This film follows Sweetwater Sahme and Jordan Mercier’s wanderings through each of their worlds as they wonder through and contemplate the afterlife, rebirth, and the place in-between. Spoken mostly in chinuk wawa, their stories are departures from the Chinookan origin of death myth, with its distant beginning and circular shape. (SH). Available Online: Friday, May 7th – Thursday, May 13thDirector: Sky Hopinka Film Details: 2020, 80 minutes, HD video, stereo, color, chinuk wawa, and English Order Tickets | Trailer Join us for a live Q&A with Director Sky Hopinka, moderated by Cass Gardiner, on Wednesday,...

An enormous tree, rendered small in the colossal expanse of the seas: these are the images that open and close Taming the Garden. A similar image inspired filmmaker Salome Jashi to pursue this story, which was widely reported in Georgia. Georgia’s richest man, a former prime minister and founder of the ruling political party, bought hundreds of the country’s oldest and largest trees, had them uprooted, and moved them to his own privately-owned but publicly-accessible Shekvetili Dendrological Park. (AS) Available Online: Friday, May 21st – Thursday, May 27thDirector: Salomé Jashi Film Details: 2021, 92 minutes, color,...

Thank you to the participating filmmakers and our audience for a healing, galvanizing, and inspiring fall 2020 DocYard season. We presented seven feature films and one short film over the past three months, in collaboration with four organizations in Massachusetts, all in service of our mission to create community for independent filmmakers in the greater Boston area— and beyond. We couldn’t have done it without the entire DocYard team. We also couldn’t have done it without your support and engagement with the work.  We will continue to bring form-pushing and mission-driven nonfiction films to you in spring...