International First Feature Competition

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tilda Swinton guides us through the life of cult British musician Patrick Wolf, weaving together archive and animation to illuminate a singular artistic journey.

Yuan, a 60 year old former village mayor in Shanghai, seeks freedom through heartbreak, marriage and LGBTQ+ repression in modern China.