> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.moviegoingwithbill.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Selections from the 2026 Green Film Fest of San Francisco, Part 3 - URL: https://www.moviegoingwithbill.com/green-sf-2026-part3/ - Published: 2026-10-19T19:22:11.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-19T19:22:11.000Z - Description: Reviews of 'Harvest' and 'A City in the Forest' - Author: Bill Arceneaux - Tags: Film Fests ## Dear Moviegoers, As with the past few years, I've been happy to review films from the Green Film Festival of San Francisco - an in-person and virtual showcase for eco-friendly and environmentally conscious narrative and documentary movies. And so, of course, 2026 is no exception. [Read Part 1 here](https://www.moviegoingwithbill.com/green-sf-2026-part1/). [Read Part 2 here.](https://www.moviegoingwithbill.com/green-sf-2026-part2/) The Green Film Festival of San Francisco takes place from 10/15 to 10/22\. Click over to its [official website](https://greenfest2026.eventive.org/welcome?ref=moviegoingwithbill.com) for the full lineup, online streaming options, and more. --- ![](https://www.moviegoingwithbill.com/content/images/2026/10/Harvest_Poster-1.webp) Growing up with a growing business of growing crops would produce a bed of impatience and frustration for some families, and understandably so. In 2020s America, independent farmers work against the grain of more corporate operations and climate change weather conditions. In the documentary *Harvest*, however, four brothers look past the faults in the stars and see nothing but blue skies for their land and their loved ones. The Nelson Brothers run Nelson & Sons Farms out of the rural Northeast region of Louisiana. And, folks, it doesn't get more Louisiana rural than the small place of Sondheimer. The brothers make it crystal clear that family is everything, and keeping everyone together means everything. City conveniences and extra opportunities are but a facade to them. Doing right by those around you is the truth to live by. There's an extreme warmth that *Harvest* covers everything in, even and especially when heavy rains pour and flood the land. An ever-lasting optimism and a forward movement toward hope for a better tomorrow are what keep the Nelson Brothers afloat, despite money issues and constant equipment breakdowns. Faith. They have faith. And that drives these hard-working young farmers to make corn, soybeans, and cotton, season after season, no matter the exhausting hours spent in the fields or the overbearing nature of dealing with insurance and loans. Not unlike the way that the best sports movies aren't about the sport at hand, *Harvest* isn't a farming movie. It's a film about family and how one is uplifted by many. How it takes a village to succeed. How we share in the pain of the individual. How one generation moves to the next. From tragedy to triumph, everything is felt by everyone. The Nelson Brothers act as a single unit mostly, strengthened by their own thoughts and opinions and held intact by their ultimate goals for a winning future. My words don't do justice to just how much life - from the bad to the good - exists through *Harvest*. The drama isn't stretched, the tension isn't heightened, and the joy isn't sweetened. Balanced. This is a documentary of balance. The Nelsons are a family in balance. Their business is in a state of balance. Guided by a beautiful score from Gil Talmi, whose music is almost set to the morning dew and the setting sun, *Harvest* is light in its boots and loaded at heart. Stories like this don't often get told, and the ones that do aren't naturally presented in such a real and happily human way. We're a flawed species, but noble and devoted. My heart bleeds for this movie. **4/5** --- ![](https://www.moviegoingwithbill.com/content/images/2026/10/acityintheforest_still_01_forest_defender.jpg) The absolute audacity of *A City in the Forest*, to showcase AND maintain both an incendiary amount of aggressive solidarity with engaged near-militant anti-corruption tactics, and to make a film from the perspective of occupying radicals, grants these filmmakers a documentary so immense with depth that no stable critic can deny the power of its projection. For the record, I'm all on board with some of their mission statements, mostly against the more violent resistance methods displayed, but totally in agreement with how it's been documented here. An unbelievable picture of forced impact, this is. "Cop City," a proposed training center for militarized police forces, is the central antagonistic project that protesters from all over the world showed up to abolish a few years back - with plenty still doing the work to this day. While eventually built as a delayed and smaller facility, the takeover of land in a predominantly black part of the city by the local police - and their "corporate partners" - was what well-meaning collectives fought to abolish. And, in the wake of multiple high-profile acts of brutality, such movements only became angrier and angrier. *A City in the Forest* shows just how easy it is for what should've been peaceful to turn into what could've been avoided and yet what authorities only made inevitable. Activists become vigilantes, and signs become Molotov cocktails, all in a flash of tear gas and a sting from a taser gun. The film takes its approach beyond mere observation, becoming one with the point of view of the people in the thick of everything, by blending into the footage of resistance manifestos and using its camera as a tool of resistance in and of itself. It's pretty shocking to witness just how heavy things go down, and how far the filmmakers go to carry that weight. Of course, maybe this is a movie that couldn't have been made any other way. Given the rage-inducing nature of modern politics toward those wanting to participate in civil conversation and action, it's a simple slope from active voter to machine smasher and fire starter. This isn't what democracy looks like, but what those in power wish to witness. It's the excuse they need to do the inexcusable. Sorry, but that's how I see *A City in the Forest*. I don't believe this was the intended message or meaning of the film, but it's what I pulled from it nonetheless. Solidarity always, yes. And man, in the face of what *A City in the Forest* shows, incredibly and beautifully so, it would be impossible to deny. Accounts of indifference and gleeful harm to protesters become more than words, as the movie shows it all in bold-faced video. The movie also evokes the attitude of a rebel diary, which is both exciting and terrifying. Exciting for its bravado, terrifying for the fact that it's all come down to this. That this was made true by our elected leaders and unelected money men. *A City in the Forest* is horror, even in the more "power to the people" moments of community awareness. The beasts are pushed back by inches, but make moves by miles. What else is there to do? How best can we confront? **5/5** --- ## Sincerely Yours in Moviegoing, ## ⚜️🍿