Southern Stories Collection
The film is both a cumulative eulogy for a way of life and an examination of the climate crisis through witnessing the charred remains of these rural landscapes... [In] this melancholic, thoughtfully attuned cinematic essay, no mountain is more important than the people who are still confined to the claustrophobic tunnels of the past.
A retired music teacher starts Georgia’s first youth orchestra for immigrant families.
The People Could Fly is a poetic look at the history of Black gathering spaces in Louisville, KY. Through intimate portraiture, it explores the ritual of roller skating and the role of roller rinks as sanctuaries for Black culture, joy, and resistance.
A small-town attorney takes on pharmaceutical giants as opioids devastate his community.
Bordertown besties make magic of one last summer together as they face uncertain futures.
After 20 years in the United States, an undocumented family decides to return home.
Black women create a space for freedom through the Baby Doll Mardi Gras masking tradition.