Girls Move Mountains

This session screens a collection of four short films.

For 40 years, Magnum photographer Larry Towell has documented the plight of the displaced around the world and the universal longing of people looking for a place to call their own.

A canoe trip down the Whanganui River in New Zealand, led by a Māori elder, awakens spiritual belief and practice, and becomes a call to action to draw closer to nature and fight climate change through a fundamental value shift.

Out of the ashes of loss, can one man use mixed martial arts to save young people from the toughest parts of our society? 

Chafing against officials' apathy and the absurdly haphazard process of bringing electricity to their tiny town on the India-Myanmar border, the people of Tora are divided. Will electricity bring the close-knit community the progress it hopes for?

Bobby Haas may have made billions selling fizzy drinks, but now retired, nothing will quench his desire to have his legacy be successfully breaking a land speed record at Bonneville.