Disposable Humanity
A family investigates the history and memory of the Nazi Aktion T4 program that targeted over 300,000 disabled people and catalyzed the Holocaust. Through poignant discussions with memorial directors, advocates, and relatives of T4 victims, this film uncovers the haunting truth of a history that has long been obscured.
Do You Love Me
An immersive journey through 70 years of images and sounds from Lebanon. Exploring the collective psyche of Beirut, marked by beauty, trauma, joy, and forgetting.
Documentary Shorts 2026: Program 1
RiverRun is an Academy Award-qualifying festival in the category of Documentary Shorts. This is one of two shorts blocks in competition, of which the winner may submit for Academy Awards consideration.
Documentary Shorts 2026: Program 2
RiverRun is an Academy Award-qualifying festival in the category of Documentary Shorts. This is one of two shorts blocks in competition, of which the winner may submit for Academy Awards consideration.
Documentary Shorts 2026: Program 3: Artist Portraits
This shorts block features films highlighting talented artists in a wide variety of disciplines.
Dogs of Bishkek
On a journey home from the market, a young boy is being stalked and chased by the ruthless monster dog of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan during a cold, foggy, winter night. Student Film – Ringling College of Art and Design.
Fantasia
Continuing our celebration of Technicolor, we are screening this animated classic from 1940. Representing Disney’s boldest experiment to date, Fantasia brought to life his vision of blending animated imagery with classical music. What had begun as a vehicle to enhance Mickey Mouse’s career blossomed into a full-blown feature that remains unique in the history of animation.
Films With Class Shorts Program – Elementary School 2026
Teaching through film. RiverRun recognizes the unique and critical role arts education plays in reaching students both inside and outside the classroom. Through our free education program, Films With Class, we present free screenings of carefully curated films for area students at the Festival each spring.
Films With Class Shorts Program – Middle/High School 2026
Teaching through film. RiverRun recognizes the unique and critical role arts education plays in reaching students both inside and outside the classroom. Through our free education program, Films With Class, we present free screenings of carefully curated films for area students at the Festival each spring.
First They Came for My College
As conservatives take over the leadership of New College of Florida, a group of students join hands with their professor to resist and reclaim their alma mater.
Fly
When a ballet company holds auditions for a competitive apprenticeship, a perfection-driven dancer has their world upended by a rival who rekindles their love for the craft.
Fork in the Road
This documentary follows small farmers, visionary chefs, and innovators working to heal the land, improve our food systems, and transition to a regenerative future for people and the planet.
Free Joan Little
Free Joan Little tells the story of the 1975 groundbreaking case of Joan Little, who was the first woman in U.S. history to be acquitted for using deadly force to resist sexual assault.
From Russia With Love
In this stunning Technicolor film, James Bond (Sean Connery) willingly inserts himself into an assassination plot involving a naive Russian beauty in order to retrieve a Soviet encryption device that was stolen by the evil SPECTRE organization.