Synopsis
Director: Geeta Gandbhir
Producers: Nikon Kwantu, Geeta Gandbhir, Alisa Payne, Sam Bisbee
U.S., 94 min
In 2023, in a small middle-class suburban street in Central Florida, a seemingly minor dispute escalated into violence. While Black children play in a grassy open lot between houses, one resident Susan Lorincz—who calls herself “the perfect neighbor”—feels continually taunted and allegedly threatened. Conceived almost entirely using bodycam footage from police who were called into investigate Lorincz’s claims of harassment, The Perfect Neighbor is the increasingly gripping chronicle of an escalating conflict, laying bare in stunning and intimate detail the racial schisms and profound injustices that continue to define American life. Called “a nearly perfect film… brilliantly crafted… and remarkable.” (POV Magazine), this year’s Sundance “standout” by The New York Times and The New Yorker, and winner of a Best Directing Award and IndieWire’s Critics Poll for Best Documentary, this powerful “tense true-crime documentary … unfolds like a cross between Paranormal Activity and End of Watch” (Variety).
