official SELECTION

The Selma Cinema Festival is proud to present the Official Selection for its 2026 Edition.

FEATURE FILMS

Earth's Greatest Enemy

A war reporter and an Iraq war veteran turn their sights on the hidden impact the US military has on the planet, after the birth of their first child creates a profound anxiety about the climate crisis. Their daring investigation exposes a secretive and constantly-expanding web of environmental harm and unaccountability by the world’s biggest polluter.
Director: Abby Martin, Mike Prysner

SANS pitié

Twenty years after a traumatic kidnapping at a traveling carnival, two estranged brothers reunite
— only to discover that one of the abductors is still hiding in plain sight.
Director: Julien Hosmalin

It Comes in Waves

After fleeing Rwanda’s horrors, a family of four starts anew in Ottawa, Canada, where they face unexpected challenges
and harsh realities in their pursuit of a better life.
Director: Fitch Jean

US SHORT FILMS

PICS

A young woman must find her self-esteem outside the opinions of others when her crush asks to see a part of her body, she’s never revealed to anyone.
Director: Hannah Browning

HUMANITY

Seven strangers from around the world are brought together by a single, profound question: “Should humanity live?”
Their answers reveal the diverse hopes, fears, and truths that define us all.
Director: Will Sidaros

BLUME

Following a woman’s death in a post-apocalyptic world where pollution has made much of the Earth toxic, a man ventures out to fulfill her last wish:
spreading her ashes on the last remaining flowers.
Director: Cody Bendé

BOTS

A unit of dedicated bots scheme chaos and divisiveness from their office desks in Rich Williamson’s wickedly humorous and sharp satirical take on the absurd amount of power relinquished to the unhinged forces steering world politics.
Director: Rich Williamson

ALABAMA SHORT FILMS

54 MILES TO HOME

In the face of a hostile majority, three families provided a sanctuary that changed American history; today, they fight a new battle to preserve their legacy and the hallowed ground where the march for justice truly began.
Director: Claire Haughey

POPS

A young artist must decided to either abandon his work or sacrifice his home life as his father’s mental health beings to deteriorate.
Director: Sylvester K. Folks

COTTONMOUNTH

In the humid heart of rural Alabama, two twenty-something drifters scraping by on dime-store philosophy face a violent reckoning when one man’s desperate attempt to reconnect with his estranged family spirall into a night of fire and revelations.
Director: Cole Johnson

HYPERSCALED

In rural Alabama, a quiet community faces a modern-day predator: a massive, resource-hungry data center known as “Project Marvel.” HYPERSCALED unearths the real-world cost of artificial intelligence as neighbors fight to keep their essential resources from being consumed by the machine.
Director: Maya Estrera

SOCIAL JUSTICE SHORT FILMS

A CITY THAT CARES

A legal educator reflects on her work as an activist along the US-Mexico border, a journey that guides her and her students to a compassionate Texas community where generosity and empathy are deeply intertwined.
Director: Aaron Hosé

SOFIANE

After her son is killed in a collision with an ambulance, a grieving mother is told his own recklessness caused the crash—until a discrepancy in his blood type reveals a medical impossibility and a potential conspiracy.
Director: Fabien Ara

Place Under the Sun

A talented pianist and his 8-year-old son struggle to find a place to sell vegetables at the biggest market in Moldova’s 2000′. When the father seems to give up under the burden of his precarious existence, a gesture from his son brings new hope.
Director: Vlad Bolgarin

Selma, Beacon of Hope

Drawing on the transformative legacy of the 1965 civil rights march, Selma, Beacon of Hope serves as a modern roadmap for healing a divided nation through community-led civic action. Director: Jonathan Harwood

INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS

Where's Wally

While on a solitary break, Patrick, a bank employee, searches for Wally in the famous children’s book Where’s Wally?
One day, he realizes Wally is nowhere to be found.
Director: Jean-Marie Villeneuve

AGATHA

Agatha lives in a world that has fallen apart—so she’s building a new one. A whimsical and tongue-in-cheek portrait of aging that finds grace, humor, and a strange kind of logic in the face of memory loss.
Director: Christian Meyer, Anne Schiekel

MARIGOLD: The Tale of God's Flower

In a village bound by rigid ancient customs, an aging farmer’s livelihood is crushed by the stigma of the “death flower.” But when his ruined harvest is reborn as sacred incense, it proves that neither man nor nature can be truly discarded by the divine.
Director: Vivek G.

TN Sensible

Naïm leaves his suburban mobile home, where he’s been squatting with his friends. He spots Léa in the distance and has a thing for her. Wary and curious, she approaches. Their budding friendship is quickly shattered by Naïm’s gang joining them.
Director: Juliette Moncuit.

The Last Supper

To preserve their obsessive isolation, a paranoid woman demands her partner blind himself to prove his loyalty
—only for him to demand she destroy her own beauty in return.
Director: Sogol Gholami.

Frequency 95.6

A widowed father believes he hears the voice of his deceased wife in the static of the radio.
With the help of his daughter, this grieving man sinks deeper and deeper into this belief.
Director: Baptiste Pigache.

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