The Films

• Year 2025
• Country USA
• Runtime 4 min
• Director Bonnie Willison & Bijit Khadka

Filmmaker in Attendance, Family Friendly

For four decades, volunteers with the Wisconsin Society for Ornithology have visited Wisconsin’s Baraboo Hills before dawn, gently netting and banding birds one by one. Year after year, the data adds up to something bigger - a long-term window into how bird populations are shifting across the country.

• Year 2026
• Country USA
• Runtime 6 min
• Director Joe Brown

Michigan Premiere

This short documentary tells the story of sandhill cranes in America.

• Year 2026
• Country USA
• Runtime 15 min
• Director Armin Korsos

Michigan Premiere

On a small Caribbean island, the native Brown Booby is disappearing, not from climate change but from feral cats people brought generations ago. Chicago-based filmmaker Armin Korsos follows the stories of the conservationists caught between action and inaction, asking when human-caused damage becomes our responsibility to fix, and what it means if we choose not to.

• Year 2026
• Country USA
• Runtime 27 min
• Director David Andrew Busse

Filmmaker in Attendance, Staff Pick

The bank swallow looks unremarkable, but it lives in a sensory world so different from our own that it might as well be another universe. Filmed with sweeping beauty and intimate detail, the film follows the colony through a season of triumph and loss.