2026 Feature FILMS
DIRECTED BY BRANDT ANDERSON
When a Syrian doctor is forced to flee Aleppo with her young daughter, one desperate choice sets off a chain of events that ripples across borders and pulls five strangers into the same storm. A smuggler trying to save his son. A soldier wrestling with his conscience. A poet searching for home. A Greek coast guard captain caught between duty and mercy. Their paths collide on a night in the Mediterranean, where survival is uncertain, and humanity is revealed in its rawest form.
DIRECTED BY DOUG PRAY
Motivated by a tragic school shooting in Nashville, TN, Ketch Secor, of the popular bluegrass band Old Crow Medicine Show, and radio journalist David Greene, set out to have an open conversation about gun violence in America. The result is a music documentary which humanizes all sides of today’s gun debate: rural, urban, gun-owners and non, and shows how reason and actual listening can help move the needle on gun reform in ways our polarized culture rarely displays.
DIRECTED BY KIRSTEN DICKERSON
PRODUCED BY BRANDON DICKERSON
HANDMADE FUTURE follows artisans in six countries who preserve heritage, navigate the complex role of middlemen, and advance responsible trade—pushing back against fast, cheap production to quietly restore a frayed world through beauty and human connection. From rug weavers in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains and block printers in India’s Golden Triangle to Appalachian broom makers in Kentucky and recycled-glass blowers in Kenya, the film showcases craftspeople whose work carries generations of skill, culture, and creativity.
WORLD PREMIERE
DIRECTED BY SUZANNAH HERBERT
NATCHEZ captures an unsettling clash between history and memory in a small Mississippi town; a layered mosaic of people contending with the weight of the past in a place where it is always present. Equal parts amusing and disturbing, we journey through an antebellum tourist destination at a crossroads as it grapples with a deeply troubled history that is so thoroughly ingrained in its present, we’re left to wonder if it’s actually past at all.
DIRECTED BY BENJAMIN FLAHERTY
CO-PRODUCED BY ERIN MALLOY
Through the lens of his own recovery, a filmmaker offers a character-driven look inside the billion dollar addiction treatment industry where young people are bought and sold for their insurance policies and ushered into a system designed to keep them sick. What begins as an investigation of a street-level scam, explodes to uncover systemic conflicts-of-interest and collusion at the highest levels of government.
DIRECTED BY Brittany Shyne
PRODUCED BY SABRINA SCHMIDT GORDON & DANIELLE VARGA
Filmed for almost a decade, SEEDS is a lyrical black-and-white portrait of Black farming families in the American South. Centering the struggles and joys of centennial farmers who have held onto their land for generations, the film is an elegiac reflection on land, community, and the fragility of a legacy that deserves to endure. (2 hours, 3-minutes)