Hello friends,

 

As we come to the end of the year, it’s time for one of our favorite traditions, made possible with your support: Our winter list of streaming links to new films from the Nest!  

 

This list is always such a joy. Having spent years supporting these films – sometimes from the very earliest stages of conception, even before any footage is shot – it is incredible to see their artistic visions realized so powerfully on screen. This is especially true for the private links, which we’re able to make available to our community before they’re streaming anywhere else, thanks to the generosity of the filmmakers. These coming-soon films fill us with hope and energy for the new year and all the work ahead. 

 

We hope you’re able to enjoy one or two (or all!) of these films during your holiday break, because your support helped bring them to life. 

 

As you complete your year-end giving, we hope you’ll include Chicken & Egg Films. Your generosity ensures that these powerful stories continue to be told and that the filmmakers behind them have the resources, mentorship, and community they need to thrive. If you’d like to make a 2025 gift, you can do so here.

 

Sending warmest wishes for you and your loved ones this holiday season! 

 

Warmly,

Jenni

Private Screeners

The Florida Everglades are an ecosystem unlike any other on earth. This transcendent journey through the Florida Everglades tells the past, present, and precarious future of the region through the writings of the late environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas.

 

Private Link: Watch here

Password: ROG_C&E2025 

 

“Winking and wondrous… Bewitching… A clarion call to protect Florida’s greatest resource."
– Roger Ebert.com, Robert Daniels

As a volunteer in the Ukrainian army after the 2022 Russian invasion, filmmaker Alisa Kovalenko creates a testament to the power of love in times of war—balancing frontline routines, the horrors of the battlefield, and tender, poetic letters to her five-year-old son, Theo.

 

Private Link: Watch here

 

”Unforgettable, searing, tender.”
– High on Films

What's Streaming Now

In this moving first-person documentary, a young filmmaker takes a sometimes-comical, sometimes-troubling summer vacation with her mother and grandmother, delving into their complicated pasts and her own fractured Iranian identity.  

 

Available on Criterion

Co-directed by musician JJ’88, who was sentenced to life in prison at 15, this “visual album” weaves powerful imagery with songs written in solitary confinement, creating an innovative and stunning chronicle of forgiveness, family, and the transformative power of art. 

 

Available on Netflix

Filmmaker Milisuthando Bongela’s “idyllic” childhood in South Africa was sheltered from the horrors of apartheid—until apartheid ended, and she became part of the first generation of Black children to attend “Whites Only” schools. A striking cinematic essay on her experience of love, friendship, and belonging in a South Africa stratified by racism. 

 

Available on Criterion

With unbelievably intimate access to Brazilian presidents Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Jair Bolsonaro, this film portrays the “fatal marriage” between Christian nationalism and authoritarian politics which has upended not only Brazilian but global politics in recent years.

 

Available on Netflix

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