Following its Sundance 2025 premiere, Free Leonard Peltier, co-directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker David France (How to Survive a Plague, Welcome to Chechnya) and Oglala Sioux filmmaker Jesse Short Bull (Lakota Nation vs. United States). After nearly fifty years behind bars for a crime built on falsified evidence, Peltier’s story remains one of the most urgent and divisive in modern American justice. This film brings new depth and humanity to that story, told through the eyes of Indigenous filmmakers and activists who have long fought for his freedom.






