15/11/2025
'The Last Observers' in NY tomorrow!
A unique quartet of Oscar-qualified shorts, with several of their filmmakers present — Sun 7:15pm at New Plaza Cinema
QOTZUÑI: PEOPLE OF THE LAKE | Argentina/Bolivia/USA | 2025 | Documentary | 13min
dir. Gastón Zilberman, Michael Salama (Filmmakers in Attendance)
• The Uru communities of Bolivia have lived on Lake Poopó for generations. Faced with its disappearance, they must grapple with what it means to be Qotzuñi, or People of the Lake, when the lake ceases to exist.
A BEAR REMEMBERS | UK | 2025 | Narrative | 20min
dir. Zhang & Knight (Filmmakers in Attendance)
• A local boy, Peter, is trying to find the source of the mysterious sounds that haunts his village. When he shares his footage with an old woman, it sparks memories of a bear spirit that roamed the hills during her childhood.
ÉIRU| Ireland | 2024 | Animated | 13min
dir. Giovanna Ferrari
When the water disappears from the well in a warrior clan’s village, an intrepid child descends into the belly of the earth to retrieve it.
THE LAST OBSERVERS | Sweden | 2024 | Documentary | 25min
dir. Maja K Mikkelsen
The heartwarming story of a Swedish couple's decades-long commitment to watching the skies.
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