This weekend the Nederland Community Center is home of the Nederland Film Festival. Here is a list of the different films. Enjoy!

Mason’s Return to Dirt - A success story following a paralyzed motocross rider back to outdoor recreation with disability.

The Art of Rescue - Colorado has some of the most beautiful scenery in the world and has a rich population of people who love spending time in the backcountry. Getting away from civilization is alluring to many but what happens if you get lost or injured while exploring the vastness of the Colorado outdoors?

Special in the Ordinary - Exploring a local barbershop’s role as a community hub during a time of social isolation.

Our Town. Unfiltered - Features Estes Park, Colorado’s very own Jean Muenchrath, whose insurmountable bravery in a near-death experience on Mount Whitney in 1982, has made her a local legend.

Pivot Forward - Exploring the mindset of a small business owner that instead of scaling back in the midst of uncertainty and struggle - pushes forward.

Carving Joy - A marine veteran spends his time restoring a historic wood carousel.

Thriving on the Spectrum - Our lives were profoundly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, but the autism community was hit especially hard. With changes to supports, routines, communication, and much more, the autism community had to find new ways to persevere.

The Funny Runner - After quitting her job to pursue her dream of running professionally, Brittany Charboneau quickly found herself not having any fun with the sport she loved.This is a documentary film about the path Brittany Charboneau has pursued and what she has discovered about running and herself in the process.

Petrichor - A story of a young brother and sister who discover that music can bridge time and generations, reminds us of the innocence and enduring beauty of nature and music.

Firkin - Still Alive - In the midst of the lockdown, many of us felt like a sailor on a ship exposed to the unpredictable will of the captain above him. On a nicer day, the captain finds a strange bottle on board in an old box. Perhaps it contains the elixir of life itself...

Under Grace - Picking up the pieces of a puzzle which was scattered through the timelines of two entangled lives, two women dance the viewer through different dimensions, inviting them to dive into an intimate portrait of a relationship long lost to memory and the wind.

Bele - Composed by a rising Peruvian composer Alvaro Balvin Benavides; intend to expand the possibility of merging different forms of experience and explore the stimulation of multiple senses.

Silences - Adia Victoria seeks to reclaim the Blues as protest music for those who are silenced. Along the way, this restless artist builds a tight-knit community of like-minded musicians, artists, poets, entrepreneurs and family.

Los Perros del Barrio Colosal - Through the exaggerated mannerisms of daytime television, the six characters take us on a wild romp through the challenges of creative decision making.

Sounds of the South - Dutch musician Ruben Hein’s love for nature and wildlife has always been central to his creativity. But when he decided to visit Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic, some of the wildest regions on the planet, he had no way to know how deeply the experience would impact him.

The Extinction of Up - In the near future, when people only recognize each other by their shoes, two boys discuss weird things that are happening in their lives, including a sibling’s accidental weight gain, and a great-granofather’s bizarre revelations about the past..

When Pigs Fly - When a disillusioned writer decides to hide away from the doubts and worries of a troubling world, his search for hope takes an unexpected tum

Walk Don’t Walk - You might not know it, but you’ve seen Joseph R. Winnamacher on almost every street corner in America. In this short documentary we get first hand experience with his life, his technique, and his genius. Who is he? He is the model for the walk sign.

Fairview - Sam Clark is running for City Council in a purple district in Fairview, Colorado. And he’s running in a new, bold, and very American way-with no platform of his own. His platform is a platform of pure democracy: it’s all direct quotes, from real, everyday Fairviewians.

Come on Time - The story of Clive Kennedy, a music documentary about a performer who can’t perform. A story of incredible talent gone unrealized turns into a joint effort between subject and filmmaker to battle Clive’s mental health and find catharsis in his songs.

Maggie May - A constant shopper buys things she doesn’t need. When she gets buried in Styrofoam, tissue, and silly purchases, she learns to recycle and reuse.

Far Away- How reindeer herders in Taiga are receiving medical services during the pandemic. The herders live near the Russian border which is the coldest region in Mongolia.

Amy and the Tortoise - Amy, a twelve year old girl, lives under a glass dome and sometimes has to wear a gas mask when the elephants let her go outside. Her outside friend is Gus, a grumpy 100 year old tortoise. Amy narrates Gus’s story of environmental disaster when humanity almost destroyed the planet.

Letter from Arizona - In a shady motel room, a lonely French photographer is writing letters, recounting his journey through the heat and dust of Arizona.

Growing to Heal - Through all the struggles and unknowns, Ray knows he has found his calling. As a young boy he knew he wanted to be a farmer, but he never could have imagined it would be hemp and helping people in such profound ways.

Zephyr - Filmed over the course of two months while traveling across the western United States, Zephyr is an exploration of the incredibly diverse American landscape as captured through the lens of musician/filmmaker Mason Wheatley.

Retired Kids - Winter adventure in wild Mongolia.

Polar Spin - A journey into the unknown to discover the farthest places, the last frontier, where the nights are long and icy, the conditions for life are extreme, the ever-present duality between beauty and its hostility, the tranquility and silence that death brings, the constant struggle to stay alive.