Driven by You (China) by Fangji Leo Yin

After being unnoticed and doubted for years, a 16-year-old Chinese ice hockey player faces the question every student-athlete in China must confront: should he follow the path designed by his parents and give up the sport he loves? As expectations and uncertainty pulls him into a spiral of self-doubt, an American football coach enters the story, and the boy must decide what truly matters to him.

Running time: 00:10:00

Waiting for the End of the World (United States) by Jeffrey Hoyt

A quiet mosaic of small-town America, tracing the subtle fractures in everyday life.

On Air (United States) by Sophia Voicu, Jagger Cardinale, Jessica Tamari

Sadie, a driven high school senior with dreams of hosting her own radio show, runs Rider High’s morning announcements like a professional broadcast, every word planned and perfectly delivered. When Luke, a carefree junior who barely seems to care about anything, is assigned to join her on air, their opposite personalities immediately clash. But as the two spend mornings together behind the microphone, Luke begins to find something worth caring about, while Sadie learns that life and love doesn’t have to be perfectly scripted.

Running time: 00:11:33

Ujvala Jupalli: Asterisk Athlete (United States) by Josephine Harrison

A meditative documentary following the story of Ujvala as she details what being an athlete means to her and the first time she realized she wasn't just an athlete but a female athlete. We see aspects of her training, and also more reflective moments as she tells her story.

Running time: 00:09:00

Something Has to Give (United States) by Allison Fan, Fred Midgley

Redemption, rebirth, and the desire for salvation in times of profound loss. Set in the haunting, atmospheric confines of a stark, empty warehouse, the space becomes a canvas where bodies move between tension and release, seeking the answer to whether this earth is a sanctuary or a sterile, white room—a place devoid of life or full of it.
Running time: 00:06:26

Portals (United States) by Kathi Hendrick, Benjamin Henretig, Cornelia Hodges

PORTALS explores the body, nature, and heart as doorways into deeper dimensions of self and our inherent interrelatedness. Through movement, imagery, and original music, the film enters the liminal space between inner and outer worlds, where the body becomes a threshold into feeling, knowing, interbeing, and transformation. PORTALS traces two journeys from disconnection toward reconnection, inviting viewers to question the boundaries of self and explore the possibility that we are not separate from one another, from nature, or from the larger web of life.

The Witchdoctor and the Windmill (Australia, France) by Robert Hamilton

“The Witchdoctor and the Windmill” explores the life of the Pintupi artist, Linda Syddick Napaltjarri. After her father’s death in a revenge spearing, Linda came in from the remote Pintupi homelands and was taught to paint by her adoptive father, the famous artist Shorty Tjungurrayi. Her insistence she had Shorty’s permission to paint his stories cast her as a maverick and led to a rift between family and community. This film explores the personal and community struggles and larger themes of colliding cultures as the Pintupi confronted new and bewildering intrusions into country; atomic testing, art as gestalt for grief, fractured families, and loss of country. Linda’s paintings are visual records of first contact in the 1940s as the Pintupi began their first encounters with White Australia. As the first Pintupi Modernist and last senior female artist of her era, Linda’s stories are unique portable heritage of our national memory and signal the dynamic nature of the Dreaming.

Duos (Mexico) by Frank Rodríguez

Marah has a special relationship with an older man; while trying to understand that relationship, she seeks a scholarship to study theater in New York.