WHEN:
May 1-3, 31, 2025
TICKETS:
For more information and tickets visit the Resistance of Vision Film Festival website.
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
May 3, 3:00PM
Presented in partnership with Brattle Theater
Brattle Theater
40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA 02138
Screening:
Feeling the Apocalypse - Resist: The Resistance Revival Chorus - When We Arrive as Flowers - Black Tide - Roll Down The Window - Ancestral Call - Nomads in the City - Local One
WEST
May 31, 12:00PM
Presented in partnership with San Francisco DocFest
Roxie Theater
3117 16th St, San Francisco CA 94117
Screening:
Feeling the Apocalypse - Resist: The Resistance Revival Chorus - When We Arrive as Flowers - Black Tide - Roll Down The Window - Ancestral Call - Nomads in the City - Local One
Official selections for the 2025-2026 Resistance of Vision Film Festival:
FIGHT THE POWER (Racial Justice): a program dealing with all forms of racial discrimination, including Indigenous communities around the globe and stories of individuals and organizations fighting for a more just and equitable world.
Danielle Scott: Ancestral Call
Directors: Sonia Kennebeck, Tetiana Anderson
Country: USA, Running Time: 16 min
Danielle Scott, a legally blind Black, Polish-Jewish, and Asian mixed-media artist on the cusp of international fame, risks her own well-being by exposing herself to the intergenerational trauma of the Atlantic Slave Trade. She traces her ancestors' lives for a greater purpose: creating art that reveals the era's wretched pain and intense beauty while guiding her audience through an experiential journey toward healing and hope.
Expanding Sanctuary
Director: Kristal Sotomayor
Country: USA, Running Time: 20 min
An immigrant mother emerges as a community leader during the historic campaign to end the sharing of the Philadelphia police database with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Expanding Sanctuary tells a rarely told story about a Latinx immigrant community’s successful journey to change legislation and protect families.
Roll Down The Window
Director: Lipa Hussain
Country: UK, Running Time: 10 min
Filmmaker Lipa Hussain interrogates a neurological condition she has experienced since childhood and the parallels it represents with her own religious and racial struggles. Alice In Wonderland syndrome causes the sensation of shrinking and losing bodily control. The film explores the idea of utilizing AIW to confront an enemy from Lipa’s past.
They Won't Call it Murder
Directors: Ingrid Raphaël, Melissa Gira Grant
Country: USA, Running Time: 20 min
For more than 20 years, no police officers were charged with murder for killing residents in Columbus, Ohio. Five women, bound by grief, confront the impossibility of receiving justice for their loved ones whose lives have been taken and challenge the city’s legacy of withholding answers and ignoring accountability.
The Two-Eighty Project
Director: Sophie Constantinou
Country: USA, Running Time: 7 min
Chris Renfro doesn’t just grow and harvest grapes on a hillside high above San Francisco’s Highway 280 to make delicious local wine. He is dedicated to building a sustainable food community that nourishes every member of the local economy and ecosystem. With the 280 Project’s mission to reclaim space, realize opportunity, and revitalize community, Renfro brings passion and vision to the notion that land ownership is a powerful path to self-determination.
OUR BODIES, OUR CHOICE (Gender and Reproductive Justice): a program dealing with bodily autonomy, including transgender and reproductive healthcare, and other issues affecting individuals based on sex or gender.
Loving Town
Director: Wes Overvold
Country: USA, Running Time: 18 min
Loving Town follows Caleb, Spencer, Berlynn, and a determined group of LGBTQ+ advocates as they defy conservative backlash to create a safe and inclusive space for young people in Livingston, Montana. Their fight for drag story hours, where performers read stories of acceptance and identity to children, becomes part of a larger struggle as state legislators push anti-LGBTQ+ policies that threaten their community. When allied representatives take the House floor to challenge these laws, an unexpected bipartisan revolt offers a glimmer of hope. Weaving together personal stories and political resistance, Loving Town captures the tensions and triumphs of a small but resilient town determined to build a more inclusive future.
Marks of Majesty
Directors: Julia Comita, Stephanie Francis
Country: USA, Running Time: 9 min
Marks of Majesty is a documentary project that briefly examines the stories of 7 different breast cancer survivors, previvors, and patients. Through portraits and motion, filmed interviews, and organic user-generated footage, we share our subjects' many and varied perspectives and post-operative bodies. We aim to dismantle myths and misconceptions about breast cancer while also giving voice and power to those whose stories have historically been overlooked.
Outcry: Alchemists of Rage
Director: Clare Major
Country: USA, Running Time: 30 min
Whitney Bradshaw photographs women mid-scream in cathartic group sessions where long-silenced stories conjure rage, sorrow, and joy. An activist and sexual abuse survivor, Whitney uses art to fuel action for women’s rights, culminating in a grassroots fight for abortion access in Ohio.
Personal Mythologies
Director: Susan O'Brien
Country: USA, Running Time: 5 min
Painter Dominique Castelano reflects on her trans identity through folklore from her native Philippines in this visually rich portrait.
Resist: The Resistance Revival Chorus
Director: Susan O'Brien
Country: USA, Running Time: 19 min
In the midst of a country divided, a diverse group of women and non-binary individuals unite through the historic power of music to create a movement ignited by song.
When We Arrive as Flowers
Director: Susan O'Brien
Country: USA, Running Time: 5 min
Diovanna, a dancer, realizes her transfemme identity through a choreographic journey of self-discovery, celebration, and the poetic metaphor of a flower coming to bloom.
THIS IS AN EMERGENCY (Environmental Justice): a program dealing with our relationship to the natural world and efforts to fight laws and institutions that fail to protect our environment and actively contribute to the worsening climate crisis.
Black Tide
Director: Kim Yip Tong
Country: France, Running Time: 13 min
On July 25, 2020, the bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground on the reef on the east coast of Mauritius. Twelve days later, oil began to spill, causing the worst ecological disaster ever to occur in the region.
Feeling the Apocalypse
Director: Chen Sing Yap
Country: USA, Running Time: 7 min
A psychotherapist struggling with climate anxiety explores what it means to live in a dying world.
Gath & K'iyh: Listen to Heal
Director: Princess Daazhraii Johnson
Country: USA, Running Time: 9 min
Gath and K’iyh is a poetic visual exploration of a community-led creative arts project aimed at better understanding and restoring our relationship with gath (king salmon) and k’iyh (birch) relatives as we navigate our feelings around climate change in Alaska. Gath and K’iyh are words from the Benhti Kokhut’ana Kenaga’ (Lower Tanana) dialect spoken in the Interior Region of Alaska. Guided by the voice and wisdom of Ahtna Elder Fred John, this film invites viewers to pause, listen, sing, and dream together and ask how we might be in better relationship to the natural world around us.
Keepers of The Coastline
Director: Jeremy Charles
Country: USA, Running Time: 13 min
In 2023, the Tolowa Dee-ni' people, along with partnering tribes, asserted sovereignty over the 700 square miles of their ancestral fisheries. Now, in 2024, we see how marine science and resource management can be guided by community and culture.
War for The Woods
Directors: Sean Stiller, Geoff Morrison
Country: USA, Running Time: 44 min
For many Canadians, their introduction to clearcut logging came from news reports about the Clayoquot Sound protests back in 1993, known as the War in the Woods, when some 12,000 people showed up on the remote west coast of Vancouver Island to join the blockades. While much of the area was spared elsewhere in B.C., clearcutting remained the status quo, and old-growth forests have continued to fall. Today, precious little old-growth remains, and First Nations and environmentalists are again taking a stand.
WHICH SIDE ARE YOU ON? (Labor and Housing Justice): a program dealing with labor concerns, including union organizing and mobilizing for a living wage and housing justice, and protecting the rights and dignity of the unhoused.
Adidas Owns the Reality
Directors: Keil Orion Troisi, Igor Vamos
Country: USA, Running Time: 22 min
Prankster activists perform an elaborate hoax to improve conditions for garment workers in the Adidas supply chain. Staging a shocking runway show at Berlin Fashion Week, they use humor and mischief to make the world pay attention to labor and environmental abuses that the massive sportswear brand is trying to hide.
Local One
Directors: Stephen Maing, Brett Story
Country: USA, Running Time: 10 min
The Amazon Labor Union made history in 2022 by becoming the first group to successfully unionize an Amazon warehouse in the U.S. Two and a half years later, the company has refused to recognize the union and bargain a contract. To pressure the company to start negotiating, the Amazon Labor Union, now affiliated with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, launches a nationwide strike during peak holiday shopping season. From the filmmakers of the Award-winning film Union, Local One takes us into the first days of the strike at two Amazon warehouses in New York City, this time in solidarity with hundreds more workers across the country.
Nomads in the City
Director: Moliana Alpha Muller Mundy
Country: Spain, Running Time: 14 min
Nomads in the City is a short documentary film that gives insight into the Squatter community of modern London. From the perspective of females and queers, we explore how routine movement and evictions affect their day-to-day life, navigating the growing housing crisis and exploring alternative forms of living.
Streetvet
Director: Stephanie Keelan
Country: USA, Running Time: 24 min
StreetVet is a short film that delves into the incredible work of vet Jade Statt and the StreetVet team, a dedicated UK-wide network of volunteer vets and nurses who have swapped the practice for the pavements to provide free veterinary care to the pets of those experiencing homelessness. The film explores the profound bond between humans and animals, showcasing how pets offer companionship, emotional support, and a sense of purpose for their owners. Follow the journey of StreetVet and how one act of kindness in 2016, led to a transformative and inspiring community of veterinary professionals helping thousands of animals and their owners receive the essential care they need and deserve, changing lives all over the country.
Swept
Director: Adam Silver
Country: USA, Running Time: 17 min
Three Angelenos navigate houselessness in one of the wealthiest cities on the planet...
