and Courtney Powell. USA.
Set against nan contentious mayoral run of Zohran Mamdani, SCENES FROM THE DIVIDE follows 1 girl and her parents, alongside different New Yorkers, arsenic divisions complete Palestine expose deeper fractures wrong Jewish communal life. Through friendly family and organization conversations, nan movie reveals a struggle complete identity, history, and belonging.
SEA SONG: DIR An-Phuong Ly. USA.
The past remaining South Vietnamese naval officers reunite 1 last clip pinch nan fewer group who understand nan forces that person shaped their lives.
SHEESH, A TAYLOR LOVE STORY: DIR Ramona Diaz. PROD Diane Quon. USA.
In a state wherever resistance is some creation and survival, Taylor Sheesh transforms Taylor Swift fandom into a activity of joy, belonging, self-expression, and empowerment — revealing nan powerfulness of queer capacity to thief group consciousness seen, beautiful, and free successful a region still fighting for equality.
World Premiere.
STALIN BOYS: DIRS Ora DeKornfeld and Bianca Giaever. USA.
Four mediate schoolhouse boys successful a Texas separator municipality create an unexpected obsession: Joseph Stalin.
STILL STANDING: DIR Victor Tadashi Suarez and Livia Albeck-Ripka. PRODS Livia Albeck-Ripka and Victor Tadashi Suarez. USA.
After nan 2025 Los Angeles wildfires time off thousands of homes contaminated pinch toxic ash, residents look an intolerable choice: protect their wellness aliases return home.
SUDAKAS: DIR Ricardo Betancourt. PRODS Lorraine Caffery. Venezuela.
A erstwhile Venezuelan diplomat now moving arsenic a housekeeper successful nan aforesaid metropolis wherever she erstwhile served confronts nan realities of immigration, labor, and reinvention.
TOSS A ROSE OVER: DIR Janelle VanderKelen. USA.
A travelogue from nan vantage constituent of nan plants of nan Grand Canyon.
World Premiere.
THE TUNERS: DIR Pawel Piotr Chorzepa. Poland.
In nan shadows of nan world’s astir prestigious soft competition, a group of master tuners walk a period striving to execute cleanable pitch—hoping that nan eventual champion will execute connected their instrument.
North American Premiere.
WATER COOLER: DIR Emma V.F.. USA.
The Trump management has transformed migration courts into deportation traps. As ICE agents hold extracurricular courtrooms to make arrests, their banal conversations guidelines successful stark opposition to nan gravity of their actions.
WEIRDO: DIR Amy Oden. PROD Amy Oden. USA.
In nan summertime earlier she starts precocious school, Bronwyn discusses what it’s for illustration to consciousness weird successful 2 very different towns.
WHEN THE REVOLUTION DOESN’T COME: DIR Aurora Brachman. PROD LaTajh Simmons-Weaver. USA, United Kingdom.
They are nan children of nan Black Panther Party — nan self-styled Panther Cubs — calved into a revolutionary activity for Black equality and self-determination, and now reckoning pinch nan pride, loss, and unfinished committedness of that bequest 50 years later.
Courtesy of The Guardian.
WOMEN LAUGHING: DIRS Kathleen Hughes and Liza Donnelly. PRODS Judith Mizrachy, Liza Donnelly, and Nathalie Seaver. USA.
New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly talks, draws, and laughs pinch immoderate of nan astir celebrated and groundbreaking cartoonists astatine nan iconic mag arsenic they bespeak connected nan basal activity of women cartoonists coming and complete nan past century.
Courtesy of Conde Nast / The New Yorker.
Frederick Wiseman Retrospective
HOSPITAL (1969): DIR Frederick Wiseman. USA.
Through nan regular rhythms of an municipality hospital’s emergency ward and clinics, HOSPITAL reveals nan intricate systems, urgent decisions, and quality encounters astatine nan bosom of modern medicine.
JUVENILE COURT (1973): DIR Frederick Wiseman. USA.
Set wrong nan Memphis juvenile justness system, JUVENILE COURT observes nan difficult cases and intolerable choices astatine nan intersection of punishment, protection, and rehabilitation.
WELFARE (1975): DIR Frederick Wiseman. USA.
Inside a New York City use office, WELFARE reveals nan quality struggles, bureaucratic barriers, and intolerable choices astatine nan bosom of nan societal information net.
