[Note: In the wake ofthe Hot Doc festival’s postponement this year,The Hollywood Reporteris reviewing select entries that elected to premiere digitally.] Makings its premiere at a moment of mass protest and urban unrest, Zeshawn Ali’s documentary Two Gods chronicles a situation that America’s black community has lived with for far too long, in a cycle of crime and poverty that seems to go unbroken.
And yet, this intimate portrait of Hanif, a black Muslim casket maker who provides spiritual and social healing services to those around him, reveals how some people eventually break the cycle, and then try to help others to do the same.
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