2026 Movie Catalog

Topology Of Sirens

Dir: Jonathan Davies

Cas discovers a cache of mysteriously labeled microcassette tapes in her aunt's bedroom closet. Cas's curiosity to discover the origin of these tapes leads her on a meditative journey through unknown verdant Californian landscapes. As her adventure progresses, the mystery unravels in equally enigmatic and enlightening ways, reflecting Cas's own evolving relation with time and sound.

NORTH AMERICA

My Mexican Bretzel

Dir: Nuria Giménez

MY MEXICAN BRETZEL uses home movies and fleeting snippets of sound to tell the story of Vivian Barrett, a wealthy Swiss woman, whose WWII pilot-turned-entrepreneur husband changes their lives when he creates a pharmaceutical wonder drug. From the 40s through 60s, from the Alps to Le Mans to New York to Hawaïi, vulnerability, romance, and opulence are explored in a way that only cinema allows.

NORTH AMERICA

August At Akiko's

Dir: Christopher Makoto yogi

Armed with just his suitcase and a sax, cosmopolitan musician Alex Zhang Hungtai returns home to the Big Island of Hawaii having been away for nearly a decade. Hungtai takes refuge in a Buddhist B&B with a woman named Akiko. Alex's experimental free jazz music at first collides with the bell sounds of Akiko's meditation, but as the film evolves and a friendship develops, the two harmonize.

NORTH AMERICA

Pounce

Dir: Mister Hero, Keith R. Robinson

In the desolate Welsh mountains the military and government are working on a lethal creature who's fur becomes invisible in the moonlight. A group of conspiracy theorists who find out must escape both the creature and the military who will stop at nothing to keep this classified.

NORTH AMERICA

Stone Time Touch

Dir: Gariné Torossian

A documentary essay on memory, loss, and expectation combines into a poetic collage of a real and imagined Armenia. A young woman's journey to her homeland is interwoven with photographs and the reflections of actress Arsinée Khanjian, resulting in an elegiac and sensory investigation into the concepts of home, identity and place.

WORLD

Twenty Questions

Dir: Gorman Bechard

In 1987, filmmaker Gorman Bechard set out to make what would have been his first documentary. Never released and believed to be lost--until now. Twenty people, from all walks of life, are each locked alone in a room for 11 minutes - one roll of 16mm film. They are each given the same set of 20 questions, which they can answer at random...if they're not completely distracted by their surroundings.

WORLD