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2026 · 0h 6m
Szymon, preparing for the race, spends time in the paddock surrounded by family and friends. However, just before heading out onto the track, he is left alone, enjoying a moment of silence before the start. Film produced as part of the Lighthouse Film Community.
2026 · 0h 17m
A lonely young man finds love online when a late-night sleep call with a stranger blossoms into an intimate digital romance.
2026 · 0h 8m
Broken Glass is the name of a jelly dessert beloved by the filmmaker's daughter. The film begins as a simple cooking video and gradually unfolds into a zoetrope-cake animation experiment, accompanied by the author's reflection on her childbirth experience. As motherhood challenges the self-destructive perfectionism deeply ingrained in her creative process, she searches for a gentler way back to artistic practice within the routines of meal preparation - one that embraces imperfection, vulnerability and transience.
2026 · Film
Photographer Pauly V. navigates life with chronic illness through Eco-experimental film photography.
2026 · Film
The video work revolves around a single bicycle ride—from the author's home to the home of his grandfather, who is supposed to hand over tapes from his personal archive for digitalization. While the visual component is entirely focused on the meditative spin of the wheels, the narrative is detached from the image.
2026 · 0h 44m
"We're Not Friends" is the debut comedy special and album from Canadian stand-up comedian Renee Groux. Her debut special has her celebrating and shaking her fist at the ups and downs of parenting and marriage. Seen at the Guelph Comedy Festival, Don't Tell Comedy, Fever Dream Comedy and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Renee's comedy is smart, upbeat and raunchy as she takes you through her first years of parenting her toddler while trying to stay cool/relevant/feminist/sane!
2026 · 0h 5m
Film produced as part of the Lighthouse Film Community. A young boy is making a dazzling sports career, but an unexpected crisis reveals that his greatest ambition was never victory.
2026 · Film
Detective Albert Sneeval is tasked with finding the rare sapphire that has been stolen from the new museum that just opened up in town. Through cigarettes, cocaine, and stupidity, the gang of characters join together to find the culprit.
2026 · 0h 25m
In a ribbon of saltmarsh in coastal New England, an intergenerational group of citizen scientists is trying to save the Saltmarsh Sparrow from extinction, one nest at a time.
2026 · 0h 13m
The Hands That Feed is a lovingly made tribute to the Stellenbosch restaurant Decameron, which has become a staple for anyone with a love of Italian food and tradition.
2026 · 0h 5m
In Benoni, communities confront crime and neglect by cleaning their environment, revealing how resilience found in collective action challenges cycles of violence, poverty, and institutional failure.
2026 · 0h 8m
For a DJ, keeping up with the latest trends is par for the course, but DJ Brian d’Souza, is forging his own path. Under his stage name, Auntie Flo, he learned to create innovative soundscapes from the subtle vibrations of living plants and mushrooms His musical exploration highlights the living ecosystem that exists all around us, urging us to see nature as living collaborator in the symphony of existence. Beyond the stage, his music promotes mental healing and environmental conservation, encouraging listeners to engage with nature in a new way. By collaborating with the natural world, Brian reshapes how we interact with the environment, giving Mother Earth a voice in the symphony of life and inviting us to listen to what’s hidden in plain sight.
2026 · 0h 9m
In a small one room apartment on a rainy day, an inner monologue reveals a woman’s confession of longing and separation from a young relationship that ended long ago.
2026 · Film
A personal essay film about the life, death and resurrection of the great Bengali director Ritwik Ghatak
2026 · 0h 16m
For over 50 years, Tim Birkhead has dedicated his life to studying a resilient bird colony on the brink of survival. Once nearly wiped out, the birds have fought their way back - but new threats now loom on the horizon. As Tim grapples with their uncertain future, he also faces a deeper question: what will become of his life’s work?
2026 · 0h 23m
Pioneering Asian and Native Hawaiian marine scientists grapple with questions of belonging as they confront the long history of exploitation in coral reef research. Their work questions who holds authority in science—and what is lost when indigenous perspectives are dismissed. Grounded in the Hawaiian concept of kuleana — a sacred reciprocal responsibility between people and place — they are building new research models that prioritize the needs of local communities.
2026 · 0h 8m
1992. United States of America. Bush and Clinton are presidential candidates, as is Myles, a candidate who at the time identifies as a woman, working-class, and openly lesbian. The issue inspires a poem to Zoe Leonard. 2024. The poem was augmented with new demands and translated into Acadam, a post-binary language, by the Bye Bye Binary collective.
2026 · 0h 11m
After a failed suicide attempt, art student Evangelina Roman finds herself in a surreal liminal space between life and death. There, she meets Evi, a 17th-century girl who helps Evangelina rediscover her passion and will to live through art and self-acceptance.
2026 · 0h 13m
“Opera di Muxaro: Ballata dell’Africana Errante” (Ballad of the Wandering African) is a new short film by British-Nigerian artist Zina Saro-Wiwa shot entirely in Sant’Angelo di Muxaro in the Agrigento region of Sicily. The film, which was conceived, shot and edited in two weeks is about existing in peace during war and existence as war during peace time. The film is about the cognitive and emotional dissonance of surviving societal collapse but finding yourself in an almost problematically beautiful place that suggests sanctuary and maybe even the afterlife.
2026 · 0h 20m
Smallz tries to earn money for his grandmas dying wish before she goes to hell. So why not make money by selling Smarties?
2026 · 0h 10m
After being unnoticed and doubted for years, a 16-year-old Chinese ice hockey player faces the question every student-athlete in China must confront: should he follow the path designed by his parents and give up the sport he loves? As expectations and uncertainty pulls him into a spiral of self-doubt, an American football coach enters the story, and the boy must decide what truly matters to him.
2026 · 0h 7m
Another day at the bookmaker’s, another string of losing horse bets. His latest attempt to win leads the protagonist to look deep within himself. Film produced as part of the Lighthouse Film Community.
2026 · 2h 57m
At Zhuzi School, Liu Feng, homeroom teacher of Grade 1 Class 6, and parent Mu Ren develop a learning system beyond the “Hengshui Model,” focusing on students’ body, mind, and brain. Opposing exhausting competition and utilitarian education, they advocate respect and space for healthier, more balanced high school development.
2026 · 0h 3m
A young filmmaker finds himself caught between his passion for cinema and the choices that shapes his future.
2026 · 0h 20m
An archive of video footage shot on Ukraine's Eastern Front in 2022–2023 views the landscape as a space of rupture, where layers of time overlap and familiar meanings lose their stability.
2026 · 0h 16m
Millions of birds pass through our yards during their bi-annual migrations, but they face an invisible killer along the way: glass windows. In the US alone, an estimated one billion birds die each year when they collide with windows. Now, two organizations help pave the way to a bird-friendly future.
2026 · 0h 7m
A young man watches a film. But when something strange occurs, he starts to doubt the world he's in.
2026 · 0h 3m
When a son finds his Moms old tape he learns about his Moms big secret that she used to be a BALLER!
2026 · 0h 11m
Curtain Call follows a group of young actors as they navigate the chaos, conflict, and camaraderie of a stage production. As the film reveals, the real drama unfolds long before the curtain rises.
2026 · 0h 9m
Shattered Glass is a psychological thriller short film that follows Marshall Hayes, a disturbed college student who is haunted by symbolic visions and dissociative amnesia, as he investigates the origins of his mysterious disorder.
2026 · 0h 56m
"wanna go to Alaska?" - "ok" That's how this whole adventure started. Where it got us, is a totally different story. Rain, Camping on the side of the road or under the pipeline, walking trough the tundra, cycling for days and days with no other people then each other, eating pasta with sardines for 2 months, going trough rollercoasters of emotions, and sharing those with a person you barely know, that was Alaska for us.
2026 · 0h 3m
Benson the three-legged mastiff spends his days content to watch the world pass by until one day a mysterious dog shows up at his doorstep, followed by many more. A story of friendship, loyalty and unconditional love.
2026 · 0h 15m
In the medium-sized midwest town of Columbia, Missouri, Shane Stander is a committed skateshop owner who is coming up on five years of opening a new skateshop; coincidentally down the street from the one he used to co-run. As the filmmaker attempts to ask questions and poke around, this film explores the passion, peculiarity and community of the mid-Missouri skateboarding scene.
2026 · 1h 1m
The company commander of the Hroza battalion, Captain Denys “Khimik” Shevchenko, died on December 6, 2023, while commanding the Serebryansk Forestry. By decree of the President of Ukraine, he is posthumously awarded the title Hero of Ukraine. Two years after the death of the commander, his subordinates, comrades, and friends recall the events of 2023 and describe Captain Shevchenko as a person without whom they would not have survived at that time. A person who saved the lives of an entire company. The events of the film take place in the Kharkiv region — Shevchenko's small homeland.
2026 · 0h 5m
A young woman leading a picture-perfect life is brought face to face with reality. Film produced as part of the Lighthouse Film Community.
2026 · 2h 7m
Born To Fly, directed and produced by Ali Khajeian, tells the story of dedication and perseverance through the eyes of Melbourne-based Ultra Runner, Rahul Sharma, from running his first marathon to setting a world record all in the same year. Between December 24th-30th, 2025, Rahul became the first person ever to run the length of Sri Lanka, setting a new world record for the fastest time to cover the 566km journey (completing the run in 6 days, 13 hours and 22 minutes). The intricacies and procedures of this great feat, planned by the team of students that surround him are captured in this documentary and Born to Fly follows the story of Rahul and his team in making this dream a reality.
2026 · 0h 52m
Kara and Nate navigate the challenging, high-altitude terrain of the Andes during a demanding 100-mile ultramarathon in Argentina. As navigation tasks and remote aid stations complicate the journey, the participants must rely on rigorous physical endurance, self-supported logistics, and strategic planning to overcome the unpredictable Patagonian wilderness.
2026 · 1h 8m
Two couples from completely different financial worlds are thrown into the ultimate wedding experiment as they swap budgets - and with it, their expectations, dreams, and comfort zones.
2026 · 0h 23m
A campus is like a rainforest. Beneath its order and rules lie unseen laws of survival. A secret‑filming incident drags two young girls into power dynamics and public opinion, and their once‑intimate friendship gradually begins to fray.
2026 · 0h 19m
Family man Sigve Aasland suffers a severe heart attack. All hope seems lost, he is put in a ventilator and intended for organ donation. As his daughter intends to take her last farewell - in the form of a song - something extraordinary happens. The way back to life isn't just easy, but with love, community and a good dose of humor one can get surprisingly far.
2026 · 0h 57m
Mark Horton, a British archaeologist, is investigating King Arthur’s castle. But did it really exist? Camelot, the seat of the court of the legendary King Arthur and Queen Guinevere, where the Knights of the Round Table gathered in the 5th and 6th centuries, could it be a real place, inspired by a Roman-era ruin? Mark Horton travels across Britain to examine medieval texts and post-Roman archaeological sites.
2026 · 0h 15m
What we see here is the human face of the climate crisis. This is about something bigger than just environmental loss; it is about memory, tradition, and the struggle to protect a way of life. I hope this film invites us to listen more closely to indigenous communities, who have long been the guardians of our natural world.
2026 · 0h 16m
In 2018, a Polish cow escaped on route to the slaughterhouse, swam to a nearby island and caused chaos. This film revisits the event, probing the narratives we construct about the countryside, other beings, and who holds the power to tell them.
2026 · 0h 4m
Two teens decide to help the other face their phobia, and their first instinct is to visit an abandoned house. When the duo’s mission goes awry, they find that some things are better left undisturbed.
2026 · 0h 3m
Between a future weighed down by uncertainty and a lack of prospects, a cabin in the woods becomes a symbol of mutual care and a shared desire for freedom.
2026 · 0h 21m
The culture of endangered ethnic groups lives on as long as people continue to speak their native languages. The film follows the life of hereditary shaman Valentin Khagdaev. Through rituals and communion with spirits, he preserves and passes on the traditions of his people.
2026 · 0h 18m
'The Love You Make' explores the life of the LGBT community in the Forth Valley area of Scotland. Director and Presenter Iris Savage interviews both members of her local LGBT group as well as the general public to get an idea of what struggles those in the community deal with and what needs to change.
2026 · 0h 44m
The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. 214 miles through the Eastern Sierra mountains in California tested Max's ability to endure. Caught between the will to keep going and a body that wouldn’t respond, he faced the reality of wanting something deeply without being able to control the outcome.
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