Natchez

2025. Directed by Suzannah Herbert. 86 minutes. Not rated.

Billings Farm & Museum Visitor Center Theater
$15 person/$12 Billings Farm Member

Saturday’s screening includes a discussion with director Suzannah Herbert.

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Natchez captures an unsettling clash between history and memory in a small Mississippi town. This film is a layered mosaic of people contending with the weight of the past in a place where the past is always present.

Equal parts amusing and disturbing, we journey through an antebellum tourist destination at a crossroads as it grapples with a deeply troubled history that is so thoroughly ingrained in its present, we’re left to wonder if it’s actually past at all.

“One of the Great Documentaries of the 21st Century – and the 19th Century as well. Glory lies not in the past but the struggle to appropriately reckon with it in this stylish and sophisticated look at the Old South.” – A Moveable Feast