New Creative Voices in Documentary Films: Natchez (2025)
Come to a sneak preview of three new documentaries, now in limited release, that have a good chance of being shortlisted for the Oscar. Filmmaker Sloane Klevin has curated this short series representing the latest in creative documentary filmmaking.
In the film Natchez, visitors to antebellum mansions in the titular Mississippi town wax nostalgic about bygone days, before 1865, when plantation owners ruled over enslaved people. Natchez captures an unsettling clash between history and memory in a small Mississippi town; a layered mosaic of people contending with the weight of the past in a place where it is always present. Equal parts amusing and disturbing, we journey through an antebellum tourist destination at a crossroads as it grapples with a deeply troubled history that is so thoroughly ingrained in its present, we’re left to wonder if it’s actually past at all.
Directed by Suzannah Herbert, the film is on an Oscar-qualifying run and will be released at Film Forum in New York on January 30. It won Best Documentary Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival.
“Intelligent and observant… It raises much wider issues about the importance of truth and history that extend well beyond the town boundaries of Natchez itself.”
“[A] brilliant film… Gives us extraordinary insight into the racial politics of the city and the deep divide between Black and white perceptions of Southern history.”
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