Dangerous Docs 2026: States of Emergency

Oh rascal children of Gaza,
Come back,
Just come back…

What does a melting glacier sound like? Artist Ludwig Berger attempts to record a disappearing environment.

At 8:55 PM on February 3, 2023, a freight train carrying hazardous materials derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. Told entirely through found footage and news archive, A Derailment puts you in the center of disaster. As local news coverage and publicly circulated footage unfold in real time, the film reveals not only the immediate catastrophe but the deepening crisis that followed—raising urgent questions about oversight, accountability, and the failures that allowed it to escalate.

After the passing of his longtime teammate on the reality TV Show Battlebots, robot engineer Edward Robinson moves out to the desert, where he reflects on his career and adapts a new hermetic lifestyle.

During the first human-driven mass extinction, a filmmaker drifts through churches, ancient DNA labs, and ghostly archives, searching for what remains.

Filmed during the hottest days of Phoenix, Arizona’s summer heatwave, A New Inferno follows paramedics as they race to save the lives of heatstroke victims using a radical new treatment: ice immersion therapy.

After the Los Angeles wildfires leave thousands of homes contaminated, residents face an impossible choice: should they risk their health to return home?