Part of Shorts: Shifting at DOC NYC 2026

WORLD PREMIERE The land becomes an eerie, captivating universe as a river swells in the Batha region of Chad. The story is straightforward, but observational filmmaking makes it feel grand: Ferries carrying people and cattle across the water become a beautiful, meditative passage through a liminal space suspended between survival and obsolescence. – Murtada Elfadl

Director: Bentley Brown, Tahir Ben Mahamat Zene

Producer: Bentley Brown, Tahir Ben Mahamat Zene

Cinematographer: Gabriel Dae-sung Lee

Editor: Bentley Brown

Composer: Andarctica

Language: Arabic

Country: Chad

Year: 2026

The first and second screenings will be followed by a Q&A with director Bentley Brown.