Last May in Theaters (2025)
Arief Budiman | 22' 50" | Indonesia, South Korea | US Premiere
Jakarta and Gwangju are two significant cities that sparked the birth of democracy in Indonesia and South Korea, toppling dictators through people's power in May 1998 and 1980. This work tells the story of the daily lives of two ticketing cinema staff during those May incidents. They never experienced it directly or went onto the streets to face the soldiers, yet the stories they heard and the voices that reached them felt like an endless war film replaying in their minds. This film is also woven from fragments of memories of people living around Jakarta and Gwangju and represented through found footage, film clips, and significant cinematic events that occurred in the same month.

The Ghost Feel Hour (2025)
Eero Tammi | 11' | Finland | US Premiere
An introspective documentary that connects the cinema space, ticket blowups, and the ritual of watching with memories and dreams.

Full Out (2025)
Sarah Ballard | 14' 25" | USA | San Diego Premiere
In 19th century Paris at the Salpêtrière Hospital, patients were hypnotized on stage to reproduce the symptoms of hysteria for public audiences. Over a century later, high school cheerleaders are fainting en masse.

A Metamorphosis (2025) / အသွင်ပြောင်းလဲမှုတစ်ခု
Lin Htet Aung | 16' 42" | Myanmar | California Premiere
In the houses, after parting, Mothers were made up of tears. Sons were transformed into empty glass cups. And the lullabies became a curse. The film examines the suffering and resilience of the Burmese people by using the distinct political elements that have floated for several years on the ocean of politi- cal opera under repetitive military dictatorships in Myanmar.

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