Late on the Planet (Tarde no Planeta)

World premiere

A boy feels the shadow of an irreversible environmental catastrophe drawing near. In the quiet of his backyard, he chooses to spend the last day before the world transforms beyond recognition alongside his mother. A meditation on the weight we give to the idea of finitude and on our precarious relationship with the more-than-human world, inspired by the novel of the same name by Leonardo Piana.

director: Julia Tonon, poet: Leonardo Piana, Brazil, 2025, 5 min, in Portuguese with English subtitles

Museum Underwater (Музей під водою)

Museum Underwater explores the dreams and childhood memories of a young girl named Norma. Through different styles of animation and lyrical storytelling, the film transports us to an underwater world where angels, St. Jacob, Walt Whitman, great-grandmother Gala, and secret miracles come to life.

Angie Siveria, Germany & Ukraine, 2023, 3 min, in Ukrainian with English subtitles

I Would Rather Be a Stone (Radije bih bila kamen)

Through the voice of Little Jela, who embodies the women in the artist’s family, the film tells the story of the events that marked a generation and shaped the future of the landscape of Lika, a neglected and sparsely populated region of Croatia.

Ana Husman, Croatia, 2024, 24 min, in Croatian with English subtitles

Gaseous Beings

World premiere

This triptych plays on polysemy and repetition to simultaneously address the encounters that unsettle us, impact us, and change us, as well as the chemical exchanges that take place in a polluted environment.

Maud Nivet, France, 2025, 4 min, in French with hardcoded French text and English subtitles

Remembering Tornado Season

World premiere

A visual poem reflecting on Missouri’s tornado season and the destruction left in its wake.

director: Jordie Simpson, poet: Emma Caplinger, United States, 2025, 1 min, in English with hardcoded English text

People Mountain People Sea

World premiere

The scales of carbon-based life are out of balance. We are ‘losing’ each other just as we are ‘losing’ our bodies. This film explores the dynamic equilibrium of the Five Elements in Taoism—Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal—alongside three sets of balance between disease and health, war and peace, rationality and emotion.

Bolang Shui, China, 2025, 16 min, in Chinese with English subtitles

Semaphore to the Sea

The artist uses semaphore—a maritime-based communication system that uses handheld flags to convey information at a distance—to transmit a message to the sea. Created at the end of an artist residency at the Sou’wester in Seaview, WA.

Amy-Ellen f Trefsger, United States, 2018, 1 min, non-verbal with hardcoded English text

Komboloi (worry beads)

Worry beads—a cross-cultural object used to calm anxiety—made of ice formed from local water sites embody the fragility of our planet. Merging climate data with experimental film and animation techniques, the film explores anxiety in the era of climate change.

Krista Leigh Steinke, Meg Cook, Courtney Starrett, United States, 2025, 7 min, in English

Dreams Travel Wondrous Wires

Imagine a dream-centric world. A world more focused on inner than outer. A world where reality begins in dreams. The writer Jane Roberts dreamt of such a world. In the 1970s-80s, she published a series of best-selling books collectively known as the “Seth Material”. Drawn from these texts, and filmed in the house where she lived and wrote, this is a nocturnal meditation, an oneiric exercise, a dream seed, a primer for the movie your mind will make when you go to sleep tonight.

Saelyx Finna & Christopher Michael, United States, 2025, 6 min, in English with English closed captions

Dreaming Ecosystems

World premiere

A collaborative botanicollage film poem by participants in the festival workshop, Dreaming Ecosystems, led by poet Mita Mahato and filmmaker Caryn Cline.

Samar Abulhassan, Allison Avery, victoria blumenfeld, Argot Chen, Caryn Cline, Prince Jones, Madison Kearschner, Alexa Luborsky, Mita Mahato, Vitoria Ramos, Rana San, Paul Siple, Brianna Torres, Chelsea Werner-Jatzke, United States, 2026, 4 min, in English with hardcoded English text

BE HAPPIER

US premiere

Shot on Super 8 at a framerate equivalent to the beats of a hummingbird’s wing, the artist documents a buoyant open-air conversation with her 103-year-old grandmother in a garden.

Jennifer Still, Canada, 2025, 6 min, in English with English open captions