The Alabama Solution

Director: Andrew Jarecki, Charlotte Kaufman

Institute History

  • 2025 Sundance Film Festival

Description

Incarcerated men defy the odds to expose a cover-up in one of America’s deadliest prison systems.


Documentary titan Andrew Jarecki returns to the Sundance Film Festival after his explosive works Capturing the Friedmans (2003 Sundance Film Festival) and The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015 Sundance Film Festival). His enduring interest in crime evolves in this new project that looks squarely into the heartlessness of the American justice system and brings a perspective to the screen that is a true rarity. The Alabama Solution illuminates a vantage point intentionally kept out of the public eye, and its miraculous insight is made possible by the bravery of those speaking out about harrowing conditions, criminally cruel mistreatment, and work conditions that constitute contemporary slavery.—Ash Hoyle

This film contains mature content and may not be appropriate for all ages.


Available in person only.



Screenings include closed and open captions.

Screening Details

Sundance Film Festival Awards

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