Ever wonder why female scientists are still a minority in the U.S.? In their eye-opening documentary "Picture a Scientist," directors Sharon Shattuck and Ian Cheney employ well-chosen personal histories and statistical data to investigate the issue and suggest ways to ameliorate the situation

How well do we understand the animal realm: their behaviors, sounds, and patterns? If animals adopted a semi-human condition and could speak, would we listen to what they had to say? With these seven short films we invite you to see the world from their perspective.

Something to Remember (Något att minnas) - Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Sweden, 2019, 5 min. - New York Premiere
Bend or Break - Isaac Kerlow, Singapore, 2019, 3 min.
Mirror Test - Duncan Marquiss, UK, 2019, 6 min. - East Coast Premiere
Smiles - Steven Bednar, USA, 2019, 11 min.
The Whelming Sea - Sean Hanley, USA, 2020, 28 min. - World Premiere
Clebs (Mutts) - Halima Ouardiri, Canada, 2020, 18 min.

How are limits defined and what is their power? Change, whether it be in territories, landscapes, weather, matter, or communication, has a meaningful impact on the dynamics of the world. From stormy shorelines to extraterrestrial communication, these short films explore the subtle yet complex state of transition.

It's Going to Be Beautiful - Luis Gutiérrez Arias / John Henry Theisen, Mexico, 2019, 8 min.
The End of Suffering ( a proposal) - Jacqueline Lentzou, Greece, 2020, 14 min.
The Circadian Cycle - Garry Stewart, Australia, 2019, 16 min.
Os Olhos na mata e o gosto na água (The Eyes in the Woods and the Taste in the Water) - Luciana Mazeto / Vinícius Lope, Brazil, 2020, 36 min.
The Shoreline (Rivages) - Sophie Racine, France, 8 min., 2020

Malian musician Inna Modja takes us on an epic journey along Africa's Great Green Wall.

A program full of inventions, oddities, and curiosities with an inside look at the untold story of one of the most important objects on the planet: the kilogram.

Obscura | Hannah Jordan / Emily Jordan, Australia, 8 min., 2019 - U.S. Premiere
Gravedad | Matisse Gonzalez, Germany, 10 min., 2019
Endless Forms Most Beautiful - Meredith Binnette, USA, 5 min., 2020, U.S. Premiere
The Universe Within | Valentina Cruz Collins, Chile, 6 min., 2020, U.S. Premiere
The Last Artifact - Jaime Jacobsen / Ed Watkins, USA, 57 min., 2020 - World Premiere

This year, we will present the first ORIGINS session inspired by our prior Market day. We will hear from six science film projects in various stages of development, production, and distribution.

One day, air conditioners in the Angolan capital Luanda start to mysteriously fall from the buildings.

What is exposed is not necessarily what is meant to be perceived. The sounds that we hear, the stories that we tell and the pictures that we see have deeper meaning than what is shown on the outside. From underwater clams to Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims, these short films aim to unveil what lies beyond what we can humanly see.

Metamorphoses - Julia Popławska, Poland, 12 min., 2020 - World Premiere
Pripyat Piano - Eliška Cílková, Czech Republic, 18 min., 2020 - U.S. Premiere
Helfer - Anna Szöllősi - Hungary, 9 min., 2020 - U.S. Premiere
La Bobine 11004 - Mirabelle Fréville, France, 20 min., 2020
Fat Kathy - Julia Pelka, Poland, 14 min., 2019
Decorum - Lorenzo Monti, Australia, 10 min., 2019
Nitrate - Yousra Benziane, Canada, 14 min., 2019

For many, home is more than a physical place; it's people, experiences, landscapes, sounds, and smells that have been imprinted in their memory and have shaped who they are. So what does it mean to be away from home, and once we're displaced how do we connect with our origins?

Baba - Sarah Blok / Lisa Konno, Netherlands, 13 min., 2020 - U.S. Premiere
At Home But Not At Home - Suneil Sanzgiri, USA / India, 10 min., 2020 - New York Premiere
Here and There (Aqui y Alla) - Melisa Liebenthal, Argentina, 21 min., 2019
You Play Here - Inés Vogelfang , USA, 17 min., 2019 - World Premiere
The Quiet - Radheya Jegatheva, Australia, 10 min., 2019 - New York Premiere

The harrowing true story of the flu that decimated the world's population immediately after the carnage of World War I.

Coronation" examines the political specter of Chinese state control from the first to the last day of the Wuhan lockdown. The film records the state's brutally efficient, militarized response to control the virus. Sprawling emergency field hospitals were erected in a matter of days, 40,000 medical workers were bused in from all over China, and the city's residents were sealed into their homes.

Some say that the journey is more important than the destination. If so, are we taking the time to understand how our inventions, discoveries, and lifestyles impact our destination and those of others? Through the proof of theories, nuclear experiments, transformed landscapes, and exile, these five films invite you to ponder on our past and present and the impact that they have on our future.

Aggregate States of Matters - Rosa Barba, Peru / Germany, 2019, 18 min.
The Atomic Adventure - Loïc Barché, France, 2019, 25 min. - New York Premiere
Where we used to swim - Daniel Asadi Faezi, Germany, 2019, 7 min. - U.S. Premiere
The eclipse which revolutionized physics - Renata Druck, Bruno Horowicz, Brazil, 2019, 2 min.
Exilio - Maria Espinoza Stransky, Cuba, 2019, 11 min. - World Premiere

How does technology impact our everyday lives? How dependent are we on it? What role will it play in our future society? What has it helped us understand and where is the line drawn between reality and fiction? These six films navigate our dynamics with technology as well as the boundaries that are set or broken.

Story - Jolanta Bankowska, Poland, 5 min., 2019
FREYA - Camille Hollett-French, Canadá, 2020, 17 min. - U.S. Premiere
Watchmaker At Time's End - Shaheen Sheriff, India, 2020, 5 min.
Average Happiness - Maja Gehrig, Switzerland, 2019, 7 min. - East Coast Premiere
TESTFILM #1 - Telco Systems, Croatia, 2019, 14 min. - U.S. Premiere
TX - REVERSE - Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich, Austria, 2019, 5 min.
Janus 2155 - The last archive - Stéfane Perraud, France, 2020, 13 min.

The ghosts of two legendary Hungarian filmmakers (Michael Curtiz, Gábor Bódy) talk about film and personal history. A feature length essay film about cinema with actors Pál Mácsai and Roland Rába.

This combination of documentary and fiction shorts revolves around the concept of presence, whether it be in the physical realm or in a more abstract form like in our minds and memories. They explore the discovery of what has always been there but has never been seen, the commute between reality and the fabrications of our imagination as well as the risk to transition to non-existence.

The Institute - Alexander Glandien, Austria / Germany, 2020, 13 min. - U.S. Premiere
Now I am an Axolotl - Alejandra Medellín, Mexico, 2019, 10 min. - U.S. Premiere
Cosmonaut - Kaspar Jancis, Estonia, 2019, 12 min. - U.S. Premiere
Of the Basin - Keely Kernan, U.S.A., 2020, 25 min. - East Coast Premiere
I Love My Wife... - Ian Tierney, UK, 2020, 5 min. - New York Premiere
Bye Little Block! - Éva Darabos, Hungary, 2020, 8 min. - U.S. Premiere

"The Environmental Agency-Abu Dhabi and Zayed University's Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival in February 2020 in Abu Dhabi, UAE focused on Waste. To my chagrin as artistic director, I did not focus on one element that is wasted. Time. On the one hand, Time is an elusive invisible mythical character that mesmerizes artists; on the other, it is the most scientifically calibrated, ubiquitous concept confronting and confounding scientists. The three films we curate frame time to challenge and bend political perspectives of our quantum selves and constructed collectives—to move beyond an ethos of outrage at the horrors of fires and floods. Immediate, spectacular, live, and broadcasted, we live perhaps in instant quick time environmentalism. However, the time of environmental violence is also slow, anachronistic, ancient, and non-human. This is invisible irony of time is what our cinema artists represent. Our paradoxical age needs migrations in time too. " Artistic Director, Al Sidr Environmental Film Festival, Nezar Andary

In Vitro - Larissa Sansour / Søren Lind, Palestine, 2019, 27 min.
The Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow - Fadi Baki, Germany/Lebanon, 2017, 29 min.
Glory At Sea! - Benh Zeitlin, USA, 2008, 25 min.

How does a cell or organism develop its shape in correlation to its environment, and what role does technology play in synchronizing the organism's process of development to achieve a state of homeostasis?

Voices of Genetic Counsellors: So Much More Than Just a Test - Anna Middleton, UK, 2020, 3 min - East Coast Premiere
Synthesis of ATP - Dr Drew Berry, Australia, 2020, 2 min. - World Premiere
Earth's Answer - Giulia Grossmann, France, 2020, 20 min. - World Premiere
Material Bodies - Dorothy Allen-Pickard, UK, 2020, 4 min. - World Premiere
The Cloud House - Elias Heuninck, Belgium, 2019, 5 min. - U.S. Premiere
A Demonstration - Sasha Litvintseva / Beny Wagner, Germany, 2020, 24 min. - U.S. Premiere
Earthbound - Normand Rajotte, Canadá, 2020, 10 min. - U.S. Premiere
Lichen - Lisa Jackson, Canadá, 2020, 11 min. - New York Premiere