A feature-length documentary exploring the precarious relationships between birdlife, city dwellers, and the ecosystems they share. The Public Lives of Birds is set deep in the Mojave Desert, where Las Vegas is experiencing a drought that may one day render the city uninhabitable. With its water reserves reaching record lows, Las Vegas is feeling the effects of climate change more keenly than most. In this arid and difficult climate, what can we learn from our fellow desert dwellers, birds?

The Public Lives of Birds focuses on the people who make up the city and their relationship with birdlife: from bird watchers, Zen monks, exotic bird sanctuaries, and pet psychics to Vegas performers like Georgette Dante, former nude magician Dusty Summers, magician Fielding West, and many more.

The She-Oak That Remembered is an animated essay film about the aftermath of Typhoon Damrey, a devastating storm that struck South Central Vietnam in 2017. Nearly a decade later, a filmmaker returns to Khánh Hòa’s coastal communities to trace the disaster in memory, landscape, and everyday life.

Travelling through Đầm Môn, Dốc Lết, and Hòn Miễu Island, he encounters fragments of stories that resist forming a single narrative. Memories surface through conversations, sounds, changing weather, and familiar landscapes. The storm persists in sensations, emotions, and recurring fears.

Blending animation, documentary materials, personal reflection, and environmental observation, the film moves between past and present, certainty and uncertainty. Disaster is not a closed historical event, but an unfinished experience that returns through memory and atmosphere.

At its centre is the she-oak, a familiar coastal tree and witness to destruction and recovery across generations. A symbol of endurance, it holds silent memories.

Structured around a tropical cyclone’s cyclical movement, the film reflects on memory, resilience, and the humanitarian values that emerge when communities face vulnerability together. It asks: when does a storm truly end?

At the harbour in the small town of Stubbekøbing stands an abandoned grain silo that has divided the town in two for years. Some see it as an ugly relic of the past, while others see opportunities for the future. When a group of artists and cultural entrepreneurs propose transforming the silo into an artistic landmark instead of tearing it down, a discussion arises about different dreams for the town’s future – and different views on what art actually is and who it is for.

Carina Randløv has made a warm and subtle documentary about unity, change, and the courage to see something new in the old. The film follows how creative enthusiasts – each with their own voice and from their own perspective – try to breathe life into a city where empty shops and grand visions exist side by side and where contemporary art opens up a new perspective on what growth and value really are. It is a story about art, life, the country, and the city – and about the places in the so-called periphery which are fighting for the right to redefine themselves.

In the village of Dljin, two boys, Bobi and Darko, are growing up in a multigenerational household that functions as its own self-sufficient ecosystem. They are the sons of men known locally as Braća Jazavci (The Badger Brothers), destined to one day take over the family business.

At thirteen, Bobi is already stepping into the adult world with quiet determination and a strong work ethic, while younger Darko still experiences childhood with playful ease and wide-eyed joy.

Today and All That Comes After traces a day in their lives. They blend in with the men in the morning as they head out into the woods for work. The evening, however, belongs to what it means to simply be children – softness, laughter and play.