Events: Film

Premised on the idea of "Free Land for Free People," and financed by the largesse of Hollywood rock stars, the founders of Black Bear bought land deep in the wilderness and raised a rough-hewn homestead. Over the years, hundreds would join thecommunity, and life would be complicated by conflicts about the role of women, childrearing, proper communalist behavior, the FBI, and most traumatically, a child-snatching cult.

With archival footage from the early days, and the present-day views of Black Bear members and their offspring, "Commune" is a revealing look at how our most basic choices about family, work, and the nature of our relationships send powerful and lasting shock waves through the fabric of society. Featuring herbalist Michael Tierra, who is credited with rediscovering echinacea; internationally renowned painter ElsaMarley; and actor Peter Coyote.

2025 Directors NoteWith the very real modern struggles of Trump's America, people are seeking solutions of every kind to an increasing authoritarianism. As feminist activist Carol Hanisch wrote in 1969, "the personal is political," and nothing is more personal than how we live and the who, what, and where of the place we call home. We present a new, up-resed version of the first modern documentary to deal with communal living and cults, subjects which have skyrocketed in popularity over the pastyears. In our modern high-tech world, where an Amazon delivery is moments away and there's less need to leave our dwellings, we face a plague of loneliness.

Is coming together the cure? Or perhaps, as Sartre wrote "hell is other people!"

EL DIA DE MI INDEPENDENCIA
Dir by: Constanza Majluf – Narrative - 19:00 MIN - CHILE Seven-year-old Manuela dreams of winning the "best folkloric dress" contest in the commemoration of Independence Day at her school. Meanwhile, her brother Gabo (16) takes the risk of protesting in the streets for the plebiscite that will put end to the dictatorship of Chile in 1988.

Las continuidades
Dir by: Merlina Mercedes Molina Castaño, Jorge Sesan - Narrativa - 15:00 MIN - ARGENTINA The world as we know it is coming to an end. A girl and a young woman reach an abandoned shack in the woods, they are not alone. They must claim the

Lo Que Nos Queda
Dir by: Fernando Arze Echalar – Narrative - 20:00 MIN - BOLIVIA Leónidas, an eccentric artist, enters an existential crisis, and seeing that his new art exhibit's success does not motivate him, he decides to fabricate a relationship between his wife and a younger couple, hoping this will generate some inspiration for his work and life.

El rastro del agua
Dir by: Anderson Ascanio Arenas– Narrative - 13:20 MIN – COLOMBIA A woman holds on her past through daily life, between her job and her customs tries not to forget without any clue if it is possible to get back what she already lost.

Pilona
Dir by: July Naters Narrative – 15:00 Min – PERU LEA, a 10-year-old girl, still urinates in bed. GLORIA, her mother, divorced and almost absent, is looking for a babysitter. This is how MARÍA arrives, a young woman who believes with fervor that good wishes can come true.