The Bend in the River
Director: Robb Moss Run Time: 82 min. Release Year: 2025
With six Oscar-winning producers/executive producers including Frances McDormand and Joel Coen, renowned documentarian Robb Moss completes the cinematic portrait of a group of close friends he’s filmed for over forty years. Starting with Riverdogs (1978), Moss chronicled their outdoor, clothing-optional life during a summer-long rafting trip through the Grand Canyon. In The Same River Twice (2003), he contemplated their maturation from young, naked, and independent to fully clothed, middle-aged, and facing roles beyond themselves. Now, in THE BEND IN THE RIVER, Moss finds his friends in their late 60s/early 70s, grappling with the choices they’ve made as individuals and as a generation. Weaving together footage from all three periods, Moss creates a cinematic world, gently ricocheting viewers back and forth through time, asking the most fundamental of questions: how does who we’ve been inform who we are, and more—who we might become?