The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:
>October 2
In Theatres
FOOD AND COUNTRY
Sundance 2023
Director:
Laura Gabbert
About:
America’s policy of producing cheap food at all costs has long hobbled small independent farmers, ranchers, and chefs. Worried for their survival, trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl reaches out across political and social divides to uncover the country’s broken food system and the innovators risking it all to transform it.
>October 11
In Theatres
DESIRE LINES
Sundance 2024
Director:
Jules Rosskam
About:
Past and present collide when an Iranian American trans man time-travels through an LGBTQ+ archive on a dizzying and erotic quest to unravel his own sexual desires.
>October 14
On TV: POV
TWICE COLONIZED
Sundance 2023
Director:
Lin Alluna
About:
Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has long fought for the rights of her people. When her son suddenly dies, Aaju embarks on a journey to reclaim her language and culture after a lifetime of whitewashing and forced assimilation. But can she both change the world and mend her own wounds?
>October 18
In Theatres
UNION
Sundance 2024
Director:
Stephen Maing, Brett Story
About:
The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) — a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island — takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize.
>October 18
In Theatres
NOCTURNES
Sundance 2024
Director:
Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan
About:
In the dense forests of the Eastern Himalayas, moths are whispering something to us. In the dark of night, two curious observers shine a light on this secret universe.
>October 18
In Theatres
THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF IBELIN
Sundance 2024
Director:
Benjamin Ree
About:
Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.
>October 22
On VOD
FOOD AND COUNTRY
Sundance 2023
Director:
Laura Gabbert
About:
America’s policy of producing cheap food at all costs has long hobbled small independent farmers, ranchers, and chefs. Worried for their survival, trailblazing food writer Ruth Reichl reaches out across political and social divides to uncover the country’s broken food system and the innovators risking it all to transform it.
>October 25
Streaming: Netflix
THE REMARKABLE LIFE OF IBELIN
Sundance 2024
Director:
Benjamin Ree
About:
Mats Steen, a Norwegian gamer, died of a degenerative muscular disease at the age of 25. His parents mourned what they thought had been a lonely and isolated life, when they started receiving messages from online friends around the world.
>October 25
In Theatres
BLACK BOX DIARIES
Sundance 2024
Director:
Shiori Ito
About:
Journalist Shiori Ito embarks on a courageous investigation of her own sexual assault in an improbable attempt to prosecute her high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case in Japan, exposing the country’s outdated judicial and societal systems.
>October 25
In Theatres
A NEW KIND OF WILDERNESS
Sundance 2024
Director:
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen
About:
In a forest in Norway, a family lives an isolated lifestyle in an attempt to be wild and free, but a tragic event changes everything, and they are forced to adjust to modern society.
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