The following past Sundance Film Festival documentaries are scheduled for release this month:
>May 6
On VOD
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.
>May 7
On TV: NATURE
EVERY LITTLE THING (under the title HUMMINGBIRDS OF HOLLYWOOD)
Sundance 2024
Director:
Sally Aitken
About:
Amid the glamour of Hollywood, Los Angeles, a woman finds herself on a transformative journey as she nurtures wounded hummingbirds, unraveling a visually captivating and magical tale of love, fragility, healing, and the delicate beauty in tiny acts of greatness.
>May 8
Streaming: Watermelon+
5 BROKEN CAMERAS
Sundance 2012
Directors:
Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi
About:
A moving and very personal document of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict played out in one village.
>May 9
On VOD
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.
>May 12
On TV: Independent Lens
AND SO IT BEGINS
Sundance 2024
Director:
Ramona S Diaz
About:
Amidst the traditional pomp and circumstance of Filipino elections, a quirky people’s movement rises to defend the nation against deepening threats to truth and democracy. In a collective act of joy as a form of resistance, hope flickers against the backdrop of increasing autocracy.
>May 13
On DVD
ETERNAL YOU
Sundance 2024
Director:
Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck
About:
Startups are using AI to create avatars that allow relatives to talk with their loved ones after they have died. An exploration of a profound human desire and the consequences of turning the dream of immortality into a product.
>May 15
Streaming: Apple TV+
DEAF PRESIDENT NOW!
Sundance 2025
Directors:
Nyle DiMarco, Davis Guggenheim
About:
During eight tumultuous days in 1988 at the world’s only Deaf university, four students must find a way to lead an angry mob — and change the course of history.
>May 16
In Theatres: Anthology Film Archives
MILISUTHANDO
Sundance 2023
Director:
Milisuthando Bongela
About:
Set in past, present, and future South Africa — an invitation into a poetic, memory-driven exploration of love, intimacy, race, and belonging by the filmmaker, who grew up during apartheid but didn’t know it was happening until it was over.
>May 23
On TV: HBO & Streaming: MAX
PEE-WEE AS HIMSELF
Sundance 2025
Director:
Matt Wolf
About:
A chronicle of the life of artist and performer Paul Reubens and his alter ego Pee-wee Herman. Prior to his recent death, Reubens spoke in-depth about his creative influences, and the personal struggles he faced to persevere as an artist.
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