NOTHING WILL COME OF NOTHING

World premiere

Nurture, nature, voicemails, photographs.

My Panelli, United States, 2026, 2 min, in English with English subtitles

Gabardine

A Black poet haunted by the sound of fingers snapping seeks therapy to address the source of his hallucinations.

director: Elijah Crawford, poet: David A Gaines, United States, 2025, 16 min, in English with English subtitles

Light Ghazal

Hala Alyan performs her poem “Light Ghazal” to her reflection on a street in New York City.

director: Jake Alexander McAfee, poet: Hala Alyan, United States, 2025, 3 min, in English

Epicrisis

Sutures not only mend tissue; they also weave together memory, pain, and affection. A tactile form of storytelling created during a prolonged process of physical and emotional recovery following brain tumor surgery. The wounded body finds in fabric a means to resist, reorganize itself, and speak.

Diana Martínez Tancredi, Argentina, 2025, 7 min, in Spanish with English subtitles

When You Left Me

Inspired by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and other large-scale traumatic events, this project uses the love-lost trope to examine how collective trauma impacts our connection to the land.

Kamari Bright, United States, 2025, 4 min, in English with hardcoded English text

All ways.

World premiere

You could not have tried any harder.

wendy oberlander, Canada, 2025, 1 min, non-verbal with English intertitles

Blessed Are Those Who Grieve

A slice of an inner, surreal landscape of grief. Melting somatic work, multilayered soundscapes, and digital spheres, the film explores a hybridity of mourning through the birth of a creature pushing towards the reconciliation of a collective grief.

directors: Zora Arose Ritz, Evgenia Chetvertkova, Kayu Yeung, poet: Kayu Yeung, Germany, 2025, 14 min, in Yue Chinese (Cantonese) with English subtitles

My 50 Minute Breath-Hold Speedrun Challenge

Going to humiliating and dangerous lengths to be seen.

Emery Joan, United States, 2025, 2 min, non-verbal with hardcoded English text

Everyone Wants A Tight Pussy

A poet’s experience living with chronic vaginal pain.

director: Sofia Auza, poet: Cassandra Rachel Myers, Canada, 2024, 1 min, in English

Macula

It is within the macula, at the back of the eye, that images are fixed in the retina. Sonia’s gradual vision loss becomes a filmographic allegory through which her daughter unveils the events that, having been kept hidden, eclipsed the primeval memories of her gestation and birth.

Mariana X Rivera, Mexico, 2025, 28 min, in Spanish with English subtitles