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Remake

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For nearly forty years, Ross McElwee has made documentaries about how his personal life intersects with the world at large. But the death of his son leaves him with hours of footage exposing both the bond and the barrier the camera forged between them.

Behind the Lens: Remake

season 39158 minpremiere 09.07.2026

Filmmakers

Ross McElwee

Mark Meatto

Critical Acclaim

For filmmaker Ross McElwee, his home movies were shot with as much care and purpose as the candid, personal documentaries he presented to wider audiences — but for an artist who trades in autobiography, private memories will inevitably bleed into public ones, and in his complex, self-confronting and eventually shattering new film Remake, the line is erased entirely. (...) A highlight of this year’s Venice official selection that has since played major docfests including IDFA, Remake is as emotionally overwhelming as one might expect, but far from a one-note grief memoir. There’s tender self-examination here, and even spry humor as McElwee traces a second narrative track that gives the film its title — as outside producers approach him with a proposed dramatic remake of his classic 1985 documentary Sherman’s March.

Remake

about

Filmmakers

Ross McElwee

Mark Meatto

Film Resources

Critical Acclaim

Variety