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Shuffle

This SXSW Award winning documentary offers an intimate 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.

Cracking the Code: Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution

The 1977 discovery of RNA splicing by Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Kentucky farm boy turned Nobel-prize winning scientist, set the stage for a revolution in molecular biology, enabling research into a new class of medicines predicated on recombinant DNA techniques ranging from the development of synthetic insulin and human growth hormone to the COVID-19 vaccine.

Ayahuasca Now

After many years of life marked by PTSD men and women veterans of the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, travel to the Peruvian Amazon to participate in shamanic ceremonies to heal their traumas. Stories about war and spirituality.

Complicated

In a time when the failures of healthcare in America are coming under scrutiny, COMPLICATED tells the poignant story of kids with complicated illness suffering at the margins of mainstream medicine—and their parents who risk losing them if they go too far to help.

Diagnonsense

A self-reflexive meta-documentary. Filmmaker Ane-Martha Tamnes Hansgard was diagnosed with multiple mental disorders over fifteen years and was prescribed a staggering number of psychotropic medications.

Facing the Wind

Facing the Wind follows two women grappling with their husbands’ progressing dementia. One plans a go-for-broke road trip while the other leaves her job to care for the man she loves. As the skies darken, their growing friendship and a unique support community help pull them through

I Will Build This World From Love

I Will Build This World From Love tells the story of some young women and men from the country of Georgia who bravely aspire to practice their Judaism in all its fullness and without limitation.

Test Subject V

Halfway drifting through a debaucherous life, a man wakes up to challenge the beliefs of an entire nation.

Turtle Walker

In the 1970s, Satish Bhaskar became a turtle walker: He walked nearly the entire coastline of India and the spectacular Andaman and Nicobar Islands in search of sea turtles. Carrying a camera and a notepad, he documented turtles’ nesting areas and tried to save them from extinction. Then the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami struck, putting all his work and the creatures he loved in peril.

Documentary Feature

Illusion of Abundance

Begun in 2022, Illusion of Abundance (IOA) is a grassroots racial, social and climate justice project. It exposes a climate and culture in crisis due to the declining Great Salt Lake. IOA illuminates the historical erasure of the natural world and indigenous knowledge systems that hold innovative and necessary concepts available for saving our climate holistically. Through dance, prose, intertribal interviews and song, research, and stunning cinematography of Utah’s waterways and the nature it supports, IOA immerses you in the possibility of positive change and building paradigms to include underrepresented voices in stewardship, artistry and decision making around natural resources, land use, and climate.

Psychedelic Psalm

A depressed and doubting priest goes to a psychedelic retreat for priests. Will psilocybin heal him?

Running To Stand Still - Migrants Search For Hope In The Promised Land

Running to Stand Still- Migrants Search For Hope In The Promised Land' is a 25-minute documentary film that focuses on the fraught and divisive issue of forced migrants seeking safety and asylum at the U.S./Mexico border. 'Running' seeks to put a human face on the realities of immigration today by telling stories about the migrants themselves: courageous, dignified human beings whose lives stand as a powerful rebuke to a narrative often fraught with alarmist rhetoric, dehumanizing stereotypes.

SIMA

Set against the backdrop of Nepal’s evolving health system, SIMA is a testament to resilience, community, and the power of local solutions in global health.

Documentary Short

CONFESSION

A desperate man has just ten minutes to prove he is a winner.

Dieter

Dieter, the ailing sculptor, has not been able to work properly for a long time, simple things fail him. His thoughts keep taking him away from his workshop into another, fantastic world, into mysterious landscapes. He tries to capture his fleeting memories until the end of his journey and time, where he loses himself and vanishes ...

Two roommates, initially dependent on men for even the simplest household tasks, come to realize that what they truly needed was the confidence and contentment found within themselves.

Mind of Thoughts

A rising artist haunted by her own thoughts must confront the darkness within - or risk losing herself forever.

Mirrors

The short film "Mirrors" by award-winning director Paul Jerndal is showing Anis don Demina, Cecilia von Der Esch and Danny Saucedo as they meet their mirror images and their worst self-critical thoughts. Mirrors aim to draw attention to mental health and the importance of daring to share feelings and thoughts.

The Rain

The Rain is a 2D hand-drawn film that features a narrated poem written by myself, Kā'eo Luke. This film reflects on what it means to be alive day to day. The human connection to nature through the wisdom of the birds is explored and showcased through unique species. The spoken word can be interpreted differently between viewers and asks the question, "what does it truly mean to live and love to each, individual mind?"

Narrative Short

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