Native American

Mare's Nest unfolds in a world without adults, where Moon wanders through unfamiliar landscapes, encountering solitary figures who reveal alternative ways of living. Guided by a sage and his translator in a remote mountain hut, she seeks meaning amid uncertainty. Blurring documentary and fiction, the film reflects director Ben Rivers’s ongoing fascination with lives lived apart from mainstream society, following Moon’s quiet observations as she moves through this enigmatic realm toward an open, unknowable future.

RIVER OF GRASS

River of Grass is an ode to the Florida Everglades, past and present, told through the prescient writings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas and those who call the region home. After a hurricane, Douglas appears in a dream, guiding filmmaker Sasha Wortzel into a layered exploration of the Everglades as ecosystem, history, and site of resistance amid climate collapse through encounters with Indigenous educators, activists, and multigenerational residents.

MALNI - TOWARDS THE OCEAN, TOWARDS THE SHORE

A poetic documentary circling the origin of the death myth from the Chinookan people in the Pacific Northwest, Małni follows two people as they wander through their surrounding nature, the spirit world, and something much deeper inside. Hopinka takes us on a journey through language and belief, offering a beautiful lesson about humanity’s place on this and other worlds, deceptively small and profoundly deep.

WILD PLANTS

From urban farms in Detroit to Native-owned agriculture projects across the midwest to guerrilla gardens in Zurich, Wild Plants is a kaleidoscopic portrait of activists around the world who are creating their own botanic utopias.

KIVALINA

This tender portrait of an Inupiaq Eskimo community who are living on an island that is disappearing into the sea is both an elegy to the indigenous cultures of the Arctic and a harrowing vision of climate change in America.

LIVING WITH GIANTS

In a remote arctic village, a young Inuk boy's transition into adulthood becomes a quiet and devastating portrait of the issues facing the entire Inuit community in the outstanding documentary Living with Giants

THE ILLINOIS PARABLES

Filmmaker Deborah Stratman recounts eleven episodes in American history — from the violent eviction of the Cherokee to the invention of the nuclear reactor to the murder of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton — to consider how societies are shaped by belief and ideology.

THE RIDE

This intimate, moving documentary follows young Lakota riders on a 300-mile trek on horseback through the South Dakota badlands, as they retrace the fateful journey of their ancestors that culminated at Wounded Knee.

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