In 1981 in Odessa, Texas, the nude body of a beloved Catholic priest was found bound and mutilated in a seedy motel room. Cops had no leads until a young gay Apache man named James Reyos suddenly called to confess. Reyos recanted, but it was too late: he was swiftly convicted and sentenced to 38 years in prison. Decades later, a local police chief uncovered buried evidence that would have exonerated Reyos in his original trial. With the support of the Innocence Project of Texas, Reyos prepares to fight to clear his name once again. 　　Anyone who has seen Deborah S. Esquenazi's Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four (which won the Best Documentary Award at Frameline40) knows the Peabody-winning director and investigative journalist is no stranger to seeing innocent LGBTQ+ folks thrown into Texas prisons for crimes they didn’t do. Night in West Texas is a probing look at the cracks in the American justice system and how one innocent man so easily slipped through them. At once both harrowing and deeply affecting, the film shows how Reyos was vilified as a minority but also how a community rallied around him to battle for the justice he deserved.

A madame and a sheriff trying to save their local whorehouse.

Night and Fog in Kurdistan is a documentary that tells the powerful story of seven Yazidi teenagers who survived the 2014 ISIS genocide. Directed by a Kurdish woman filmmaker with firsthand experience of war and displacement, the film follows their five-year migration journey from refugee camps in Turkey to relocation in Europe. Using innovative mixed methods of documentary making—graphics, maps, archival research, and storytelling—it documents the lasting trauma of genocide, the gendered and intersectional impacts of displacement, and the resilience of these young women as they turn their cameras on themselves, sharing their survival and growth through multiple displacements.

The small town of Terlingua, Texas is a little known oasis on the Rio Grande River where eccentric residents trade modern comforts for a unique brand of freedom. But the price of their freedom proves high when a brutal crime threatens to tear their town apart. This true-crime docu-series delves into the eccentric world of Terlingua as its citizens struggle to reconcile the killing of a dear friend and fight to hold the town together as it grapples with change.