# @nashfilmfest on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2026-08-27T14:20:28.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Nashville Film Festival (@nashfilmfest) — https://gondola.cc/nashfilmfest

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Introducing the #NashFilm57 Documentary Official Selections.

SCARLET GIRLS (dir. Paula Cury Melo)

Sat, Sep 26th, 2:00 PM @ Regal Green Hills Theater 5

Through intimate narrations and evocative imagery, women across the Dominican Republic reflect on their experiences with forced motherhood and clandestine abortion. What does it mean to exist as a woman in a country where abortion remains criminalized without exception?

STRAY EMBERS (dir. Erin Brethauer, Tim Hussin)

Sat, Sep 26th, 11:00 AM @ Regal Green Hills Theater 5

After saving his home from a historic wildfire that destroyed his town, a California man opens his doors to displaced families and neighbors, determined to stay rooted in a place that could burn again. Filmed over five years, it captures the bonds, challenges, and tensions that emerge when dozens of people and their dogs live together in the aftermath of disaster. #strayembersfilm #thislandfilms #paradisestrong 

A CITY IN THE FOREST (dir. Lev Omelchenko, Nolan Huber)

Sun, Sep 27th, 12:30 PM @ Regal Green Hills Theater 14

When a private police foundation in Atlanta tries to raze an urban forest to build the country’s largest police training facility, a diverse, decentralized, and intersectional movement defends the forest from what they call “Cop City.” A City in the Forest paints a collective portrait of the country’s most urgent social justice story, where a web of activists fight back against environmental racism, political corruption, police violence, and the criminalization of dissent. #strayembersfilm #thislandfilms #paradisestrong 

THE HAUNTING OF PENNHURST (dir. Mike Attie, Katarina Poljak, Nathan Stenberg)

Sat, Sep 26th, 7:00 PM @ Regal Green Hills Theater 4

What used to be a state school and hospital for disabled people is now the site of “Pennhurst Asylum,” a controversial haunted house run by many performers with disabilities. Autumn, one of the performers who manages the ghost haunts, is a contortionist who encourages the new “haunters” that she trains to reclaim their disabilities and incorporate them into their haunter personas. As we see the performers embody their twisted and scary characters at the attraction, a sobering

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