October 9-13, 2025

October 9-13, 2025
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In The Jungle

A visionary soundscape set in an imaginary world. Inspired by true events. The year is 1973 and it’s a typical school day for twelve-year-old Eric; but with hearing aids, a giant pair of glasses and the status of ‘outcast’, Eric is not a typical boy. On the day the class lesson is ‘survival of the fittest,’ he must face his bully and decide whether he’s a lion, a gazelle, or the king of the jungle.

Discount Doug

Douglas Buckles, better known by his professional alias, Discount Doug, around California’s San Joaquin Valley, is a prominent radio voice actor for local car dealership ads. However, when Doug falters during his biggest job of the year – recording for the ‘New Year’s Eve Super Sale Event,’ advertisement at Todd Diepenbrock’s Cars, Trucks, Vans, and SUVs, Doug’s entire career – and more – is called into question.

Livestreams with GrandmaPuzzles

A lifelong hobby becomes a lifeline for an unexpected Twitch streamer.

Terminally Ill

When a rapper is summoned to his grandmother’s deathbed, he engages in a madcap freestyle in an attempt to prevent her from dying.

109 Below

109 Below tells a tale of resilience and grit when rescue volunteers go to save the lives of strangers. An attempted rescue on Mount Washington in 1982 changed not only the course of two climbers’ lives, but the lives of the rescuers who attempted to save them — and the future of prosthetics, forever.

Planetwalker

In 1971 John Francis, known the world over as ‘Planetwalker,’ witnessed an oil tanker collision in the San Francisco Bay. The sight of oiled birds on the shoreline caused him to give up motorized transport and rely solely on his own two feet. Months after that he took a vow of silence convinced that listening rather than adding fuel to any fire was the way ahead. He didn’t talk, but he kept on walking clear across the country and back again. During the next seventeen silent years he listened and studied the world around him. Over many miles his idea of environmentalism changed. At the core of his emerging belief were the people he met, talked to, and broke bread with.

Chasing Time

After bringing some of the first and most striking visual evidence of our changing planet to the fore through the groundbreaking study of melting glaciers, photographer James Balog returns to Iceland to close the last chapter of his life’s work.

The Silverback

We humans are quite skilled at capturing the essence of groups of animals in the names we assign to them—a dazzle of zebra, a gaggle of geese, a skulk of foxes… It’s no surprise that we call a group of gorillas a “family,” since we share 98% of our DNA with these creatures and can’t help but see something beautifully human-like in them.

African safari guide Richard De Gouveia is deeply familiar with the primal draw we feel towards gorillas. “The Silverback” film follows Richard along his journey marked by tragedy and self-discovery, as he connects lessons learned while tracking wild gorillas to his own life, where he strives to be a loving father and partner in tandem with his rewarding career as a naturalist guide.

This primal allure is especially powerful for safari guide Richard De Gouveia, whose journey to becoming an Expedition Leader was shaped by tragedy. Watch Richard as he takes lessons learned in nature back to his family as he strives to both be a loving and present father/partner while also traveling to see some of Nature’s most amazing wildlife.

Can’t Retire From This

With animation, interviews and archival footage, we follow women and girls in the DC metropolitan area who find community and inspiration in those who led the way for basketball to become their life’s work, whether they pursued the sport professionally or utilized the resources they inherited from basketball to drive their careers off the court. Led by coach Diane Richardson, who was amongst the first athletic scholarship earners for women during the enactment of Title IX, she had led the way and instilled in many women to use basketball as a tool to achieve success, education, and empowerment. Deemed the “Queen of DMV Basketball”, her care for the game and the young ladies she guided, has cultivated many professional women and lifelong basketball players.

1001 Cuts

The daughters of Title IX encounter pervasive gender based stereotypes and discrimination that persist within the high stakes professional world of surgery – a workplace designed for and still controlled by men.

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