One of many yr’s greatest documentaries consists totally from you-are-there, true discovered footage that tells of a devastating American story by means of police bodycam video.
“The Good Neighbor,” directed by Geeta Gandbhir, facilities on how in June 2023, in Marion County, Florida, a Black household was torn aside by their white neighbor, Susan Lorincz, when she killed her neighbor Ajike Owens, a mom of 4. Lorincz had deployed stand-your-ground legal guidelines in Florida that allow civilians to make use of lethal pressure after they really feel below risk of imminent hurt.
Winner of the Directing Award for Documentary on the 2025 Sundance Movie Pageant, “The Good Neighbor” has gone on to play festivals globally all year long — together with lastly this October on the New York Movie Pageant. Watch the trailer beneath forward of the upcoming October launch date. Count on “The Good Neighbor,” out from Netflix later in October, to land on the documentary Oscar shortlist.
Extra on the movie from David Ehrlich’s IndieWire evaluation: “Shot virtually totally by police physique cams and interrogation room CCTVs, Geeta Gandbhir’s unforgettable documentary crystallizes the horrors of stand-your-ground legal guidelines by inspecting their results by means of the lens of a single case — one which harrowingly illustrates the defects of chateau doctrines (amongst different coverage failures) by portray a microcosmic portrait of white America’s incapability to parse between concern and anger.
“Stand-your-ground legal guidelines aren’t even talked about by identify till ‘The Good Neighbor’ is greater than half over, as Gandbhir elects to work the difficulty from the within out, with the you-are-there actuality of the footage she makes use of bringing viewers proper into the center of what’s finally a human matter. Certainly, a subjective digicam has seldom been extra damning than it’s right here — right here, in an American horror story that doesn’t hinge on whether or not or not white Florida girl Susan Lorincz was really at risk when she fired on the unarmed neighbor knocking at her entrance door, however quite on whether or not or not Susan Lorincz believed she was at risk when the younger Black mom from throughout the road, Ajike Owens, got here to retrieve her son’s confiscated pill.”
“The Good Neighbor” opens in choose theaters on Friday, October 10 earlier than streaming on Netflix Friday, October 17.