A 24-hour journey to the heart of Los Angeles. More than a documentary, 24 Hour Sunset is a film about Los Angeles viewed through the eyes of creative and visionary people.
In this tale of labor and family that shines a light on the precarity of temporary work visas, Raymundo Morales leads a crew of workers who have to make the challenging decision to leave their families in rural Mexico to plant commercial pine forests in the United States.
Based on the true stories of many families, Amazing Grace tells the story of a single mother caring for her adult son with schizophrenia.
With her landlord only offering a few hours to pay her late rent, Anya, a free-spirit music lover, must find a way to sell off her prized possessions before being evicted. With the clock ticking, Anya calls up her closest friends, hoping that any of them will purchase her items.
A young, meek black boy is thrust into darkness when a violent revelation from his estranged father sets him on a course of self-discovery, forcing him to confront family, identity, and forgiveness.
When a mysterious accident involving her best friend occurs, 16-year-old Hailey Greene bends the trust in order to protect her upper-middle-class family's reputation. As the situation grows more dire, Hailey finds herself at the Intersection of truth and loyalty, and must decide before fate chooses for her.
A determined, practical boy has a change of heart when his favorite food comes to life.
Union City, CA 2013. During a student march to rename a middle school after Filipino labor leaders, a disillusioned transfer student enters a barbershop and asks for a buzz cut.
Black youth today do not have equitable access to resources or opportunities, leading to a racial wealth gap in America. Otis Ward, an Oakland high school senior, along with his community, are working to reverse this trend and change the system.
Dr. Eddie Henderson: Uncommon Genius tells the remarkable life story of renowned African American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player Eddie Henderson. Eddie Henderson's curiosity, need for exploration, and athleticism led him down many career paths, including figure skating and dual careers in medicine and music.
Manuele, a blind person, goes on a journey to discover the island of Ventotene, where through a multi-sensory workshop he will get in touch with the children at the school, while also in a constant mutual and enriching exchange with the people and the wild.
"Elements" with transformative qualities in shape, color, and space, embodying elements of animism—symbolizing life and soul. These fluid entities, appearing to rotate within cell-like structures, occasionally shift into particles in a perpetual loop. This work is an evolving collection of experimental animations highlighting continuous creativity and expansion.
Guy, a pianist passionate about his music, sees his life turned upside down when the church where he officiates takes in a mysterious little girl. A true piano virtuoso, the child prodigy will soon steal the show. A duel of egos then begins.
Lina spends her 14th birthday just like every other day, stuck on the farm working and not in education like her more affluent teenage neighbour Clara, who attends a school for the deaf. Overhearing her older brother wanting to attend a party but needing female accompaniment to get in, Lina shares this knowledge with Clara: this news is the perfect excuse for the two girlfriends to make up a plan and escape their sad reality, for just one night.
Set in the early 1980s, a cleaner is called to fill in for a work colleague but finds something lurking in the deserted building...waiting for her.
A woman out of place, caught between the traditionalists and the hippie movement in 1967 California, turns to robbing banks, as she struggles with the unaddressed anxiety of not fulfilling gender expectations of being a wife and mother.
Rim is a Tunisian interpreter working in France on asylum procedures. Every day, she translates the stories of exiled men and women, whose voices raise questions about her own history.
Three individuals – a political cartoonist, a mother turned boxing coach, and an optician – navigate their lives with resourcefulness and determination in the face of Parkinson's disease.
Georgie, a brazen tween, is thrust into the guardianship of her half-sister Harper whose attempts to parent only lead to exposing their paralleled childhood wounds.
"One Buck Won’t Hurt" follows four Black teenagers from New Orleans supporting themselves by tap dancing for tips in the French Quarter. Following them from adolescence to adulthood, this coming-of-age story explores the reckless joys of youth and the bitter realities of growing up fast in the incarceration capital of the world.
A man decides to visit his birth home where he reflects on his childhood and relationship with his late mother. His journey becomes more of a metaphysical one after an even sends him into a trance where he encounters a goddess. Osun is the Yoruba goddess of maternity, love and wealth. This short film has a simple but powerful them that focuses on culture, maternal love, and embracing ones self
Advertising exec confronts an unknown presence during a work-from-home client call.
Elmo and his best friends Sid and Nancy have a garage band together called Snotty. Their dream is to play their first show at the legendary punk rock club in town, the 429 Theater. Sid clings to his punk ideals and refuses to play anywhere other than the 429. When the only prospect of achieving their goal is to play their school talent show, Elmo devises a plan to get what they want while keeping their punk integrity intact.
Johannes Van Almeida is a painter considered obsolete for the market. With his vision deteriorating and on the verge of a nervous breakdown, he finds in Florence Lizz - a famous actress in crisis - an inspiration for his urgent masterpiece.
Budding producer, Tracy, and aspiring artist, Melody, are two twin flames who've hit it off professionally, as well as romantically. However, their relationship put to the test when they find themselves on opposite sides of a life changing decision. They must find a way to navigate their differences in order to finish a song by tonight.
Inspired by the whimsical fruit and vegetable portraits of Arcimboldo, Shelf Life is a magical look at what might be dancing in the corners of our homes.
The tale of a mythical cowboy showdown with eco-villains intent on paving over idyllic Sourdough Creek. Plympton’s wit and surreal animation takes on the fight for the wild west’s fading glory, peppered with swinging western tunes.
Soundscape shares the sightless experience of climbing a mountain via echo location, touch and imagination. Soundscape features Erik Weihenmayer, a global adventure athlete and author who is fully blind, as he ascends a massive alpine rock face deep in the Sierra Nevada. Using expert camera work and emotive, novel animation to bring to life a concept by adaptive climbing pioneer Timmy ONeill, the film is a surprising and soulful adventure.
When a high school wrestling coach recruits outsider Noah, a student with Autism, for his team, Noah has to face his overprotective single father and overcome his biggest fear in this film inspired by a true story.
The spirit of a little girl shoots down from the heavens to spend her birthday with her family.
Two international skiers are suspended in time and space, as the frozen winterscape of the forgotten Yukon Territory awakens their souls. “Suspended in Space” stars Swedish pro skier Kajsa Larsson and Canadian pro skier Celeste Pomerantz, with a sensational soundtrack by Liam Mour, recorded in Berlin’s Funkhaus Cathedral in partnership with Sony Music Europe.
When her Mother forgets about her upcoming choir competition, 7-year-old Moa resorts to desperate measures to gain her attention and secure her attendance.
Natalia, an accomplished acrobat from Lisbon, flies halfway around the world to Yosemite Valley to take a nude photograph with an old homeless climbing photographer she's never met. Identity crisis? Or is she onto something?
Bitterness threatens to destroy a small farming community until a stranger arrives with a curious proposition.
The Goatman is a classic monster mystery intertwined with a family horror drama. What is supposed to be an emotional reunion turns into a night of terror. Centering on a dysfunctional set of siblings and their significant others, the movie explores the dangers of letting resentments fester during the course of a horrifying supernatural attack.
When Ollie Henderson’s mother is attacked by a monster hiding in the depths of Lake Merritt, he sets out on a mission to find her - discovering instead a hidden network of monster hunters tasked with protecting Oakland from its own dark underbelly.
At the end of the 18th century, hundreds of Indian sailors, known as lascars, worked amongst European settlers in Aotearoa New Zealand - often under the gruesome working conditions of seal hunting gangs. The story follows a lascar, Dasa, who has been abandoned by the East India Company, alongside his sealing gang. The camp is shaken when the abusive British gang leader, Freddie, finds out Dasa has been secretly trading with two Māori siblings behind his back.
Cosmo the chameleon doesn't fit in with the other animals. No matter how hard he tries, he just can't seem to find his place in the jungle. Then, everything changes when he meets another chameleon who shows him how to live by his own true colors!
Sarah Crowell and Keith Hennessey are both dancers, teachers, and activists in the San Francisco Bay Area. They have known each other for nearly 30 years. But they’ve never collaborated or connected deeply, until now. The Space Between Us is a radical experiment in the power of bearing witness, inviting vulnerability, and sharing movement, in a time of social distancing and racial reckoning.
A medieval fighter is the last one standing. But, a dark presence hunts...
A strange evening in a hotel room blurs with the quiet dissolution of a relationship.
When a forest child's inner fire spirit breaks loose, they frantically try to catch it before damage is done. Inspired by co-director Ollie Yao's experience growing up transgender, this is a beautiful tale of radical self acceptance.
"Under Pressure" follows two brothers on a turbulent journey navigating addiction and processing bittersweet nostalgia. Set in Oakland, the film contrasts vibrant memories with a harsh present.
Antoine, a young introvert PhD student, pays Anaïs, a camgirl, for an online striptease. But Anaïs is tired of the camshows' routine and does not feel like undressing. She decides to impose her own rules: if Antoine wants her to undress, he has to take off his clothes as well. First distraught, Antoine ends up giving in to Anaïs' desire and joins her in a sensual striptease duo that will shake up his own idea of pleasure.
Three young Bay Area women navigate the intricacies of identity, femininity, and sexuality. As lovers, strangers and family come and go, they handle the realities of modern intimacy and try to find the meaning in it all.
Julia Butterfly Hill recites a poem she wrote while tree-sitting in an ancient redwood named Luna. Storybook-like animation appears followed by a call to action.