Gonzalo wants to be a film director, he dreams of directing comedies. In november 2006 his life stopped in a traffic accident that caused him a spinal cord injury. A few days after he was bedridden, he borrowed a video camera and as self-therapy began to film everything that happened to him, beginning his life 0.5 meters above the ground. When the state terminates his rehabilitation, he returns to his hometown. He has two options: stay put or continue his life in an eternal traveling. In order not to be alone, he decides to practice wheelchair basketball at the famous club AMFIV, and his story takes a Copernican turn. Discover a new universe for him in this professional sport, a world that has not yet been filmed from the inside.
2022
Official Selection
Documentary Feature
Spain
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
18 minutes
Director:
Gonzalo Suarez Garayo
Official Selection
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
45 minutes
Director:
James Camali
In the heart of rural Kentucky, a high school senior and his family struggle to cope with the true identity and intentions of a dangerous town shooter.
Official Selection
Narrative Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
27 minutes
Director:
Emma Thatcher
A self-destructive ex-Mormon finds out her abusive father is on his deathbed and road trips to Utah to reckon with her past.
Official Selection
Narrative Short
Spain
Runtime:
16 minutes
38 seconds
Director:
Aitor Almuedo Esteban
A boy is thrown into a trash container from the future. In his frantic search for the exit, he runs into a misterious man, who will make him doubt the origin of his own existence.
Official Selection
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
45 minutes
Director:
Jonathan Petramala
On December 10, 2021 one of the longest tracked tornadoes in US history ripped a twisted trail of death and destruction 165 miles long through western Kentucky. Dozens were killed but somehow hundreds in the path survived. These are some of the stories that will be shared for generations.
Official Selection
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
41 minutes
30 seconds
Director:
Garrett Zevgetis
A video goes viral, showing a white police officer in South Carolina pull a Black teenager from her school desk and throw her across the floor. Healer-Activist Vivian Anderson uproots her life in New York City to move to South Carolina to support the girl and dismantle the system behind the assault at Spring Valley, including facing the police officer. Adding context, geographer Janae Davis treks the surrounding swamps and encounters the homes of formerly enslaved people of African descent, connecting the past to the present.
Official Selection
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
16 minutes
18 seconds
Director:
Thomas Sutherland
The identify of the little girl in a famous photograph from 1951 has remained a mystery for over seventy years. I'M THE GIRL investigates the power of a single image and the women who claim to be her.
Official Selection
Narrative Short
United States
Runtime:
7 minutes
Director:
Shanden Simmons
This hip-hop musical short was the 2022 Best Film Winner of the Paducah 48 Hour Film Project - A scientist on the run tracks down a conspiracy that saw him framed for the murder of his colleague.
Official Selection
Animation
Hong Kong, SAR China
Runtime:
4 minutes
Director:
Lily Hoi Man Lai
A staving girl is trying to create a growth potion to make a jumbo soup dumpling meanwhile her cat is not happy with his foods
Official Selection
Documentary Short
United States
Runtime:
59 minutes
Director:
Cade Bursell
During the late 1980s and the1990s, a small, dedicated group of activists fought on the ground and in the courts to stop clearcutting, oil and gas drilling, and ATV use in the Shawnee National Forest located in Southern Illinois.
They won the support of their community and the struggle in court.
17-years later, the injunction was lifted by the court, and the Forest Service resumed logging.
Will our Illinois treasure be despoiled? How do we keep the forest standing?