A Day in the Life of a recent immigrant, where no one understands anyone else, and a trip to buy ice cream triggers a series of absurd misadventures.

After Evie dresses up like her estranged grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, on “Heritage Day” at school, she becomes increasingly obsessed with this dark part of her family history.

Grant Downie, a generational sea urchin diver, has spent his entire life working in the kelp forests of California. He now struggles to keep his long-standing career in urchin diving alive as the disappearing kelp forests have forced him to rethink his profession and come to terms with a new future. He has now dedicated his life to finding a solution to save California’s kelp forests and restore his livelihood.

Through triumph and failure, Roberta Cenedese trains for one of the most challenging feats in action sports — an ice mile in three-degree water.

Having battled extreme episodes of depression and anxiety early in his collegiate experience, Rohan recounts how he survived those years with the support of his best friends whom he met at UW, Gurk, Bryan, and Keith.

There’s so many shades of life. So many colors that blend into a rainbow. The green has blue in it, the purple has some blue. We are all made up of hues of different colors, blended into this melting pot of life.

BELOW SURFACE reveals the extraordinary power of community through an unlikely subject: a YMCA Aquafit class. The documentary gathers numerous moving stories of a multicultural and multigenerational Aquafit class to demonstrate how kindness and caring for others, combined with exercise, can be an antidote for grief, stress, and physical illness. The heartwarming honesty of the participants is a reminder of the power we all have to support one another.