Arkansas film festivals reveal their Top Ten Films of 2020
To highlight the great work of filmmakers during a challenging year for the film industry, film fans, and everyone else, the Artistic Directors and programmers from the Bentonville Film Festival and the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival have joined forces to announce their combined choices for the Top Ten Films of 2020 to call attention to some of their favorite films released in theaters, drive-ins, and online this year.
Dawn Porter’s JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE, Alice Wu’s THE HALF OF IT, and Radha Blank’s THE 40-YEAR-OLD VERSION, took the top three spots among films released domestically in 2020.
The 2021 Bentonville Film Festival will take place in August (dates TBA), and the 2021 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival will take place October 8-16.
#10
BIRDS OF PREY: AND THE FANTABULOUS EMANCIPATION OF ONE HARLEY QUINN
(DIR: Cathy Yan)
#9
BOYS STATE (DIRS: Amanda McBaine, Jesse Moss)
#8
TIGERTAIL (DIR: Alan Yang)
#7
DICK JOHNSON IS DEAD (DIR: Kirsten Johnson)
#6
THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS (DIRS: Gregory Kershaw, Michael Dweck)
#5
THE PHOTOGRAPH (DIR: Stella Meghie)
#4
FEELS GOOD MAN (DIR: Arthur Jones)
#3
THE 40-YEAR-OLD VERSION (DIR: Radha Blank)
#2
THE HALF OF IT (DIR: Alice Wu)
#1
JOHN LEWIS: GOOD TROUBLE (DIR: Dawn Porter)
