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  • The Witchdoctor and the Windmill (Australia, France) by Robert Hamilton

    “The Witchdoctor and the Windmill” explores the life of the Pintupi artist, Linda Syddick Napaltjarri. After her father’s death in a revenge spearing, Linda came in from the remote Pintupi homelands and was taught to paint by her adoptive father, the famous artist Shorty Tjungurrayi. Her insisten...

  • Waiting for the End of the World (United States) by Jeffrey Hoyt

    A quiet mosaic of small-town America, tracing the subtle fractures in everyday life.

  • Tides of Tradition (Netherlands) by Nina van Belzen

    In Arnemuiden, a village on the Walcheren peninsula in the Dutch province of Zeeland, residents traditionally wore the village’s costume. Today, there is only one woman who still wears this clothing in her daily life. In an effort to preserve their cultural heritage, a dedicated group of women wo...

  • Distant Shores (Deux rives) (France) by Thibault Verneret

    "The director engages in a dialogue with his older brother, once convicted of drug trafficking in French Guiana. Oscillating between the present and past recorded in his diary, the film opens the door to a rapprochement between the two men. But the older brother remains mysterious and elusive, an...

  • Experiments @ Amsterdam Independent Film Festival

    At the Amsterdam Independent Film Festival, we focus on film. This year's edition will bring independent artistic visions to an audience that demands a more fulfilling experience than the latest Hollywood fare.

  • Docs @ Amsterdam Independent Film Festival

    At the Amsterdam Independent Film Festival, we focus on film. This year's edition will bring independent artistic visions to an audience that demands a more fulfilling experience than the latest Hollywood fare.

  • S (Japan) by Masahiro Ota

    Shinichi Someda, a promising young independent film director, has been arrested.
    His former college theatre friends reunite after years apart to write a petition on his behalf.
    Among them are Chiho (Sachiko Matsushita), who once had complicated feelings for Someda but recently married another man...

  • Liberation (United States) by Jeff Corpening

    A mysterious young girl races to free a doomed calf from a factory farm before it's too late.
    Running time: 00:04:40

  • French Film (France) by Claude Chamis

    In Paris, Sam, in his twenties, shares his life with Léna, a young actress. Despite their attachment, the initial spark has begun to fade: Sam is becoming increasingly possessive, while Léna questions the sincerity of his feelings. In a society undergoing change, their path crosses that of Arthur...

  • Love, Sarah (Canada) by Bruna Perussello

    After a succession of rejections, a woman grappling with Depression and Social Anxiety retreats into the quiet comfort of her only support system—her two beloved cats. A touching story on fighting silent battles and struggling with mental health.
    Running time: 00:18:51

  • Ball Lightning (United States) by Catriona Trina Baker

    Ball Lightning is the true story of a refugee who fled the personal and social effects of Soviet run East Germany after the end of WWII and immigrated to the United States in the 1960s. The story is told through the eyes of the surrogate daughter that she raised after she was forced to give away ...

  • Luteal (Canada) by Robert Morrison

    Caught between intimacy and isolation, Abbie wants to move in with her partner when she’s at her best but retreats each month during the luteal phase of her menstrual cycle. Her partner, Kar, struggles to navigate these tumultuous waters, striving to understand Abbie’s moods whilst questioning wh...

  • Dinner with Michelle [H.264 1080] TAFF File

  • Long night alone (United States) by Adam E. Stone

    Using intertitles, elements of slow cinema, the absence of an audio track, and other experimental filming and editing techniques, long night alone explores complex grief, depersonalization/derealization, the creative process, and hope.
    Running time: 01:15:30

  • The Lord's Vineyards (France) by Renaud Fely

    Thanks to the discovery of the last monastic communities producing wine in France, this documentary confronts the secular and material character of wine with its sacred character. Guided by Jean-Robert Pitte, geographer and specialist of the French vineyards, we set out to discover men and women ...

  • Baab (United Arab Emirates) by Nayla Al Khaja

    ‘Baab’ is a dark fantasy that unfolds through the fractured mind of a woman reeling from the sudden death of her twin sister. Plagued by the eerie hum of tinnitus in her left ear, she is drawn into a surreal world where grief takes on physical form. As she descends through three visceral stages, ...

  • Frames (Australia) by Claire Marshall

    ‘Frames’ explores the surveillance, scrutiny, and framing of women in a post-feminist context as it works to dismantle or disaggregate the coherent body so that a whole person (a woman) becomes dissected, fragmented into a composite of datasets.
    Running time: 00:12:30

  • Immram (Switzerland) by Jonathan Moratal, Arthur Deschamps

    She took her own life. But what if we had the chance to understand why? Could we truly prevent it? We have three minutes to find out.
    Running time: 00:11:58

  • The Undergrowth (United States) by Griffin Roessler

    In the City of Light, cloaked angels were blamed for a wave of disappearances and banished to the woods.
    Generations later, their hidden portal is known only as the Undergrowth. Enter the World Walker: a half-angel
    student living a double life, navigating the human world by day while secretly she...