• A Sense of Place

This program highlights unique topographies and remarkable cultural phenomena in spellbinding documentaries that each capture a singular moment in time.

Short Films

Under the Lake

As a mountainous village in Greece sinks under a lake, the villagers’ memories emerge from the water.

Nalujuk Night

Run as fast as you can, the Nalujuit are here! Exhilarating and sometimes terrifying, this Nunatsiavut tradition unfolds an exciting chance for the Inuit, young and old, to prove their courage and come together as a community to celebrate culture and tradition.

Langue

A poignant look at the daily lives of two families in Langue, a small town in Honduras. With vivid portraits of the rural landscape, of dirt roads, mud house, deforestation, and drought, the film captures the duality of how societal issues construct and affect children.

Last Days of August

Does a town still exist if nearly everyone has died or left? A meditation on the blurred lines between still photography and cinema, through the exploration of some nearly abandoned prairie towns in Nebraska.

The Great Abandonment

As the world’s harshest Covid lockdown is announced in India, 1.3 billion people are commanded to stay home, at merely four hours’ notice. As millions of migrant laborers walk home and the Prime Minister vaingloriously promises a better future nightly, some wonder: might this be time for revolution?

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