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.
Indie Entertainment MagazineFilm · CultureMay 2026Live — Cannes 2026 The Quiet Ones: How Cannes 2026 Chose Humanity Over Everything Else Nobody at this year's festival is chasing the algorithm. The films that matter most at Cannes 2026 share a single stubborn conviction — that human beings, in their most broken and most luminous moments, are …






