Still from Entre Le Feu et La Claire de Lune (2024, dir. Dominic Yarabe)
Entre Le Feu et La Claire de Lune, Stanford thesis film by Dominic Yarabe (MFA ‘24) premiered at the 51st Telluride Film Festival in the Filmmakers of Tomorrow section, curated by Gregory Nava.
In Yarabe’s film, an Ivorian father and his American-born daughter set out to continue the book he never finished about a war he experienced as a child. With the help of the children living in his village today, the three generations make a film together and create a mythical tapestry of entwining timelines, nightmares, and memories.
After graduating in June this year, Yarabe was also awarded a 2024-25 MacDowell residency for her work. Her first-year Fall film Headshot screened at numerous film festivals, including True/False and Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, where it won the Mini-Doc Artistic Vision Award.
Alumni Bonni Cohen (MFA ‘94) and Jon Shenk (MFA ‘95) premiered two co-directed feature documentaries at Telluride: The White House Effect and In Waves and War.
The White House Effect explores the dramatic origin story of the climate crisis and how a political battle in the George H.W. Bush administration changed the course of history.
In Waves and War follows three Navy SEALs who leave their tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan with treatment-resistant, unrelenting psychological pain. They find themselves at the cutting edge of a different frontline: a lifesaving psychedelic therapy that brings healing to a community in urgent need.