REMAKE
Filmmaker Ross McElwee has spent 40 years recording himself and his family, creating documentaries that chronicle the shifting contours of American society through the lens of personal history. His son Adrian grew up inside those films and eventually began experimenting with the camera himself. When a Hollywood producer acquires the rights to adapt McElwee’s 1986 breakthrough SHERMAN’S MARCH into a work of fiction, 20-year-old Adrian sees a chance for his father to finally reach a wider audience. As the adaptation stalls, Adrian gets swept into a deepening drug addiction and dies from a fentanyl overdose, leaving behind hours of personal video footage. Retracing Adrian’s final years, McElwee reckons with what his camera captured and what remained hauntingly out of frame. As he reflects on a lifetime behind the camera, Ross’ own effort to remix and remake the movie that Adrian never got to finish takes on new significance. An ever-expanding hall of mirrors built from decades of home movies, REMAKE is McElwee’s attempt to both hold onto his son and to let him go. DIR/SCR/PROD Ross McElwee; PROD Mark Meatto. U.S., 2025, color, 116 min. NOT RATED
Ross McElwee's SHERMAN'S MARCH opens August 14.
Run Time: 116 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, August 14, 2026
Genre: Documentary
