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.
2022
Official Selection
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
45 minutes
Director:
Jonathan Petramala
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?
Official Selection
Documentary Feature
Canada
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
20 minutes
Director:
Colin Askey
Set in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, LOVE IN THE TIME OF FENTANYL is an intimate, observational look beyond the stigma of injection drug users, revealing the courage of those facing terrible tragedy in a neighbourhood often referred to as ground zero of the overdose crisis in Canada. As the number of overdose deaths reaches an all time high, the Overdose Prevention Society (OPS) opens its doors — a renegade safe injection site that employs primarily current or former drug users, its staff and volunteers save lives and give hope to a deeply marginalized community as the overdose crisis rages.
Official Selection
Documentary Feature
United States
Runtime:
1 hour(s)
17 minutes
16 seconds
Director:
Beret E. Strong, Katrina Miller
"The happiest place in America is Boulder, Colorado" -- said no Black person ever. "This is [Not] Who We Are" is a documentary film exploring the gap between Boulder, Colorado’s progressive self-image and the lived experiences of its small but resilient Black community.
Official Selection
Animation
Runtime:
2 minutes
3 seconds
Director:
Olivia Perkins
A metaphor for child predators and their grooming patterns, Chums is about Mack, a young girl brushed aside by her mom after she sneakily surprises her during a phone call. Left essentially unsupervised in an aquarium, she begins to follow her only friend Mega, a massive tiger shark, into the top of his tank.
Official Selection
Animation
Runtime:
3 minutes
24 seconds
Director:
Benjamin Brossett
A man goes on a journey through a snowstorm, encountering various wonders along the way.