“When a flower grows wild, it can always survive. Wildflowers don't care where they grow.” Backyards, farmlands, and coastlines meet in this documentary shorts program, where territory and daily life reveal both the healing bonds of community and the realities we must tend to outside our homes. In Kara Miller’s My Neighbor's Yard (US 2025, 9 min), neighbors in a Pennsylvania town turn their lawns into a 2024 election battlefield, exposing the intimacies of living side by side. Land is at stake in Michael Fearon’s Leaving the Point (US 2025, 19 min), as ranchers in Point Reyes National Seashore face the uncertain future of a way of life passed down through generations. Adnelly Marichal’s Las Jíbaras (US 2025, 19 min) follows Puerto Rican women reclaiming farming practices and cultivating resilience and community. In the city, Sylvie Lee’s Pine Cones on Divisadero (US 2025, 4 min) returns to San Francisco where a playful mystery becomes a meditation on belonging. The Long Labor (US, 2025, 20 min) by Brenda Ávila-Hanna and Consuelo Alba follows a Watsonville midwife whose personal loss inspires her to restore ancestral traditions in birth care for indigenous farmworker families. ––Diana Sánchez Maciel

Total run time; 71 min