2022

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. 

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