The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:
>November 3
On TV: Independent Lens
LIFE AFTER
Sundance 2025
Director:
Reid Davenport
About:
In 1983, a disabled Californian woman named Elizabeth Bouvia sought the “right to die,” igniting a national debate about autonomy, dignity, and the value of disabled lives. After years of courtroom trials, Bouvia disappeared from public view. Disabled director Reid Davenport narrates this investigation of what happened to Bouvia.
>November 14
In Theatres & Streaming: Apple TV
COME SEE ME IN THE GOOD LIGHT
Sundance 2025
Director:
Ryan White
About:
Two poets, one incurable cancer diagnosis. Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley go on an unexpectedly funny and poignant journey through love, life, and mortality.
>November 14
On TV: HBO & Streaming: HBO Max
ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO
Sundance 2025
Director:
Kevin Macdonald
Co-Director:
Sam Rice-Edwards
About:
An exploration of the seminal and transformative 18 months that one of music’s most famous couples — John Lennon and Yoko Ono — spent living in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the early 1970s.
>November 17
In Theatres & Streaming: Netflix
SELENA Y LOS DINOS
Sundance 2025
Director:
Isabel Castro
About:
Selena Quintanilla — the “Queen of Tejano Music” — and her family band, Selena y Los Dinos, rose from performing at quinceañeras to selling out stadium tours. The celebration of her life and legacy is chronicled through never-before-seen footage from the family’s personal archive.
>November 21
In Theatres
CUTTING THROUGH ROCKS (اوزاک یوللار)
Sundance 2025
Directors:
Sara Khaki, Mohammadreza Eyni
About:
As the first elected councilwoman of her Iranian village, Sara Shahverdi aims to break long-held patriarchal traditions by training teenage girls to ride motorcycles and stopping child marriages. When accusations arise questioning Sara’s intentions to empower the girls, her identity is put in turmoil.
>November 21
In Theatres
ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT
Sundance 2025
Director:
Charlie Shackleton
About:
Against the backdrop of sunbaked parking lots, deserted courthouses, and empty suburban homes — the familiar spaces of true crime, stripped of all action and spectacle — a filmmaker describes his abandoned Zodiac Killer documentary and probes the inner workings of a genre at saturation point.
>November 21
In Theatres
THE STRINGER
Sundance 2025
Director:
Bao Nguyen
About:
A two-year investigation uncovers a scandal behind the making of one of the most-recognized photographs of the 20th century. Five decades of secrets are unraveled in the search for justice for a man known only as “the stringer.”
>November 25
On TV: Frontline & On DVD
2000 METERS TO ANDRIIVKA
Sundance 2025
Director:
Mstyslav Chernov
About:
Amid the failing counteroffensive, a journalist follows a Ukrainian platoon on their mission to traverse one mile of heavily fortified forest and liberate a strategic village from Russian occupation. But the farther they advance through their destroyed homeland, the more they realize that this war may never end.
>November 26
In Theatres
TEENAGE WASTELAND [fka MIDDLETOWN]
Sundance 2025
Directors:
Jesse Moss, Amanda McBaine
About:
Inspired by an unconventional teacher, a group of teenagers in upstate New York in the early 1990s made a student film that uncovered a vast conspiracy involving toxic waste that was poisoning their community. Thirty years later, they revisit their film and confront the legacy of this transformative experience.
>November 28
Streaming: Netflix
THE STRINGER
Sundance 2025
Director:
Bao Nguyen
About:
A two-year investigation uncovers a scandal behind the making of one of the most-recognized photographs of the 20th century. Five decades of secrets are unraveled in the search for justice for a man known only as “the stringer.”
>November 28
In Theatres
BLKNWS: TERMS & CONDITIONS
Sundance 2025
Director:
Kahlil Joseph
About:
Preeminent West African curator and scholar Funmilayo Akechukwu’s magnum opus, The Resonance Field, leads her to the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, drawing a journalist into a journey that shatters her understanding of consciousness and time. (Hybrid)
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