The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:
>September 1
Streaming: Criterion Channel
UNION
Sundance 2024
Directors:
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.
>September 2
On VOD
REALM OF SATAN
Sundance 2024
Director:
Scott Cummings
About:
An experiential portrait depicting Satanists in both the everyday and in the extraordinary as they fight to preserve their lifestyle: magic, mystery, and misanthropy.
>September 9
Streaming: OVID
WATCHERS OF THE SKY
Sundance 2014
Director:
Edet Belzberg
About:
A far-ranging exploration of the world’s response to genocide.
>September 16
Streaming: OVID
GENESIS 2.0
Sundance 2018
Director:
Christian Frei
Co-Director:
Maxim Arbugaev
About:
Siberian hunters and international scientists attempt to resurrect the woolly mammoth.
>September 19
In Theatres
PREDATORS
Sundance 2025
Director:
David Osit
About:
TO CATCH A PREDATOR was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. An exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the show and the world it helped create.
>September 19
In Theatres
SPEAK.
Sundance 2025
Director:
Jennifer Tiexiera, Guy Mossman
About:
Five top-ranked high school oratory students spend a year crafting spellbinding spoken word performances with the dream of winning one of the world’s largest and most intense public speaking competitions.
>September 26
In Theatres
THIRD ACT
Sundance 2025
Director:
Tadashi Nakamura
About:
Generations of artists call Robert A Nakamura “the godfather of Asian American media,” but filmmaker Tadashi Nakamura calls him Dad. Robert’s diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease leads to an exploration of art, activism, grief, and fatherhood.
>September 29
On TV: POV
PORCELAIN WAR
Sundance 2024
Director:
Brendan Bellomo, Slava Leontyev
About:
Under roaring fighter jets and missile strikes, Ukrainian artists Slava, Anya, and Andrey choose to stay behind and fight, contending with the soldiers they have become. Defiantly finding beauty amid destruction, they show that although it’s easy to make people afraid, it’s hard to destroy their passion for living.
>September 30
On TV & Streaming: HBO/HBO MAX
PRIME MINISTER
Sundance 2025
Directors:
Michelle Walshe, Lindsay Utz
About:
A view inside the life of former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, capturing her through five tumultuous years in power and beyond as she redefined leadership on the world stage.
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