The Terrorist's Son The Terrorist’s Son is an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the life of an Zak Ebrahim, an American boy raised by his terrorist father - the man who helped plan the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Zak Ebrahim has spent his life trying to understand what drew his father to terrorism, [...]

The Gut Filmed over two years in a small New England community struggling to emerge from the opioid epidemic and caught up in a battle over Syrian refugee resettlement, The Gut (working title) closely follows the lives of several intersecting but very different characters to explore what changes – and what doesn’t – [...]

Treasure Island A kaleidoscopic portrait of life in post-Hurricane María Puerto Rico.

Eternal Life Fan Club A reclusive YouTuber and a Transhumanist politician embark on a road trip across the U.S in a 1978 RV modified to look like a coffin. Their mission? To convince the world they should never die. ETERNAL LIFE FAN CLUB is a lo-fi sci-fi documentary that raises a haunting question: [...]

Truth or Consequences In 1950, the residents of a small desert town in New Mexico voted to rename themselves after the game show, Truth or Consequences. Like many towns where work is scarce, they poured their dreams into the prosperity that might come. Now, nearly seventy years later, the same hopes are playing [...]

Stray STRAY enters the world of Turkish street dogs. Ancient Greek philosophers thought stray dogs – penniless and true - were the most honest mirrors to humanity. STRAY weaves between the historical treatment of Turkish stray dogs and their current lives to bring this idea into the contemporary world. Date: September 14-18 [...]

The Last Child THE LAST CHILD is about Ismaeel, a 23 year- old man who moves back into his parents house, and seems content to resume his role as the baby of the family. With little regard for any consequences that he may bear because of his own actions, Ismaeel doesn't seem to register the [...]

Aftermaths AFTERMATHS is a short hybrid documentary that explores the psychological impact of peace for FARC female rebels who have defined themselves for so long by war in Colombia. By focusing on a family of ex-rebels, it exposes the challenges of leaving armed life behind: the trauma, fears, hopes, dreams and difficulties of adapting to [...]

Untitled Safer Schools Project UNTITLED SAFER SCHOOLS PROJECT explores the landscape of 21st century school security in the United States, illuminating the complex ways in which we as a nation struggle to understand and prevent violence, and endeavor to create safer schools. Charting the paths of architects, entrepreneurs, security consultants, teachers, students, and parents, the [...]

Midnight Traveler MIDNIGHT TRAVELER follows the struggles of a family of Afghan filmmakers on the run from the Taliban. Told from refugee-Director Hassan Fazili’s unique perspective, their story provides unprecedented access to the refugee experience and its portrayal in Western media. Date: September 14-18 Time: 10:00am - 8:00pm Location: Storyforms Barn, 21 Winter [...]

Jacinta JACINTA is a portrait of a family in Maine that is fractured by a cycle of addiction, incarceration, and crime. Date: September 14-18 Time: 10:00am - 8:00pm Location: Storyforms Barn, 21 Winter St., Rockland

Hwangsa HWANGSA is a cinematic portrait of enormous dust storms, hazardous air quality, and the stories of the people along the path of the dust as it travels around the globe. Touching down in cities and towns from the Taklamakan Desert of Western China to the shores of California, we meet eight characters confronted by [...]

Area 2 Over 100 African American men claim to have been tortured by Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and his “Midnight Crew” of detectives between 1972 and 1991. AREA 2 explores the Chicago police torture saga through the stories of a broad spectrum of people connected to it, many of whom have never shared their [...]

The Children's City JA BizTown is an 8,000 square foot kid-sized model city where each day over 150 students take on jobs from Mayor to Bank CEO to UPS driver in order to learn “how the real world works.” THE CHILDREN’S CITY follows fifth graders from suburban Portland, OR as they navigate this simulated world. [...]

THE YOUTH explores a father’s search for answers after his firstborn is arrested in an FBI sting operation and accused of attempting to join ISIS in Syria. Through the journey of Yusuf Abdurahman and his family, THE YOUTH will confront issues of Islamophobia, the rise of radical Islam, and seek to understand what it means [...]

In the shadow of a mountain, a place once known as the Magic City stands as a symbol of the American heartland, abandoned by industry and disappearing back into the forest. THE MOUNTAIN AND THE MAGIC CITY is an intimate portrait of neighbors forced to confront the issues dividing America today when a controversial national [...]

BELLY OF THE BEAST intimately chronicles the journey of women fighting reproductive injustice in their communities.

Since 2014 Mexico has deported more immigrants than the United States, becoming an expansion of the U.S. Southern Border and forever changing the migrant trail. Through a series of portraits BORDER SOUTH melds ethnography and cinema-verité to explore the harsh physical environment and brutal journey of undocumented Central American immigrants crossing Mexico towards the United [...]

There is a city in Southern California that is teeming with pregnant women from China. Through a network of deeply personal vignettes, this film traces the human supply chain of the booming shadow economy of Chinese birth tourism from Beijing and Shanghai to Los Angeles—chronicling the fortunes and tragedies that befall the ordinary people [...]

Hanji Chang, Andy O'brien | 5min | USA

Nathan Truesdell | United States

Jessica Kingdon | United States

Eleanor Mortimer | United Kingdom

Chelsea Moynehan, Andrew Moynehan | United States

Not far from Los Angeles, lies the unfinished California City. In this grid of thousands of crumbling streets, former LA gang members try to reinvent themselves, while being constantly haunted by their turbulent past.

The Mountain and the Magic City In the shadow of a northern mountain, a place once known as The Magic City stands on the brink of collapse, abandoned by industry and torn apart by a national park that threatens to unite or divide it. This is the story of what happens when the American dream [...]

A Taste Of Sky In the dizzying heights of Bolivia's capital of La Paz a gastronomical revolution is offering the possibility of hope to the country’s impoverished youth. We follow the trials and tribulations of GUSTU, the innovative cooking school and world-class restaurant of South America's poorest country. Date: 5/13/2016 Time: 5:30pm [...]

Midnight Family The Ochoa family operates a for-profit, independent ambulance in Mexico City. When they hear of an emergency over their illegal police radio, they rush to the scene with twin motives: saving lives and getting paid. Date: 5/13/2016 Time: 5:30pm Location: Points North Campus Schedule

The Feeling Of Being Watched A filmmaker digs into tales of surveillance inside her Arab neighborhood in Chicago’s south suburbs and discovers that her hometown was the subject of the largest FBI terrorism investigation conducted before 9/11. The Feeling of Being Watched follows a filmmaker’s personal journey to discover the truth about why her community [...]

Rescue Breath After his son holds up a bank while high on heroin, Kevin Blankenship, a successful doctor who reinvented the urgent care system, is forced out of retirement to battle the opioid epidemic that has swept through his home state of West Virginia. In his six-month, farming-based recovery center, addicts attempt to let go [...]

Francesca Panetta, Lindsay Poulton | 9 min | United Kingdom

Gan Golan | United States

Kel O'Neil, Eline Jongsma | 7 min | United States

Josh Gerritsen | 5min | United States

Adam Roffman | 9min | United States

Michal Marczak | 100min | Poland

Jenny Gage | 79min | United States

Khaldiya Jibawi | 9min | Jordan

Jan van IJken | 7min | Netherlands

Richard Kane | 31min | United States

Sol Friedman | 9min | Canada

Nathan Truesdell | 6min | United States

Garrett Zevgetis | 91min | United States

Madeleine Cohen | 7min | Canada

Elizabeth Lo | 9min | United States

Margaret Brown | 11min | United States

Aslaug Holm | 110min | Norway

Kirsten Johnson | 102min | United States

Robert Kenner | 92min | United States

Turner Ross, Bill Ross IV | 107min | United States