"Why does life have to be so complicated?"Fifth-graders experience adulthood for a day in a new short film from the Sundance Film Festival.

THE FIELD TRIP

2021 JURY AWARD WINNER - SPECIAL PRIZE Ten Leaves Dilated is a documentary that uses the make-believe world crafted by Cabbage Patch Kids to examine discourses surrounding childbirth and motherhood in the American South.

TEN LEAVES DILATED

2021 JURY AWARD WINNER - BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT Tunis, November 2019. A group of women is gathered at Saïda’s, the hairdresser, on the eve of the presidential election. The salon is transformed into a town square, mirroring the internal turmoil of the country. In this female sanctuary, we get an intimate look at the county’s teenage democracy.

AIN'T NO TIME FOR WOMEN

Power for Pollinators examines how many millions of acres of land under management by corporations, large land managers and especially power companies are uniquely positioned to create large areas of healthy pollinator habitat. If power companies and other land managers choose to work together planting flowers and reducing chemical use across the landscape, we can bring back pollinators, and with them, a host of essential food and ecosystem resources and other facets of life.

POWER FOR POLLINATORS

A seasoned, professional clown on the eve of retirement reflects on a lifetime of adoration &amp; rejection, humour &amp; heartbreak.

CLOWN

Nearly four years after befriending someone on Facebook with the exact same name as him, u16.co member Lorenzo Benitez ventures to South America to meet the friend he had come to know in writing, but had yet to meet in-person. In this experimental ‘travel video’, what began in jest evolves in sincerity as they appraise the surprising significance of their serendipitous friendship.

THE CURVE OF THE EARTH

A Ugandan mother tries to navigate her past traumas through participating in the country's first beauty pageant for plus-size women.

MISS CURVY

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