Storyville: Season 2022
Season 26 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Storyville Season 25.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 26 Progress Shield
Final Account
Jan 26, 2022 · 85 min
A portrait of the last living generation of everyday people to participate in the Third Reich. Men and women ranging from former SS officers to children who grew up in Hitler’s Ger
Misha and the Wolves
Feb 2, 2022 · 85 min
A woman's Holocaust memoir took the world by storm, but a fallout with her publisher revealed an audacious deception created to hide a darker truth.
President
Feb 9, 2022 · 85 min
A Storyville documentary that follows Nelson Chamisa's campaign to restore democracy to Zimbabwe. Can a free, fair and transparent election truly be possible?
Try Harder!
Feb 16, 2022 · 85 min
The American college application process can be stressful at the best of times. For the super-smart, mostly Asian-American students at San Francisco’s Lowell High School, it’s emot
Tango with Putin
Mar 2, 2022 · 85 min
Putin’s Russia, former music radio producer Natasha Sindeeva dreams of becoming famous and decides to build her own TV station to focus on pop culture. Tango with Putin charts Nat
Writing with Fire
Mar 9, 2022 · 85 min
In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men, a group of women set up India’s only newspaper run entirely by women. All of them are from the lowest caste, Dalit, and are expected
The Distant Barking of Dogs
Mar 23, 2022 · 85 min
Ten-year-old Oleg lives with his grandma in eastern Ukraine, close to the front line of the war between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian government forces. His village, Hnutov
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
Mar 30, 2022 · 85 min
Single mother Anna and her four children are living under siege in Ukraine in 2019. Eldest daughter Mira dreams of becoming a film-maker and so, as bombs descend on neighbouring ho
The Truffle Hunters
Apr 6, 2022 · 85 min
Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of elderly men hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle. This award-winning film follows these truffle hunters, who live
Navalny
Apr 25, 2022 · 94 min
In August 2020, a plane travelling from Siberia to Moscow made an emergency landing. One of its passengers, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was deathly ill. Taken to a lo
Your Mum and Dad: A Devastating Truth
May 10, 2022 · 72 min
In this documentary, Dutch film director Klaartje Quirijns originally set out to document therapy. She was interested in the sessions of a friend, Michael Moskowitz, who was unrave
Into My Name
Jun 21, 2022 · 90 min
A compelling coming-of-age story of four friends, sharing important turning points in their lives as they transition to a new gender. Nic, Leo, Raff and Andrea meet in Bologna, wh
Citizen Ashe
Jun 28, 2022 · 90 min
Documentary that tells the little-known story of sports legend Arthur Ashe off the tennis court. Known to most on account of his stellar sports career – he became the first black m
On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World)
Jul 5, 2022 · 35 min
On 13 January 2018, Hawaiians were suddenly confronted by an urgent nuclear threat. This was the text message they received from their country's emergency management agency: Balli
Gorbachev. Heaven
Aug 31, 2022 · 99 min
Mikhail Gorbachev helped to shape the 20th century, being the architect of glasnost and perestroika. His actions brought down the Berlin Wall, giving countries of the former Soviet
One Day in Ukraine
Sep 20, 2022 · 75 min
A snapshot of one day in a country under siege. Filmed on 14 March 2022, the 2,944th day of the Russian-Ukrainian war, by a collective of Ukrainian film-makers who wanted to docume
And Still I Sing
Sep 27, 2022 · 90 min
Controversial Afghan pop star and activist Aryana Sayeed mentors young hopefuls as they prepare to appear on their country’s hit TV show Afghan Star. With two young women on the ve
Midwives
Oct 4, 2022 · 82 min
Hla and Nyo Nyo live in a country torn by conflict. Hla is a Buddhist and the owner of an under-resourced medical clinic in western Myanmar, where the Rohingya (a Muslim minority c
Beneath the Surface
Oct 11, 2022 · 88 min
In 2014, following a tip-off, a group of journalists exposed a troubled history for indigenous Sámi women, men and children in Norway. It revealed generations of negligence, abuse
The Fire Within
Oct 18, 2022 · 81 min
On 3 June 1991 at 3.18pm, a pyroclastic flow erupted from Mount Unzen in Japan. A cloud of superheated gases and particles descended at more than 100mph from the peak of the volcan
A House Made of Splinters
Nov 8, 2022 · 85 min
Tears turn to soap bubbles, and hugs turn to fights, in this award-winning film about an orphanage in eastern Ukraine, filmed before Russia’s invasion in February 2022. In a large
A Bunch of Amateurs
Dec 13, 2022 · 93 min
A bunch of amateur film-makers, with nothing left to lose, tackle one of Hollywood's greatest musicals in order to save their beloved Bradford Film Club. As its members grow old a