This is a story about Katya, a young woman who works as a welder. Abandoned as a little girl, she embarks on a personal journey to reunite with her lost family – to weld it back together, just like she welds metal at work. Despite pain and disappointment, Katya tries to protect her beloved little sister from a tragic fate, hoping for a better future for the both of them.

“Evidence” is both an analysis of corporate spending and the impact of dark money on US politics and ideology, and a personal meditation on ideas of family and care. In her most personal film to date, Lee Anne Schmitt blends funded archival materials, industrial landscapes, and personal domestic imagery, reflecting on how her own family—by birth and by choice—was shaped within a mythology of capitalism.

* Recommended for ages 12 and over.

1949. George Orwell finishes what will be his last but most important novel, “1984”. “ORWELL: 2+2=5” delves deep into Orwell’s final months and visionary works to explore the roots of the vital and troubling concepts he revealed to the world in his dystopian masterpiece: Doublethink, Thoughtcrime, Newspeak, the omnipresent spectre of Big Brother – disturbing socio-political truths which resonate ever-more powerfully today.

* Recommended for ages 15 and over.

An immersive archival documentary that depicts the four-day clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the 40,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the WTO Conference and sound the alarm on the WTO’s impact on human rights, labor, and the future effects of continued globalization.

* Recommended for ages 15 and over; depicts graphic scenes of police brutality.

During the Second Intifada in occupied Palestine, fear, siege, and death define the reality of the city of Hebron. Moments from the past are revived through childhood memory, intersecting with the collective memory. Amid the continuity and repetition of it all, what do we remember? What do we forget?

* Recommended for ages 15 and over.

Assembled from archival footage from the 2024 Palestine protests in Berlin, this film-essay is centered on the police camera, recording and archiving protestors’ bodies, and the protestors’ body; on the state’s monopoly on violence and protesting under constant surveillance. A composition of public space in which the historical origins of the police, its militarization, and its racial targeting emerge.

While making a documentary on the Palestine-Israel conflict, an Iranian filmmaker is abruptly drawn into war at home. Forced to flee Tehran with his family, he finds temporary refuge in a suburban home. Over twelve tense days, the film transforms from an analytical essay into a self-reflective diary where archive, memory, and lived experience collapse into one another.

* Recommended for ages 12 and over; depicts graphic scenes of war.