In the bustling chaos of New York City, coyotes lurk in the shadows, hidden in plain sight and largely unknown to their human neighbors. COYWOLF explores how we relate to wildlife in urban environments and blurs the lines between city and nature.

In rural Appalachia, some punks come together to re-establish a surprisingly familiar sense of community.

In a city fueled by grit and boundless creativity, music producer Marquis Gasque, known as Mighty Mark, leads the charge to preserve and elevate Baltimore club music, a genre that echoes the heartbeat of its people. Through over a decade of archival footage capturing Mark and other artists rising in the scene, this documentary follows Mighty Mark as he balances his role as a family man, artist, and community leader. Alongside fellow Baltimore club figures, including producer TT the Artist, Dcember Moon, singer Rodney Hollywood, dancer TSU Terry, and filmmaker Larry Whaddup, Mark reveals how the genre has saved lives and united a city. Featuring stories of resilience and passion, this film explores how one man’s vision is inspiring the next generation to carry forward Baltimore’s unique sound and culture.

Andalusia K. Soloff is an Emmy-nominated documentary filmmaker, multimedia journalist and author based in Mexico City. She specializes in state violence, migration and gender-based murders in Latin America. Through visual storytelling, Andalusia seeks to center the voices of those most affected by these crises and violence by focusing on their human dignity and resilience. Andalusia is the director of the Emmy-Nominated Al Jazeera film, A Sense of Community: Iztapalapa, producer of the acclaimed HBO film, Endangered, as well as other international award winning productions including the PBS Documentary Afro Mexpats. Poppy Crash is her first film theatrical release. She is the author of Taken Alive, a graphic novel about the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students (Penguin 2019) published in numerous languages and the co-founder of Frontline Freelance México, a journalist advocacy organization.

Before going to sleep, Aya, Mhamad, and Jomeaa, three Syrian refugees, try finding a home.

An urgent desktop diary made at the intersection of a hectic digital landscape and the inner violence of modern colonization. The film chronicles the sleepless nights of a group of activists, eyes fixed on screens as they follow the news from Palestine and across the region. In Amsterdam, far from their home countries, police violence and the threat of deportation glue them to digital interfaces night after night. Engaging with anti-colonial resistance across screens and streets, “happiness” is a humble reminder to keep searching for solutions.

Once a neonatal doctor, Vita now serves as a military anaesthesiologist at a frontline stabilization point, where wounded soldiers are brought from the battlefield. Her days are filled with routines of war — wounded, operations, CrossFit workouts, weapon cleaning, and cold showers — interrupted by air raid sirens and the thunder of bombs shaking the shelter walls. But fear no longer grips her; she has grown used to this new life. Still, Vita clings to her dream of motherhood, remembering the calm of the maternity hospital. She recalls the soft cries of newborns, but now she cares for shaking, wounded soldiers covered in mud. Her strength comes from love: once her beloved survived the war thanks to medics like her. Now it's her turn to save someone else's beloved.

The Solanges: Angels of the Sun follows Dr. Solanges Vivens on a profound spiritual journey that connects her life to Saint Solange of Bourges, a 9th‑century French martyr who chose faith over oppression. Filmed across France and the United States, this visually poetic short bridges centuries of devotion, revealing how the stories of two women—one a Haitian‑American trailblazer, the other a Catholic saint—mirror one another through resilience, sacrifice, and divine purpose.