Winner: Best Documentary Award
Film Festival 2026
film synopsis
The past is present in filmmaker Suzannah Herbert’s electric, prize-winning exploration of the unique—and oftentimes stranger-than-fiction—cottage industry run by the denizens of small-town Natchez, Mississippi: antebellum tourism. Owners of historic plantations open their doors to flocking tourists to show off the white-washed opulence of the Confederacy. Meanwhile, local Black leaders offer vivid tours of their own to correct the record. Shooting with a humid, gauzy dreaminess mirroring the fantasies of the Old South, Herbert uses her immense skill at gaining access into the lives of her fascinating, compulsively watchable subjects to present a community at the crossroads of history. Winner: Best Documentary Feature, Tribeca.