CIFF 2026: A City in the Forest, Going for Home, While We Are Here
RogerEbert.com's latest Chicago International Film Festival dispatch covers three documentaries, led by Lev Omelchenko and Nolan Huber's A City in the Forest, which the critic calls the festival's angriest and most sorrowful.
The film starts with the 2020 police killing of Rayshard Brooks in Atlanta and Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms' later proposal for a corporate-sponsored police training facility on 342 acres of urban forest in a mostly African-American area. It follows three years of protests, a police raid in which an activist known as Tortuguita was shot 57 times, and domestic terrorism charges against 23 others.
The reviewer says the documentary is not objective; the filmmakers don't overtly editorialize but are clearly on the activists' side. The dispatch also reviews Going for Home and While We Are Here.
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