Guañape Sur (János Richter | Italy, Peru | 23 min.)
Hundreds of workers descend on Guañape Sur off the coast of Peru to harvest the excrement of the island birds, hardened over the course of 11 many years by the locale’s unique weather patterns.

Voice Unknown (Jinhee Park | South Korea, United States | 33 min.)
An elderly woman shuffles around the neighborhood grocery store where she works, attending to the mundane tasks of shopkeeping. Her face is obscured to protect the family she left behind as she describes her harrowing escape from North Korea. Through her disembodied voice, a universal story unfolds, one of loss, exile, and cultivating roots in a new land.

White Elephant (Nzoku ya Pembe) (Kristof Bilsen | Belgium, Democratic Republic of Congo, United Kingdom | 34 min.)
At Kinshasa’s central post office, an ossified remnant of the Congo’s colonial past, employees sit idle in vast rooms built for more bustling times. Sixty years since achieving independence from Belgium, and the country’s hopes for a prosperous and just future are unrealized but not abandoned.