Oliver, a queer man living alone in San Francisco, turns to chatbots for everything from financial advice to intimacy as he navigates disability, debt, and desire.

Love is the Drug tells the story of Heather Edney’s drug user organizing which began with the Santa Cruz Needle Exchange Program. The film brings together a trove of archival materials: Edney’s appearances on television, photographs, zines, flyers, and community health education videos with new 16mm footage. Love is the Drug ultimately asserts that the archive is not a scene of redemption, but rather a cinematic apparatus that can teach us about durational love.

In a world of escalating wildfires and expanding prison systems, an incarcerated crew fights fires for 70¢ an hour. As the camera observes their daily routines, it examines not just their labor, but the systems of surveillance shaping both their lives and the film’s production.

After delaying a routine screening, athlete and artist Kirk Keeler is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Refusing to retreat, he partners with pro climber Kevin Jorgeson to scale Yosemite’s Half Dome and raise awareness so others don’t repeat his mistake.