SHORTS PROGRAM: DOCUMENTARY 1 Short Film Competition

MY MEMORY-WALLS (MES MURS-MÉMORE)
2025 Canada 12 MIN
DIRECTOR Axel Robin
Rose G. Lévesque, an almost nonagenarian painter and poet, painted the story of her life on her house’s walls to transform it into a museum.

LOCAL ONE
2025 USA 10 MIN
DIRECTOR Stephen Maing, Brett Story
The Amazon Labor Union launches a nationwide strike during peak holiday shopping season. LOCAL ONE takes us into the first days of the strike at two Amazon warehouses in NYC.

MEMENTO MORI (ZINC)
2025 USA 9 MIN
DIRECTOR Ainara Vera
As rhythmic machines press zinc sheets into coffins, factory workers reflect on their own mortality. Does daily contact with death heighten their awareness of life’s impermanence?

BENEATH WHICH RIVERS FLOW (ابراهيم)
2025 Iraq 16 MIN
DIRECTOR Ali Yahya
Ibrahim is tethered to the river, reeds and buffalo he tends, but as the rivers dry and the landscape withers, he faces unrelenting forces threatening the only life he’s ever known.

BIG MONEY: A SPIRITUAL MANIFESTO
2025 USA 14 MIN
DIRECTOR David Henry Gerson
Oscar® and Grammy®-winning musician Jon Batiste crafts an album with legendary producer No ID — blending joy, lineage, alchemy and protest into something deeply personal.

WELCOME HOME FRECKLES
2025 UK | South Korea 26 MIN
DIRECTOR Huiju Park
After four years apart, a daughter returns home to confront the unresolved family conflicts and violence that plagued her childhood, discovering the generational cycle of abuse only she can break.