Sunday is a 14-year-old girl with cognitive and physical disabilities, living in a rural area of northern Uganda. In a place where disability is a stigma and “mercy killing” lives, she inhabits a world of her own, out of time; she does not see it. And she dances.

Living Waters is a trip back to an inuit way of life rooted in the Arctic. David Nanook, an Elder from the community of Taloyoak, Nunavut, passes on knowledge about how to repair and use a traditional stone fish weir, as his Elders taught him. The youth joining David reconnect with the ancestral protocols of this fishing ceremony and their inuktitut language, reawakening their deep relationship with the land and its waters.

The women of impoverished Arab village Jisr az-Zarqa find hope in a surprising opportunity: to build, for the first time, a center of their own. As a luxury neighborhood encroaches on their land, threatening their community, and local violence shakes their world, they confront oppression to reshape their reality.

Amidst sweltering heat, a peculiar figure carrying a microphone traverses the empty landscape of Portugal’s Minho region. They encounter the last remaining inhabitants and gather their memories. A ghostly ethno-documentary about the future of a place that belongs to the past.