Sunday, June 14
7:15 PM - 8:45 PM

Burke Theatre at the US Navy Memorial

701 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004

for all screenings

The Bend in the River

Director

Robb Moss

Executive Producers

Joel Coen, Frances McDormand, Tot Long, David Lewis, Shane Boris, Jeff Reichert, Geralyn White Dreyfous, Regina K. Scully, James Costa, Trevor Burgess

Producers

Lisa Remington, Kristin Feeley

Co-Producer

Liz Gilbert Cohen

Impact Producer

Lisa Remington

Editors

Jeff Malmberg, ACE

Co-Editors

Jeff Malmberg, ACE

Other Crew

Re-Recording Mixer: Lawrence Everson

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THE BEND IN THE RIVER chronicles five close friends over nearly fifty years. Beginning in 1978, director Robb Moss captures their outdoor, rent-free life during a clothing-optional rafting trip through the Grand Canyon. In 2003, he films them again as they come to terms with the shift from youthful freedom to the responsibilities of middle age. Now, in 2025, Moss finds his friends in their 70s grappling with the choices they’ve made as individuals and as a generation. Interweaving past and present, the film moves fluidly through time, inviting reflection on the inexorable flow of aging and the unfinished project of living.

Content Warning: This film contains depictions of nudity.

Director, The Bend in the River

For nearly fifty years, Robb Moss’s films have moved between the topical and the personal. AFRICA REVISITED, SECRECY, and CONTAINMENT explore racial complexity, government secrecy, and nuclear waste, while RIVERDOGS, THE TOURIST, THE SAME RIVER TWICE, and THE BEND IN THE RIVER examine youthful extravagance, infertility and adoption, and the passage from youth to middle age and beyond. His films have premiered at Sundance and Telluride, been reviewed in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times, and were nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. He has taught filmmaking in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University for the past five decades.