The Stand

Christopher Auchter, Canada, 2024, 95 mins

On a misty morning in the fall of 1985, a small group of Haida people blockaded a muddy dirt road on Lyell Island, demanding the government work with Indigenous people to find a way to protect the land and the future. In a riveting new feature documentary drawn from more than a hundred hours of archival footage and audio, award-winning director Christopher Auchter (Now Is the Time ) recreates the critical moment when the Haida Nation’s resolute act of vision and conscience changed the world.

Time: 1:00pm

Ithaca Murals: A Community Conversation

Join the team behind Ithaca Murals to discuss their ongoing project of bringing people and voices together to transform our local environments through the visual storytelling and collective empowerment of community murals. Individual murals will be discussed and illustrated through the parallel moving images that document the creation and afterlife of amazing murals across Ithaca and beyond.

Time: 3:30pm

A Thousand Pines

Sebastián Díaz / Noam Osband, USA, 2023, 77 mins

A Thousand Pines shows the lives of migrants who depend on the controversial guest worker visa program, following a crew of workers from Oaxaca, Mexico over the course of a season planting trees throughout the United States. In this tale of labor and family that shines a light on the precarity of temporary work visas, Raymundo Morales leads a crew of workers who have to make the challenging decision to leave their families in rural Mexico to plant commercial pine forests in the United States.

Time: 6:00pm

My Stolen Planet

Farahnaz Sharifi, Germany / Iran, 2024, 82 mins

My Stolen Planet is a diary-style narrative by Farah, an Iranian filmmaker, who captures moments of joy and defiance in her daily life, navigating the contrast between domestic freedom and external oppression. Simultaneously, she collects 8mm archives from people she doesn't know. Relying on others' recordings, she gains a new perspective on losing memories. Leyla, an Iranian professor who left Iran during the revolution, adds a name and story to one of her archive's faces. Farah's mother, suffering from Alzheimer's, motivates her to fight against forgetting. In the fall of 2022, the Women, Life, Freedom uprising became a turning point in Farah's life, as well as in the lives of many others in Iran.

Time: 8:30pm