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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.
Seeds

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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. Go to Full Review 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. Go to Full Review 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. Go to Full Review 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. Go to Full Review 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. Go to Full Review Christopher Campbell Nonfics (Substack) Jan 17
One montage sequence in the middle of the movie, presenting the cotton harvest, is possibly worth the price of admission alone, but the documentary as a whole is too long. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Stephen C @bob25009 Jan 25 Real footage in 2 hours and 3 minutes. See more Read all reviews
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Brittany Shyne

Director

Danielle Varga

Producer

Brittany Shyne

Producer

Sabrina Schmidt Gordon

Producer

Brittany Shyne

Cinematographer

Malika Zouhali-Worrall

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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