Monica's Picks

This magic realist documentary about invisible elves, financial collapse, and the surprising power of belief follows Ragga, a grandmother and “seer” who has the ability to communicate directly with invisible spirits of nature.

Sara Dosa | 84 min.

Steven Fuller is a winter caretaker who has lived at Yellowstone National Park for the past 50 years. As the cold weather approaches and the seasonal transformation begins, he hunkers down in his remote mountain cabin. But Fuller and Yellowstone face an uncertain future…

Laurence Topham & David Levene | 12 min.

A visually dazzling meditation on the balance between human and nature, The Guardians poetically interweaves the lives of the threatened monarch butterfly with an Indigenous community fighting to restore the forest they nearly destroyed.

Ben Crosbie & Tessa Moran | 70 min.

Young Black farmers work small tracts of available land in California’s Bay Area, sharing space with Indigenous community members focused on ecological farming and food justice.

Mark Decena | 11 min.

In 2006, international drilling company Lapindo carelessly unleashed an unstoppable toxic mudflow into East Java, burying dozens of nearby villages and displacing tens of thousands of Indonesians in the process. Grit follows one survivor’s transformation from a young girl into an outspoken advocate for her community.

Sasha Friedlander & Cynthia Wade | 80 min.

In response to hundreds of anti-LGBTQ+ bills proposed across the country, trans trail runner Perry Cohen formed a team of fellow runners, who identify as trans men, with an aim to compete in trail races in states proposing and passing hateful legislation.

James Saunders | 8 min.

Shot against the harsh and beautiful landscape of northern Australia, this is a comic account of Australia’s most notorious environmental blunder, the introduction of cane toads from Hawaii to control the beetles decimating Queensland’s sugar cane crops.

Mark Lewis | 85 min.