India, Feb. 4 -- Seeds, the new documentary that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, accounts the journey of Black generational farmers in the American South through a rich black-and-white lens. From the very first frame, which begins at a funeral site, there is an instant thread of connection that tells us that we are in the hands of a filmmaker who is going to tell this story from a deeply personal space. (Also read: DJ Ahmet review: Macedonian coming-of-age drama charms and delights)

Shyne immediately establishes the fact that this journey is not from the perspective of an outsider, where the viewer needs to be acquainted with the subjects first, know where they come from, and then trace their issues. Here, the world-building goe...