Documentary movies

Dan and Doris both find themselves single in their 70s after their spouses of decades have passed away. After using an online dating service during the pandemic for older singles, they talk on the phone for three months and fall in love before meeting in person. Now living in Austin, Texas, and married for three years, the two wear lavish matching outfits, go out dancing several nights a week, and have an active sexual life rooted in both fantasy and intimacy. With a deep awareness of their mortality guiding their choices, Dan and Doris are not afraid to show up in the world as their true selves, disregarding cultural norms for how older people should look, love, and move through the world.

Five Black musicians from Austin, reflect on art, identity and the need to create in a world that is quick to silence black men. The film features members of: Fuck Money, Urban Heat, Black Mercy and Chief and TheDoomsDayDevice.

The hottest summer on record left Austin ablaze and terrified, a city where heat hits hardest in at-risk neighborhoods and communities of color. In the aftermath, the Castañón family walks into the woods, asking: What is heat? At a city-run heat-mapping event, they trace invisible threats and exercise small acts of agency, exploring how conversation—at home, with neighbors, with scientists and policy-makers—shapes the way we live in a world remade by heat.

Venezuela, Maracaibo. In a broken health system where life hangs by a thread, Carolina rises as a maternity warrior. Drawing strength from a violent past, she relentlessly preserves the vital cord between pregnant women and their babies.

Three relatives of missing people travel a long and complex path in search of the remains of their loved ones, facing bureaucratic, legal and social processes that have persisted since the Civil War. Atlas of disappearance reconstructs what oblivion and repression tried to hide. Through digital maps, archives and forensic architecture, the film illuminates the silent transfer of thousands of missing people to the Cuelgamuros Valley during the Franco dictatorship. Between absences and silences, the film shows the constant struggle to recover the truth, giving name and place to those who were torn from history.

Bergsmark interrogates their response to a transphobic slur hurled at them following their move to Berlin. Exploring the root of violence and its nature, this is a powerful meditation on the trans experience and a treatise on how to move forward from fear.

The film connects the present of a failed revolutionary, who has left the factories and cities behind, with the death of a subcontracted worker two decades prior. Across this temporal divide, it explores the lingering, unabandonable possibility of a new revolution—a stark meditation on struggle, memory, and the embers of hope that refuse to be extinguished.​

Tired of being offered the same cliché roles over again, Tom, a committed Franco-Beninese actor decides to make his first feature film with non-white performers. Through a film-within-a-film approach, the ensemble challenges norms and works toward empowerment.