Lead - BAEA
Terra Long  United States  2025  19 min.

In the dead of winter, at a wildlife rescue center on the pacific coast of so called Canada, a team of rehabbers treat Bald Eagles suffering from lead poisoning so that they can be released back to their environment. The film gently follows a difficult season and the perennial tension at the core of the rehabbers code of ethics: how to care for wild animals in a human environment while maintaining the dignity and wildness of the animal. At what point does the harm of treatment exceed the potential benefits of care?
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Cesium - 9,192,631,770 Hz
Todd Chandler  United States  2025  12 min.

A filmmaker’s conversations with his young son about the different ways in which they experience time leads to a deeper reflection of what time actually is, our attempts to control it, and how it controls us. From the physicists tending the atomic clocks that run the modern world, to people’s daily struggles with time, and from the biological clocks of the natural world to the eternal relationship between time and power, the film explores the tension between objective and subjective time: intimate, philosophical, poetic, political and scientific.
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Zinc- Memento Mori
Ainara Vera  United States  2025  9 min.

As rhythmic machines press zinc sheets into coffins, factory workers reflect on their own mortality.  The hum of a coffin factory turns into a lyrical call to embrace life before it slips away.
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Chlorine - Public Pool
Elizabeth Lo  United States  2025  13 min.

In the United States, swimming pools have long been contested sites of privilege, class, and race - serving as both paradisiacal symbols of wealth and American excess and as reprieves from the ever-increasing heat for the urban poor. This simple, observational portrait of one of the few remaining public swimming pools in the heart of Los Angeles becomes a visual celebration of public spaces as well as a meditation on family and the luxury of leisure.
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Silver - Family Fortunes
Mila Turajliç  Serbia  2025  11 min.

In their Belgrade home, a daughter reluctantly participating in her mother’s ritual cleaning of the family silver turns into a reflection on how the objects we preserve embody our passage through times of war, displacement and revolution. Eerily timely with the current war in Ukraine, the film explores the transmission of heritage and family folklore.
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Carbon - The Broken Circle
Liang Zhao  China  2025  6 min.

From the coal mines of China’s northern grasslands to the nearby desert, the film depicts the absurd reality and illusory cycle of humans creating destruction and trying to remedy it at the same time.
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Sodium - No Mean City
Ross McClean  United Kingdom  2025  15 min.

Two workmen and an apprentice drive through the city at night, replacing old sodium street lights with LED. Beneath their glow, the city grapples with change, as progress marches on.
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