When a police unit in Atlanta moves to raze an urban forest for the country's largest police training facility, a grassroots movement fights to defend the land.
(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Lev Omelchenko, Nolan Huber)
Poetry itself provides strong punctuation for the film.
In Nigeria's Niger Delta, where oil extraction has poisoned the land for decades, poet and activist Nnimmo Bassey nurtures a new generation of writers to fight back.
(Country: Norway, Italy, Nigeria; Year: 2026; Director: Maria Galliani Dyrvik)
Searching for answers about her Algerian family's ties to both sides of the Independence war, a filmmaker uncovers a tangle of contradicting buried histories.
(Country: France, Algeria, Qatar; Year: 2026; Director: Mia Bendrimia; Writer: Mia Bendrimia)
World premiere
Matininó
In Puerto Rico, a multi-generational group of women confront violence and abuse through a shared creative fantasy rich in colour, mythology and play.
An intimate story about the construction of identity and the consequences of defying gender norms within Mexico's conservative upper-middle-class society.
(Country: Mexico, Argentina; Year: 2026; Director: M Sin Título)
World premiere
The Wind's Thirst
In Colombia's La Guajira desert, three Wayuu guardians fight corporate powers exploiting their ancestral land, as green energy projects and a vital reservoir serve everyone but them.
