Seeds

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Seeds

Jan 2026

2h 3m

Documentary

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A look into the lives of Black generational farmers, unveiling the challenges of maintaining legacy and the value of land ownership.

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Quietly powerful and deeply humane, Seeds' patient rhythms and luminous imagery honor generational farmers with an elegiac grace that feels both historically vital and vibrantly alive.

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Phuong Le

Guardian

Jan 20

4/5

Echoing the cycle of crop cultivation, Shyne’s film inhabits the seasons of life, bookended by images of a funeral and the open sky. This vanishing way of life is imbued with a dose of melancholy, yet hope still remains for a better harvest in the future.

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Alissa Wilkinson

New York Times

Jan 16

The impersonal problems of financing and statistics become personal, and the history of discrimination feels much closer, more concrete. And if we’re looking closely, we can see, in the younger generations of farmers, the seeds of the future.

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Brian Tallerico

RogerEbert.com

Jan 16

3.5/4

Moments have a tactile intimacy that’s incredibly powerful, placing these ordinary people in an almost timeless continuum of seemingly ordinary behavior that becomes extraordinary in memory, or through the eyes of a camera.

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Krithika

MovieJawn

May 1

Seeds is a moving portrait of Southern Black farmers

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Joonatan Itkonen

Region Free

Feb 6

5/5

Filmed in gorgeous black and white, Shyne evokes grand imagery of the south that is loving but pointedly not romanticized. Seeds is a thoughtful, beautiful, and immensely timely film that everyone should see.

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Marya E. Gates

Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack)

Jan 30

Poetic. . .captures rural Black agrarian life in the United States like nothing I’ve ever seen before.

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Stephen C

@bob25009 Jan 25

Real footage in 2 hours and 3 minutes.

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Synopsis

A look into the lives of Black generational farmers, unveiling the challenges of maintaining legacy and the value of land ownership.

Director: Brittany Shyne
Producer: Danielle Varga, Brittany Shyne, Sabrina Schmidt Gordon
Distributor: Doc Society
Production Co: Walking Productions
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 16, 2026, Limited
Runtime: 2h 3m