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US Features

AUTONOMY

Film AUTONOMY Directed by Alex Horwitz A brave new world awaits in this engrossing investigation of technology and the ethics of self-driving cars.
US Features

BEDLAM

Film BEDLAM Directed by Kenneth Paul Rosenberg Over a period of five years, a psychiatrist tracks the lives of individuals suffering from debilitating mental illness.
International Features

FLOAT

Film FLOAT Directed by Phil KIbbe An insider's look at the F1D World Championships for free flight model airplanes, whose balance is threatened when…
International Features

HOPE FROZEN

Film HOPE FROZEN Directed by Pailin Wedel A family cryopreserves their two-year-old daughter following her death from cancer; are they deluded or prescient in their…
US Features

HUMAN NATURE

Film HUMAN NATURE Directed by Adam Bolt An unprecedented gene engineering tool presents the biggest scientific breakthrough of the modern era — but at what…
International Features

KIFARU

Film KIFARU Directed by David Hambridge An intimate look at the extinction of the northern white rhino through the eyes of the two Kenyan…
International Features

MIDNIGHT FAMILY

Film MIDNIGHT FAMILY Directed by Luke Lorentzen The Ochoa family operate an independent for-profit emergency ambulance within Mexico’s shockingly underserved healthcare system.
US Features

RIGHT TO HARM

Film RIGHT TO HARM Directed by Matt Wechsler An essential investigation into the impact of factory farming across the US, and what affected communities have courageously…
International Features

SEA OF SHADOWS

Film SEA OF SHADOWS Directed by Richard Ladkani A complex war between drug cartels, local fishermen, politicians and the Chinses Mafia, has pushed the ecosystem of...
International Features

SEAHORSE

Film SEAHORSE Directed by Jeanie Finlay When a transgender man decides to carry his child himself, the pregnancy prompts a reckoning with conventions of…
Shorts Programs

SHORTS PROGRAM: HSDFF SCREENING COMMITTEE PRESENTS

Program SHORTS PROGRAM: HSDFF SCREENING COMMITTEE PRESENTS Favorites from the Screening Committee of 2019 In Person: Film Subject, Bruce Franks Jr. with St. Louis Superman 
US Features

THE DOG DOC

Film THE DOG DOC Directed by Cindy Meehl Dr. Marty Goldstein provides a last hope for pet owners with nothing left to lose by holistically treating…
Short Films

THE NIGHTCRAWLERS

Film THE NIGHTCRAWLERS Directed by Alexander A. Mora A shocking profile of Duterte's war on drugs and the small group of determined photojournalists who risk everything…
US Features

THE STORY OF PLASTIC

Film THE STORY OF PLASTIC Directed by Deia Schlosberg Scientists and activists challenge corporations pushing single-use plastic consumerism, as plastic pollution is a problem unsolvable by recycling…
Southern Features

WE BELIEVE IN DINOSAURS

Film WE BELIEVE IN DINOSAURS Directed by Clayton Brown, Monica Long Ross A charged conversation between creationists and secularists unfolds as a massively scaled Noah’s Ark theme park is built…