Film Finder 2024

The Box Man A man moves through Tokyo wearing a cardboard box while fighting off those who want to take his place.

Bring Them Home Lily Gladstone narrates this story about Montana’s Blackfoot tribe as they seek to reinstate a wild buffalo herd.

The Burdened Ahmed and Isra’a struggle to raise their three children while maintaining multiple burdens in war-torn Yemen.

Chasing Ice With his breathtaking time-lapse imagery and stunning landscapes, National Geographic photographer James Balog documents the rapid and alarming shrinkage of the world’s glaciers, warning of looming consequences for the planet.

Chasing Time

Chuck Chuck Baby Can the return of a childhood friend bring Welsh chicken factory worker Helen a second chance at life?

City of Wind A 17-year-old Mongolian shaman becomes enamored with a peer who needs heart surgery.

Close Your Eyes A reclusive former filmmaker investigates the two-decades-old disappearance of one of his actors.

Coloring Outside the Lines Through their creativity (rather, queerativity), these stories of performance, sound, and image not only validate that art imitates life, but that it IS life.

Critical Zone Mr. Amir drives through the underbelly of Tehran dealing hashish to the city’s nighttime citizens.

Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano What does it mean to strive for human dignity and make art amid a country’s continuing turmoil?

Dìdi (弟弟) A skate video-loving NorCal Taiwanese American spends his final pre-high school summer learning what it means to grow up.

Disco Afrika: A Malagasy Story A sapphire miner returns to his home village, where he connects to his community’s decades-long fight against corruption.

Dragon Superman When the fearsome Cosmos Gang crosses him, nothing will stop our masked, motorcycle-riding hero from doling out justice.

Eat Your Heart Out (WTF) A pu pu platter of shockingly delicious shorts with an aftertaste of WTF. Pizza. Dumplings. Milking. Hole.

Empire Waist Plus-sized teen Lenore Miller is about to set the world on fire with her own line of inclusive fashion designs.

Eternal A climate change scientist considers how his life could have gone differently when he runs into an old flame.

The Etilaat Roz Award-winning daily newspaper Etilaat Roz weighs their options as the Taliban takes over Afghanistan.

Evil Does Not Exist Mizubiki, a remote lakeside village, is about to be overtaken by a new “glamping” site built on sensitive natural land.

Excursion Teenage Iman becomes the center of controversy when she erroneously claims to have lost her virginity.