Crime Docs: Beyond the Bars

That Night

Directed by Hoda Sobhani

11:00 • USA

LIFE & LIBERTY, WOMEN IN FILM

In October 2022, Evin Prison in Iran burned. Inside was women's rights activist Neda Naji. This is her story of that night of chaos, fear, and violence.

Correspondence

Directed by Paul K. Oh

5:40 • USA • Alabama Premiere

LIFE & LIBERTY

A filmmaker conducts a mediated interview with the man convicted of murdering his grandmother and tries to reconcile the person sitting across from him with the act that shattered his family.

Investigator

Directed by Jennifer Grausman

16:40 • USA • Southern US Premiere

WOMEN IN FILM

Amidst the foggy evergreen forests of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula, private investigator Leigh Hearon explores the criminal underbelly of a small town and investigates a case of attempted matricide while also examining her own motivations and place in the criminal justice system.

Sites of Memory

Directed by Antonio Tarrell, Castel V Sweet, Michael Fagans

24:20 • USA • Alabama Premiere

BLACK LENS, LIFE & LIBERTY, WOMEN IN FILM, ALABAMA

As U.S. history becomes controversial to teach in some states, one group of people comes to terms with our past and present in Sumner, Mississippi and Montgomery, Alabama.

Free Joan Little

Directed by Yoruba Richen

24:20 • USA • Alabama Premiere

BLACK LENS, LIFE & LIBERTY, WOMEN IN FILM

In 1975, Joan Little became the first woman in US history to be acquitted of using deadly force to resist sexual assault. As a Black incarcerated woman in North Carolina who killed her white prison guard who was trying to rape her, Little's murder trial sparked a nationwide discussion on sexual assault.